Kids’ Letters to Obama

By Jill Harness in Baby & Kids, Politics on Jan 21, 2009 at 9:42 pm

McSweeney’s has a fantastic compilation of childrens’ letters to Obama. Some of them are so adorably fantastic. It seems to be kids between 5 and 12 mostly. Even if you don’t like Obama, you still can appreciate the innocence of their words.

Dear President Obama,

When you are president, don’t eat junk food. Junk food makes you fat. Your family shouldn’t eat junk food, either, because it is not healthy. Obama, you rock.

Amy Ramirez, age 8
San Francisco

Dear President Obama, Are you going to be pictured on our money? How do you get in the White House? Do you like Abraham Lincoln? Do you have a big backyard? Martin Luther King Jr. had big fans. How many fans do you have? You could help us by giving us food. I am Luis Ramirez. I go to school at Mayberry. I like to play video games.

Luis Ramirez, age 8
Los Angeles

Link

Tags: children, Cute, kids, obama, president, schools, sweet

Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:

Rocky
Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:18 pm
“My family and other families would get free gas for our cars; single people with no kids would have to pay. The money would come from copying other bills. The $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills would be copied one thousand times.”

Oops! Sorry Weslie, but they stole your idea. This is one single guy getting screwed paying for this kid’s education.
Steve Wayne
Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Remember the days when ADULTS used to run the country? Christ almighty…
Paisley
Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Dudes, have a heart.
Mr. Binky
Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Remember the days when kids were excited about the President?

OH IT’S TODAY
ted
Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Mr Binky. Kids are excited because they’re indoctrinated – sorry – taught to be excited about such things.

Kids wrote to all the previous presidents, too. Except maybe Taft.
sw
Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
it’s neat how much you can tell about the kids in a few sentences, especially economic background. i’m a sucker. i bought the book.
gmuller
Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:29 pm
wow, these are hilarious. Indoctrination has reached a whole new level, I never once would have thought a president capable of this much at that age, and I WAS RIGHT. Its like cigarette ads, designed to reach an audience capable of addiction.

Also, not very neat.
Mr. Binky
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
That’s it, I’m writing a GreaseMonkey extension that hides Neatorama’s comments from me.
AJ
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Indoctrination in middle school? You’ve been out of school too long. Kids are smarter than you give them credit for.
Johnny Cat
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 am
I’m just miffed he didn’t reference Franklin Pierce in his speech.
Max Power
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 3:39 am
That’s it, I’m fed up. Half the blog is a praise-festival about your new opressor.

Max Power, out!
Geekazoid
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 am
Yet ANOTHER topic about Obama and politics. I swear, if I see one more post about Obama and politics I-I-I’ll CONTINUE to visit Neatorama for another 10 years!
Brent
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 am
It made me giggle how the girl is saying, don’t eat bad stuff! Then the boy is asking for food. Ergo, Obama must give his junk food to Luis!
Jae
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 am
I’m sure gmuller, if he/she has children, has never forced his religion on them, right?

Right?
neatoman
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
the news headlines lately….

obama wins!
inauguration is coming! inauguration is coming!
inauguration is here! hooray!
day 1: obama takes whitehouse – he eats breakfast, goes to meetings, calls leaders, eats dinner, freezes some salaries, goes to bed with the new first lady michelle in their new home – the whitehouse! woweee, isn’t life grand! it’s so different now!
day 2: he wakes up with the new first lady michelle in their new home – the whitehouse! they eat breakfast, he goes to meetings and talks about his “change” plans, he wants to close a terrorist prison. he eats dinner, he goes to bed.

does anyone really care? jeez this guy is the new paris hilton. a media darling. and so is the first lady. last night on TMZ they had a “how to dress like Michelle special.” can we go back to getting some normal news in the headlines? obama is the first [HALF]black president and he is not george w bush. we get it.
gmuller
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
Jae, you know nothing about me. I’m a terrible atheist and would never think of forcing any religious views on my children, if I were to have any. Your narrow-minded view of people based on a simple 3 line comment I made is just as hilarious as these letter to Obama from these children.

I don’t fit any of your molds, most likely nobody does.
erin
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
Some of these letters are so cute… I love the idea of the president having a phone so kids can alert him to when they see people smoking. I remember writing to Clinton when I was younger, telling him that he should stop fighting with Bob Dole because it was a bad influence. I sent out a lot of letters like that… I think the only person who ever wrote me back was John Travolta…
Idil
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
” I want to tell you that I learned to ride my bike. That is good because I get exercise and play with my friends. It would be cool if everybody rode bikes, because they don’t use gasoline and they don’t make the air dirty. ”

Like in the Netherlands! This girl is so right.
Lore
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
The kids are def. smarter than we give them credit. I wish that I had been as excited about the new president when I was 12.

Plus they have some good advice to give to the new president and they’re excited… what could be so wrong about that?
akhan246
Jan 24th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Come on people take these for what it’s worth: cute and heartwarming!!!

This one is the BEST!!!!!!!!

Dear Barack Obama,

Congrats on becoming the president of the United States and slaughtering John McCain. I think that, unlike W., you should dodge other countries and not shoes. You should not be so quick to go to war and negotiate with terrorists. I like what you said about bringing the troops home from Iraq.

If you like my letter, know that it’s from

D’andre “the King” Legrand, age 12
Brooklyn
shanequa
Feb 16th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Nauseating.
Teacher
Apr 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Dear Mr. Obama,

I talked to my dad about the economy and I don’t know why George Bush woul want to start that war. I think that since it took away a lot of money from the economy, that is why it is slowing down.

P. S. Great Speech.

Sincerely,
Jackson

(2nd grader)
Vittorio
Jun 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 am
America Crashes are you sure? Mm for how long… Will the American Dollar be traded in the future?
Passed History Tells us they will Survive they have plan A, B, C.
All it needs is a good idea.
Will Obama Put it all together!
GM -Jobs-Government Own Company -Carbon off Set-Oil companies.
NOW There is an idea. Simple find the demand and supply it.
Or hey, just ask those who control the supply for OIL to pay for a bail out, why not that’s what the car companies are doing to Government.
Oil companies own Governments, Governments around the world have never have incentives to push alternative fuel ideas until now! Because it would create job losses in the oil industry.
The Obama Government already has that and more to come, they need an ace.
Americans always have a plan maybe this is one big big plan.
Obama Administration is owed billions by GM that they may never see again, plus the 50billion it just gave which gives them a 60% stake in the company. What a plan!! And GM needs more billion just to stay alive.
Of course easy lead the world in the first of the best Vehicles that don’t run on oil, electric cars recharging on solar, water being turned into hydro gas on demand using solar etc etc. Techs all there just needed a push, man they got the push alright.
Obama Administration could do this they own 60% of GM, SAVE JOBS, saves the USD trading power, lead in carbon off set. Or will the oil companies that owe so much to the government bail them out so they are still high on the food chain.
HAHA let see? Tic Toc Tic Toc….. crunch on my cracker caviar

Keep track of the comments with

Comment RSS

Lijit Search

The latest from NeatoBambino: