The sincere tears of a patriotic child on Monday, November 15, 2010 eclipsed most of the politics-as-usual morning news. On an average but no longer not-so-ordinary school day, the news from Denair, Stanislaus County, Ca, eclipsed even the recent hurtful comments of a president about his own country. And totally eclipsed those unkind cuts against America on the president’s second day back from a mega-million-dollar Asian trip.
A schoolboy made manifest American’s growing unease with the anti-American style coming from the White House, moving the punishment of schoolboy patriotism up to the front burner.