Tuesday, December 07, 2004

My Daughter Is Astounded That Her Classmates Like Bush

We talked openly throughout the entire campaign. I made it clear to her why I supported Kerry and she chose to join me in that support.

In fact, she and her younger sister posed for a photo with John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra, during a local campaign stop. They were proud to be part of the process.

What my 6th grade daughter shares with me is her astonishment that her classmates are not concerned about health care and an unnecessary war.

She says, "I have no clue why anybody would take the chance to vote for Bush when he has no possible idea what he's going to do with our country."

She's right: Bush has no real plan to solve health care problems. She says he has a chip on his shoulder (in both ways! she watched the debate!) in that he overcompensates for a long life of mediocrity.

She is a living example of what I have thought all along during this campaign. That the 2004 Kerry-Bush matchup was about more than the candidates. It was the baptism for future activitist.

"Bush supporters aren't informed or they just don't care what's going to happen to their country because in about four or five years I bet some of my classmates will have to go to war," she laments. "Then they will believe in our cause and switch to become donkeys."