Parsing It For The Kids

In which a scandal is deconstructed for touring third-graders

Pity the children. For they have watched CNN and are unsettled. At least they damn well ought to be. First rule of politics: Don't do anything that frightens the horses. Second rule: That goes double for the children. Mr. Clinton knows this. He's a parent too. Like the rest of us, he had to explain his predicament to his child. True, he's more practiced (see below), but it can't have been easy. One bright note for the President: the V chip finally starts to make sense.

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