[OldDeckHand]

"the comment struck me as a dad who was used to giving his girls a hard time and hadn’t quite grasped he’s now on the national stage.

I thought it was hysterical. My daughters all think it's my hobby to embarrass them - of course, they are right.

I think Brown has been successful precisely for the same reason that Palin has been so successful - he's a genuine guy, devoid of all pretense. Obama isn't. At all.

I think Martha Coakley lost that race when Barack Obama threw the Cambridge cop under the bus. That cop - like Brown - was a real guy, who the working people of Mass can and do relate to. Coakley, like Obama and Skip Gates, appeal to the Massachusetts intellectual intelligentsia, that plays well in Harvard Yard and at Tufts.

[Doomonyou]

My daughters all think it's my hobby to embarrass them - of course, they are right.

Exactly, if you can't have some fun with your daughter, you've got some relationship problems.

[FReepaholic]

...My daughters all think it's my hobby to embarrass them...

I have teenagers. The very fact that I exist embarrasses them.