Posted on 09/22/2016 4:49:56 AM PDT by simpson96
I will never forget the week my mom, Hillary Rodham Clinton, made history as the first female presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party. It was an incredible, hectic, emotional week—and a completely inspiring one. My kids are still young, and I can't wait to share the story of that week with them one day—to show them the picture of my mom and President Barack Obama hugging after his powerful speech, to read to them what I got to say about their grandma in front of the biggest audience I'd ever addressed, and to explain to them how not all that long ago, in my grandma's lifetime, women couldn't even vote. (snip)
This is the first presidential election I'm voting in as a mom. I didn't know I could care any more about politics. Then I was blessed to welcome my daughter, Charlotte, into the world two years ago, and her little brother, Aidan, just five and a half weeks before the Democratic National Convention. Whoever we elect will play a profound role in shaping the future that my children and their generation will grow up in. Politics has become even more personal. With all this on my mind and in my heart—and a car full of children's books (Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo; Good Night, Gorilla; a few Mo Willems pigeon books), two Elmos, diapers—my husband, Marc Mezvinsky, Charlotte, Aidan, and I drove down from New York to Philadelphia.
Monday, July 25
After we arrived, we settled into the hotel,
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Yes. Crazy isn’t it? But it sounds so good . . . it sounds so normal... They truly have hypnotized the masses. In fact, remember how Chelsea said she left Christianity at 6 years old because she found out the church was against abortion? What happened to that? And, what 6 year old thinks that way?
You can’t fake family. Positive for Donald and minus minus minus for Hillary.
This is like what a 5th grader would write for “what I Did on my summer vacation”. Rhodes scholar my ass.
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