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The Obama kids are reaping the benefits of being First Children, their parents should insist on proper attitude and dress when attending public affairs. There's a price to pay for all the percs they are getting, and it seems a longer skirt and a pleasant expression is too much to expect. Graciousness should go with the territory, and if it doesn't come naturally, it should be taught.
I can't argue with your sentiment, but from experience I can assure you that despite working on the kids to act like decent human beings, sometimes those teenage moments surface anyway, regardless of the kids' upbringing. They still manage to turn out to be decent adults anyway, thank goodness.
As I said, IMO those kids didn't look that bad and didn't warrant those remarks anyway.
If you think that nastiness hurled at a 13 year old and a 16 year old is okay, you've got a serious problem.
Good grief, those kids gave up all their friends, schools, etc. for dad's career. You expect them to be giddy with delight at the thought of attending a turkey pardoning?
Whatever.
And did you feel the same righteous indignation at the nastiness hurled at Sarah Palin's children?
It probably would have been more honest to say "After many hours of worrying about the future of my career, being chastised by my parents, and reading the backlash online, I can see now people just don't "get" me, and I pledge to make this apology seem as sincere as possible so I can stop taking hits from both sides of the aisle.
And did you feel the same righteous indignation at the nastiness hurled at Sarah Palin's children?
Yup.
When Bristol started becoming a celebrity and doing the talk show rounds, then she had to face it, but I found the snide remarks questioning the parentage of the little one with Down syndrome utterly offensive.
There was a thread elsewhere on C-D this weekend asking why more people don't become Christians.
Well, there you go. Seems every week, some political hack does something vile, then brings up prayer, like that's going to make it all better and absolve you.
Pro tip for aspiring Christians: You don't "spend hours in prayer" after slinging vitriol. You simply don't cast the first stone, y'know?
To me, kids are off limits. Whether you like or don't like a politician doesn't matter. They're kids, they don't make policies and they didn't ask to be put in that situation. Now if the kids strike out to be politicians on their own, then that's a different story.
I am not a fan of Obama....BUT>....... hands off the kids.
they are in their early teens and I didn't find their dress, mannerisms, expressions any different than most girls of that age.
What a twit, she prayed hard and then offered apology...
This peon dimwit should be praying very hard to keep her job!!! What an idiot.
What possessed her to make those comments in the first place? And on facebook for crying out loud? Obviously she thought that her comments would be well received or else I'm sure she would have thought more carefully before she posted it. She didn't get her position without having a modicum of sensibility and understanding about the way decisions influence perception. So she wasn't an uneducated average joe-smoe which is what makes it slightly disturbing... Obviously in the name of politics she wants to capture anything negative regarding Obama but targeting his kids? It's beyond dirty politics and in the territory of bullying.
They are teenagers--their place in the White House is not a result of what they wanted--but largely a result of their father. At their age they might see it as privilege but equally as an annoyance because let's face it: at 16 and below how many teens are 100% well behaved, obedient, immaculate dressers, capable of seeing the big picture and are unaffected by ceremonies and such to the point where they can slap on fake happy smiles for the duration of an event they probably would prefer not to be at. And If that is true that they didnt want to be there perhaps this makes them appear ungrateful. But in their minds, while they might be happy and proud of their dad for being in the role that he is, truthfully I imagine that like most teenagers they are in the position they are in because of their parents--they the kids are simply there in the background awarded the fruits of their parents labor. And unaware in their teenage minds that the world will place a certain level of scrutiny on them-no fault of their own--solely because of their dads choices.
This is why her comments were irresponsible to me. As an adult, that was once a teenager, she fails to take this into account and she thinks that bashing them is simply the nature of the game. But for the reasons mentioned above , teenagers under 18, that arent intentionally pandering for attention, are not and should not be a part of the game. The attention she focused on these two girls as opposed to attention that could have been placed toward events, situations or adults, is actually pretty odd. Not sure if she was fishing for attention from other GOP members or fishing for anything negative that she could about that particular day but it was def. a decision she probably regrets.
In any case they were no wear near dressed like bar sluts. Were they dressed casually yes? But they did not in any way look sexually inappropriate. Yes, they probably were bored... They might have rolled their eyes at comments or things that they found stupid. But again they are teenagers and other candidates children have expressed similar looks during boring long ceremonies, conferences, speeches, etc.
I just hope that the girls don't allow her comments to sway them in anyway.her apology was not genuine--more like an apology issued to save her butt and get back into her cores graces(hence her use of religion). She should have issued the girls a personal apology without the dramatics. In any case I'm glad she resigned, she was definitely a bully in this situation.
Hey, these are just kids, teenagers still in school can you leave them alone and deal with the important issues surrounding the country instead of attacking them?
What a fool these people have become with their negative issues in the media. Why????,,, get a brain!
Agreed.
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