My 2 3/4 year-old daughter came up to me yesterday as I was sitting reading a book and said, "Daddy, I want to see Barack Obama." I replied, "Natalie, who is Barack Obama?" To which she replied, firmly and insistently, "I don't know!"

[Obama is not a frequent topic of conversation in the Bernstein household, but Natalie was driven to day camp for two weeks during NPR's Morning edition, which I think is the source of her infatuation.]