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Drawing Obama

It's Obama's 100th day in office (did you hear?). John Dickerson says on Slate today that the hundredth-day hoopla is a "fake moment, a journalistic trope of premature measurement that the administration is compelled to go along with because we're insisting." We're insisting, by rolling out our assessment of the president through the eyes of young artists. Here are three Obama drawings by youngsters that show different sides of the man, the president. The princess side. The neck side. The killing side.

From Dahlia's three-year-old Sopher, a piece showing a triumphant Obama and a dead John McCain. Dahlia's description of the artist at work:

It was slightly awkward because he drew it in synagogue and was just putting the final flourishes on it when the rabbi walked by and asked sweetly what it was."Dead John McCain" elicited a very unrabinnical silence.

From Pearl, 5-year-old daughter of Slate design director Vivian Selbo, entitled "BrokoObama":

And from Angelica, an 8-year-old who lives next door to my parents and is prone to drawing Obama—and all people—as a princess, we have Obama With Basketball. Angelica's dad, George Bonanno, says his favorite part is "the long eye lashes—I guess thats her way of saying 'attractive.'"

If your kid or grandkid or neighbor or niece or student has a great Obama drawing, please send it to us. We'll be featuring more throughout the week.