We were driving home from soccer practice tonight and Henry, my six year old, was telling me all about his school day.
He told me about the cool rocks he and his buds found on the playground and that tomorrow they are all wearing their halloween costumes and having a party (he is going to be a ninja and is pretty excited).
The news was on low in the car and henry said from the back seat "john kerry, i know who he is"
Rest of the story after jump.
Henry goes to a great school, but most parents their are hardcore GWB...we are in South Carolina.
So, i wondered what kind of talk he had heard about Kerry.
I said, what do you know about him? Henry told me they had been learning about the president this week and the president bush is president right now and he is running again "because he really likes being president"
I said ok, what about john kerry.
Henry said "well he is going against bush because he thinks he can do a better job that president bush"
I of course thought this was pretty logical for a six year old. Of course, i asked if he picked this up from friends or teachers and he said again they were studying it. This troubled me a little because it is a conservative private school
I said well henry, who are you pulling for.
He told me "dad i pulling for kerry"
Of course i smiled big (by the way, we don't talk politics around the youngsters at home) then i asked who his friends were pulling for
Henry said well so and so is pulling for Abraham Lincoln but he's dead. A couple of people are going for bush and the rest are for either kerry or george washington but he is dead too.
Now i picked up the fact the kids are going to have an "election" on tuesday, so i asked Hen if he was going to vote for kerry and push his friends to do so. He said yes but the one kid really likes lincoln ( i told him that was ok)
i then asked who he thought would win on tues and he said "dad i'm sure it'll be kerry"
Why?
"because president bush just hasn't done a good job as president, we should let john kerry give it a try"
i smiled again. a couple of minutes later henry said "dad who are you going for"
kerry, i said.
"awesome" said henry.
My man, smartest 6 year old on the planet (plays a mean striker too)