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- The Power of Walz, Daily Kos, Oct. 2, 2024. (634 Recs, 96 Comments) - Photo: Soldiers in Eastern Ukraine.
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For all intents, my wife is an independent who leans blue. She enjoyed last night's debate, even when I was saying, "feh, turn it off, Vance is just lying again." This debate was *for* her. She didnt even listen to the words. She listened to the tone.

She came off reassured by Walz. He admitted he was wrong. He said he learned from his mistakes. She said he found common-ground. She said that he was respectful, and Vance just called him "Tim", and afforded a sitting governor, teacher, and veteran no respect.

She remembered her WWII vet father when she saw Walz with his kind eyes. She had earlier been looking at the shadowbox I made for her dad with the Bronze Star and the memorabilia of the Battle of the Bulge. He died a few years ago, at 93. He was a gentle soft-spoken man who saw terrors and privations we would never know but never talked about it. He was warm; he always smiled and laughed full-throatedly. And she always knew she was loved. And safe.

If you want a takeaway, give Walz more airtime. Kamala can talk to the partisans. Walz can talk to the generation mourning the loss of their fathers who lived through the depression and went to war and came home and went to college in the GI Bill and built the middle class and made America great in the first place. Not the pretenders who are saying they want to make it great *again*.

Republicans want to be the firm father, the mean father, the punishing father.

Tim Walz is the dad. That's stealing their supposed strength and showing it for what it is: abuse. That might be the dad you had; but Tim Walz is the dad you always wanted. ---

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- Tim Walz is the dad I have — a good sense of (gentle humor), supportive of his kids and his wife, ready to tackle problems large and small, and willing to show feelings.

- Tim Walz is the Dad I had. Grew up in the coal mining area of WV, lived in a company town, served in WW II, went to college on the GI Bill. Managed a small manufacturing plant and was a great Dad to his five kids and loved his grandkids.
We lost him too early when he died of a heart attack at age 66. I regret that my two younger children did not get to know him. The only time he saw my baby daughter was the visit when he dressed her with loving hands to bring her home from the hospital after she was born. Still brings me to tears almost forty years later.

- Tim Walz is my dad, too. He was a WWII vet, a teacher both before and for all the years after. He got his doctorate after WWII to teach in college with support of GI bill and my mom, then supported her while she went to college and got her teaching credentials. A premature feminist and anti-racist — went out of his way to help women and people of color, whether students or junior colleagues. Couldn't fix his own car though!