The presidential election, as seen through the eyes of four-year olds

Election Day morning:

O: Daddy's getting on a boat.
Me: Oh, really? Okay. What kind of boat is daddy getting on?
O: He's going to a boat for Rock Obama.
Me: You mean daddy's going to VOTE for Barack Obama?
O: Yeah.


Election Day afternoon:

M: Where's the line?
Me: What line?
M: Rock Obama and John McCain are in a race, so where's the line?
Me: There is no line, sweetie.
M: But if they're racing and tonight we'll know who wins, there must be a line.
Me: It's not that kind of line. They're not really running like mommy goes running.
M: Then how are they running if they don't know where the line is?


The day after the election:

O: Now that Rock Obama won he gets to dress up and be president.
Me: Dress up?
O: That's what the president does, he dresses up.
Me: Oh. I see. What else does the president do?
O: He just dresses up and talks.
Me: I see.
O: Will John McCain get to be president next time?
Me: Oh, you want it to be fair. No, sweetie, he probably won't.
O: He won't get to dress up?
Me: He'll get to do other things.
O: Has George Bush gotten to be president yet?
Me: He's president now. How do you know his name?
O: NO! Rock Obama's president now. He won, remember?

Comments

LisaBe said…
oh.mygod. just when i think that they can't get more adorable. this is so great that i posted it in my ravelry obama-rama group (not my group as in i own it--just the one to which i belong). of course, it's no accident that they're this adorable. they have the genes + the mommy who teaches them funniness :)

lovelove, mitch.
November 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM
breje said…
That's hilarious! I got the warm fuzzies reading this. Scott got a good laugh out of it too. O & M are such clever girls!
November 5, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Lisa said…
"Then how are they running if they don't know where the line is?" sounds like a title. A title for a poem? A Jean Kerr-type book? You make the call.
November 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM
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