You can’t count the times that some career politician, which the good government crowd believes is not a dirty word, has sat in that TV interview chair and at some pointed lamented about the personal family sacrifi ces one has to make to meet the all-time-consuming assignment of serving the public good and your loved-ones, too.
Recent Michigan governors, in their own way, regret the missed theatre performances of their offspring or the grand slam home run by some budding MLB star in the making because duty called.
And such was the case during a recent exchange with a Michigan transplant who reflected that “every working parent knows how demanding it is to have any job while you’re raising kids. They don’t care if the president is calling...you’ve got to be there for them first and foremost.”
