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We were minding our business, enjoying the sunshine at Red River Beach in Harwich, Cape Cod this afternoon, when what pulls up in the parking lot, but the "Beatty Mobile Headquarters."
Jeff Beatty is apparently challenging John Kerry for his senate seat, with a tag line, "It's time to replace John Kerry with one of us."
As my husband reads that aloud, my 5 3/4 (going on 15) year old son Andrew (from here forward in italics) asks,
Who's John Kerry?
A Senator from Massachussetts.
What's a Senator?
A senator is someone who works for us in Washington to help make laws. Each state has two senators that go to Washington.
If each state has 2 senators and there are 50 states, how many senators are there? (Have to try and get some summer math in there with our civics lesson)
900?
Okay, what's 50 +50?
100.
Right so there are 100 Senators.
Is being a senator a hard job?
Yes, it's a very hard job because you have to get most of the people in the whole state to vote for you and when you get to Washington you have to make very difficult decisions.
Remember, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are Senators?
Oh, like John McCain?
Right.
If I were president, I would make very good laws, like: no littering, be good to mother earth, no smoking, use both sides of a piece of paper...
Those would be very good laws. I think if you were president you would be a very good president.
Who is our worst President ever?
Wait a minute, let me think... no, don't say it... George Bush.
Why is that?
Because he is mean to people. If he's so bad, how did he get to be president anyway?
That's a good question! When he was running for president he told people he would do all kinds of good things and that he would be compassionate.
What does compassionate mean?
It means he would care for people.
Well, then he's a fibber.
Right, and he has put this country in debt.
What does "in debt" mean?
It means that he has spent money that he didn't have and that your generation will have to pay for it. Instead of spending money on education and health care, he has spent money on war.
Why did he go to war?
Because he wanted to get control over a lot of oil.
Isn't that stealing?
In a way, ,I guess you could call it stealing, because he went in to another country, took control, and will now let his friends who own big oil companies make lots of money off of the oil there.
Where is this war?
Iraq.
Iraq. Where's that?
In the middle east... very far away.
I don't think John McCain should be president.
Why not?
Because I think he will be just like George Bush.
So do I.
I think Barack Obama will make a good president.
So do I.
And then we heard the ice cream truck.
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