Obama answers a 2nd grader: "How to Become President"

[NYCGirl]

Totally cute...and good advice, too.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/01/848047.aspx

At a town hall today, a second-grader asked Obama how exactly one gets the opportunity to run for president.

"Here's what you gotta do," the presidential hopeful told the boy, boiling the process down to few simple steps.

1. "You have to work really hard in school and get really good grades."
2. "Who is this your grandma?" Obama asked the boy. "You have to do everything that grandma tells you to do."
3. "When you get out of school, then you gotta go to college."
4. "After you go to college, you have to hopefully find a job that's helping other people, so that people appreciate that you're helping them, and they'll say that Michael will make a good president some day."

"If you do all those things, then you just might be a president some day," Obama told young Michael. The audience seemed to agree with the recipe, cheering wildly.

Obama, pointing to the boy's grandmother, said he and Michael's grandmother would wait and see if he could pull it off.

[Cant trust em]

1. Nice. NT

[rwheeler31]

2. That was a grate response.

[zennie62]

3. That's Better Than Clinton And The Hot Blonde!

Well, Obama's response is much better than President Clinton and the Blonde lady that hugged him at the California State Convention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI-vn-TnNoM

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Dude...

Number one, she's not THAT hot.

Number two, it looked totally innocent and aboveboard. People hug presidential candidates all the time.

Number three, she said her husband was at the event.

I think you're reading way too much into this.

[TexasLady]

4. Too sweet!

[karynnj]

5. That's a really sweet story

[tridim]

7. Or, just have Daddy set it up for you if your name is Bush.

I find it funny that Bush* only satifies one of those criteria.

[NYCGirl]

8. That would be "go to college"? NT

[Georgie_92]

9. Awwww.

[ericgtr]

10. K&R this is exactly why I favor Obama so much

he always knows the right thing to say and when he does, it's inspiring. It would've been very cool to actually be there when he said this.

:kick:

[roguevalley]

11. that is incredibly sweet. especially about helping people. sooo sweet.

[Irishonly]

12. That's cute

:)

[Blu Dahlia]

13. Does anyone know where the video is? I've searched all over!