The governor goes into a kindergarten class for a photo opportunity and gets cute with the kids:
In Mrs. Royal's classroom, Daniels sat on the floor and flipped through pages of a book the children had made for him. Behind the governor were television cameras and men and women in suits.
"You guys can not only draw better than I can, you can write better," he told them.
The book focused on what kindergartners thought the governor's job is. Several of the children had forgotten by the time Daniels left the room.
Why do politicians still do things like this? Does it really work? Are any of those TV viewers really going to believe the governor, during that brief visit, became "fortified in the idea that full-day kindergarten really will be a very important addition to the Indiana education scene"? The sound-bite culture is going to dumb us all down to serfdom.
Comments
Based on the way people continue to vote I think that a fair number of voters do believe in these "photo ops."
Mike Sylvester
You'd think they'd have learned after Dan Quayle tried to teach a student how to spell "potato."