My nine-year-old daughter Alexandra is

My nine-year-old daughter Alexandra is a kid who, like her dad, leans Republican. When her fourth grade teacher gave her class an assignment requiring the students to write biographies of figures of the students’ choosing, she chose to write about President Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes. As part of my daughter’s project, she wrote Mrs. Hughes two weeks ago and sent her a set of questions seeking information on important issues such as her favorite food and her favorite color.
You might say my daughter caught Mrs. Hughes at a bad time. For the past week she has been in Washington helping the president with tomorrow evening’s State of the Union address. She nevertheless made time to respond to Alexandra’s questions, and Alexandra has agreed to share her answers with us as a Power Line exclusive.
Mrs. Hughes prefaces her answers to Alexandra’s questions by saying, “I