The Honeymoon Period:
Three year old Natalie, playing with one of her favorite toys: "Daddy, who bought this for me?"
Me: "I think I did."
Natalie: "No, I don't think so."
Me: "Yes, I think it was me."
Natalie: "No, it was that guy."
Me: "Who?"
Natalie (excitedly): "That guy, the guy!"
Me: "Which guy?"
Natalie: "Barack Obama."
(But I think Orin wins the thread. We should just stop now).
She almost got it right.
Obama's either 'the one' or 'that one' depending upon your POV.
Just wait until she starts asking for hope flavored Kool-Aid. :)
That's what I thought when I first saw this, Eric; I was wondering why Lileks was guestblogging at VC. ;-)
How do our resident atheists feel about this kind of religious display by a child?
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Natilie appears to know enough to be allowed to vote.
Understandable. What's gratifying is how many voters mature past the 10-12-years-old bracket.
I take it we will be reading these until she hits 11?
And yes, I'm serious about his comment. I about fell out of my chair.
Oh, lord, so's my 4YO boy. "I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map ...."
for those keeping score (or complaining) this post is not about Israel:)
The statement in the ad is "His confident smile and kind eyes are an inspiration to us all." I say this not to nitpick, but because the sentence is constructed beautifully, for increasing ludicrousness as it progresses. Let's unpack it a bit, and you'll see what I mean.
(1) His confident smile: No argument there. Even Obama's detractors will tell you that the man generally looked poised and confident throughout the campaign, and why shouldn't he have? For all but a few days, he was winning.
(2) ...and kind eyes: Speaking of eyes, this is where mine start to roll. Is there "kindness" in the flesh-and-blood Obama's eyes? Eye of the beholder, I suppose. But considering that the most conspicuous feature of the Victory Plate is the absence of a heavenly host singing loud hosannas to God's Other Son, I will admit that the plate is painted with eyes that could conceivably be considered "kind."
(3) ...are an inspiration to us all. I am inspired to throw up a little in my mouth.
So there we have it: in twelve words we go from inoffensive to ludicrous to nauseating. Epic.
Hebrew is the language of Israel. This post is just another example of his obsession.
She feels that Obama will save us all, that Bush's wars will come to an end, and after we 'make up' (I think in cash) to the arabs they will love him and us.
She also supports University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman's bid to take the U private, so that the nasty State Constitution won't be able to racistly block blacks below the cut from getting a free education.
She got kind of sad when I commented that Mary Sue showed she was an idiot unworthy of a government position, and that Barry is going to screw America so hard that we will wish Carter was back in office.
All I know is that Natalie probably misspoke. She meant to say "Ehud Barak."
Have you converted them to the superior Republican alternative of just borrowing the money instead?
Exactly. Wait till those kids find out that the GOP concept is to transfer the tax burden to the kids, and let daddy off the hook.
Voters under 30 picked Obama, 66%/32% (only two other demographic factors were substantially stronger predictors: being black or being Jewish). The GOP concept of getting our kids to pay our taxes for us might have something to do with it.
Yeah! Because Obama campaigned on a platform of tax hikes and cutting government spending. Remember his pledge? "95% of Americans get a tax hike." Also: "Read my lips: no new gigantic entitlement programs!"
But which playset would you want?
"Trinity United," featuring a borderline-deranged preacher and a lanky congregant who sits motionless in the pews for years, unable to get up and leave?
"ACORN," featuring a fresh-faced Ivy League grad telling inner-city residents how terrible their lives are and carrying a thick stack of voter registration forms filled out by "Tony Romo" and "Terrel Owens"?
"Law Review," featuring an office setting and no published writing?
"Typical White Person," featuring an elderly white woman who demands to be driven to work by her layabout husband so that she doesn't have to walk past a belligerent black bum?
Though if this gets out the Left will be pushing to lower the voting age accordingly, for illegals, perhaps for 3-year old and greater citizens as well, depending upon broader polling numbers.
Whereas the Democrats will hike taxes now so that in a generation there can be a massive tax cut. Right?
What's gratifying is how many voters mature past the 10-12-years-old bracket.
Forcibly extracting money from other people isn't maturity, it's patriotism.
My son watched a French version of "Dora, L'Exploratrice" in Paris last summer.
I'm going to simply note that Natalie probably has noticed (a) lots of excited public utterance, for good or bad, of a name, which doesn't sound like most of the names she hears, and (b) some sort reaction from D.B. upon the utterance of that name, particularly by her.
David, unless you had a true poker-face at this exchange, I predict Natalie's gonna be milking that reaction for a while as her favorite joke....
Tell us about the morality of "forcibly extracting money" from people who haven't been born yet.
No one is in a position to make strong claims about what's going to happen "in a generation." But it's not hard to figure out that paying our own bills is more moral than passing them down to our children. Which is exactly what our national debt represents, and most of it has been accumulated by GOP presidents:
Have you considered that she may have been sad for you?
$10 trillion? Chump change.
No serious talk about nation debt is meaningful without considering the underfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare.
As to Dora, they are changing the girl who does the voice. See if you can spot it.
You must be Cheney. He said "deficits don't matter." You also sound like one of those guys who owns so many houses he has to rely on his staff to help count them. Can you spare one or two? I know some folks who are getting foreclosed. Their concept of "chump change" is different than yours. But I'm sure they appreciate learning about the GOP concept of "chump change."
No serious talk about "nation debt" is complete without someone from the GOP trying to evade responsibility by changing the subject.
Anyway, a lot of the alarmism about SS relies on the premise that Treasuries are not a safe investment. Maybe so, but for some strange reason that's the exact opposite of the message we peddle to the Chinese bankers who are financing our wars and keeping our economy afloat.
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Please use the proper terminology. It's "Our Leader." Or, if you prefer, "The Messiah: The Chosen One."
And it's no surprise to see something like that, since he encouraged it with statements like this:
But at least we haven't gotten to the point where people would teach kids to worship a president.
Actually, I was hoping for either the pirate ship or the castle.
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