is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
ticket with a republican and democrat, one president, and one vice president. joe manchin is the one name, and joe manchin is the one person who has not said he will not join the ticket. but if you re talking about a republican i mean you can go to the grocery store. there s a handful of them that could potentialliy do it. the vegetable aisle, the frozen food aisle? there s a lot of aisles in this republican party today. there s a group with mega-donors and it created over the last ten years a concept they re part of the problem solvers cop plex. it s a goal saying this is not working like it is, let s create something new. so, okay, we re going to provide a centrist alturn. . and for a great deal of americans when you look at polling and ask them would you be open to a third party candidate, most of them say. whether that s ted cruz or
not supposed to say. what if imin a camp with sandra, 40 spies, i like the way she dunks the ball. i really like your shorts. they re so cute. they fit you so well? can i say that. no. that is my point. how is seven-year-old going to think about it? i m reserving judgment. kids are growing up in completely different world. i was at grocery store the other day, and 8-year-old girls in frozen food aisle, looking to see what was fat-free. eight years old. they couldn t have been older. kids are aware of the weight now and way they look. maybe they have gone overboard and need friendlier environment and some kid want to get away from that and go to camp. i don t know. if you tell kid you can t talk about and that means you can t encourage each other because i love the way you are. your body is a part of who you are. they re also taking a way i for kids to compliment each other.