Twelve year old Boy to give Democrats weekly radio address

Earlier in the week, his younger sister helped congressional Democrats sell expanded funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Yesterday, with the White House threatening again to veto the legislation, it was Graeme Frost's turn to take up the cause.

The 12-year-old Baltimore boy, whose family relied on the government-funded insurance program after he and his sister were severely injured in a 2004 car accident, came to Washington yesterday to record the Democrats' weekly radio address.

"If it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today," Graeme says in the address, to air today on stations across the country.

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Graeme, a seventh-grader at the Park School, has a message for the president.

"If I could speak to him, I would say, 'You have to sign this bill,'" he told reporters yesterday during his first visit to the Capitol. "I'm guessing he wants this money for Iraq. Our future isn't in Iraq. It's here."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.democrats29sep29,0,1093633.story

I just finished reading a description of Clarence Thomas' memoirs. He resents getting help from affirmative action and does not want anyone else to take advantage of the program. He blames everyone else for his troubles.

In contrast, this 12-year-old-boy wants others to share in the assistance he obtained and doesn't sound resentful of the help provided. He also does not blame the driver of his family SUV for the accident that caused his injuries. I guess it is the result of a decent upbringing.

So sad when your president probably couldn't make it through fifth grade anymore.

Such wisdom from the mouth of babes. I hope the "grown-ups" are paying attention.