Ezra Klein on a rather pathetic attempt by some parties to smear a twelve-year-old boy and his family who spoke out against George W. Bush's veto of the S-CHIP expansion.
I'll admit it was kind of a cheap political stunt for the Democrats to trot out an injured child to campaign for aid to sick kids…though no cheaper, and certainly more relevant than the endless stream of firefighters, soldiers and children that George W. Bush uses in his photo-ops. (Anyone remember what he was doing on 9/11 when the planes hit the buildings?) But the response in this case was just meanness and misrepresentation…and of course, they wound up proving the opposite of the point they were trying to score.