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It's safe to say that I had a blast last week. We had tons of family and friends come to town and stay with us for Inauguration and boy did we get our celebration on. The weekend began with the girls' weekly ballet class and SIL and her family driving up from Atlanta to spend some time with us. What a treat! Chatterbox and Giggles were beside themselves with excitment at having their big cousins to play with. We all braved the cold weather (it was freezing!) and took the Metro downtown to the National Mall and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where the kids reveled in display upon display of dinosaurs. We topped the night off with Blazy's Pepperoni Lasagna and hit the

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Written By A DC Metro Mommy Reader For Election 08.


Why I Support John McCain.

Our country faces many challenges.  We have economic turmoil at home and dangerous enemies abroad.  I don't remember Washington ever being so bitterly partisan.  To navigate these difficult times we need a President who possesses strength, character and integrity, with experience in government, knowledge of foreign affairs and a record of bipartisanship.  That man is John McCain.

I support John McCain because our nation requires a strong leader, a person of character, and a person who is willing to work with his opposition (whether domestic or international) without compromising either his principals or the

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Why I support Barack Obama.

I have hope for our country.  Hope we can return to the prosperity of the 90s. 

Hope we can get our troops home safely.  Hope we can provide for our citizens -

with quality healthcare and education for all, affordable housing, aid to the poor, fair wages and equal treatment.  I believe we can once again be a peaceful nation.  I believe that eventually we will return to budget surpluses like we had only 8 years ago. (!!)  I believe people of all faiths, races, gender and sexual preference should have the same rights.

I believe there is one person who can get us there - and that person is Barack Obama.  And yes, he does NOT have direct experience to be President. 

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My first official reporter job...at AM 1230 WJBC in 1999.

I've always loved the news. Everything about it. The newspaper in the morning with a cup of coffee, national tv anchors and their hair, hourly radio updates from ABC News. I thought I would eventually end up as one of them.

There was even a time in my life (when I worked in news radio) that I set the clock in my car to hit :00 (the top of the hour in the biz) as soon as I heard the ABC News sounder signaling the hourly news update. I know, it's pretty extreme.

Oh how my life has changed since becoming a stay at home mom. Last night, it hit me as I sat in my comfy maternity mumu on my couch, ready for a riveting Saturday night. I struck

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Back in 1944 when the GI bill was passed, it laid out a list of benefits our veterans would receive as part of their compensation for service to our country. Included was free education. Under that bill millions of returning soldiers were able to get a free education. Today the GI bill provides a MAXIMUM of $9,600 a year for higher education. Last year I paid more than that for childcare for each of my kids. And they didn't need books or the like. The benefits provided for WWII vets under the GI bill were fantastic and certainly well deserved. And the returns to the economy and American families were great.

Senator James Webb (D-VA) has introduced a bill to cover the full cost of college

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