So, last weekend, in a beautiful town in rural Vermont, my 10 year old,
Sarah, looked at a purple painted house festooned with peace signs, and
said — "Look. Obama voters." We had seen plenty of Obama lawn signs —
and an equal number of McCain ones as it happens — but this house
didn’t have one. "How do you know they’re Obama voters," I asked. (Not
that I doubted it. I just wanted to understand how she made the
connection.) She rolled her baby blues at me and said, "Mom. A peace
sign. What do you think?" So I asked, "What sign would tell you that
people are McCain voters?" Sarah and her 9 year old sister
simultaneously and without hesitating said, "An American flag."
Sarah. Is that some kind of conservative name?
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