My nephew on the presidential debate

My nine-year-old nephew was watching the debate last night, and commented that (I paraphrase) “Kerry is all talk and no action. He won’t accomplish anything. Bush will do well; he has been President since I was a bit more than five years old.”

This is the same nephew who, in 2000, when the presidential election was still hotly disputed, asked, “Is Gore still refusing to concede?” He said that in Mandarin, using a phrase (lai4 pi2, to refuse to concede) that conveys sneer and scorn on the person who cannot accept his defeat and thereby ironically humiliates himself even further.