I just thought I'd like to share with you an essay written by my eight-year-old son (he's in third grade).

In answer to the question "If I was the President of the United States of America," my son wrote:

"I would donate money to the poor from the rich, because I know the poor don't have any money.  If I was president, I would increase the amount of enplouyment [sic].  Because the poor need to work.  With that money I would invest it in the school fund.  If I was president I would make the speed ticket cost more, and with that money I'll send it to our troops for more stuff."

Well, he's already on the student council, so I figure about 20 years before he runs for public office. :)

It occurred to me this morning as I woke that the reason we lost this election is simply because there are more bigots in this country than people who are tolerant.  If we look at the two major issues that seemed to win the election for W--"terrorism" and "moral values"--they can both be boiled down to the same thing:  bigotry.  In the case of terrorism, the majority of Americans voted for the person who promised to go and attack the terrorists--the dark foreigners--on their own soil (even if he can't find it, he'll attack somewhere).  They voted against the person who made the mistake of thinking terrorism should be fought not solely by force of arms but also by trying to remedy the causes of terrorism.  That second person is weak and wishy-washy, the majority thinks.  We know why they try to kill us--because they hate us for our freedom.  Well, we hate them more and we'll kill them first.  Shoot first, ask questions later.

I missed this the other night, but I just saw a promo for a repeat.  It will be on again tonight, on CNBC, at 10 pm for those who may have missed it.

Like others here at DKos, I have recently been writing to CNN, complaining about rightward bias in their news.  I intend to write to NBC (specifically MSNBC, but to include CNBC) to praise them for more balanced news (I am specifically thinking of Keith Olberman's show, which I like very much).  Anyway, the point is, if anyone else agrees, write to them.  If they get a lot of letters from happy Democrats, they may respond with more programming that leans left.  Lord knows, their ratings are low enough they shouldn't try to steal viewers from Fox and CNN (and maybe we can get Scarborough kicked off--whoopee).