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Archive for April 21st, 2008

One of those awwww moments:

A Harford County family is celebrating an unusual multiple birth.

A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical.

The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference today.

There are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States, hospital officials said.

After viewing the following video I was convinced these precious children are very fortunate to have been born to parents who appear to have the love and patience it will certainly take to rear four little ones at once.

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Senator McCain may have an uphill climb no matter which candidate the Democrats eventually nominate, however, he might do well not to get personally involved in the process.

Jay Homnick at The American Spectator writes on this topic:

Speaking of sports, an odd-couple tag team has been pounding Barack Obama over the last two weeks, privately citing contradictory reasons for the onslaught. On one side we have Hillary Rodham Clinton hammering away at his putative elitism; she sugarcoats her poison pills by earnestly asserting to fellow Dems that she must save the party from the inevitable election loss that would ensue upon an Obama nomination. Her unlikely sidekick is John McCain, who tends to echo Hillary’s critique du jour. He in turn tells his colleagues that he expects that Mrs. Clinton would be an easier opponent to rout.

Me thinks this is a case of trying to do too much on the part of Senator McCain. It is generally good advice to politicians that they should not be diverted into trying to interfere with the other side in its candidate selection. More often than not, these attempts at mischief and manipulation come back to bite one in the end. Trying to divine the relative strengths of potential opponents is a mystical pursuit that not only undermines good faith, it often sabotages good works. This is a hiatus in the process where McCain can be totally positive while the Democrat contenders are forced to be mean; he should be building up his nice-guy cred now and let the other guys come off as hyenas.[Emphasis, mine]

Senator McCain has his own set of difficulties on which he should be focusing. First and foremost he must work to solidify a base which continues to teeter on the brink due just to his nomination. Many continue to look daily for reasons those in the GOP should reject their nominee and at times with good cause.

McCain may well be correct. Mrs. Clinton might be the easier opponent to defeat, after all, many Republicans will go to the polls not to vote for the Arizona Senator but against the one from New York,
which on its face is no consolation.

Then again that old cliche “be careful what you wish for” might just rear its ugly head.

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