The Daddy Wars Are a Lot More Fun Than the Mommy Wars
In this corner, Montana Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer:
[It's] kinda ironic given that [Romney's] family came from a polygamy commune in Mexico, but then he’d have to talk about his family coming from a polygamy commune in Mexico, given the gender discrepancy… [Women are] not great fans of polygamy, 86 percent were not great fans of polygamy. I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico.
And in this corner, the Washington Post:
The line of polygamists in Obama’s family can be traced back generations in western Kenya, where it was an accepted practice within the Luo (pronounced LOO-oh) tribe. His great-grandfather, Obama Opiyo, had five wives, including two who were sisters. His grandfather, Hussein Onyango, had at least four wives, one of whom, Akumu, gave birth to the president’s father, Barack Obama, before fleeing her abusive husband. Obama Sr. was already married when he left Kenya to study at the University of Hawaii, where he married again. His American wife-to-be, Stanley Ann Dunham, was not yet 18 and unaware of his marital situation when she became pregnant with his namesake son in 1961.
Can we drop everything else and just talk about this from now until November? Because that would be fucking awesome.
When a man loves multiple women
Can’t keep his mind on nothing else
He’ll haunt the world
When his love life is major news
If his kid runs for preznit
The media will play it wrong
Turn his back on his family
If it becomes front page news