Condition that sets the candidates apart

I BELIEVE the attitudes of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to teenage pregnancy justly explains the difference between the two.

Obama said he would favour abortion because he wouldn’t like “to punish” his daughter with a baby. This is double-speak when really a parent does punish a teenage girl with so invasive an operation as an abortion.

But Obama wants to seem empathetic and understanding on so divisive an issue. But for the reluctant grandparent, teenage abortion is often the easy way out.