why mommy is a democrat...

[merchimerch]

http://littledemocrats.net/index.html

I find this more than a little disturbing, but maybe that's just because I see the present-day democratic party as a party without vision and without real policy goals. Check out the "Sample Pages" section - apparently democrats are about sharing toys and playing fair. Interesting, except that Democrats have still been implicated in a lot of nasty business over the years. I just can't imagine buying a book to politically inculcate my (hypothetical) toddler. Spooky.

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[wdomburg.livejournal.com]

I listened to an interview with the guy who wrote it a while back. He seems to think that all children's books - The Little Engine That Could being his favourite example - are political.

(Oh, the sample page with the elephant walking down the path? The elephant apparently tramples the bench the homeless guy was sleeping on.)

[(Anonymous)]

too funny - I'll certainly agree that many childrens' books have political aspect too them. This one might even be laudable in that it is making its political biases explicit. However, I do think it goes to far, so much that I think it now has little more than camp value.

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

oops - that was me