Barack Obama

Can I make one observation. There is one point I disagree on, and just for discussion.
Some years ago a teacher of mine said that if you tell the child to apologize, or to say "I am sorry,' the child may well say it, but will not feel it from their 'essence,' but just parrot the words from their outer personality, from that which they show the world..indeed from that which they themselves believe to be their true being.

So it is important to find ways to teach the child to actually 'feel' the mistake, or whatever..to feel that their behavior was wrong...to feel what they did to another. It is not an easy thing to do and requires a very wise parent. And if it not taught at a young age, the wrong behavior can become very calcified and difficult to change later in life.

I certainly would not want to make the blanket statement that republicans don't feel from their true inner essence (no, i would never say that, now would I), but it is a very common...trait, that is often undeveloped in people who tend to lean to the 'right'. There is that something so many of them were never taught as children.

So, yes, because it is probably too late to teach them how to behave, how to 'feel,' John would in fact need to wack them in the head, sort of like the character in Inglourious Basterds who wields the baseball bat. Figuratively speaking, of course.. well...
It sends the lesson directly home.