Mother’s Day Open Thread [5.12.13]
Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you are lavishing attention and gifts on your Mom today. The adorable Kid President has a message to all of the Moms out there (not the least of which is that the secret to changing the world is Moms):
Then there’s the Mother’s Day Wish List posted by one of my friends with a couple of little ones:
The Rolling Stone has a long piece on Vice President Biden by Douglas Brinkley. Brinkley thinks that Our Joe is running for Preidsent in 2016:
My takeaway from my one-hour White House interview with Joe Biden is that he must be considering a presidential run. There will be too much Obama-era unfinished business – implementing the Affordable Care Act, fighting for climate-change initiatives, for example – for Biden to throw in the towel. His strengths as a candidate are his blue-collar persona, family values, lifetime support of labor unions and farmers, foreign-policy expertise and stouthearted belief that the Obama administration’s record of accomplishment – from the economic recovery to the killing of Osama bin Laden – has been historic. With Air Force Two at his disposal and his two superbright sons, Hunter and Beau, probably working as his chief advisers, Biden can give Hillary Clinton a run for her money. Although she will have an unquestioned advantage among women, it’s not inconceivable to think that labor unions, environmentalists, African-Americans, LGBT voters and small-business owners will prefer the hypercaffeinated, hard-charging vice president. Like Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a presumed Republican candidate, Biden has learned to turn the sound-bite culture on its head by speaking from the gut. Though he’s been a major political player since the Nixon years, Biden has pulled off the trick of not seeming like politics-as-usual. It could be a mistake to underestimate his populist appeal. And it’s hard to imagine that this highly ambitious man will choose not to pursue the office he’s wanted all his life.
What interests you today?
“sometimes, all’s we need is Mom to tell us, ‘Everything will be OK.'”
That kid’s pretty sharp. For me, it didn’t happen all that often, but when it really needed to, it did.
I lost mine last month and despite years of Alzheimer’s, yesterday was a different day.
Geez Bill I’m sorry. But I’m sure you and I are of the same generation where it was conceited and ill-mannered to praise your own child. That window has closed now thankfully, because I know my many friends, and cousins from the day my mother cheered, supported, encouraged, and even delivered one’s baby!! She had it in her and they have relished her positive influence. It skipped a generation for us—because her grandchildren can’t blow a bubble without her telling them how “big” it was!!! Oh, cultural shifts—and acknowledging them.