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Buchanan glared like a Jesuit prefect of discipline and stabbed the air. His rendition was family values in the bully's mode -- an appeal to visceral prejudices, not to American ideals. Barbara Bush and the tableau of Bush children and grandchildren transmitted a softer version, a kind of Pepperidge Farm, white-bread appeal in handsome plenty...
Much Republican rhetoric posits a model of the family that is becoming rarer in reality. Almost all family values have to do with children, with how to make them happy and give them safe, decent lives. The real debate Americans should be having, says social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, concerns "what all adults would give up to secure a childhood of innocence and freedom." Every expert and practically every citizen agree that children are better off being raised in a family with two parents. For various reasons, that is less and less the model of American child rearing...
...night, the party's fault lines were laid bare for the nation to see. Patrick Buchanan's darkly apocalyptic speech Monday night all but raised the specter of race war, only to be followed minutes later by Ronald Reagan's soaring tribute to Bush and America's future. Wednesday, Barbara Bush gently prodded the conservative delegates to broaden their party's sometimes narrow definition of family, while warm-up act Marilyn Quayle championed a zero-tolerance approach to "family values." But it was Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of a top G.O.P. fund raiser, who held the Astrodome rapt...
...Barbara Jordan topped Kennedy and Cuomo...
...Barbara Bush's family reunion and "Gampy's" casual arrival...