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Obama Kids

By The Daily Dish
Oct 17 2008, 3:43 AM ET

Ramesh Ponnuru doesn't understand parents who politicize their children:

I don't know if this sort of behavior is evenly distributed on the political spectrum or across elections; maybe I'm just noticing it because it's my first presidential election with a child. I just don't understand the impulse to recruit small children into sharing adults' political enthusiasms. I have not taught my little girl to pronounce the word "McCain."

Dreher adds his two cents. I find the politicization of children on both sides to be repulsive. The use of special needs infants as political props is even worse.



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