A funny thing happened on my way to the mailbox...

Jackson (the dog) and I go walking to our mailbox every morning (it's about a mile round trip) to get the newspaper. The boys are here at the house, usually (supposed to be) doing their schoolwork. This morning when I got in, I heard very funny goings on. Jeffrey was on the karaoke machine microphone and Jonathan and Jeremy were on the couch asking questions. Turns out this was a pretend political question and answer question. Jeffrey was pretending to be the Republican nominee for President and J&J were asking him the "tough" questions.

J&J :"What would you do about the energy crisis?"
Jeffrey: "Well, we currently get only about 10% of our energy from our own soil. The answer is simple, let's add a zero to that number! Let's use our own wind, gas, oil, solar, nuclear power and quit using stuff from other countries. After all, if China called in all of our debts that we owe them, we'd be bankrupt. And that's just China. Let's get out of debt. Trillions of dollars is ridiculous!"
(Not bad for a 10 year old!)

Then it was Jonathan's turn. He was going to be the Democratic nominee.

Jeremy and Jeffrey: "What do you propose to do about the troops in Iraq?"
Jonathan: "Well, we need to still have some troops in Iraq, but let's bring them home as soon as they finish what they're there to do. Wait, that's probably not what a Democrat would say. Forget it, I can't be a Democrat."

*Mom's note: We aren't Fox News: We don't even pretend to be Fair and Balanced here!

Jeremy gets up.
"Ok, I'll be the Democrat"
Jonathan: "What do you propose as a plan for future space exploration?"
Jeremy: "Um...um....space exploration? Well, I would spend millions out of my own pocket to fund the space exploration because it's important."
Mom (from the other room) "A democract would NOT say that!!"
Jeremy: "Well, I'm going to be like Ronald Regan. He was a Republican but was close enough to the middle where a lot of Democrats liked him too."


Wow, they WERE listening when we talked about this stuff!