Bloggers Dean and Rosemary Esmay have posted.
His name is Drake and the nice thing about the Internet is we can read about everyday, non-political developments like this, too. When you get right down to it, people who are married or single, Democrats or Republicans are all people and this fact repeatedly comes out in tragic events such as 911 or the tsunami, or beautiful, life-starting events such as a birth. Forget about their political views; whether you agree with them or disagree with them, Dean and Rosemary are happy parents.
Dean’s full post on the new baby (complete with a link so you can see Drake and go "awwww") is here — complete with some details about the C-section that he warns are not for the squeamish. But in the end, he writes:
You know, the first time I became a father, the scariest sound in my life was that first cry. The second time I became a father? My goodness, it was the sweetest sound in the world.
Am I babbling? Why yes I am.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.