KC’s Obama Baby

By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI

Move over Obama Girl, this Kansas City baby has a crush on the smooth-talking senator, too.

James Pfeiffer, an architect with the local firm BNIM, is the proud father of an Obama-loving toddler. Whenever Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama hits the airwaves, Pfeiffer says, his 16-month-old daughter lights up.

“She runs to the TV and starts making out with it,” he says with a laugh.

When the Pfeiffers left a copy of Time magazine lying around, their daughter gravitated toward the issue with Obama on the cover. Her mom, Bridget MacNevin-Pfeiffer, posted this video for their family to see.

Then, the clip was picked up by CNN and used in this montage of “The Kisser-in-Chief: Smooching on the Campaign Trail.”

“We didn’t program her, there was no coaching or anything like that,” Pfeiffer says. “She just gets very excited.”

So are her parents supporting the junior senator from Illinois, too?

“Luckily, we are,” Pfeiffer says. “It’d be a little awkward if we were, like, Mitt Romney supporters.”