Book for children: "Why Mommy Is A Democrat"

[Inland]

It's probably because republicans don't accept squirrel-human hybrids.

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Please tell me this a joke.

[Inland]

2. The cover? No.

It was advertised on www.juancole.com

My gloss? Yes.

[RebelOne]

6. Seems to be for real.

http://littledemocrats.net/

[Sammy Pepys]

3. The toy horse in that picture is interesting.

Also the fact that they're clothed.

[Inland]

7. Probably a toy donkey.

But the clothing isn't strange. It's a cartoon concept of man-animal hybrids. I saw a saturday morning cartoon that had dogs, but some were dog dogs, while some were human dogs, that is, dogs but walking upright, wearing clothes, speaking and even wearing human hair styles like a flip on their skulls. It was creepy.

[bunkerbuster1]

24. don't anyone watch Arthur

or the Berenstain Bears, or Franklin, or any number of other children's programs that depict man-animal hybrids...

[Inland]

25. It wasn't the man-animal hybrids that creeped me out.

It was the man-animal hybrid dog people OWNED DOGS, and treated them like dogs.

[bunkerbuster1]

26. How about a mouse having a dog for a pet?

(I mentioned the show Arthur because there's been a little bit of in-joke stuff on the show about that very topic. The title character is an human-like aardvark who has a pet puppy. Yet there are other human-like "dogs" on the show as well.)

[XemaSab]

4. Especially not squirrels with the little ear tufts

:scared:

[jobycom]

5. I couldn't write that book for kids--it would include too much profanity

at Bush and Reagan.

[Inland]

10. "Why Daddy Curses." nt

[AX10]

8. This is a real book?

[Inland]

9. It was advertised on www.juancole.com

[ShortnFiery]

11. I've got one of mine - my pre-teen daughter fully read on ....

We love to call some folks we consider right wing racists ... "Look Mom! There's a MorAn in his pick up truck and rebel flag bumPAR sticker?!?" She even has the deep thick southern accent down pat. To die for is to hear her say, "WhAt wee have here is a FAIL-URE to communicate." ;)

Yes, we sometimes come across these specimens on the way to and from school.

Life is good :-).

BTW this is quite an interesting publication, maybe at or local library?

[cali]

16. You're kidding.

Please tell me you're kidding. If you're not, and you really consider it recreational for you and your pre-teen daughter to mock people because they're in a truck with a rebel flag bumper sticker, I'm not sure what to say to you, except that's sad.

[ShortnFiery]

19. Well perhaps it is ...

No, it's all true! And I know far from PC. We all have our biases and if you lived here in, what I refer to as upper middle class Stepford-suburbia, you would not think it "all that sad." We have BLACK lawn jockeys on the end of some long driveways and some people in stores remark openly about "what purpose do those Mahogany Greeting cards serve any way?" Yes, it would be far more mature to know those people "have problems" with race, but they are so prevalent and so outspoken ... well, I feel it more productive on a personal level to teach my daughter to have a sense of humor about it, because those ole' boys and girls aren't going anywhere soon.

We only have a 10% rate of African Americans here and the vast majority live in the tenement apartments on the other side of our main road. Sure we have some African American families who are upscaled too (approximately one per block) but those good people KEEP to THEMSELVES and are rarely asked to block parties. No, I'm no longer asked to block parties because they think I'm a liberal freak with my bumper sticker and all "Don't blame me I voted for Kerry." They probably think that I'm a goofy f**k, and that's how I like it, i.e., I don't have to deal with them on a daily basis. That's just the way I'm wired. Sorry, for I know that many people make greater strides in Civil Rights by working with them, but I don't have the patience nor desire. We're not talking cosmopolitan Northern Virginia here (Fairfax, Alexandria areas), we're talking Up-scale deep south sentiment kind of locale.

[saracat]

12. My District is selling those as fundraisers! They are going like hotcakes!

[ShortnFiery]

13. Cool, with as few democrats and far too many right wing republicans

That would be an asset to democratic kids in this area. Like they are such an endangered species and all. LOL

[Inland]

14. Liz Winstead endorses them, too.

So there you go.

[soup]

27. I ordered one a couple of months ago

from http://littledemocrats.net and love it. It's a sweet little book.

Idealistic? Yes.

BUT - I'd rather be raising children who believe the world is a better place if

everyone

-has enough to eat
-is treated fairly
-plays by the rules
-resolves disagreements through discussion, not fighting
-shares their toys
-is nice to people who are different
-is able to go to the doctor when they're sick
-cleans up their messes
-can go to school
and
-has a warm bed to sleep in

Just like mommy does. :)

Got me thinking of another - Wasn't there a book sometime back called something along the lines of "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"? I'll have to look it up.

on edit: It was "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"
http://www.peace.ca/kindergarten.htm

[cali]

15. well, that's stomach turning

nothing like a little indoctrination for the under seven crowd. I'll stick with "In The Night Kitchen" and
"The Stupids Step Out", thank you very much.

[Inland]

17. What better time to indoctrinate them?

No, I agree, talking about party affiliation is keeping a pretty tight rein for the under seven kids.

[zbdent]

18. Like "Mommy, there's liberals under my bed!"

is meant to be intellectual . . .

[Ariana Celeste]

21. Agreed.

I don't think it's cool at all. Personally my mother didn't talk about religion or politics to me & my brother when we were little, and gave neutral answers if we asked questions. When we got older we discussed things on a deeper level. I'm 20, he's 18, and we figured out for ourselves that we are liberal. My mom, she's an Independent.
I would never buy a book like this for a child, and I think it's wrong for both sides to "teach" their children this way.

[mondo joe]

20. Why is Mommy wearing a shirt but nothing on her bottom?

Silly Mommy!

[Inland]

22. Only Tom Kitten wears pants.

I don't know why that is.

[Generator]

23. Where's my book?

Mommy was a Democrat until she realized they were complicit cowards in a time of creeping fascism and moved to Guatamela?

Sure, the title is wordy, but it has a ring.