Obama: Government by and for 10-year olds

February 17, 11:40 AMPhoenix Conservative ExaminerScott Martin

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Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for President Barack Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide project, with 150 chosen for inclusion in a free e-book (entitled Dear Mr. President) released on Presidents Day.

The little deadbeat authors, most of whom apparently need extensive help providing for their own day-to-day needs, echoed perfectly the sentiments of both President Obama and his supporters during the campaign

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Anthony Pape, 10, of Du Bois, Pa., offered: "I hope that we will have no war ever again. I mean why are we fighting why can't we all be friends."

That brings to mind Obama and Hillary Clinton's back-and-forth during their debate last February, when Obama was asked about having promised to meet with Castro, Chavez and Amadinejad without preconditions. If I recall correctly, it went like this:

Obama: I'll talk to anyone, except that Sean Hannity guy - he scares the bejeezers out of me. I mean why are we fighting; why can't we all be friends?

Hillary: Why am I debating the 10-year old with the big ears?

Seriously, foreign policy was the only major difference between Hillary and Obama. Democrats chose the toddler who asks, "Can't we all just get along?"

Fellow 10-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, Calif., had a similar request, and then some.

"I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet..."

Now here's an example of a situation where a 10-year old, like many of Obama's supporters, asks him to do something he can't. Here an adult would step in and say, "I can teach you to run the sprinkler, to plant and to water. You can make your area of the world as green as you'd like it to be. But it is none of your business if someone else would rather have a front lawn made of stones."

If only we had an adult in the Oval Office. Instead, young Barack's greenie wish-list receives prominent placement in the stimulus bill.

Seven-year-old Aaron Van Blerkom's letter was simpler -- but no less problematic.

"Dear Mr. Obama," the Pasadena, Calif., first-grader began, "Please Make it rain candy!"

Didn't Obama run on a platform of candy rainstorms? More or less.

Other suggestions included finding jobs for parents, ending hurricanes and tornadoes, letting illegal alien parents back into the country, and allowing mommy to abort my baby sister (she's only two years old). OK, I made up the last one, but it fit in perfectly with the rest of the list, which reads like a liberal Dear Santa letter.

An adult running the country would tell the kid that her out of work daddy needs to get his rear end off the couch and stop drinking a fifth of bourbon every day before lunch. That hurricanes and tornadoes and liberalism are natural disasters that can't be prevented, only minimized.

"I feel very proud because I know he'll be able to make a change in the country and we'll be a lot more happier," Destiny said. "I think he should make people feel more welcome, people who don't really get along with other people."

If government by 10-year old catches on, I'm not feeling overly optimistic about our future.

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