My Family Was Celebrating My Grandma's 80th Birthday Last Night...

[THUNDER HANDS]

We went out to an Italian resturant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. In addition to my family (all of whom are supporting Kerry), we also were accompanied by my two aunts (both Kerry supporters), my two uncles (both Kerry supporters) and eight cousins, all between the ages of 7 and 17.

We talked politics for a lot of the night (when we weren't talking about my aunt, who might be appearing on that show 'Wifeswap' - I'll have more on that later) and were discussing the draft, the flu shortage and the election.

My aunt turns to me and says 'Ask Shawn what George Bush does.'

Shawn is the 9-year old.

I asked him "What does George Bush do?"

Shawn said "He lies and steals."

Then, without prompting, his 7-year-old sister Malary said: "Bush is a bad man. I'm voting for Kerry. You're voting for Kerry too right?."

I almost fell off the chair I was laughing so hard.

If only kids could vote! Kerry had eight dedicated supporters all under the age of 17. They all think Bush is "stupid" (their words) and "ugly" and the 7-year-old even thinks Kerry is "cute".

I love these kids!

If my family could only convince my uncle Johnny and his family to vote for Kerry we'd have a clean sweep in my clan. But that's not likely to happen, you can't even make a joke about Bush in his presence or else he gets upset. Oh well, two people out of a family of 20+ isn't bad.

By the way, my family is all suburbanites in the New York/New Jersey areas. I've never heard them talk politics this much before. If this is any indication of how much people who aren't very political are acting, then its going to be Kerry in a quiet landslide.

I'll leave you with more pearls of wisdom from Malary, who is basically a 65-year-old trapped in a 7-year-old's body:

"Everyone should vote for Kerry. Only stupid people vote for Bush."

:D

[otohara]

1. I Completely Agree

w/ your fine family

[Blue Gardener]

2. That is one smart 7 year-old

And love the wolf pups! Very cute.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

3. That's hilarious

In my son's 3rd grade class this year, they had an assignment to make bumper stickers about something they were interested in.

There was one "Bush Lied, People Died" and one "Save a Tree, Kill a Bush".

Ask the kids. They know.

[TomClash]

4. Hey, MagicRat

George Bush has been trying to drive "a slick machine over the Jersey State Line."

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. not going to happen

My aunt and her clan (and believe me it is a clan unto itself - six kids, seven dogs, a bird and one of those Mr. Bigglesworth hairless cats) are all voting for Kerry. Everyone she knows in Jersey is voting Kerry and she hangs out in the soccer mom circles.

The security mom vote is just a myth. Kerry has these women, and I'd suspect, their husbands too.

[opiate69]

5. Lol.. Kids do say the darndest things...

After listening to the first debate, my 7 year old son told me "Bush is a moron"! Now, almost 3 weeks later, if you ask him about Bush, he'll simply say "he's a moron". Gotta love it.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

7. "give me a Cheney"

My dad is raising up right my nephew and neice.

My dad tells my nephew to "give me a cheney", and my nephew makes this funny smiry face, like Cheneys, or mocking Cheney...sort of an in-joke in our famliy.