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A number of mom bloggers, myself included, have been reaching out to presidential candidates asking for time on their schedule to meet with them–to discuss the issues that are important to us as voters. As I mentioned in my invitation to the candidates, the concerns of our nation are OUR concerns. We care for our children. We care for our parents. We care for spouses. Anything that affects them affects us. It’s as simple as that.
Now I have yet to receive any RSVPs, but one of my colleagues on the Chicago Moms Blog did receive a response to a similar invitation she issued to the Obamas.
Thanks again for your interest and understanding.
SERIOUSLY?!
Talking to mothers (mothers with blogs no less) is so unimportant to the Obama campaign that they can’t find time for the wife of the candidate to meet with this group for one hour some time in the next 13 months? What’s with the Women for Obama page on your site? We certainly seem important there.
And we’re supposed to think that you’ll listen to us once you get into office?!!!
Don’t even get me started on my whole “it’s mommies we can send the wife to cover this one” tirade.
I just wonder. Have any your consultants looked at the voter files lately? Have they missed the fact that women are more likely to vote on Election Day? That, as Mr. Obama put it just last Friday,
“Women have always made the difference in every election, and this year, your voice, your hope will be the deciding factors in forging a new future for America.”
My offer still stands to all the rest of the candidates. My house, mom bloggers and snacks.
Just let me know when. I’ll see if I can fit it in. Don’t worry though, if I can’t maybe my husband could stand in for me.
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Until the candidates figure out that we’re worth talking to, I decided to go and see what they had to say about issues. This exercise alone was informative, entertaining and, in some cases, down right horrifying.
Some of them get it, and some of them don’t.
I give you the Issues sections (or the closest thing I could find to it) from the Presidential candidates of each major political party currently registered with the Federal Election Commission.
Joe Biden (D)
Sam Brownback (R)
Hillary Clinton (D)
Chris Dodd (D)
John Edwards (D)
Mike Gravel (D)
Rudy Guiliani (R)
Mike Huckabee (R)
Duncan Hunter (R)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
John McCain (R)
Ron Paul (R)
Bill Richardson (D)
Mitt Romney (R)
Tom Tancredo (R)
Fred Thompson (R)
September 11th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Bossy can’t think poorly of her beloved Barack O’Boyfriend.
September 11th, 2007 at 7:55 am
You’re rockin’, Mamma. We need to join forces to battle the “ignore the mothers” campaign!
September 11th, 2007 at 8:25 am
It’s exhausting being ignored isn’ it?
September 11th, 2007 at 9:00 am
No matter how much they seem to be dedicated – and I do believe in Obama – the campaigns are meant to touch voters they can’t count on. They think they can count on us, because we are mothers and writers and that equals liberals, don’t you know?
I am so cynical about this two-party system – and I am a journalist who believes that voting is a duty and not just a privilege – that I may not vote.
Because in this system we have going, money talks and voters are secondary.
Scary.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Thank you for the links. Now I have no excuse on making an inform decision come election day.
I have been so disappointed since I was able to vote in 1990.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I don’t know what you’re thinking.
Of course if a woman sends an invitation to a candidate you’re going to get a response from the wife.
I mean, duh, women totally keep all the luncheon schedules and really Mamma let’s not get all crazy about things. Do you really think that Mr. Obama is going to lower the tariffs on Lipstick? That’s what Mrs. Obama does.
Sheesh.
Sometimes you liberated women are so silly.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Wow, thanks for condensing all of these links for us. Making the research easy for the rest of us. And I’m looking forward to the day your invitation is answered; I’ll be there.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Thanks for this post, Mamma. We wimmins should be heard. Too bad we’re not taken more seriously. Is it because we’re not the breadwinners? That pisses me off.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Thanks for the info, Mamma.
I’ll be sure to give it to everyone I know with a penis since their voices carry so much louder than mine.
(not bitter. not bitter at all.)
September 11th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Yes.. Thank you for the list. Geesh. I would hate being ignored like that. …
September 11th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
You rock, girl! I am woman, hear me roar!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Hey, thank you SO MUCH for these links. Fantastic. I’ll be sure to check them all out in the next two days.
As for voicing your concerns for the candidates??? Go get ’em, Tiger. Persistence still pays off.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Sigh. If only Dennis Kucinich had a vagina……
September 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Wow…it’s amazing isn’t it? I guess without the cha-ching, we can’t get any candidate attention.
FYI, another website that I have found to compare the positions of the various candidates is On TheIssues.org. They’ve got a LOT of information, and offer supporting links for that info as well.
Cheers!
Peg
September 11th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I’m with Bossy. I have a hard time processing anything negative about Obama, though reality keeps knocking at my door.
Sigh.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I know, I’m getting peeved too. Ignoring BlogHer was just the first strike. It’s never a good idea to piss off mouthy women who have no problem telling the internet exactly what they think!
September 11th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Wow! Thanks for doing all that research!
September 11th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
You are amazing. Keep at it – maybe a time slot will miraculously open up for those silly moms to yap at the candidates. That must have been so frustrating!!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:46 am
OK, help me out here. From my perspective I don’t know what kind of “mother issues” are out there that are being ignored.
Generally speaking, Presidential campaigns spend most of their time talking about middle-class voter issues in the first place… because statistically, those are the people that vote in the greatest demographic percentages… that means you, right?
Enligten me.