There is nothing I couild do to "ruin" this book for my daughter, but I don't know why you're all so afraid to recognize she did this for a reason. The reference to a call from the president is one thing. Calling him "the wretched man" with ZERO explanation or involvement in the plot is another. Of course she veiled it but please it's obvious. And on the first page. No kid who reads it will care, she did it as a snicker to her liberal friends.
Hey I'm not afraid of that. If she recognized it, it's good to see you're raising quite the partisan. A young child able to notice partisan politics in fantasy novels. You must be proud. No one else seemed to recognize it. I'm wondering why you bothered pointing it out to all of us. I'm sure the US President thinks Chirac is a 'wretched man', Putin thinks Blair is a 'wretched man', and the Chinese leader thinks Bush is a 'wretched man'. As much grief as this poor series of books has gotten, why not start proofreading line by line to find partisan politics in it. But let's say it was intentional. You do realize as a citizen of another nation she is going to hold views of our leadership different from yours don't you? How dare she!!
Calling him "the wretched man" with ZERO explanation or involvement in the plot is another
So the only people in your world that are allowed to be called 'wretched' or any other way referred negatively to, especially if we've trained our children to read between the lines looking for imagined slurs against US leadership (as you've said she noticed it), must play an integral part in the plot? And be people that you yourself would consider 'wretched'? OK. That's fair....
Of course she veiled it but please it's obvious
No, you have presupposed that any reference to a president from a 'far away nation' that is referred to as 'wretched' must be the president of this nation. Does the PM have a reason to talk to any other presidents besides the one currently as our leader? Who's to say she's not making a statement about the EU and Blair's opinion towards certain leaders involved in that? I'm sure the formation and almost concurrent possible dissolution of that organization by failed votes has caused him to call more than a few European leaders 'wretched'. But to be on the safe side, let's boycott it? 'Conservatives' are so busy boycotting numerous other things so we may as well just add this to the list right?