QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ Jun 23 2008, 02:11 PM)

I have quite the opposite problem. My wife loves to talk politics and we agree with each other most of the time. The argument comes when trying to decide who said what first and who said it better.
Well, I do enjoy the company of my two kids who LOVE to talk politics. Alas, they're not too much into nuance and gray areas. If a member of congress is a bad guy for his vote one day, they're quite baffled when the next day on another vote they want to call him names, and I have to tell them, "No, this time he did the right thing."
Sometimes, yes, it's like RRMB, because we'll get into discussing one of those situations, I'll tell them how one Senator did a terrible job on FISA, but came through on something else, and my 15 year old son will turn, point at me and shriek "GATEKEEPER!"
At 13 and 15 they're definitely of the "Fool me once, and you're a corrupt lying bastard who will never redeem himself no matter how many future votes you make that I agree on" school.
We were watching McClellan's testimony the other day, my daughter asked who it was. I said it was GWB's former press secretary and she looked at the screen and yelled "LIAR!" And there I am trying to tell her she's right, but explaining what he's saying now. It must be a lot like English class for them, where all the rules have these ifs, ands and buts.