When 'Bad' Things Happen To Good Republican Families, Or - Why My 9-Year-Old Backs Obama
By Chuck Clay
(7/11/08) As a parent, it is sometimes hard to come to grips with the idea that with five kids, one of them was bound to go wrong. Nonetheless, that which I thought would never happen to me or my family has now occurred.
It hurts me to admit it, but my nine year old son, Alex, is a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
When I say supporter, Alex is not just a supporter, but rather is probably the greatest fan Obama has that he does not know that he has.
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This sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen to people like us. I’m not just a passing Republican, my grandfather was one of the co-chairs of the Eisenhower campaign in 1952, and he later went on to serve as Finance Chairman of the RNC for four years.
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No, I’m not ready to change my political stripes. Nor am I predicting an Obama victory, but if Barack Obama did nothing more than ignite a lifetime interest in politics and government in a nine year old boy in Marietta, Georgia, then that in and of itself is enough for me to say, “Thank You.”
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