Kevin Drum on the Palin pregnancy:

JUST ASKIN' INDEED....Jakes Tapper asks:
What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?

Yeah, yeah, I know how annoying this kind of conjecture is. But I couldn't help thinking about it. Here's how my mind wandered: Fox News talking heads....hmmm....solemn statement of faux support from John McCain....followed by the usual innuendo-laden videos from the cretins who run his communications shop....James Dobson would release a statement and it sure as hell wouldn't be this one....Steve Sailer would weigh in on black family culture....Charles Murray would be next....The Corner would slowly build to a screeching crescendo....Jeremiah Wright....permissive liberal culture....Rush Limbaugh....Sean Hannity....Michelle Malkin....um....um....um....

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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