“While Barack may have been raised in some exotic places, he was raised by Kansas women.” – Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, at the Democrats’ election watch party in Topeka
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I don’t like the insinuation that there were no Kansas men in his early life.
This is one of the big reasons I do not vote Democrat. Every time they talk about families it’s a ‘women and children’ issue. As if that is all a family should be.
I considered voting for Raj Goyle up until I read that same position in the Eagle endorsement.
ProudMan, stick to those “important” reasons for deciding how to vote. Family values are important — ALL families, not just a few.
Is that why Kansans didn’t elect him?
Republicans should be encouraged to embrace their narrow views on what is “important.” They should run with average people like Palin and Joe the plumber!
This describes why Kansans voted for McCain:
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The NY Times has the exit poll data. Obama barely won among men (49% to 48%), but strongly among women (56% to 43%), overwhelmingly among blacks (95% to 5%), and convincingly among Latinos (66% to 31%) and Asians (62% to 35%). However, he lost among whites (43% to 55%) as Democrats normally do. He did progressively worse with age, winning the 18-29 year-olds 66% to 31% but losing seniors 52% to 46%. He swept every educational category as well as Catholics and Jews but lost Protestants 54% to 45%. He won people living in big cities, small cities, and suburbs, but lost in small towns and rural areas. One is tempted to say McCain won in traditional 19th century America (what Sarah Palin would call “real America”): older white Protestant men living in small towns. Obama won everywhere else. The Republican Party is going to have to think long and hard if it wants to hitch its wagon to this fading star while the Democrats are going after younger, multicultural, urban voters.
http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Nov06.html
“This is one of the big reasons I do not vote Democrat. Every time they talk about families it’s a ‘women and children’ issue. As if that is all a family should be.”
No that’s not all a family SHOULD be, but too often that’s what it is. Many American men need to take responsibilty for the children they help to create. All to often, it’s the mom who is on her own to raise her family.
“lindainks55
Posted November 6, 2008 at 7:59 am | Permalink
ProudMan, stick to those “important” reasons for deciding how to vote. Family values are important — ALL families, not just a few.”
What are the ALL families you are referring to?
I completely agree with the last part of youe statement Mary.
I think what Linda meant about ALL families is that the All American Leave it to Beaver family does not exist in each household. A family consists of so much more than just a married couple with 2.5 kids (I always wondered how a people had a 0.5 kid).
Families come in all sizes, shapes, colors, religious affiliations, political affiliations, married, single and even homosexuals. Families can have kids or no kids. There is no critieria for what a family can be or should be. The people in the family do not even need to be related by blood.
Families are the bond that hold people together, where they are loved, supported and have the opportunity to conrtribute to something bigger than themselves.
And rather than trying to suppress ALL different types of families, our leaders should be helping each and every family to be the best they can be.