Although I doubt he actually wrote the letter, it says something that either 1) he felt it was important to direct his staff to do it, or 2) his staff (on its own) felt it was important. Both of these things are good signs.

This was exactly what I thought. It doesn't take too much effort to put together an interesting letter for a kid to read and share with his classmates, and it just so happens that the teacher found it interesting enough to share with the media, so--double-bonus for Obama's staff!

Puppy pile! While the other two are wrestling in the corner!

Maybe they're warming up for the Puppy Bowl. (Or will they be too old by then?)

Although I doubt he actually wrote the letter

I don't know if he did, and I class this with baby kissing. Still, you could dictate it into a tape in five minutes and have somebody type it up. It's the kind of made up story you do for your kids almost every day.

Maybe they're warming up for the Puppy Bowl. (Or will they be too old by then?)

No, these are way young.

But it looks like they exhausted themselves. Back to sleep.

I don't know if I want a puppy or just want to be a puppy.

::gnaw gnaw zzzzzz::

Oh Kathy A, I like your tagline. I thinking it'd make a good tagline when I read his post....

(For the children, because they are our future: [W]hat kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude would get elected president before the Cubs won the Series again? -- Nate Silver, 538.com )

I have successfully halted all productivity in my office by sending out the link to the puppies. WHO ARE IN A PILE RIGHT NOW, SO CUTE, OMG.

Ahem.

I like Nate Silver. To me, he is twenty times the regular guy Joe-The-Plumber is.

Is the puppy on the top trying to nurse from that other puppy?

I like Nate Silver. To me, he is twenty times the regular guy Joe-The-Plumber is.

Yeah, plus he's a baseball geek. So weird to see somebody from one of the SABR sites as a national pollster and key resource.