May 6, 2007
A first for Lucie this week: she voted! She can't vote in American elections because she's not a citizen. But she finally completed her French paperwork and bopped over to the French consulate in San Francisco to record her request that Segolene Royal be the next president of France.
53% of France disagreed with Lucie, so Nicolas Sarkosy is the new BMOC*. (*Big Man on Champs Elysees)
Felix and his friends, good Berkeley kids that they are, already have political views.
Felix: I was playing in the sandbox with my friends at school, and we were talking about how George Bush is mean. You know what Kahlil said? He said that George Bush doesn't want to share! Can you believe he said that?! I told him that George Bush is mean because he started the war in Iraq.
Lucie: Kahlil is right, you know. George Bush doesn't want to share. He wants all the power to himself.
Felix: Oh, okay. But that's not as mean as starting a war.
Along with political views, Felix is also developing a sense of his future self. We passed a fire truck blasting out a fire station, sirens blaring and burly men hanging off it. He looks at the spectacle for a moment then remarks, "That's not what I want to be when I grow up."
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