My Son’s Political Views
We were watching the final debate between the presidential candidates tonight. I like to hear what my sons think about lots of things. I thought I’d ask them what they think about the presidential candidates. Not surprisingly, I couldn’t get anything edgewise out of my four year-old except that he wants to play Nintendo. Understandable.
But my seven year-old has had something interesting to say. He piped up, “I want that guy to win,” and he pointed to Obama.
I asked why. He said, “Because, that will be something new for us! We’ve never had a brown president before in the history of our country!”
My first thought was, “Should I explain one or two of their stances on issues? And that we don’t vote based on race or new or interesting but how we feel about issues??? No…too complicated.” But my second thought was, “Well, I must be doing a good job–my son is open-minded and accepting!”
Until he followed it up with this: “Besides, I don’t like the old guy.”
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