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Kids: Pressure your grandparents to vote for Obama
by Scott Gilbreath ~ October 28th, 2008
Illinois congressional representative Jan Schakowsky has urged children to wheedle their grandparents to vote for Sen Barack Obama.
The one thing most grandparents have in common is that they have the most wonderful grandchildren in the world - so clever, so handsome, so pretty, ever so precious. Even if you are still unsure of your path in life, and even if your parents and friends occasionally wonder about you, your grandma and grandpa love you and have faith in you.
That is your weapon! “Precious” needs to get on the phone and say, “Grandpa, Grandma, I am asking you to vote for Barack Obama. This is really important to me. It’s about my future. It’s about the world I will be living in. It’s about the world I want for my future children. (They will love that one!) Please! Do it for me!”
Put some urgency in your voice. Sound very disappointed in them if they give you excuses. Come back again, even harder. “This is about my future - my ability to get a good job, to live a healthy life, to have the same (or even more) opportunities than you had to succeed. I have never felt more strongly about anything. I am begging you to vote for Barack Obama. I need you to do this for me!”
This is just a sample script. You know what it takes to get to them.
How smarmy is that. Rep Schakowsky urges kids to lean on Grandma and Grandpa to vote for Obama. But, of course, the kids aren’t going to do that (or even read her column) on their own: the kids’ parents will have to put them up to it. This strategy calls on parents indirectly to pressure their own parents to vote Democrat. That’s the way to avoid an intelligent discussion of the issues!
Schakowsky must think the average American grandparent is a doddering old fool who would place the petulant wishes of an uninformed child above the good of the country.
Why not just lower the voting age to, say, 6, so we can be done with the subterfuge?
h/t: Dr Slogan’s Prescriptions and ProLife Blogs
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