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Congratulations to the Blunts on new addition to the household
Via Roy Temple at Fired Up!: Time for a momentary pause in our justified anger towards the policies of Governor Matt Blunt, as his wife Melanie gave birth last night to a healthy baby boy, one William Branch Blunt. Both mother and child are reported to be doing well. There’s an article with a photo of the baby and proud dad at the P-D site, but as all P-D articles eventually vanish behind a subscription wall, settle for this snippet:
Gov. Matt Blunt’s first child, a boy, was born Wednesday night, the governor’s office said.
Blunt and his wife, Melanie, named their child William Branch Blunt. Mother and son were in good health and the 34-year-old governor was “elated,” said Blunt spokesman Spence Jackson.
William Branch was born at 7:08 p.m, weighing 5 pounds, 13 ounces and measuring 19 1/2 inches long, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Jackson said. [...]
Blunt has joked that the biggest challenge he and his wife will face raising a baby in the historic Governor’s Mansion will come in a couple of years, when they will have to keep a careful eye on a toddler.
“There is lots of stuff you shouldn’t break,” Blunt said. “We’ll be very forgiving, as I’m sure will the people of Missouri, but we’ll try to safeguard the treasures of the mansion.”
If the new experience of fatherhood produces in the governor even a touch more empathy for other parents and their concerns for the health and welfare of their children, I’m sure Missouri will forgive baby William even if he breaks everything in the mansion.
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i don’t see how fatherhood couldn’t produce more empathy, on a global level :)
You’re very classy, Waveflux. Much moreso than I am, that’s for sure. :)
As a resident of another state, I’m an outsider to this political debate. But every time I have read one of your Blunt posts, I have mulled over the notion that 34 is just too damn young to have that much authority. Our mid-thirties are not unlike our adolescence: at these ages we know a lot, but we think we’re smarter than we really are. The real wisdom comes later.
Pay no attention to any brains he might have, and put aside his ideology. At 34, Blunt is just plain lacking in life experience. May little William bring some wisdom his father’s way (and may the little boy’s status always be healthy).