The Bust

Manchester, N.H.

John Kerry is unveiling his early-childhood agenda at a day-care center. During the primary season, no child-care center either here in New Hampshire or in Iowa is safe from Democratic presidential candidates showing up to talk about how they will protect children. And Kerry is going to protect them but good. His agenda includes better pediatric food labeling, a Department of Health and Human Services investigation of “allergen residue contamination,” more laws mandating the use of automobile booster seats, and measures to counteract the distressing fact that “nearly half of all the foods advertised during children’s programming are cakes and candies.”