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Family Fisticuffs? Julie Nixon Eisenhower backs Obama

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:19pm.

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by Christine Bowman

Whose family hasn't argued about politics?

We don't know if they've come to blows yet, but according to The Chicago Tribune today, Richard M. Nixon's daughters are backing two different candidates in this year's presidential race. Julie Nixon Eisenhower has maxed out her donations to Democrat Barack Obama, giving $2300 for the primary season, while Tricia Nixon Cox has given the same to McCain's primary and $2300 more for his general election fund. The Tribune doesn't mention whether their husbands support the same candidates.

Sticking with famous political families, Maria Shriver has backed Obama, despite her husband's nod to McCain.

But problems of political passion plague regular folks, too, not just the Nixon and Kennedy families. The BuzzFlash Mailbag has long been a forum for readers plagued with intra-familial political conflict. From election cycle to election cycle, BuzzFlash reader "Shirley from St. Louis" has often given and received moral support on family political differences through the Mailbag.

Today on the day of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, a big day for the intra-familial dispute in the bigger Democratic family, we invite readers to share their stories of conflict. Vent about your pain, your laughs, your reconciliations at BuzzFlash by logging in and commenting below. Tell us if your husband is a knucklehead, your wife a stubborn mule, or your brother simply an unrepentant right-winger. We hope you'll feel better for the catharsis. Add your comment below.

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Home Sweet Home

Submitted by wizardofohm on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 8:35pm.
My sister voted for Nader eight years ago and has since been a consistant democrat. She recently moved from Jordan to Malta. Because of her experience living in the Middle East, she was a Hillary supporter on the basis that she feared Obama would not be strong enough on foreign policy. Through our recent discourse I have persuaded her otherwise. She was less familar with the internal issues, in which Hillary truely reveals her allegiance to the Dark Side. My mother has historically refused to reveal her voting preference to me in fear that if I disagreed, my arguments would be unrellenting.(she's right) I know she is a moderate, and swings premarily based on the integrety of the individual canidates. This election has been different- being from the Chicagoland Area, Obama has been a powerful voice in our local politics for quite some time now. My mother has read both his books (O.K., listened to them while driving to work) and is a clear supporter. My father works for Big Pharma and has for his entire adult life. He is a very intelligent consultant and despite his ability to reason (which would make him a liberal) he will continue to vote republican on economic issues that favor his income level, and on health care because with socialized medicine, he is out of a job.
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fisticuffs?

Submitted by bigbillhaywood on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 5:03pm.
I would no more maintain a realtionship with a republican than I would maintain a relationship with a nazi or KKK member. My grandfather often told the story of Roosevelt's first election...when my grandmother stated that she planned to vote for Hoover like her semi-illiterate parents. He said he would divorce her if she did...and this in a day when divorce was largely unheard of in what passed for the middle class in pre-Roosevelt America. Republicans are morally deficient people. They are to be educated, not pandered to.
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family politics

Submitted by pjowens on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 7:08pm.
I certainly could not be married to anyone on the right, or even anyone in the middle. I am on the rather far left, and I've been diligent to do all I know how to raise a left-wing family, by giving everyone lots of room to think, speak, and be who they are (not by telling them what to believe). But I can love my relatives who vote Republican, because we don't chose our cousins. My closest age first cousin laughs and tells people surprised we are NOT conservative like she is, "that's ok, we always know we cancel Pam and Rick out as long as we all 4 vote." The way I've approached it is that I've produced more children who are marrying and having children than the right wing part of my family! :-) http://www.blog.pamelajeanowens.org
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