A Moment from Post-Election Breakfast with my daughter

[Plaid Adder]

So, my daughter is 5. I refer to here as PJ, which stands for Plaidder Junior.

She went along with Mrs. Plaidder to vote, so she is interested in the whole thing. She's pleased that Obama won, of course, because both her parents are pleased and she's five. But I did want to share this moment. I was explaining about term limits and how Obama will not be able to run again in 2016. I also mentioned that I didn't think Romney would be running again:

PJ: Why not?
ME: Because he was not a good candidate. He did not do a good job of making people want to vote for him.
PJ: Why?
ME: Well...there were some things about the way he ran the campaign that were not good. Like he did not always tell the truth about things.
PJ: (with great outrage) That is NOT GOOD!
ME: No, it is not!
PJ: Telling the truth is important!
ME: Yes it is! It's important for the president to tell the truth, isn't it?
PJ: President Obama tells the truth!
ME: Yes. Yes he does. He is a very good man that way.

And I realized, you know what, he does.

It's not that every word that comes out of his mouth is a pearl of wisdom. Like all politicians he uses language instrumentally, and he does a lot of things with language that I deplore. He and his team are very good at using language to equivocate, to avoid stating a clear position, to imply things which they can later back away from, and so on and so forth.

But I cannot think of a time when I was watching an Obama speech or press conference and thought to myself, "He's lying."

We take a lot of shit for granted now. But it was kind of startling to me to realize that. He does not, in fact, lie. And this is important. Especially when you're showing your kid pictures of the guy who just won the election. And you think, this is a president we can be proud of. This is something that can inspire people, something I feel good about showing PJ as something to admire, something to be happy about, something to live up to.

Hooray,

The Plaid Adder

[Scuba]

1. Exactly. I cannot think of a single lie he told.

[global1]

2. President Obama Is Genuine - His Family Is Genuine - They Are Real Americans Like You Or I.....

they are inspirational in that regard. They are likeable.

Rmoney on the other hand is a fraud. He is fake. Everything about him smacks of Madison Avenue marketing deception.

One doesn't have to get you to like the Obama's. You just do.

On the other hand - they had to package Rmoney to get you to like him. They had to make him out to be something he was not - and the American People can see through that and they did.

[llmart]

3. Out of the mouths of babes.......

Enough said.