There’s a fine line between teaching and indoctrination, and Jeremy Zilber treads it like a tightrope walker. His new children’s book, Mama Voted for Obama, is 24 pages of somewhat crude Adobe Illustrator images accompanied by a Dr. Seuss rhyming scheme: “She didn’t vote for a sly fox/ or a blue ox/ or a cat named Socks/ Mama voted for Obama!” goes one stanza. In each picture is a discreetly placed pro-Obama mouse decked out in a blue O shirt.

Mama Voted is Zilber’s latest follow-up to his last two child-friendly introductions to the Democratic Party,Why Mommy is a Democrat and Why Daddy is a Democrat. Why is mommy squirrel a democrat? Because like mommy, Democrats make sure that children share their toys, go to school and don’t hide their allowance in accounts in the Cayman Islands.

I’m all for counter-balancing Republican propaganda. The way MSNBC has swooned over Obama is only justified by Fox’s apologies for all things conservative. Zilber’s books might be seen in the same light — they were published only after Katharine DeBrecht wrote Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, which follows Tommy and Lou as they start a lemonade stand and watch as half their earnings are snatched away to help poor leeches who don’t have startup capital for their own sugary enterprises. And of course, there’s Bill O’Reilly’s infamous The O’Reilly Factor for Kids.

Even so, this is dangerously close to some fascist shit. Teaching young kids about our political system shouldn’t extend beyond the nonpartisan Schoolhouse Rock or the most basic understanding of our Constitution. This is a bill. This is a president. This is a Congress. Now go play with Legos. I have a feeling this is only going to get more and more issue-specific. How soon before we see Mommy, Teddy Bear Kennedy is Stealing My Squirt Gun?