My son managed to get this photograph of the Bidens and the Obamas on a balcony at the White House! (Sorry, it's a Picasa photo, you will have to click through to see it.) Left to right: Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Sasha Obama, Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Michele Obama. DAILY KOS EXCLUSIVE!!
The story of how he came to get it and a picture of my son with the President on the flip side.
Here's my son with his Obama.
I have to say he was the first in the family to support Obama. In 2007 we were at the county fair and happened to go by the Democrats' booth there, where they had in fair time mode campaign stuff for all the candidates. (I was an Edwards guy at the time). He was instantly attracted to Obama, asked who it was, and started saying "O-bam-A! O-bam-A!" then and has barely stopped saying it.
By the time I came around to his camp last January, he could recognize Obama easily. He noted him on the cover of magazines, in the newspaper, and was thrilled when we put up an Obama poster in the house.
During the fall campaign, he started to tease me mercilessly by pretending he was for McCain. "I like McCain! I don't like Obama!" he'd needle me. But we knew he was kidding: he wouldn't put on the McCain mask I bought, but wanted to wear the Obama mask as a second skin.
When I told him I was going to Pennsylvania for a month, he was concerned, but then I told him I was going to work for Obama. "Obama! Yay! OBAMA 44! DADDY'S GOING TO WORK FOR OBAMA 44!"
So it was that he is now rather distraught. He doesn't really understand what the inauguration is, but we told him it's when Obama actually gets to start being President. We are having a little party at dinner tomorrow night, featuring cherry pie (in honor of our first President and all comers since) and good old hamburgers. But at bedtime tonight, he broke down crying, saying: "I want to go to the REAL inauguration!" (Footnote to regular readers: no jury duty for me tomorrow after all! Yay!)
So the poor kid sobbed himself to sleep, but he did make this little tableau in his dollhouse this weekend.