Get political, single mom!
If this long, dragged out, never ending contest for the Democratic nomination has done nothing else, it has kept the idea of voting alive in the minds of the American people that maybe, just maybe, we’ll actually get out and VOTE this November.
Wouldn’t that be something?
We need to pay attention to our local elections, state elections, and congressional elections. At the end of the day, our next president isn’t going to sit down and wonder, “What can I do to help single mothers?” Our representatives in Congress need to know that we–women, mothers, single moms–want better health care, family leave, decent child care. Even women without children should pay attention to family leave acts, as they might just be all that’s standing between keeping an elderly parent at home and having to shovel them off to substandard nursing home care.
Women are the glue that hold family together, bridging the younger and older generations. Some great places to start becoming more politically aware include Moms Rising, the National Organization for Women, and hooking up with the representatives of your party.
Pay attention, ladies. There are elections at stake this year that can move the nation in a positive direction or drive us even further into a second Dark Ages.
Vote.
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2 opinions for Get political, single mom!
LibertyDefender
May 27, 2008 at 8:16 am
I’m pondering the cosmic irony of *Solo*Mother declaring that “women are the glue that hold family together.”
Of course, I’m still pondering the cosmic ironies that
1) Joey Bishop was the last surviving member of the Rat Pack (if you don’t count the women that is, because if you count the women, Shirley Maclaine will always be the last surviving member of the Rat Pack); and
2) Ed McMahon has outlived Johnny Carson.
christina
May 27, 2008 at 8:29 am
LOL well, o Defender o Liberty, when pops walks out for a pack of Lucky Strikes and never comes back, women are INDEED the glue that holds family together. We tell our spouses when to buy a present for mom, carry the names of the law firm wives filed in our encyclopedic memories. We are amazing. Pppppbt
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