Thursday, September 11, 2008
In the News: Politics
In politics does the canidates families make or break them when It comes to winning this election? I believe that this is true as Americans we are very family oriented some more than others, and it would make sense to have a president that is also. They people view our president and their families is they way they view America. When it comes to representing our country or us a one , our society is always going to want the person nad their families is close too perfect and even though its impossible . Its just part of our society and for years we have sterotyped what an All "American Family" should be and canidates have to show that they have that all American family and for years thats how society made it to be. If we had a candiate that was a single parent or divorced , I think our society would be a little spectacle about chosen that candidate because thay are thinking about how will other countries view america and how it will affect our society.
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I was interested in your statement that America would be skeptical "If we had a candidate that was a single parent or divorced." Since we do have a candidate who is divorced (John McCain, although he remarried right after his divorce), I'm not sure this is still a hypothetical. Perhaps it doesn't matter so much if they are remarried.
But I also don't think anyone in any other country really cares about the marital status of our candidates (except perhaps in a kind of gossipy kind of way). As you say, I think the fascination with the "all-american family" and the families of American politicians is an American thing and not a global thing. Of course, we don't fret much over the families of foreign politicians, but citizens in those countries might care quite a bit.
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