Fact Check: Obama Still Able to Make Small Children Smile

Elspeth Reeve 4,099 Views Feb 15, 2013

When President Obama played with pre-school children in Decatur, Georgia on Valentine's Day, one "brave" little girl was not impressed by the president, or so Daily Intel's Dan Amira would have you believe. "Kids typically love President Obama," Amira said, but not this one, pointing to the photo below. "[O]ne heroic little girl was more like, What is wrong with this dude?

Pretty damning evidence for the President's plummeting approval ratings in the critical pre-schooler demographic. Except! That was not the only photo of Obama spending time with the french-braided youth. All Obama needed to do to elicit a positive human emotion from this little girl, as captured by the Associated Press, is look at her. 

We are forced to rate this claim of a pre-schooler's anti-Obama campaign false.

(Photos via Associated Press.)

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