Everyone loves a president’s daughter – be it the drunk-looking Bush twin or Chelsea Clinton with all that problem hair of hers.
OK, we take that back. Nobody loves a president’s daughter. Nobody at all. In retrospect we probably should have said that presidents’ daughters are all kind of dickish. But that hasn’t stopped presidential hopeful Barack Obama from letting his two daughters – aged seven and 10 – get interviewed by Access Hollywood this week.
Except that Barack Obama wishes that the interview had never taken place. Barack Obama thinks it’s wrong for children to be brought into a political arena. Politics should never adopt cute imagery that cynically tugs on the heartstrings of potential voters, Obama told Matt Lauer today while dressed as a teddy bear and dancing to On The Good Ship Lollipop before adding “I wuv you, Amewica.”
When you’re president of America, your family has a big say in your actions. Hillary Clinton, for example, used her tenure as first lady to push through various healthcare initiatives, while George W Bush happily admits that he only invaded Iraq because one of his children complained about a brown man who bought the last Rise & Shine muffin at Starbucks before she could get to it.
And, as a presidential nominee, Barack Obama is also letting his family dictate his actions to some extent. True, they’re only dictating the actions directly linked with shame and humiliation, but they still count.
All this week Access Hollywood is running a four-part interview with Barack Obama, his wife and his two daughters 10-year-old Malia and seven-year-old Sasha on such hot-button issues as why Barack Obama doesn’t like ice-cream and that one time when Barack Obama shook the hand of his daughter’s friend and everyone thought it was weird except for Barack Obama. Honestly.
On the scale of harmless to forcing your daughter to eat an infected hamburger in front of the national press, Barack Obama’s Access Hollywood interview is pretty unremarkable. However, that hasn’t stopped Obama from getting his knickers in a twist about it, elbowing his way onto the nearest TV show and giving the sort of deep, sincere apology you’d normally expect to hear from a repenting murderer in a church. MSNBC quotes:
“I think that we got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party, and everybody was laughing. And suddenly this thing cropped up. I didn’t catch it quickly enough. I was surprised by the attention it received. We wouldn’t do it again, and we won’t be doing it again.”
Barack Obama is absolutely right, of course – his daughters aren’t the ones running for public office and they don’t deserve to be judged by the same standards as their father.
Which is just as well, really, because those girls were a mess. Their diction was all over the place, there wasn’t nearly enough key phrase repetition or open but firm body gestures and whoever did their hair needs to be drowned in a lake. Awful children. No wonder Barack Obama doesn’t want them on TV again.
CC says
You are such a a** hole. Find someone your own size to pick own!!!!!! Only fools and pricks pick on children or lonely, miserable people who have nothing better to do.
Lee says
Barack and Michele don’t want their kids on T.V., but they didn’t mind subjecting their kids to the anti-American racist rants of Wright, Moss, Farakan, and Pflleger … every Sunday of their lives.
Martha White says
I have not seen the interview. What the heck was the last paragraph about?? Stupidity. To make comments about childrens’ hair styles or dictions?? How shallow…
Tina Lawrence says
People like YOU, the writer of this story, are the reason why Obama and other presidential candidates have to be so protective of their families.
You are a very sad person.
gir says
BARACK OBAMA HATES AMERICA FOX NEWS TOLD ME SO AND MY BRAIN DONT DO THE CRITICAL THINKING TOO GOOD DURRRR
What a word says
Whoring? Is that really a correct word to use? Lets see
whored, whor·ing, whores
1. To associate or have sexual relations with prostitutes or a prostitute.
2. To accept payment in exchange for sexual relations.
3. To compromise one’s principles for personal gain.
Yeah I don’t think so. I think that is totally a rude way to speak of children. For goodness sake they could be the youngest in the White House. I am very Sad to have read the negative things they had to say about the children and the family. They will be in the public eye for a long time, give the children some support at least! I think this author really needs a can of whoop ass and learn to respect those to young to defend themselves.
Stacey says
“I think that we got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party, and everybody was laughing. And suddenly this thing cropped up. I didn’t catch it quickly enough. I was surprised by the attention it received. We wouldn’t do it again, and we won’t be doing it again.”
What is this about??
nostromo says
Caution….irony-free zone.
Terri says
People, calm down. I though Stuart was just being sarcastic in the last paragraph, because anyone who watched that interview knows there was nothing wrong with it, nothing wrong with the kids speech or their hair or thier movements. So let’s give him the benefit and believe that he was just being sarcastic and not just a racist. Or am I being nice for no reason?
Jacque Denise Yap says
it’s the world of politics,,,hummmm but can if he will be the first african us president will he solve the economic issue???well the soaring prices are affecting the costs of everything from food to housing market crisis. There are also significant issues on local and global environmental impact. While there are many issues, we need to look at our next leader and determine which will have the best course of action going forward…..I recently watch the two video in Pollclash about this issue, Obama and McCain talk about this…
Renee says
Obama needs to stop with the family values crap. He went to a racist church and had no problem letting his kids see that mess. Moron.
dariana says
hey i give you the best of luck and i hope you win my hole fam is voting for you it is a lot of us life 200
J Bollocks says
re “Whoring? Is that really a correct word to use?”
Sure, you can quote some dictionary, but I can tell you now, no-one knows whores like Stuart!
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