politics at age six

Will and I are trying to maintain a little emotional distance from this year's primary race -- not because we don't care who wins, but because after the last eight years we're just not sure how much more disappointment we can take. I'm kind of glad we'll be across the ocean for part of the year just so we won't have to deal with the daily over-analysis of every remark.

Nevertheless, Katie has picked up on the excitement/ anxiety and declared in the car last night, "I'm going for Hillary."

Oh boy, we thought. We've always known she'll be an independent thinker. (Just wait 'til she finds out there are Republicans). Remain calm.

"Why do you say that Katie?"

"I don't know."

"Is it because she's a girl?"

"No. I didn't know she was a girl at first. I just liked her before that, because she has a nice simple name. And I think she'd look good being our president."

There you have it. Unfortunately, I don't think her reasoning exceeds that of a fair amount of our electorate. I hope to be proven wrong.

Comments

[Mary Hess]

On the topic of the fear of disappointment, Michael Chabon has a great essay out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302526.html.

[Mary Hess]

sigh - I just noticed that the link doesn't seem to be working. Alternately, you can do a search for the piece entitled "Obama vs. the phobocracy" at the Washington Post.