Kids Say the Darnedest Things...About the Election

As I've said on many occasions, I don't talk about politics on this blog. But on this Election Day, first and foremost, I encourage any eligible person who hasn't voted yet to go out and do so--it's your fundamental duty as an American. (And besides, if you don't vote today, you informally waive the right to gripe about the people who get elected today. And I'm not saying that your free speech will be suppressed, but rather that you lose a lot of credibility if you don't participate in the process.)

And to stay topical without actually being topical, I offer you these election slogans, found on a series of posters at one of the public schools where I teach:

• ONCE YOU GO BARACK, YOU NEVER GO BACK


• VOTE FOR McCAIN--HE'S GOT THE BRAIN


• BARACK TO THE FUTURE


• McCaIN...PalIN...JOIN THE "IN" CROWD


• OUR COUNTRY IS IN TRAUMA, VOTE OBAMA


• CATCH THE TRAIN, VOTE McCAIN

And there was at least one less-whimsical, more "serious" one:

• McCAIN & PALIN: WE DON'T JUST HELP THE POOR, WE HELP ALL

And one that just generates a "Huh?":

• IT'S TIME FOR A DIFFERENT "B.O." IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Kids really do say the darnedest things.

And tomorrow morning, when this is all over--take a walk, call a friend, read a good book. No matter what happens tonight, I think we all need a vacation from politics for a while.