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Props Politics and Children
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9-25-2008 1:34 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c6d089c9-f4ce-4eef-a4b1-df3cd78de6bf/57403E66-768F-4F05-8588-B38B3AFF9B3C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html" href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html" style="font-size: 11px;">thechronicleherald.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html"><FONT class="Content_Lg-Headlines-links">Children becoming political mascots </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html">South of the border, where the presidential race has taken on the outlandish colouring of a cartoon, children are now playing a starring role</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html">"Stay back! I’ve got a son and I’m not afraid to use him!"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html">The cartoonist is taking aim at Harper’s new, domestic persona, which has emerged in the TV ad titled "Family is everything."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html">It’s been ridiculously easy for politicians and political pundits to lampoon the ad</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1080746.html">there’s something unique about the particular cartoon I’ve described – it was created by a 10-year-old. 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