Out of the mouths of babes

[yvr girl]

Did anyone catch Conan last night? Teri Hatcher told a funny debate related story.

She was watching the debate with her 6 year old daughter. (Kudos on parenting) Her daughter watched for a while and then she began colouring. It turns out that she drew a picture of John Kerry. Teri asked her daughter if she wanted her to add a balloon of what John was saying. She said yes. Here's what her daughter told her to write:

"I'll make better rules than you."
"I can do it better than you."
"I'm smarter than you"
"I don't want you to win."

She then asked her daughter what the President said.

"Everything started with umm"

[NC_Nurse]

1. Quick, sign her up!

We need a pundit with real observational skills! :D

Great post!

[JI7]

2. the little ones are the best at sensing who will protect them

notice how all the little kids love Kerry. i remember he was reading at a class room once and they were all sad that he didn't have time to stay longer and read another book.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I wonder what Kerry was like with his kids?

[yvr girl]

4. He's seems very close with his daughters

To me, that speaks volumes. They also seem like women that I would be proud to call friends. I heard somewhere that Vanessa told a Yale friend of hers to look up Barbara Bush in the fall (the year Barbara started) because it was hard to start school as the child of a national political figure. Even Bush admitted that the Kerry girls had been kind to his daughters.

The women that Vanessa and Alex became is to their credit, but also a huge credit to their parents.
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I 've also noted that JK seems very comfortable when he's 'kissing the babies.'

[Poiuyt]

6. At least he didn't put leashes on them

[booksenkatz]

5. My 5-year-old son pointed out

that Bush was drinking from an empty glass. I've tried not to influence him, because inasmuch as I want him to be a liberal like his parents, I want him to be a freethinker FIRST and to get there on his own. The result: he thinks Bush is "weird." He adores Kerry because he's tall and he likes his voice (OK, my boy is not issue-driven yet). He laughed hardest at the fact that Bush's microphone was so much smaller than Kerry's. He believed it had meaning!

It's fun to see what they notice!

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. A teen's take on the debate

From Americablog:

A true story from one of our readers
by John in DC - 10/1/2004 09:13:08 PM

Dear Folk:

I think you (and maybe your readers) will be interested in a personal experience I had last night while watching the debate.

My 19 year-old (former foster) son, who has never been interested in politics, sat down with me and began silently watching about 10 minutes into it.

About half an hour later he turned to me and said, "Dad, am I able to vote?". I told him he would have to register but that yes, he could vote. I asked who he wanted to vote for, and he said "Kerry's the tall dude, right?". I said yes, and he said, "I'd vote for Kerry".

I asked him why, and he replied, "Because, I can tell if they were both captured by terrorists Kerry would keep telling them to go f*** themselves, and Bush would cry like a baby and tell them anything they wanted to know".

Today we registered him to vote.

-- Proud Dad

And yes, this is a true story.