The Plumbing Planet

Hailin' Palin's baby maybe

Thursday, September 4 2008

by our Sport correspondent Sid Cistern

John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, has made a stinging attack on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Republican convention. Speaking in St Paul's, Minnesota, she criticised Mr Obama for dodging his parental responsibilities and said that she would ensure he made at least a financial commitment to her pregnant daughter Bristol.

Mrs Palin, cousin of British comedy star John Cleese, said that Obama would be judged by the people of America and that they would decide whether a man who could impregnate an unmarried white girl simply in order to benefit from a political scandal was really fit to be the next president of the United States. She said that she and her husband would stand by their daughter but that if their grandchild came out singing Mammy then it was on its own.

Mrs Palin, who strenuously denied press reports that her daughter Bristol has an identical twin sister, said that the incident showed how far American society had fallen. She called for a return to the days when a politician would be tarred, feathered and locked in hog irons for making a white girl pregnant, no matter whether he was a slave or a free man. Mrs Palin denied that she was a racist, saying that she didn't know much about racism but that she knew what she didn't like.