I bet Barack feels like he's herding cats and turtles. Everyone asks what he should or can accomplish in his first one hundred days in office. He's working with Congress, and that's a lot like a class of preschoolers. It doesn't matter if they are for you or against you, it still takes forever to get them to flush and wash their hands. They stand at the sink, not really rub-a-dubbing away partisanship, pork barrel projects, or petty slights. Usually they make faces at their reflections in the big mirror, and make a long line of people wait.
Tomorrow is our hundredth day of class, so we're having a big celebration. The kids have been bringing in collections of 100 objects, and counting by tens. I contributed a collection of 100 postage stamps of living things for children to count. Thanks, Dad, for saving stamps for me!
© 2009 Nancy L. Ruder
1 comment:
Oh, that's funny -- "He's working with Congress, and that's a lot like a class of preschoolers."
You should know.
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