Not that kids don’t need adults to be their advocates — quite the opposite. Big picture-wise, we’re sort of all they’ve got. And really, children’s interests do deserve and need our consideration.
When it comes to burdening kids with things like school busing, or allowing Section 8 housing into a neighborhood or building nearby mental health facilities or incarcerating drug abusers, I think the “what about the children” is a clever way of saying “what about my property values.”
But last night in Tucson, President Obama delivered a moving speech that, indeed approached the question: what about the children? What about the memory of Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old who was killed when gunman Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ rally over the weekend.
Honestly, I couldn’t agree more. What about the children? What about other girls and boys like Green? What about babies born today who will be adults in less than a couple of decades. In just how bad of a state is this country going to be when we hand them the keys to a home that looks like this.
Here’s what Obama says regarding the girl who had already planned a life of public service to her country, because she thought this place was so great:US News paper
