Bristol baby daddy... "I'm a redneck and I don't want kids"....

[aaaaaa5a]

I still can't believe it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/levi-johnston-bristol-pal_n_123089.html

[orestes]

1. Ive avoided commenting on this whole fiasco so far,

but I have to say, the more i hear, the more I'm convinced:

The Palin family doesn't belong anywhere near the White House, they belong on an episode of Jerry Springer.

[invictus]

2. LOL!

[saigon68]

17. On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, "I'm a f - - -in' redneck"

Sweet--- I guess the Enquirer will soon pick up on this

"Baby Daddy"

Nice also an African American is running for office some where too (oh the irony)

[The Backlash Cometh]

42. If he's as smart as they claim he is, he should take up the Palins on

any offer they give him because it sounds like it will be the best opportunity he'll ever see in his life.

[yardwork]

78. He's literally correct on both counts.

[vaberella]

27. More like Maury Povich..."We can do a free paternity test..." ~sigh~ n/t

[arewenotdemo]

32. LOL

[Joe Bacon]

41. They're creepy and they're kooky

Mysterious and spooky
They're all together ooky
The Palin family

snap snap :rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

52. LOL

That's good!
:rofl:

[Ichingcarpenter]

80. I broke this story on DU in LBNs

[avaistheone1]

3. Well his snow boarding and dirt bike riding day may be short - lived

now that he is going to be responsible for raising a baby and caring for a wife...

that is if Sarah can arrange the shotgun marriage.

[chitty]

4. My wife says she's trailer trash

in a nice suit.

I'm beginning to think she's right.

(I'm not knocking people who live in mobile homes. I used to live in one myself.
It's jusy a figure of speech.)

[Iris]

62. Your wife needs to come sit by me.

I've been saying the same thing. That is one trashy looking family.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Didn't anyone teach this boy how NOT to have kids? Sheesh.

[Bad Thoughts]

51. A rhetorical question? n/t

[JenniferJuniper]

6. Boy, you'd best get moving

that's a shotgun in your face.

[samdogmom]

7. GOOD GRIEF! AGAIN ABSTINENCE EDUCATION...SARAH, GIVE ME A BREAK!

How did this hard-held fundy value work out for your family? You can force a marriage. Will it last? And then what? GIVE ME A BREAK. Just give the boys condoms and be done with it!

[Mimosa]

56. Boys don't like condoms

LOL

Apparently Bristol didn't like contraception either. Maybe she wanted a baby because she got so little attention from her mom.

[Dem2theMax]

8. I'm too old to know about 'MySpace.' Can someone find

the little darlings page and take a screen shot of it? Just so we have the 'redneck and don't want any kids' comments for posterities sake. ;)

[JenniferJuniper]

11. It's been made private but

the internets are a vast thing.

http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/

[Dem2theMax]

15. Thank you! That was an interesting read. LOL.

The Internets are wonderful, aren't they? ;)

[JenniferJuniper]

18. I think it's safe to say the National Enquirer

is going to have it's hands full with this bunch.

Of course, they are probably getting away with paying off the sources with kegs of beer and caribou jerky.

[RichGirl]

49. On Larry King last night...

...they said that National Enquirer has established HQ in Alaska.

[mnhtnbb]

61. ROFL. I'll bet their sales increase dramatically with the next issue

:rofl:

I might be tempted to buy one myself!

[Raine]

33. THANKS

What a read that is!

[amandabeech]

9. Blog reports that the son who is going in the service couldn't get a 2.0 average in high school,

so he couldn't get into college and play hockey.

Further, Todd, Sarah's husband, may have forced the kid to join the service because he was so mad about the kid's grades.

I'm kind of surprised that the two parents couldn't get any sense into this kid's head.

[Iris]

63. Living their pro-life and pro-war values by FORCING their children to carry them out.

nice family they got there. "An American Family"

[Norrin Radd]

10. When I was 17, I dated a girl who went to an Assemblies of God church.

All of the friends she had at church were not as holy as they liked to pretend-- put most party animals to shame. Going to church was just a dating service for them.

My girlfriend badgered me to go to church with her. I didn't particularly want to, but I was easily influenced at that time. I just sort of zoned out during the proceedings (hough watching people babble in tongues was amusing). Afterward, we'd go to my place and fool around. At least I knew the value of safe sex.

[Neshanic]

12. He seems to drink alot from the pics.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

75. Yes, Underage drinking.

[Jennicut]

13. Riding one's snow mobile is not an future one can rely on

Mr. baby daddy needs to get in line and get a real job fast.

[aaaaaa5a]

14. Maybe Sarah can appoint him a job as a Police Trooper!

[everything-bolt-up]

16. WTF!!!!!!!!!

This is F-U-N-N-Y!!!!!!!!!! And NOT funny at all at the same time when you think that - in all seriousness - thi scould one day be the first family of the GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

WTF!!! John Mccain needs to leave the ticket with Palin. The Repukes need a Do-over. LOL

[Straight Shooter]

19. So you don't want kids, Levi?

Then in the future, you'd better be wanting condoms.

What is it with all the Lord of the Cowboy Boots names in this frickin' soap opera style political drama? :wtf:

[JenniferJuniper]

21. Must be an Alaska thing

I must say, being one of those Northeast Elitists, I've been sort of oblivious to the goings-on in number 49. This has been quite an education.

[Straight Shooter]

26. I live in Oregon, and have always wanted to live in Alaska.

But they elected this woman governor. I don't want to live in Alaska anymore. :(

[Chulanowa]

38. It's not so bad

Alaska's barely a real state. The Governor does stuff in Juneau, people in Anchorage and Fairbanks listen, and everyone else goes "wait, we have a governor?"

Alaska's the most staunchly purple state in the union, because half the people that live there are absolute hippy commune luddite liberals, or are oil-drinking animal-shooting right-wingers in huge cowboy hats.

Alaska's fucking weird, is basically what I'm saying. I think maybe Maine and North Dakota come near to its weird factor. basically unless you end up living there, you'll never know what's going on there. And living there's no guarantee, either.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

47. Nah--Maine is positively TAME compared to Alaska.

The entire southern region is just a northern county of Massachusetts, basically....I live here; I know. Tons of Obama signs everywhere. And up in the north there are far more trees than people and way more laws about what to do with those trees, those animals, etc.

I thought we were weird until all this about Alaska came out. :rofl:

[Straight Shooter]

59. Your state sounds just like my county

It's definitely weird here, which is probably why I gravitated here :7

[New Dawn]

20. This article sums up "conservative family values."

I.e. hypocrisy on a mass scale.

[saigon68]

24. "Ya f - - - with me I'll kick [your] ass," he added.

"Ya f - - - with me I'll kick ass," he added.

He also claims to be "in a relationship," but states, "I don't want kids."

[annabanana]

54. He is a complete ignoramous. He'd better never leave his

neighborhood.

[BlooInBloo]

22. Let every American see the kind of family the republican ticket wants to legislate.

EDIT: Typo.

[JenniferJuniper]

23. Seriously, though

Why would any decent parent want their daughter to marry this Neanderthal?

Baby Daddy Levi clearly has other priorities and would no doubt prefer to be left alone to continue his drinking and snow boarding and impregnating.

These kids are being pushed into marriage for political reasons only. And that makes me hate Sarah Plain and Tall all the more.

[LibDemAlways]

25. The hypocrisy here is just breathtaking.

Gov. Assemby of God Abstinence Only's daughter is pregnant by an irresponsible dude whose limited vocabulary includes frequent use of the f-bomb, calls himself a "redneck," and proclaims that he doesn't want kids.

The Dems had a vetting committee that included Caroline Kennedy. Apparently the repukes were relying on some loser they picked out of a phone book. Unbelievable.

[vaberella]

28. The republicans have a lot to spin tomorrow. No luck to them. n/t

[Chloroplast]

29. Does Levi know there's a wedding in the works? Or baby?

The only way this story could get more dysfunctional was if baby Trig were Levi's son and the baby Bristol's carrying was fathered by the biracial C-Ray. Sadly, the revelations have been sadder than the speculation. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. Parents - please don't let her ruin her life by marrying that sort.

[regnaD kciN]

31. I feel sympathy for Bristol...

...and hope that she decides to keep the baby (or give it up for adoption if she thinks she can't raise it alone), but finds enough good sense to show this doofus the door before rushing into a teen marriage (that will likely be over before their child starts kindergarten), and chooses to wait for a good, decent, responsible man to come along.

[Raine]

34. This whole family is pure trash...

is this what America would allow to be a First family?!? Good God!

[K8-EEE]

35. he didn't want kidds until he looked down the barrel of Granny's shotgun

LOL....what a fine loving couple!

[Karenina]

36. This reckless, sloppy nomination

has turned the entire process into a Groundhog Day with Jerry Springer. This is ALL ABOUT McCAIN putting these cretins into the spotlight. I feel sorry for them all.

[JVS]

37. That kid has some serious "bad boy" image going on

[truthisfreedom]

39. He's a kid. Let it go! We have such big fish to fry...

[DangerousRhythm]

44. Alaskan Independence Party, anyone?

That's the big story... that's taking a star off the Stars 'n' Stripes.

[undeterred]

45. He's 26 and he's either having a shotgun wedding

or he's committed statutory rape for diddling a teenager.

[WinkyDink]

46. If he's both 18 and an expectant father, he ain't no kid.

[Fly by night]

58. No, he's a statutory rapist (by Alaskan law).

At least there'll be one certifiable criminal in that den of (election) thieves.

[ieoeja]

69. The age of consent for Alaska (like most states) is 16. n/t

[Fly by night]

70. Not according to Alaska state law, as reviewed in another DU thread yesterday.

Here's the thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6870507

And here's the operative line from that thread:

"If a person who is at least 18 years old engages in sexual activity with a person who is 16 years old or younger, he or she will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree."

[ieoeja]

72. That doesn't make any sense.

"The age of consent is defined as 16 years old, according to Alaska statutory rape laws. If a person who is at least 18 years old engages in sexual activity with a person who is 16 years old or younger, he or she will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree. This charge is a felony in Alaska. And remember, it does not matter if you did not force or threaten the other person into performing this sexual act with you. It is still a crime under Alaska statutory rape laws.

"Any person who is 16 years old or older who has sexual intercourse with a minor who is 13-, 14-, or 15-years-old will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. Again, this charge is also a felony."


The highlighted "16 years old or younger" is inconsistent with every other statement made in that article. It says age of consent is 16. It says it is illegal for anyone 16 or older to have sex with someone under 16.

The author clearly misworded the highlighted portion. It should have been written "younger than 16".

That, or everything else written in the article, as well as everything else I can google online, is wrong.

[Xithras]

76. It's been superceded

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#Alaska

The age of consent is 16, provided the older partner is not in a position of authority.

Alaska Statutes - Title 11. Criminal Law - Chapter 41. Offenses Against the Person - Sexual Abuse of a Minor
Section 436 in the First Degree (Unclassified Felony) ; Section 436 in the Second Degree (Class B Felony) ;
Section 438 in the Third Degree (Class C Felony) ; Section 440 : in the Fourth Degree (Class A misdemeanor)

Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the .... :

Younger minor under 13 + Elder minor under 16 ( more than 3 years between them ) :
Sexual contact = 4th Degree & Sexual penetration = 3rd Degree
Younger minor under 13 + Elder minor above 16 :
pornography = 2nd Degree ( younger under 16 vs. elder above 16 )
Sexual contact = 2nd Degree ( for elder minor oneself or if (s)he helps another person)
Sexual penetration = 1st Degree ( for elder minor oneself or if (s)he helps another person)
Younger minor 13-15 + Elder minor above 16 ( more than 3 years between them ) :
Sexual contact = 3rd Degree
Sexual penetration = 2nd Degree ( for elder minor oneself or if (s)he helps another person)
pornography = 2nd Degree ( younger under 16 vs. elder above 16 )
Minor under 16 + partner above 18 (civil majority) if cohabitant with authority or position of authority :
Sexual contact = 2nd Degree & Sexual penetration = 1st Degree.
Minor under 18 + parent or guardian above 18 :
Sexual contact = 2nd Degree & Sexual penetration = 1st Degree

[LisaL]

84. That has got to be wrong.

Age of consent is 16. So, once Bristol turned 16, the sex would be legal.

[ima_sinnic]

40. omg! Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert must see this!

I got a sense of what Colbert could do with this and cracked up.

:smoke:

[bklyncowgirl]

43. Great, the Republican nomination is turning into an episode of the Jerry Springer show

You just can't make this stuff up.

[Ganja Ninja]

48. Why not?

The whole party mirrors a Springer audience.:shrug:

[Frank Cannon]

50. Well, that's why they make those things called rubbers, my boy

If the Palins actually make their daughter marry this gomer, they should be brought up on child abuse charges.

[RichGirl]

53. On the plus side...

...this should revive Jeff Foxworthy's career!

[Canuckistanian]

55. Now THERE's a man with a bright future

... in the Sanitation Services sector.

But if McCain gets in, he's the new Deputy Director of Homeland Security.

[mwb970]

57. These are certainly "low rent" people.

The whole family is coming across as a group of crazy right-wing rednecks from the sticks. The last thing we need is Sarah "Alaska First" Palin in the White House! The very idea is horrifying.

[democrattotheend]

60. Why is this relevant?

Talking about Palin's opposition to comprehensive sex education or McCain's judgment in picking her without full vetting is one thing, but why do we need to know anything about the father of her daughter's baby? I'm sorry, but this is an undue intrusion into the life of a kid who had no say in Palin being picked for VP.

[aaaaaa5a]

77. We report this because that's what they do to us...

Turn about is fair play.


Look at it this way... imagine what the GOP would have said if Chelsea Clinton were having an out-of-wedlock baby while Bill Clinton was still in the White House!

End of story.

[Yavin4]

64. I Feel Sorry for Kevin Federline

K-Fed has been replaced.

[LisaM]

82. At least K-Fed and Britney have JOBS

I'm not saying they're the world's best parents but they actually work and bring in money.

[LisaL]

83. What job does K-Fed have?

[LisaM]

85. Well at one time he was a dancer

And even though he's bad at it, he records music. I believe he is also paid to attend parties.

[Barack_America]

65. See, that's where sex ed could have come in handy...

There are ways of preventing that sort of thing, if your parents and community are responsible enough to teach you.

[SeaLyons]

66. This whole things feels almost

like it's too ridiculous to be true. We are talking about the family of a possible Vice President of the United States of America. I can't believe any of this.

McCain and Palin are just a JOKE!!! How damn disrespectful to America and it's people that we are even having to discuss any of this. I just can't believe it!!!

Country First???? Bullshit....for McDumb....it POLITICS FIRST, and what a disaster he's made of it.

Thank God for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I'm so proud of them.

[Joanne98]

67. I actually feel sorry for that boy. 18 and a shotgun wedding to a baby machine! Bummer!

[redqueen]

79. I don't. He should have used a rubber.

He made his bed...

[maseman]

68. Yeah sounds like a smart kid like the person in Wasilla said

The fundies don't usually like the word FUCK in every sentence do they? It's Jerry F-ing Springer folks.

[Ian_rd]

71. Poor dude walked in a world of hurt

I wonder if he really wants to get married, or if someone made it clear that if he doesn't ...

[spanone]

73. tough shit kid, the gov. says you're getting hitched

[iamthebandfanman]

74. he likes to 'shoot shit' too!

sounds like one hunky winner to me....


:sarcasm:

[dkofos]

81. But I still have to marry her because I have a shotgun up my ass.

[RagAss]

86. Levi, the newest member of........The Aristocrats !