O-bam-a

young boy in bookstore, waiting while mother paid at register, saw the books with Obama on the cover (Beginner's Guide To Obama, Audacity of Hope, collection or two of speeches) and said "O-bam-a" melodiously to himself, I liked it, sounded wondrous, wonderful.

I want there to be a generation for whom the first president they remember was President O-bam-a, said like this boy said it.


or like Oprah's anecdote of Republican friends, watching Republican primary debates, and their young son said, Where is Rock-O-Mama?


______________________________10/18/08 adding:
Obama And The Kiddies - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 18, 2008):
I voted for McCain in the primary. As a political reporter and columnist in Michigan, I have the news on in our house with some frequency. That's how my now 6-year-old got to know Barack Obama. And she loved him. She asked to tag along when I went to cover his events. Maybe it's the smile, the calmness. But she felt very assured by the idea of this man being president, long before I was ready to switch my vote. She was the one trying to convince her grandparents to vote Obama last winter.
And I've found that Obama has the same effect on lots of kids, whether they come from liberal or conservative homes. He is a rock star with the under 10 crowd, believe me. And I have to say, as a journalist, I found their reactions fascinating in light of both the race debate and the fact that kids tend to be carbon copies of their parents. but not here. So that Scholastic poll doesn't surprise me at all.
So the next time you see a kid with an Obama shirt, she just might have asked for it for her birthday, like mine, instead of having it foisted upon her by overbearing parents.



Yes We Can (hold babies).








What I Hear When I Hear Obama - Michael Copperman - Open Salon - first comment:
It's the picture that gets me: that little boy is really HUGGING Obama, and the way Obama is looking at the back of the boy's head (and not up at the cameras to maximize the photo op) with tenderness, says he is paying attention to the fact that he is being genuinely hugged, that it is affecting him, he is moved.
...a man who would be a leader of all of us, showing us his thoughts and feelings in action, showing us an example of being authentic without having to say a word. What eloquence.