Still Living with Regret...

So there's one more incident that happened at B & N that I would like to discuss. I was checking out when the cashier pointed to a basket and said "Would you like to donate to the children's book drive?"
Normally I would have said something like "No I hate children, no thank you", but all i could think about was how many salvation army bell ringers I have passed by this season and how they always stare me down and I say apologetically, "sorry I only have plastic" (which is usually true) and then they glare but say "happy holidays" which adds to the guilt and then they shake their bell a little harder either at you or to attract attention to the fact that you're a penny-pinching Scrooge who refuses to donate.
So burdened with this feeling I said that of course I would love to donate a book and glanced quickly over the selection and chose:
Barack Obama: An American Story
Why? Why did I do that?? Maybe it's the fact that I'm a Midwesterner and the Iowa Caucuses are coming up so everyone is in a tizzy about politics here right now. Maybe I thought yes, get those youngsters on the democratic bandwagon at a young age. Maybe it was the fact that it was the tallest book in the basket (ah, good marketing) but I picked it and bought it and donated it and now I'm still regretting it.
All I can think about is how if I were an impoverished child who was looking forward to this book drive and I got a biography on Obama, who they will probably confuse with Osama at their young age, I would be pissed beyond all words. Why, why didn't I pick up the Berenstain Bears book or Dora the Explorer (cute AND educational).
This can only end up in one of two ways:
a. the book finds its way to a slightly nerdy kid who has an interest in politics, inspires him or her and thirty years down the line in their presidential campaign speech he or she will note how this one biography from the book drive changed their life, to which I will finally breathe a sigh of relief or...
b. the child will stop believing in Christmas miracles, denounce his or her faith, lose faith in education, and become an illiterate satanist
Like i said, this can only go one of two ways...