Guam Governor commiserates with Palin

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- As he addressed the Oregon delegation, Guam Gov. Felix Camacho told a story of a man on his island that sounded eerily familiar.

He told them of a man on his island. Camacho said the man heard from some people that his daughter had some bad news to tell him. When he went to his daughter, he asked what was wrong, and asked her to be honest. She told him that she was pregnant. He asked her what she intended to do, and she said she would have the baby, she would go off to school, and they would figure something out.

“The man said, ‘Yes, you will have the baby, but no, you will not go off to school. You will go to school here and we will help you raise the child on the island until you are old enough to be self sufficient,” Camacho said.

The man in Camacho's story turned out to be Camacho himself. The girl was his daughter. Camacho, who is the Republican governor of Guam, told the Oregon delegation that he has been upset by the intense scrutiny the Palin family had come under since Gov. Sarah Palin released the news of her daughter's pregnancy. But he remained confident that Palin was the right candidate to join John McCain on the ticket.

“I am appalled about the attacks on Sarah Palin, especially the attacks on her family,” Cumacho said. “But she and John McCain will transform this nation.”