Word: dad
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...compassion in the conservatism, however, the campaign is not above playing on women's fears. "I can't imagine the great agony of a mom or a dad having to make the decision about which child to pick up first on September the 11th," says the President in a campaign advertisement. The ad is designed to show that Bush is empathetic but also to remind women that dangers can break into their daily routine. The Beslan school massacre was a stark reminder of that. Both campaigns realize the atrocity shook women to the core. At the White House on Sept...
...Then again, as a father I know how hard it is to change one's parenting style. That?s why I?m just biding time till November, when hopefully we'll get a new dad...
...leadership style that more resembles a kind of new-millennium Ward Cleaver: never abdicating his role as parent, yet ever careful to solicit input from his charges - in this case, the American people. (And, for better or worse, John Kerry is even as corny as the Beaver's dad...
...mean to suggest here that George W. Bush isn't a good dad. In fact, from the look of things, his spirited daughters have inherited the best of their mother's congeniality and their dad's easy-going sense of humor. But when it comes to the current state of our national household - children living in poverty, adults unable to secure employment, and more than 1000 dead on foreign soil - it may be time for the president to take off the iron glove and hold a house meeting...
...house. Inside, four Marines tend to the sobbing boy, who has been shot in the shin and is calling out in Arabic, which no one understands. "Why don't they hit the brakes?" says one Marine to no one in particular. "I think we killed that kid's dad," says another. A truck approaches but warning shots turn it around. "Tell them to stop all traffic!" a Marine shouts. "Too many cars are coming down here. We're shooting the wrong people...