Is it the NEW YORK TIMES or NATIONAL ENQUIRER ?

Don't knock the NY Times over this one. I read these same facts SEVERAL places before I read it at the NY TImes. Obama's camp is looking for any dirt they THINK they can find do discredit McCain and say he didn't check things out carefully before he made his selection for a running mate. Actually, he was aware of them and didn't feel that they made any difference. For the NY TImes not to include these little "snippets" would not have been responsible reporting and it would have made it look like they were ignoring this topic or playing favorites. These facts just make her look more "human" and easier to relate to; instead of "Superwoman", she is just a regular person with a family and all that goes along with that. Who can't relate to a family member who got a couple of tickets or someone who got a citation for fishing ONCE without a fishing permit? Pregnant teenage daughter - it happens and the family is supporting her, her decision to keep the baby, her decision to get married to the father, and not just kicking her out of the house or trying to cover it up. Sounds like a good family to me.

Hey, don't knock the Enquirer... they broke the story of Edwards affairs while the MSM believed Edwards lies and claimed it was more political dirty tricks. It turned out the Enquirer was right, Edwards was a liar, and the MSM was in the pocket of the liberals and completely clueless. As to this article... I fail to see the significance. With all of the perversions that the liberals and the NYT favor, why is the fact that the girl is pregnant by her boyfriend whom she is planning to marry even an issue? This also further demonstrates the liberal hypocrisy... the Clintons demanded Chelsea be off limits, even though she was campaigning for Hillary, and the Obama kids are untouchable as well. So where do the sleazebags at the NYT and the democrat party get off by trying to make this an issue? If Palin was a liberal, this would be an invasion of her privacy and nobody's business, and called dirty politics and a smear job. Well, she is a conservative, and it still is all of those things... and the liberals are doing it. This is just another example of the double standards regularly practiced by the left.

How ridiculous. Give it some time and some zealous reporter will THEN use the fact they couldn't find anything of substance to back claims of a lack of experience or something even more stupid. Can you see the headline already like I can? "Palin has no past. Experience included." I tell you though, it's a nice change to have someone with little or no skeletons in their closet for a change! Let's just hope that as an infant she never tripped another child in kindergarten or something..... The horror! The horror! lol.

I know what you mean. It could even be funny, but it isn't. We know that public figures tend to be.. .well in the public's eye. I also understand the freedom of information and all. But I expect to find gossip in gossip columns and usually not in certain papers. Or I used to, because things seem to be pretty much "confused" nowadays and I've read things in what I used to consider serious papers that would have no place there before. Maybe gossiping or drudging back gossip fuel sells more than real news? - I kind of think that in certain cases it appears to. On a different note, learning that a certain candidate or political figure is not consistent in his/her decisions, is easily corrupted,tends to make generally bad decisions, etc would weight much more in my decision making process than the fact that he/she has some family member being unmarried and pregnant.

hi red...it just makes for to good of a story for them. they couldn't resist. they are blurring the lines of news and gossip now. at least they did bring out that the palins are showing unconditional love to their daughter. i don't like to hear the gossip myself but what is one to do?

I just read the article, and it's not as bad as you let on! They brought up the traffic violations in the context of the DUI, and it was just a tiny blurb... the rest of the article focused on the family life, which is something I don't really care to hear about, but always somehow makes the news. I agree that this shouldn't be news, but in the same line that the media shouldn't be gossiping about her pregnant daughter... it's just none of our business, and no amount of speculation will ever come to productive conclusions about Sarah Palin's character!

It is the New York Times for you Redyellowblackdog, was there ever a time even it was not just a fancier National Enquirer. The New York Times could not even be in the same room with the old grey lady, well except the time when the Gannett's of the USA Today bought her. In my opinion these national newspapers are not worth the paper they are printed on. If the New York Enquirer could only find two traffic violations then she must be pretty clean.

It seems no matter how hard the press is trying to make Sarah Palin look bad, she is looking better by the minute. I must admit I was shocked at first, both by McCain and Palin, to learn that they are ordinary human beings facing some of the same struggles as most Americans, and not gods seeking to lead our great nation to a wonderful nirvana existence. Seriously, I think all the press coverage she is getting is a GOOD thing and people will get to know her through it. She is not disappointing anyone but the average American admires her strength for dealing with the issues of family and government the way she is. This time, the liberal media are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to make her look bad, and they are all scraping the bottom for stories trying to find some dirt on her. They are looking pretty rediculous to me at this point.