Posted on 06/08/2004 12:25:22 PM PDT by Palladin
City girl wows state Democrats
STATE COLLEGE — Democratic State Committee members gathered Saturday at Penn State University to flesh out the state’s delegation to the party’s national convention in Boston.
But the surprise main attraction was a speech by Cara Rosenthal, a 13-year-old girl from Williamsport who charmed the more than 250 adults with a combination of poise, spunk and humor as she proclaimed her allegiance to the party, criticized the Bush administration’s record on education and spoke out for women’s rights.
‘‘There may have been founding fathers, but there were also founding mothers,’’ Cara said in one of many lines that drew bursts of applause at a university conference center.
Cara, who will enter the eighth grade this fall, said she considered how to spend $43 in birthday money and decided to donate it to the Lycoming County Democratic Committee. After her speech, a state committee member from Philadelphia leaped up and waved $43 in cash from Philadelphia Democratic Chairman and U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, who had been listening to her speech from another location via a cell-phone hookup.
‘‘Young lady, come and get your $43 — you’re worth it!’’ shouted Brady’s courier, Lou Farinella.
Asked what she would do with the money, Cara gave a perfectly political answer.
‘‘I think it’s only fair that I donate it’’ to the party, she said. ‘‘We need the money to win this election.’’
Cara, who was accompanied to the meeting by her mother, was invited by state party Chairman T. J. Rooney after he heard her address Lycoming County Democrats several weeks ago.
‘‘One of these days, I’m sure you’re going to occupy a great place in Democratic politics,’’ Rooney told her.
Peggy Grove of Harrisburg, a delegate from Harrisburg, invited Cara to attend the national convention in July as her guest and said she hopes to arrange to have her included in the program as a speaker.
The Democrats all but finished selecting the rest of the delegates to the Boston gathering, leaving one vacant slot in the 5th Congressional District to be filled later on by state committee members from that district.
Ninety miles away in Harrisburg, the Republican State Committee elected the last 10 members of the delegation it will send to the GOP convention in New York City, which begins in late August.
Three other GOP delegates were automatically designated Saturday when the committee re-elected the party’s state chairman, Alan Novak, and two national committee members, Robert Asher and Christine Toretti.
Most members of both parties’ delegations were to have been elected by congressional district in the April 27 primary. But the election results were delayed by court rulings that extended the deadline for certain absentee ballots, so the parties had to seat the unofficial winners Saturday pending the certification of statewide returns.
As of Friday, state officials said they had received official election returns from 46 of the 67 counties.
Complicating an arcane process, Democratic state committee members from several congressional districts had to appoint delegates to 11 slots for which no one was elected in April.
All but one of the 178 Democratic delegates have endorsed presumptive nominee John Kerry, the senator from Massachusetts. The exception is state Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, who is pledged to Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who quit the race in February but left his name on Pennsylvania’s ballot.
All 75 of the Republican delegates are technically unpledged, but President Bush is the only candidate for the GOP nomination.
Imagine a grown man offering $43 to a 13-year-old girl, with the comment, " Young lady, come and get your $43 — you’re worth it!"
Young ladies should run away in fear when a democrat utters the above words...
WOW, talk about exploiting people. Since when are 13 year olds experts on abortion rights. Sickening.
1. LOLROFLMAO
2.‘‘I think it’s only fair that I donate it’’ to the party, she said. ‘‘We need the money to win this election.’’ All of the Democrats believe throwing money at something makes it work. That's all I'll say for now.
The easily abused being led by the easily confused.........
Of course they have to get them brainwashed and loyal why they are young, and too naive and ignorant to question the tenaments of the marxist system of government the left believes.
Clinton was there?
Welcome to the Democrat Gulag.
Try and project Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush accepting the donation if she offered it to them.
Bubba would, of course.
"Founding mothers" -- no, young lady, there weren't any. All of the participants in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention were men. Radical feminist politics cannot trump reality and facts. But the 'Rats will of course cheer anyone who fights reality and facts if their feelings are stroked. No wonder they keep losing!
Another member of The Young Pioneers.
You would never see a story like this about a young Republican in a Dem rag like the Centre Daily Times or something similar.
Sun-Gazette is a solid conservative paper who are "home-town" first. If they got a local girl getting mentioned in an AP article, they're going to run it.
Betcha this young skull full of mush has never seen the stainless steel pans of bloody cut up babies in an abortion clinic. How easy it is to speechify for choice without having seen the actual reality of it.
Yeah, like the Bent One ever paid for anything - especially sex. If he wants it, he takes it. Just ask Juanita, or Kathleen, or the young woman at Oxford...
Actually, I feel sorry for the poor kid. She has been brainwashed by a feminazi mother.
In Russia, there's a group of kids like this.They're called The Young Pioneers
I don't see ANY difference in the two,
*note: LOL
A 13 year old isn't smart enough to be permitted to decide what to eat every day let alone dictate social policy.
Her mother and her lesbian lover probably put the girl up to it.
Was her head spinning around at the time? "The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!"
From the headline I imagined there would be a thong involved.....
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Heh, heh! The idea that such a phrase might be insulting would never occur to most Democrats.
How can you make a news story out of coaching a 13-year-old to repeat verbatim sections of a political party's platform?
There's something very creepy about this phrase. I can't help but get a mental picture of little German children saluting....
let me guess: on her knees and/or back, soon, and for the rest of her life.
There they go again (Reaganism): confusing democracy and the democratic process with the Democrat party.
I think they've just found Kerry's VP. Theresa might be jealous, though.
that snippet got under your skin, too, eh?
Is brainwahing considered child abuse?
Come to think of it, I had the same opinions as this girl when I was her age. Then I learned something about the world, and grew up.
Strange...very reminiscent of Hitler's youth don't you think? Reminds me of the article I saw last week sometime posted here on FR that said Hitler was a socialist. Now we see this type of indoctrination...sad, really.
Young ladies should run away in fear when a democrat utters the above words...
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LOL!
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Of course, these days any female who would stay in the Rat party after all that is happened isn't much of a lady in my book.
$43!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!
Was there any change with that?
So she "impressed" a bunch of democrats, no big surprise there. After all, their last president had the maturity level of a 13 year old.
Since when are 13 year olds experts on abortion rights.
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In the Democrat worldview, most 13-year-old girls should have experienced abortion first hand.
comments, ladies?
This is a poster for the League of German Maidens. The caption says, "Every girl belongs to us". Under the Hitler Youth program, girls joined the Jungmadelbund (League of Young Girls) at the age of 10, and at the age of 14 transferred to the Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls).
That's how I felt about it, too. She's a cute little girl, charming, to be sure. But she should be with her same-age girlfriends, trying out different colors of nail polish, gossiping about the boys in her class, learning new dance steps...instead of hanging out with a bunch of old commies.
It reminds me of that 12 year old kid who went to Russia to meet with Gorbachev, and then later died in a plane crash.
It's unseemly. Why can't these atavistic mothers just let their kids be kids, instead of forcing them into inappropriate situations just to satisfy their own egos?
Indeed, see my previous post. I made it before I had seen yours.
How eerie. History repeats itself.
only when it is done by Christians
I have no idea what $43.00 would get ME, but it seems that the Dims have housebroken their stable so thoroughly that the chattel will actually donate their working wages in their entirety to thier pimp's coffers.
if she is lucky.
More about Cara--and her mother:
City girl, 13, to speak before state Democrats
Kevin Olmstead Sun-Gazette Staff
While many of her classmates spend this morning watching cartoons, running around outside or sleeping in, a Curtin Junior High student is preparing for one of the most important days of her life.
Cara Rosenthal, 13, will address the state Democratic Convention today in State College.
“She knows more about politics than some of our more active members,” said Jessie Bloom, Lycoming County Democratic chairwoman.
The eighth-grader will discuss the No Child Left Behind law, as well as the need to get young people interested in politics and women’s rights, Cara said.
“I think it’s great,” said Marvin Staiman, Cara’s grandfather and a lifelong Republican. “She’s using her ability and capability and she’s being recognized.”
Cara’s mother, Cynthia Staiman Rosenthal, who recently moved with Cara back to the area, said she has always encouraged her daughter to voice her opinions and get involved.
“She’s done that,” Cynthia said. “She spoke and that’s when they took notice, because she got up and said things and got people motivated.”
One of those people was state Democratic Chairman T.J. Rooney, who attended a John Kerry presidential campaign meeting more than a month ago in Williamsport.
“We were sitting down in the Radisson restaurant afterwards and he asked me if I would speak at this meeting and that he would e-mail me the topic I was supposed to speak on,” Cara said.
Another was Gov. Ed Rendell, who met Cara briefly at last year’s Little League World Series and made her acquaintance again at the campaign meeting. The governor sent her a letter and signed photograph after the event.
As a student, Cara is directly affected by the No Child Left Behind law. For that reason, it is of great concern to her, particularly some of the gaps in its handling of special education, she said.
The law differs from the original Democratic proposal, she said.
“John Kerry did approve it first, but now what he’s saying is that promises have been broken,” she said. “That’s why he disapproves of it.”
Some of the standardized testing requirements make Cara nervous, she said.
“I’m scared that I will be left behind,” she said.
Cara is gifted in many subjects, but has trouble with mathematics, she said.
“In that context, she worries that ... somehow if she doesn’t do well, that will affect the whole school,” Cynthia said. “In other words, it creates sort of a fear.”
Cara believes her classmates also ought to take an interest in the law, even if they cannot vote for or against the people who made it law.
“It affects them,” she said. “It doesn’t affect them when they’re 18; it affects them now. So why not be aware and why not be ready, so when they are 18 they can cast their votes.”
Most of Cara’s classmates do not share her interest in politics, but she has one friend who does. Together, they are learning about the art of partisan debate.
“She’s basically a Republican,” she said. “I wear my Kerry pin and we have some disagreements, but it’s all fun.”
Cynthia’s eldest daughter, Shana, has noticed apathy toward politics among her peers as a college student in Philadelphia, she said. Such a lack of youth involvement could be a contributing factor to low turnout for elections.
“In the last two elections, whoever won literally got picked by only a quarter of the adults,” Cynthia said. “When you put it into perspective like that, it’s a little upsetting.”
Both of her daughters were brought up in an atmosphere where important issues were the topics of family discussions.
“Dinner table conversation is not about trivial stuff, I would say in general,” she said.
Cara’s interest in politics developed from those dinner-table discussions.
“I remember being outside in the summertime on (her paternal grandparents’) deck on the farm, and we just discussed a lot of different things and politics was definitely my personal favorite,” she said.
Cynthia encouraged both of her daughters to read. Cara enjoys studying world history, presidential trivia and just about any other source of historical information, she said.
Cara said she is thinking about pursuing law in college as a stepping stone to a political career.
“I’m very interested in the law, too, because I think debates are very interesting,” she said.
Though the junior high school has no forensics team, Cara hopes to participate in debates when she gets to high school, she said.
Cynthia has shared her daughter’s interest in promoting the Kerry campaign. They have been instrumental in opening a campaign headquarters at 126 E. Third St. The campaign provides a “nice family activity that’s not so run of the mill,” she said.
“She’s trying to make a little bit of a difference,” Cynthia said. “She made one in my life.”
No wonder the Hollywood loves the Left so much. All this little girl had to do was remember her lines (as dictated by her mother) and she gets hailed by a crowd. Amateur acting makes the news? Also, this line is hardly original. Bella Abzug used to spout it 30 years ago.
Bella Assbug? Who?
My 11-year old daughter -- a very independent thinker with strong conservative and Christian beliefs -- would love to debate her.
Another brainwashed, suburban child. Betcha anything she's sexually active by age 14.
"Since when are 13 year olds experts on abortion rights."
Unlike most kids, 13 year old Demonrats NEED abortion rights. Demonrats consider abortions to be a sacriment.
A child shall lead them.
(Poor child)
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