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The Baby Primary
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 16, 2008 11:35am |
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| News Date | Monday, January 7, 2008 11:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As a resident of the "Live Free or Die" state, I'll concede that the New Hampshire presidential primary gives us ridiculously disproportionate influence. But I love the fact that my state's electoral power comes with a great fringe benefit: It's easy to enshrine the next president in your family scrapbook. A sucker for political kitsch, I set out to photograph my 5-month-old daughter, Dahlia, in the arms of every candidate with a prayer of making it to the White House.
My rules were simple:
1. No actual kissing. No Democrat or Republican is putting saliva on Baby Dahlia.
2. No pictures with former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. He's way too creepy.
GIULIANI TOSSED MY BABY 'LIKE A FOOTBALL' - [Link]
Barack Obama held little Dahlia like someone who knows his way around babies, cradling her securely and looking into her eyes. "I would vote for him just for that," was Stacy's comment on the photo.
Hillary Clinton also got a top score from Garnick. "Hillary's a natural," he said. "She was very warm."
In the photo with Rudy Giuliani, however, Dahlia is wailing and Giuliani seems almost as upset. "Rudy wasn't happy," said Garnick. "Dahlia smiled for the first two seconds and then she started crying and Rudy was panicky. ... He didn't want to be photographed with a screaming baby. ... He tossed her right back to me like a football."
Dahlia also cried when John McCain held her, but McCain is laughing about it in the photo. "I do think it's significant to compare the personalities of McCain and Giuliani," said Garnick. "When the baby started to cry with Giuliani, Giuliani basically shoved the baby back in my face. When the baby cried with McCain, McCain was like, 'Okay, I got a crying baby.' And he made a joke that 'there goes another vote.'"
"I think you can tell a lot about candidates' personalities by how they hold the baby," Garnick concluded, "but I don't think you can say whether they're going to be a good president whether she cries or not. But she did tend to cry more with the Republicans than with the Democrats." |
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