As I blogged before our GOTV office is in the middle of historic, all black and poor, SW Atlanta, near Morehouse, Morris Brown, Clark and Spelman colleges.

One of the things that I have been doing is giving Obama/Biden picture buttons that I bought to any child that I see. I tell each of them that they can be President someday if they study hard like Barack did and the parents or grandparents with them beam and often tell me that the kids are on honor roll etc...Great fun..

If cars stop at the light in front of our office and I see kids in them I go up to the car and hand out buttons.

Yesterday I had 3 or 4 little ones (ages 2-4?) in car seats and EVERY single one knew "Obama" by his picture when their Mom asked them whose picture was on the button.

EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! ..."Obama"

One of my favorite stories was five year old twin boys who when I went up to their car one of the boys saw my Obama button, pointed at it and said - "That's my President" - and told me that he had voted for Obama at kindergarten.

Imagine what Obama as President for 8 years will mean to these kids as they go to school and start to learn about history, government etc.?

Have I met a future President yet? Who knows but the one thing that I think we can guarantee is that Barack Obama as President will have a huge impact on black children ( and really all kids) as a role model and that alone may be his greatest legacy 30, 40, 50 years hence when our future leaders trace their interest in politics and public service back to the election of 2008 and Barack Obama.