Mary Cheney Gives Birth to Baby Boy

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Mary Cheney gave birth today to perhaps the most anticipated baby in contemporary U.S. politics -- her first child, Samuel David Cheney, whom she will raise with her longtime partner Heather Poe.

The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy is the sixth grandchild for Dick Cheney. The vice president and his wife Lynne, both beaming, posed for a photo with the baby just hours after his 9:46 a.m. birth at Washington's Sibley Hospital.

And that, it seems, will be that for now in terms of public comment from the family about the baby who launched a lively debate when Mary Cheney, 38, first discussed her pregnancy in December.

Some gay activists have chastised the AOL executive for not being a stronger advocate for same-sex marriage, while some social conservatives have decried the trend of gay couples raising children. But the Cheneys have avoided stepping into a debate about the debate. The veep became testy when CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked him about it in a January interview.

At an NYC forum sponsored by Glamour magazine last winter, Mary Cheney responded to questions saying: "This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate by people on either side of an issue. It is my child." But she also went on to declare that "every piece of remotely responsible research" had demonstrated "no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents."

Cheney and Poe, a former park ranger, have been together for 15 years and live in Great Falls. And no, there's no more word on how the pregnancy came about.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301314.html?hpid=moreheadlines
 
hmmm yeah maybe the kid'll turn out to be a moralizing, judgmental, asshole evangelist in trying to compensate for his sinful birth!
 
Lesbian mom to a boy-child with no dad. She can at least properly instruct cunninglingus with jealousy interfering.
 
and you are the man for that job

If Mary's baby was by immaculate conception
does this mean baby Jesus is a Republican?

Holy mutha of Gawd I always knew I was on the ‘Right Side’! ;)
 
Congratulations! I'm glad someone that eagerly wants children is able to have one. I much prefer this happy story than the news clips about traditional parents that are raping and microwaving their children.
 
At least Cheney and her partner have been hooked up since like 92. At least its a reasonably stable family unit... as stable as a non-boy/girl unit can be.
 
Because the mother is the daughter of our Vice President. It makes her political cannon fodder... especially since her dad is a conservative and the daighter in question is a lesbian. The media and pundits love to pick at the scabs of controversy.
 
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