"We are!!??"

We watched the olympics a lot this week. There were a lot of political ads during the commercials. My 7 yr old is coloring while she lays in the floor, she's waiting on Nastia Liuken to come back on. A Mccain ad that has played about 3 times already comes on, and about half way thru it the voice over says "we're worse off than we were 4 years ago". 

All of a sudden coloring stops and I hear "WE ARE??!!" 

This is news to her, and she's quite surprised by it. I get an unexpected laugh and smile out of her sudden concern for such matters. The tone in which she asks it and the look on her face when she's looking back at me for confirmation suggests that she thinks the speaker is full of crap.

In her world, this kind of statement makes no sense.

I can tell you that when your child confirms everything is okay in their world, it makes the "worse off" adult stuff seem not so bad.