Hitting Close to Home?

If you remember the headlines, Barack Obama declared Sarah Palin's family off limits in the campaign. The press and Obama supporters have been making a big issue of Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter being pregnant and unmarried. Rather than respecting the privacy of Mrs. Palin's, I suspect that Obama's decree was because it hit too close to home.

After all, it's entirely possible that Obama's own mother was pregnant and unmarried at 18.

Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama's mother) was born in November, 1942.

At the qge of 17, she started her freshman year at the University of Hawaii

A few months later, she met and fell in love with Barack Obama, Sr.

Four months after turning 18, she married Barack Obama, Sr. about February of 1961

Six months later, at the age of 18, she gave birth to Barack Obama, Jr. in August of 1961.

Now just because she'd only been married six months when little Barack was born, doesn't mean that she was pregnant before getting married. Junior might have been three months premature. After all, the old saying goes "The first baby can come at any time after the wedding, the rest all take nine months."

It would be a huge stretch to insinuate that Stanley Ann got pregnant on her 18th birthday right after meeting the father of her baby and had to get married.

However, I still think that the press furor over Mrs. Palin's 17 year old unmarried daughter hit Mr. Obama just a little too close to home.

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