Obama’s Young Backers Twist Parents’ Arms ['Tell Your Mama/Vote for Obama!']

The New York Times ^ | April 8, 2008 | JAN HOFFMAN

[Aristotelian]

I Don't Wanna/Vote for Obama

[mylife]

Tell Barack to take a walk!

[Malacoda]

Barack Hussein, he's a pain.

Save the drama -- "NO TO OBAMA."

Barack lacks

Hey, these things write themselves...

[AmericaUnited]

The Emptiest Suit ever to run for POTUS... What a great candidate for the MTV generation empty mush heads.

[Always Right]

Tell your parents how they should really love a 60% tax bracket.

[the invisib1e hand]

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...

[napscoordinator]

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.

[KosmicKitty]

Just say NO to BO!!

[LibLieSlayer]

I joked with my Mom about this article... she said something about having to wretch up a lung to vote for mcnasty and then hit me upside the head with her shoe, for even thinking that she would vote for such a racist as osamabama. She is an 83 year old Conservative with a decent sense of humor!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

PARENTS... if your child does this... beat them with a piece of firewood!

LLS

[RightField]

Sigh ...

It's not just college kids, either. We've been getting emails from distant relatives and odd acquaintenances extolling the virtues of an Obamaworld.

[reformedliberal]

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.

[Ann Archy]

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.

[Obadiah]

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.

[aruanan]

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

The new Krishna devotees. They need some physical symbol, though. How about big fake moles for their foreheads and peri-nasal areas?

[RU88]

The anointed brethren of the church of demorat, the best and brightest of the party, need advice from their spawn in order to cast a vote for the most important job in the world!? Kind of gives you a true indication of just how lousy their choices are.

[Puzzleman]

In Stuart Taylor's article, Opening Argument: Obama's Wife and Their Spiritual Advisor, he lists his reservations about Obama as follows:

...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.

[pnh102]

This reminds me of the 1992 election. I was too young to vote, but my mom had gotten me to thinking that Bush-41 was the worst president imaginable and that Clinton was the greatest thing since Jesus (possibly eclipsing him too).

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!

[RightField]

These are probably parents who ASKED their children to clean their rooms, take out the trash, etc. As in, "Johnnie, will you please clean your room, OK?"

Sounds like a Yes or No question to me.

[Nailbiter]

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.