And i'm voting for obama Consulate in benghazi, libya: "I am the one who has to meet those coffins when they come home. " Morbid?Not at all.I'm just a believer in the gospel of hard truths. And as i am the mother of two school age children, a teacher at an underfunded public university and a progressive mormon, hard truths about the challenges our nation faces are all that makes sense to me. Cnn's belief blog:The faith angles behind the biggest stories As a mother, i am acutely aware that right now, our nation invests a smaller and smaller share of its resources in our children, the generation that will assume the debts my generation and our parents' generation have incurred. As an educator, i have witnessed firsthand how failure to generate responsible levels of public revenue has significantly compromised generations' worth of investment in our public schools and universities. And as a mormon, i grew up with a healthy sense of respect f ... Read more »