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Old 09-12-2005, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I guess I just do not see how an adult trying to make kids forget for a second is bad. Interestingly, your statement "a poor person wouldn't say that because they would have more empathy and more of a clue what the person might be going through" is awfully presumptous. You mean to tell me you know for a fact that not one poor person has tried to cheer their kid up by using this technique. I cannot believe you all are getting so upset by this when there are far larger things to be upset by. Truth be known it came out of DeLay's mouth and you all want to attack it no matter how patently innocuous it was and no matter how universal his technique is
Suprisingly, I agree with you in this case. Mountain out of molehill. And I think any other kind of person could say all kinds of strange things to cheer a kid up, or to attempt to lighten the conversation.
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