Lower the Voting Age to Six!

(The day after Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee)

Chloe: Dad, who is Ocobama against next?
Me: John McCain
Chloe: He's old!
Me: (smiling) How did you know that?
Chloe: I saw it on Hardball!

(Can you tell what's on constantly in my house)

Fast forward to today. . .

I was combing Chloe's hair and watching MSNBC at the same time. Before commercial, they had a teaser that promoted some viral video of John McCain's head superimposed on a jugglers body. Chloe immediately shouted, "That's not a reason to be president!"

I proudly said, "Exactly, Chloe!"

Why is it that a six-year-old can identify what's NOT important in a candidate, while the rest of America is focused on lapel pins and religion?

Here's the video: