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Moms went mom to mom with mom Hillary Clinton yesterday in North Carolina.

This is actually something useful. I’m an Obama supporter and hope that momlogic.com does something similar with him.

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MOMLOGIC.COM HOSTS TOWN HALL EVENT WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON TODAY IN NORTH CAROLINA

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(Los Angeles – Saturday, May 3, 2008) – Momlogic.com hosted a town hall event in Cary, North Carolina today where area Moms went mom-to-mom with the presidential hopeful to delve into what concerns moms and their families most during this all-important election.

A panel of momlogic.com experts hosted the event, including family therapist Shannon Fox, Rabbi Sherre Z. Hirsch, lifestyle expert Mary Alice Haney and news anchor and author, Rene Syler.

Senator Clinton answered a variety of questions submitted online by Momlogic.com moms and audience members also asked Senator Clinton questions about issues affecting them and their families in this all-important election year.

When asked to give advice to women who want a career and family, Senator Clinton responded, “You just have to make decisions. One of them I made was to spend as much time as I could with my daughter. We didn’t have much of a social life.�

Clinton says the family found creative ways to spend time together. “One time Chelsea said she heard about coconuts and had never seen one, so we went to the store and bought a coconut we took it home. And Bill and I, you know, between us we’ve had 50 years of education, could not get the coconut open. I mean we were throwing it on the driveway, beating it with a hammer, it was so embarrassing.â€?

About raising strong children, Senator Clinton said, “What’s really important and what you have to work on is to be present with your children. It so easy to be looking at your Blackberry, to be on your cell phone… Somehow you have to create the space and time where your children really know they have your undivided attention.�

On her experience parenting a teenager, Clinton mused, “You really cannot extrapolate from my experience, because Chelsea was a teenager in the white house which meant that the secret service went on her dates. A lot of her girlfriends’ mothers loved it when they double dated because, you know, there was the guy with the gun in the front seat.â€?

On the subject of rising gas prices, Senator Clinton stated, “I want to provide immediate relief as well as a long term plan on how we’re going to end our addition to foreign oil … We have got to have a sensible energy policy. We haven’t had it and we’ve paid a big price for it.�

On Moms not always seeing eye-to-eye with their daughters, Senator Clinton recalls, “My idea of what was proper dressing when my daughter was a teenager was just totally absurd in her mind. There’s a picture - it was Bill’s second inauguration, and we were leaving the White House to drive to the Capitol for him to be sworn in. The plan was that we were going to drive a little bit and the secret service had an area that the secret service said it was ok for us to get out of the car and walk a little bit. So Chelsea came down–she was dressed and had a coat on … she opened it … the skirt was so short. And I’m sitting there looking at this short skirt, and there’s no time to change, and I thought ok you just have to take a deep breath. Here we go. There are so many things that are worth engaging your kids on and so many things that are not important, and trying to figure out how to draw the line.â€?

To view the first of MomLogic.com’s multi-part series with and Senator Hillary Clinton, click on the link below.

Web Link: http://www.momlogic.com/2008/05/hillary_on_multitasking.php
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