My Biggest Weakness is I Care Too Much ... Yack!

This is Jason.
We are a house united when it comes to the presidential election. I, too, am wholly behind Obama, for reasons big and small. No word on Jonas' top choice. Although when I told him about that wacko Mike Huckabee's views on evolution, I noticed him squeeze his toy dinosaurs just a little tighter.

Anyway, I think the small details influence me more than the big ones. For example, when doing research on video games and their potential uses in education, I came across this from Hillary Clinton. Essentially, she teamed up with two uber-conservative senators to sponsor legislative that would further censor video games and restrict access to them. It's this type of small-minded, politics-of-the-moment thinking that really turns me off to Hillary. When some of the smartest people out there are looking at how to harness the appeal and methodology of video games, Hillary spends her time figuring out ways to restrict their impact. And she claimed to be doing it to "protect the children." Please. Protect us from Hillary.

And there's all the hoopla over John Edwards' $1,250 hair. The guy's a millionaire, so it's his right, but someone who fancies himself as the champion of the poor probably should being paying attention to details like this. And paying a lot less for a haircut. But whatever. He's insignificant.

And finally, my favorite small story of the campaign:

Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night's debate when he and his rivals were asked to name their biggest weakness. Obama answered first, saying he has a messy desk and needs help managing paperwork - something his opponents have since used to suggest he's not up to managing the country. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said his biggest weakness is that he has a powerful response to seeing pain in others, and Clinton said she gets impatient to bring change to America.

"Because I'm an ordinary person, I thought that they meant, 'What's your biggest weakness?'" Obama said to laughter from a packed house at Rancho High School. "If I had gone last I would have known what the game was. And then I could have said, 'Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's terrible.'"

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