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Actually, we’ll put two questions to the readership this morning. Both of them come, at different times, from Political Punch . Feel free to take a crack at them. First: “ What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried ...
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Hot Air » Top Picks — ... My friend Jazz Shaw asks two provocative questions today at The Moderate Voice about Sarah Palin and the election.  They revolve around family and experience, two questions that have arisen from accident and design.  The answers to them will certainly provide a kind of political Rorschach test, but they are worthwhile questions. What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter ? I’d like to think that most people would leave it alone.  Since that’s obviously not happening with Bristol Palin, then the ...

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