The Difference Between Sarah Palin and Britney Spears...

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Sep 8, 2008 9:17 AM EDT

Article Source: The Washington Post

Palin held her baby in her arms as the warden drove a short distance around the facility, said corrections director Joe Schmidt, who sat next to Palin. A few days later, the governor got a warning from her public safety commissioner that someone had complained that she did not strap Trig into a car seat for the ride.

Palin dismissed the complaint as petty, and the commissioner, whom she appointed, took no formal action. But the incident shows the degree to which family and politics are bound together in Palin's career.

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Killfile

The difference is that when Britney Spears endangered the life of her child she faced the consequences and was sorry about it. Palin, on the other hand, dismisses the very real concerns about her child's well-being as "petty" and miraculously gets even less of a slap on the wrist than the notoriously forgiving LAPD give to the Glitterati.

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#1 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 9:19 AM EDT

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theLimeyBrit

As I recall, Britney was driving the car on a public street with her child on her lap. Palin was a passenger, being driven on a (presumably) private road within the prison complex. Apples and oranges.

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#1.1 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 10:15 AM EDT

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Killfile

Not at all. Is the child any less in danger? No. They have flat tires in Alaska too ya know.

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3 votes

#1.2 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 10:31 AM EDT

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SnotRag Dave

This from Businessweek.com: (emphasis mine)

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have child restraint laws. Child restraint laws require children to travel in approved child restraint devices, and some permit or require older children to use adult safety belts. The age at which belts can be used instead of child restraints differs among the states. Young children usually are covered by child restraint laws, while safety belt laws cover older children and adults. Because enforcement and fines differ under belt use and child restraint laws, it's important to know which law is being violated when a child isn't restrained. Child restraint laws are standard for all children covered except Colorado, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. In Colorado, the law is secondary only for children ages 4 through 5 years who must be in booster seats. Nebraska's law is secondary only for those children who may be in safety belts and standard for those who must be in a child restraint device. In Pennsylvania, the law is secondary only for children ages 4 through 7 years who must be in booster seats.

Ideally, all infants and children in all vehicles should be covered by safety belt laws or child restraint laws or both. But differences in the way the laws in various states are worded result in many occupants, especially children, being covered by neither law. Lawmakers are eliminating these gaps by amending their child restraint and safety belt laws. They also should make certain that police can stop drivers to enforce restraint laws covering older children. In 36 states and the District of Columbia (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming), all children younger than 16 are covered by one or both laws.

Is Sarah Palin above the law... or is there a reason she is not concerned about the safety of her infant son?

Maybe, since the driver is ultimately responsible, she just didn't care.

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#1.3 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:09 PM EDT

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LunarTick

Excellent seed, Killfile. It's a good look at where Sarah has come from at a personal level.

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#2 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 9:56 AM EDT

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