NY Times: When Dad Runs for President

When Dad Runs for President

In most families, it's the children who dream of what they might someday become, while the parents devote their every hour to making it happen. In a political family, those roles are reversed. The child of a presidential candidate learns to subjugate herself to the machinery of a campaign. She learns to rally a crowd of supporters, to gently push a county official for a much-needed endorsement or, if she's too young for any of that, simply to smile and wave on cue. She learns to accommodate or even adore the coterie of aides who roam the family home and to trust no one outside that circle with the smallest shred of information.

The candidate's child does all this in pursuit of the ultimate prize, even though he or she darkly suspects that despite all the glory of the White House, there has never been a worse time to be the president's kid. In the age of ''Saturday Night Live,'' 24-hour cable gossip, talk radio and obsessive Web sites, not to mention Jay and Dave and Conan, the mundane rites of adolescence, like braces or a fake ID, can become painful ordeals.

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When Dad Runs for President

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it's similar for spouses of candidates. I would guess this is why Judy (hope I got the first name right) Dean (yeah, I know, that's not her last name) has clearly drawn the line so she's not involved.

she did officially change her last name to dean when she got married. but for her work as a doctor she uses dr.steinberg because she use to work together with her husband and it would have been confusing to have two people called dr.dean at the same work place.

enthusiastic about his campaign.

she is into these issues and thinks edwards can improve the lives of others. did you see her speak at his formal announcement ? she was the one to introduce edwards and gave a speech along with it. the right wing hates this though. remember the crap hillary got ? but as a woman i like them speaking out.

she's doing a live chat at johnkerry.com at 5pm est.

the video is available at www.johnedwards2004.com.

She's a committed democrat.

She's a smart lady and gracious, too.

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