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Why should she be the exception? The practice of delving into the private lives of public figures has become increasingly deeper over the past 2-3 decades. Whether you agree with the practice or not, it is a fact. I believe she was a last minute scramble to pay lip service to Sen. McCain's attempt at diversity. She was never in the running running prior to the DNC convention. She wasn't vetted. What we have learned appears to show a person taking strong pro-life and conservative beliefs but who cannot keep her own family in order. In terms of her public life, she served as a mayor of a very small town and as governor, has had her own integrity, fairness and honesty called into question in her home state. John McCain pointed to Sen. Obama's lack of experience and credentials for the Presidency and yet selects the least likely and far least experience to be a "heartbeat away from the Presidency"! It is unfathomable what he could have been thinking and , considering his positions on womens issues and diversity, it is pure hypocrisy and desperate.
Also. I think we are all well informed of Sen. MCCain's POW experience , the horrors he endured and his heroism in the most unimaginable circumstances...enough, already! We know, we appreciate and admire but it's been played beyond it's relevance to who he is and what he is planning for the future. It seems like just another diversion and a tool on which he relies for a some demographic to whom that matter is a key factor in his present and future endeavors. Many suffered, were imprisoned, died, went MIA in Vietnam. The majority of the survivors have moved forward without playing that card as an ongoing ticket to bigger and better things. I think it is ab insult to all of the many heroes in all wars, right or wrong, served with valor and haven't milked their stories to death. My grandmother had 18 children, 12 boys who all served in WW II and Korea (my father among them) she also received Presidential honors for her own services and efforts here at home. I never knew of her own personal services until after her death. I knew that all of her living sons served, some wounded, most receiving various medals....silent heroes all; returning home as working class family men who didn't lean on all of their personal sacrifices or those of their mother and brother as advantages to be used for personal gain.
Apologies for the length of this, but I had to speak my view of both of these candidates and lay the blame for not getting my vote squarely on their own shoulders.

— alexa n.

You are kidding me, I know it.
These are the people that spent millions of tax payer dollars and wasted months of time trying to get Bill Clinton. But now it's a new low?
This person could very well end up as our commander in chief. I think we have a right to know as much as we want to know. Especially after the disaster of the last 8 years.
Besides, the right didn't exactly back off of Obama, spreading lies about his background and devotion to country.
PLEASE!!!

— raindan

Hey, babe -- Anybody lay off Michelle Obama? Where was your righteous indignation then, dear? No way can we afford to lay off the candidate herself and how her values are reflected in how she has raiser her family. All part of the deal. There is plenty there to be very concerned about.

— scarey-411130

Whether it is Obama or McCain or Biden or Palin, I want to know (and be allowed to come to my own decision about) their lives. I am unimpressed and uncaring about whether Palin's daughter is pregnant. It is no more important in my decision about who to vote for, than Bush's daughters drinking was. But just as Obama's minister was found to be extremely objectionable, I do think people need to hear about these things and try to come to their own personal conclusions about how they feel about them. On my part, it is Palin's attitude toward global warming that worries me, along with her ultra right attitudes. For McCain to offer to us someone who is even more radical than Bush, is simply frightening.

— SilverGuardian

I have no problem with her personally or her family. But I do believe her sloppy vetting is a reflection on McCain's decision making process. I do care that she lacks foreign policy experience and would be a heartbeat away from the presidency regardless of the presidents age, but even more so given McCain's age. These are legitimate issues. Her daughter's personal life is no ones business.

— Michael-482010

As long as she is running for Vice President and a heartbeat away from being the President of the United States, her background should be wide open. We need to know about the background of candidates running for office. They chose the political arena to make their living, thereby opening up their lives for scrutiny and comment.

— reedt

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