Over the last year and a half to two years much ado was made about how articulate one of our presidential candidates was.  At times it seemed the media and other people we pay to do our thinking for us were distracted from what he was saying by how he was saying it.  And I must admit, the guy has an incredible gift for inserting many big words into small ideas.

But who am I to judge?  The man was elected by majority vote.  And not a narrow majority, either.  Clearly, articulacy matters.  Don’t worry, I’m not breaking my promise and waxing political again.  I’m simply making the point that the following writing assignment, completed by my son last month, while adorable, probably would lose an election for him:

If I were president I would let them suee my spoatings.  And let them soot my patings and let them play.

Or maybe I’m wrong.  We did elect Bush twice.