VIDEO ADDED: Thanks(for)Giving: Obama family hands out food at a Chicago church

By GottaLaff

UPDATE: Here's the video...

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) greets a patron at a food bank at St. Columbanus school and parish in Chicago, November 26, 2008.

The more I know the Obamas, the more I admire them:

President-elect Barack Obama and the soon-to-be first family handed out food to the needy at a Chicago church on the day before Thanksgiving.

Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters shook hands and gave holiday wishes as they handed wrapped chickens to people who had been lined up for hours at the food bank.

President-elect Obama was calling out "happy thanksgiving" and telling people "you can call me Barack." Yes. You read right.

What, you don't remember Jenna and Not-Jenna joining Babs "So Many of the People in the Arena Here, You Know, Were Underprivileged Anyway, So This--This [she chuckles slightly] is Working Very Well for Them." Bush, mixing with the little people?

Or Mr. Babs saying, "You can call me George"?

Neither do I.

UPDATE:

The family later entered the auditorium of the church's school, where they were greeted by a screaming crowd of students in Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade. And the shrieking only skyrocketed when Obama started rattling off Thanksgiving food staples.

"How about mac & cheese," he asked as the kids roared.

"How about green beans?" he continued. "How about sweet potato fries?"

Then :

"How many people like to read?" he asked. "Everybody likes math?"

If they studied hard, Obama told the kids, "You guys might even end up being the president someday."

One sixth-grader asked Obama what it's like to be president.

"I'm not president yet. I've only been elected president. I'm gonna be sworn in as president on January 20th," Obama replied, as the crowd erupted in applause once again. "Once I'm president, I'll let you know what it's like."

Next, Michelle charmed everyone, and Obama continued to do the same:

"Secret Service, wave your hands!" Michelle asked the onlooking officers, drawing loud laughter from the crowd.

"Sometimes it's kind of strange where you kinda just want to go to Walgreens and pick something up," noted the President-elect. [...]

"I just want you to know that what I'm thankful for is my family and my friends and my community," he concluded. "That's the most important things."

As he departed, the kids serenaded him with chants of "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"

Just like the Bushes. Yeah. Sure.