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Originally Posted by Eonan  They shouldn't of been doing it to Obama either, the families of politicians should be off limits unless said family members willingly engage themselves in the political process (ie making speeches on policy). |
Except when they talk about their families as a selling point, I'm not sure I can agree. She spent like 8 of her 20 minutes last night talking about her family. She is useing her family/family life as a reason to support her.
When people say "Hey, she raised 5 kids she must be tough/smart/experienced/whatever" shouldn't we ask how good of a job she did? Spawning takes little effort, but strong parenting takes character.
Also, don't we want to know who is influencing the decisions of a potential president, i.e. their spouses? I think spouses and family always come up in these things, I remember hearing stories about Bush's daughters being big party girl's and I know Tipper Gore's work turned off some people from supporting Clinton/Gore and Gore/Leiberman.
Family seems like a perfectly reasonable area of interest to the American public.
