Mr. Man (age 4) had a kid's election at school. They voted for "red" or "blue" (after all they have really little kids at the school; infants all the way up to school agers) - but if they knew the name of the candidate they wanted they could also vote that way, too.
Michael was so excited - he had a sticker that said: "I Voted Today" and ran up to me and said: "Mama Mama! I voted!"
I said: "Really? Who'd you vote for?" and he started chanting and waving his arms:
"Rock Mabama! Rock Mabama! Rock Mabama!!"
Because we live in the north metro (and you can break down the voting statistics for our town and see that it went heavily in favor of McCain here) I asked him: "Who else voted for the same guy you did?" And he said: "Only two of us voted for Mabama."
There are like 25 kids in his class - and 2 voted for Mabama. ;)
I'm glad he had the courage to stick up for who he wanted. And if I had any doubts (based on the name pronunciation) that he actually knew who Obama is.. that was cleared up when my People magazine arrived.
As I carried in the magazine with Obama's picture on the front I said: "Michael, look who it is!"
And Michael came running and chanting again: "Rock Mabama! Rock Mabama! Rock Mabama!!"
and then he gave the front of the magazine a hug and a kiss. (No prompting at all from us - this was just his own natural response.)
