A family affair

[RFKHumphreyObama]

Family members sticking tongues out at reporters, or indeed telling them to "shove it", are moments which give US campaign strategists headaches.


Such incidents, as supplied by George Bush's daughter and John Kerry's wife respectively in recent weeks, are part of the inevitable trials and tribulations of putting one's family on the campaign trail. But with the risks come rewards.

Families humanise - reminding voters that amid all the tough talk of war, taxes and healthcare, these men are loving fathers and husbands who dote on their offspring and tend to their wives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3536736.stm

[booksenkatz]

1. I had no idea that the reporters

at whom Jenna stuck out her tongue had been relentlessly slamming her and her family over and over and over again. At least THK had an excuse for what she did. Jenna was just being immature, like her dad.