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stephanie
12-22-2008, 11:41 AM
four years of this.........aren't we lucky..:cuckoo:

By Jessica Bennett | NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 14, 2008



The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama, the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?

And if so, could history repeat itself? In the hours and days since Obama's victory, many of his exhilarated supporters have been, shall we say, in the mood for love. And though it's too soon to know for sure, experts aren't ruling out the possibility of an Obama baby boom—the kind of blip in the national birth rate that often follows a seismic event, whether it's scary (a terrorist attack) or celebratory (the end of World War II). "The mood of the country and the optimism about leadership is always somewhat related to birth rates," says Dr. Manny Alvarez, chief of reproductive science at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. "I'm gearing up for a healthy increase."

Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a serious aphrodisiac. And voters under 30 went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. When you combine those two elements—randy people of child-bearing age—the likely result is what the online Urban Dictionary has already dubbed "Obama Babies" : children "conceived after Obama was proclaimed President, by way of celebratory sex." "If the amount of alcohol, happy people and major functions on election night is any indication, I suspect we'll indeed see a boom," says 25-year-old Brandon Mendelson, a graduate student in Albany, N.Y., who says he changed his vote at the last minute because "I wanted to be able to tell our future children that we voted for Obama."

read it all and comments..
http://www.newsweek.com/id/169073

Missileman
12-22-2008, 12:08 PM
All this will be offset by the millions of young people he "inspires" to take up smoking. :cheers2:

namvet
12-22-2008, 02:24 PM
depends on how many times dad gave mom the high hard one..............:laugh2:

PostmodernProphet
12-22-2008, 04:20 PM
I expect we should prepare for the baby boom that results from the inauguration of Obama, then.......

avatar4321
12-22-2008, 04:36 PM
Please, inauguration is so close to Valentines day my guess is we see a high number of births about 9 months after every innauguration.

namvet
12-22-2008, 05:17 PM
I expect we should prepare for the baby boom that results from the inauguration of Obama, then.......

then you have a bigger tax base