Posted on 04/08/2008 3:45:29 AM PDT by Aristotelian
The daily phone calls. The midnight e-mail. And, when college lets out, those dinner table declamations? Oh, please.
Senator Barack Obama’s devotees just won’t give their parents a break.
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination continues, youthful volunteers for each candidate have been campaigning with bright-eyed brio, not only door-to-door but also at home. But the young supporters of Mr. Obama, who has captured a majority of under-30 primary voters, seem to be leading in the pestering sweepstakes. They send their parents the latest Obama YouTube videos, blog exhortations and “Tell Your Mama/Vote for Obama!” bumper stickers.
Megan Simpson, a Penn State senior, had not been able to budge her father, a Republican. But the day before the deadline for registering for the coming Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, she handed him the forms and threw in a deal-sweetener as well. “I said, ‘Dad, if you change your party affiliation in time to vote for Obama,’ ” recalled Ms. Simpson, 22, an Obama campus volunteer, “ ‘I will get you the paperwork the day after the primary if you want to switch back to being a Republican.’ ”
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Tell Barack to take a walk!
Save the drama -- "NO TO OBAMA."
Barack lacks
Hey, these things write themselves...
The Emptiest Suit ever to run for POTUS... What a great candidate for the MTV generation empty mush heads.
Tell your parents how they should really love a 60% tax bracket.
Tell your parents to grow up and be parents.
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How long before we read of the real strong-arm tactics. I wonder how the teamsters are conducting themselves at my old employer these days...
I am sick of people not thinking for themselves. First it was dang Caroline Kennedy who said she supported Obama because of her children and then Maria Shriver said she changed to Obama too because of her children’s influence. What is wrong with people who can’t think for themselves. I would not take my children’s advice on candidates unless coincidentially I agreed with them AND another thing the parents are supposed to influence the children on politics not the other way around. This is really screwy.
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It's not just college kids, either. We've been getting emails from distant relatives and odd acquaintenances extolling the virtues of an Obamaworld.
The same thing hapened to us in 2004: emails from the children of friends urging support of Kerry/defeat of W. I wrote back to one telling her to desist and she cited her faith (raised Catholic) as her reason for supporting donks.
Then I recalled “Clean For Gene”.
Didn’t work in the past. Isn’t going to work now.
WTF???? CHILDREN telling their PARENTS who to vote for??? The Democrats are WORSE than I thought!! Children know NOTHING and these ELECTED ELITES are going to do what their know-nothings KIDS tell them to do??? geesh.
If the parents don’t vote for Obama then the kids are to report this activity immediately to the Obama brownshirts who will dispatch of said parents for crimes against the state.
...But would the same Obama who lacked the fortitude to break with Jeremiah Wright be a good bet, if elected, to take on his party's own special interests? To break, when circumstances warrant, with the across-the-board liberal orthodoxy he has long embraced? Curb entitlement spending? Temper excessive affirmative-action preferences? Tame the lawsuit lobby? Assign the teachers unions their share of the blame for what Obama calls "crumbling schools that are stealing the future"?
Could he get tough, when necessary, with fashionably leftist foreign dictators, highly politicized international institutions, and sanctimonious European America-bashers? Or would he instead heed such soothing platitudes as his wife's February 14 assertion that "instead of protecting ourselves against terrorists," we should be "building diplomatic relationships"?
I have a hard time believing at this point that Obama is up to these tasks...
Here is the link.
When I went with my dad to vote, he voted for Bush 41, and I told him what my mom told me, and that he should vote for Clinton instead. He simply smiled and told me in a few years, I would understand why he voted for Bush 41.
Of course, he was right. I just hope I can channel his wisdom when it is my turn to be a parent!
Sounds like a Yes or No question to me.
Megan Simpson, a Penn State senior, had not been able to budge her father, a Republican. But the day before the deadline for registering for the coming Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, she handed him the forms and threw in a deal-sweetener as well. “I said, ‘Dad, if you change your party affiliation in time to vote for Obama,’ ” recalled Ms. Simpson, 22, an Obama campus volunteer, “ ‘I will get you the paperwork the day after the primary if you want to switch back to being a Republican.’
I thought Dems were accusing repubs if this practice.
Seems to me they are encouraging it.
On seperate thought, Dad has to be proud of his daughter. She is showing lack of logic, and also honesty.
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