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Welcome new baby Sarah McCain Palin!
Cause for divorce? ET father names baby Sarah McCain Palin
Associated Press
Originally published 11:22 p.m., October 13, 2008
Updated 11:22 p.m., October 13, 2008
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. ? A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.
Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl?s birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.
?I don?t think she believes me yet,? he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. ?It?s going to take some more convincing.?
Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to ?to get the word out? about the campaign.
?I took one for the cause,? he said. ?I can?t give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little.?
Re: Welcome new baby Sarah McCain Palin!
YES cause for divorce, no matter what he changed it to--even if it were Hilary Barack Biden, I'd be LIVID.
Edited to clarify: This is a problem because her husband is a sneaky controlling inconsiderate douchenozzle, not because he changed it for the GOP.
How does one "secretly" name his child? Doesn't the mom sign the birth certificate?
Putting aside my doubts of this story's veracity, I would kill my DH if he did that - regardless of whatever name he picked. Joint child = joint name. Going behind the mom's back about something that important indicates a serious disregard for the mom's feelings that, I'm willing to bet, occurs often. That doesn't bode well for their future.
My grandfather did this for my mom (not naming specifically for McCain-Palin, though, obviously.) My grandmother had a difficult childbirth and was incapacitated for a while after delivery, so my grandfather seized the opportunity to have his mother's first name put on my mom's birth certificate and have her christened with the same name. (She was christened in hospital because they thought she might not live.)
Let's just say it was a very old fashioned, weird name and my mother doesn't use it. And my grandmother and grandfather argued over it years later.
Whoa. There would be words about this in my household!
Of course, thankfully my hubs would know better ;-)