A fourteen year old student decided to conduct an experiment at her middle school about political tolerance. On the first day, she would write down everything said to her while she wore a McCain-friendly shirt and on the next she would write down everything said to her while she wore an Obama-friendly shirt. While wearing the McCain-friendly shirt, she was called stupid, told to die, and was even passively insulted by an instructor. She received very few positive comments and one involved a girl pulling her aside and whispering to her “I really like your shirt.” Of course when she wore the Obama-friendly shirt, she received compliments throughout the day. While one might state that her little experiment confirms the intolerance of the group that preaches tolerance, I would like to say who the heck trusts a fourteen year old with an experiment? First of all, children are too unreliable to run reliable experiments, and secondly, our group that preaches tolerance had a woman and a black man competing in our primary while the Republican Party had a primary filled with old white men. And do not even bother to mention that Colin Powell was considered for the Republican ticket in 1995. Sure, polls may have shown that he might have beat Clinton but there is something called the Bradley Effect. The racists would never vote for a black man and Clinton would have won. Also, the experiment obviously showed that the left is more tolerant. Our tolerance of people is not based on their skin color, gender, or sexual orientation, but on their beliefs and ideas. We like to look deeper and see if they are intelligent human beings or some bitter nuts clinging to religion and guns. Is that not the definition of tolerance?