rssObama on Iraq, Decimals and Poop
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm
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After his press conference on education at a Chicago elementary school, Barack Obama headed upstairs to chat with a small group of first- to fourth-graders, according to the pool report.
Somehow, the kids got out of him what reporters couldn’t: when asked by a child when he would bring troops home from Iraq, he said he would do so in a year and a half.
He asked the kids what they were studying, and when he was told that they were learning about decimals, he responded, “Decimals! Wow, Joe doesn’t even know his decimals!”
He then sought to teach the children a lesson in responsibility, focusing on the First Dog-to-be. “I want to make sure my daughters take care of this dog,” he said. “And if they do their business, and you’ve got some poop, you don’t just leave it there.”
In all, reports the pooler, he answered far more questions from these kids than he did from reporters at the press conference, where fecal discussion was largely absent.
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Comment posted December 16, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Ah yes…how often we're told that the care of pets promotes character-building and the ol' self-reliance.
Speaking of which, what would Emerson say about the intersection 'twixt the true and the poo?
“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.”
P.S. Fecal discussion? Really?!
mmBlurblez,
~Baubles
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