Would a “Bristol Obama” Be Off-Limits?

And baby makes six: The Obama family and their newest member(s)

How legitimate are Sarah Palin’s calls that her family be kept out of the press, as she and John McCain attempt to win the White House? Furthermore, is there an implied double standard at work when she does so?

Or, as Frank Rich, in The New York Times, argues in his piece, “The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket,” harshly critiquing the campaign,

The ultimate hypocrisy is that these woebegone, frightened opponents of change, sworn enemies of race-based college-admission initiatives, are now demanding their own affirmative action program for white folks applying to the electoral college. They want the bar for admission to the White House to be placed so low that legitimate scrutiny and criticism of Palin’s qualifications, record and family values can all be placed off limits. Byron York of National Review, a rare conservative who acknowledges the double standard, captured it best: “If the Obamas had a 17-year-old daughter who was unmarried and pregnant by a tough-talking black kid, my guess is if they all appeared onstage at a Democratic convention and the delegates were cheering wildly, a number of conservatives might be discussing the issue of dysfunctional black families.”

You think?