Obama tells 7-year-old America not so great

"It's the question every presidential candidate must be prepared to answer, but when it was posed to Barack Obama by a 7-year-old yesterday, the Democratic senator seemed at a loss for words. ... the young girl asked Obama why he is running for the White House. 'America is, is no longer, uh, what it could be, what it, it once was,' Obama said haltingly. 'And I say to myself, I don't want that future for my children.'"