Constant Conservative

From the One’s own website, this request for familial manipulation:

The one thing most grandparents have in common is that they have the most wonderful grandchildren in the world – so clever, so handsome, so pretty, ever so precious. Even if you are still unsure of your path in life, and even if your parents and friends occasionally wonder about you, your grandma and grandpa love you and have faith in you.

That is your weapon! “Precious” needs to get on the phone and say, “Grandpa, Grandma, I am asking you to vote for Barack Obama. This is really important to me. It’s about my future. It’s about the world I will be living in. It’s about the world I want for my future children. (They will love that one!) Please! Do it for me!”

…The really great part of this strategy is that everything you could possibly say to your grandparents about how important Barack’s election is for you is one hundred percent true.

Yes, I know the material originally came from Huffington Post, but an official campaign blogger on Obama’s site quoted it, and then confirmed the approach with his own comments.

Nothing like a whining, wheedling appeal from a spoiled grand-child to turn the heart of a racist, redneck grandparent, is there? (Sorry, that might have been uncalled for, but it seems to suit.) Gotta love that last line, which being interpreted means “Isn’t it great, you don’t even have to lie about anything this time.”