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Why do leaders like Michelle Obama need to resort to "momism" in order to appeal - chairman - 09-09-2012

Are you someone’s Mom, or are you a “ma-a-h-h-m”?

That is to say: are you the addressee of a specific form of respectful greeting from one or more people you actually gave birth to (someone who would have been called “Mother” some generations back), or are you a member of that social and political category most bleatingly invoked by Sarah Palin in 2008 (“Ho-o-ckey Ma-a-h-h-m”), and that now has taken on a permanently nasal-inflected life of its own?

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/07/we-need-to-stop-the-just-a-mom-routine/#ixzz25zTJ8U9q



Re: Why do leaders like Michelle Obama need to resort to "momism" in order to appeal - chairman - 09-09-2012

They just play games


Re: Why do leaders like Michelle Obama need to resort to "momism" in order to appeal - ketchim - 09-09-2012

Depends on what it says on your Birth Certificate  :blank: