Imagine this -- a presidential candidate who says no questions from the media but then relents just because one of the reporters starts to cry?
That's what happened to Barack Obama in Durham, N.C., Thursday. Of course, the reporter was 5-year-old Hadassah Jones, who was trying to ask him questions on behalf of the Web site brandnewz.com. In the interview, Obama talked up health care and said every child should have a "nice school." (See the resulting video news story here.)
The rest of the media coverage of Obama lately was a bit more grown up.
In New Hampshire, The Citizen newspaper reports five people with education backgrounds in the state have signed on to advise Obama.
Meanwhile, Obama is on a civil rights kick on the campaign trail.
On Friday, his choice of speaking venue harkened to the early days of the school integration fight. Here's what he said on the court house steps in South Carolina:
"Imagine a President who was raised like I was by a single mom who had to work and go to school and raise her kids and accept food stamps for a while. Imagine a President who could go into Holly Courts Apartments here in Manning or Scott’s Branch High School in Summerton,(S.C.) and give the young men and women there someone to look up to. Imagine a President who fought each day to narrow the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be."
He stuck with the civil rights theme throughout the day, and the New York Times reports some of his family tree humor along with a few light touches on education.
This post also appears on my education blog,Get on the Bus
(Image credit: Boston Globe)
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