Well, let me get this straight; John McCain claimed on Monday, as he has many times before, that the economy is "fundamentally sound". However, with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch and the government having to bail out Freddie Mack, Fannie May and AIG, along with Obama’s scathing criticism of McCain as being "out of touch" with the economy, McCain was forced to clarify his position.

NY Times columnist Bob Herbert, pulls no punches in nailing John McCain’s healthcare plan in his article McCain’s Radical Agenda He asks the obvious:

Well, we knew there had to be some hidden reason why Sarah Palin was so adamant in her anti-choice stance, even to the point of denying a woman’s right to choose in cases of rape and incest. Now we know! This little segment was part of the Sarah Palin Revealed special on CNN. It slipped by almost unnoticed.

GRIFFIN: At the same time the relationship with Todd was taking off. Fall day in 1988, Heather planned to meet Sarah and Todd at the state fair, but the two never showed up. Instead, they headed to the courthouse and learned they needed two witnesses to be married.

BRUCE: They walked across the street to the pioneer home and asked in the lobby if someone would like to be their witness and a couple of volunteers had to wheel -- had to push the other one in their wheelchair, across the street to the courthouse. I don't think they had rings. I'm not even sure.

GRIFFIN: Sarah's father, Chuck, took the news well.

CHUCK HEATH: They eloped. I thanked them, saying you saved me a lot of money.

GRIFFIN: Almost eight months later , Todd and Sarah's first child was born and they named him Track, after the sports season in which he was born. Over the next four years, four more children would come, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

Track’s birth date information was released just recently. There is no data that states Track was born prematurely. This would have been publicized by the Palin team, and would have been addressed in the CNN program. It is a big deal. I know, because my first child was premature.

Now, before the self-righteous indignation from neo-cons here , I am not criticizing Palin for a mistake she made. After all, she’s human. My concern is about something much greater. The unexpected pregnancies of both mother and daughter, which apparently caused both to rush into marriages with high school jocks (Ted was a former high school basketball star), is a blatant example of why Palin’s support for abstinence-only education in public schools doesn’t work!

Mother and daughter are both walking advertisements for the Family Planning Council.