Whose boy (or girl) are you?
<p><img width="125" src="/files/u2/edwardsanddad.jpg" height="89" style="width: 125px; height: 89px" /></p><p>John Edwards and Hillary Clinton appear to be taking a page from the small-town election playbook by bringing their parents into their Iowa campaigns.</p><p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://johnedwards.com/iowa/video/ruraldvd">new Edwards video</a> about his rural policy platform features several comments from his parents, Bobbie and Wallace Edwards, including dad's advice to "never start a fight, but never walk away from one."</p><p>Clinton's mother is the focus of the New York senator's new ad campaign in Iowa. Dorothy Rodham says her daughter is helpful and empathetic. And, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlmpIFr2wQ">another ad reminds us</a>, 88-year-old Rodham lives with her daughter.<br />These are endorsements that would make any county commissioner candidate proud. And perhaps it's an indication that these and other presidential candidates see appeals to small-town voters as an important part of an Iowa victory strategy.</p><p>That, or they ran out of babies to kiss.</p>
