1.0 link 131460 <![CDATA[Joe's Tears: the Political Power of Paternal Love]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leah-mcelrath-renna/joes-tears-the-political_b_131460.html Joe Biden did more for the equality of the sexes with his honest display of paternal emotion during the vice presidential debate than Sarah Palin's presence on the executive ticket has or will ever do.

Biden visibly teared up when he rebutted the idea that "just because I am a man" he didn't understand what it was like to wonder whether or not a child would "make it" in recovering from a life-threatening medical situation. At the time, he was likely...

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