Politics & Sports...

...are apparently indistinguishable in Ben's mind. For a while his tendency to confuse Barack Obama with a football player had me slightly concerned (are the only black people he sees on television football stars so he thinks Obama must be one?) After a while I discarded this theory and decided instead that my four year old boy simply cannot conceive of a "contest" where either Obama or McCain will "win" without framing it in sports terms. So in his mind, Obama and McCain must both be sports stars of some kind.

Yesterday for example he was dribbling a ball around the living room and shooting it into an improvised "basket" (the stair well, which was blocked off by a baby gate) and narrating his version of Presidential politics - "Barack Obama has the ball! Oh no! John McCain got the ball! He's shooting - he scores! Mom! John McCain scored! Oh no! Barack Obama fell down! He fell down, Mom! Look! OH NO - HERE COMES GEORGE BUSH!"

I hope that Obama fares better in the actual election contest than in Ben's version of it.