Wonkette
Yesterday Wonkette brought you the EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE SEEN NOWHERE ELSE of Barack Obama’s 10- and 7-year-old daughters, Misha and Selma or whatever, being interviewed by some pretty Access Hollywood gal. This was a first, as Obama usually likes to hide his children in underground caves to shield them from THE SPINELESS INTERNET. Naturally, everyone made fun of these two children and, by the end of the day, were blaming them for starting the Iraq War and also capitulating on FISA. Nary an Internet Addict found the children, say, adorable. And that is why Barack Obama told adult-child Diane Sawyer on today’s Good Morning America that he’ll never put his children on teevee again.
Ms. Sawyer: All right, and one final thing. We saw you with your children in the last couple of days, the whole family sitting and talking. Is this the future?
Mr. Obama: No. You know, it was an exception. It was Malia’s birthday. We were in Montana. Everybody was having a good time and I think we got carried away a little bit. Generally what makes them so charming is the fact that they’re not spending a lot of time worrying about TV cameras or politics and we want to keep it that way.
Ms. Sawyer: Sorry you did it?
Mr. Obama: … Michelle and I – particularly given the way that it sort of went around the cable stations. I don’t think it’s healthy and it’s something that we’ll be avoiding in the future.
Yeah, definitely not a good policy, but we understand why he allowed it. “When in Montana…,” as they say.
Children Seen, and Heard [NYT/The Caucus]
if he thinks it’s unhealthy to have his children interviewed, just wait until they become presidential daughters. He’s about to uproot everything they’ve ever known.
Mind you, I still think it’s great for us. But those kids… <3<3<3
Comeon Barry, it’s not like famewhoring fucked up the lives of Danny Bonnaduce, Lindsey Lohan, or Britney Spears any.
If I’m in Montana on my birthday will I get to be on the TeeVee???
Those children are not white. What kind of President has children that are not white? He’s going to have to trade them in.
“What goes in Montana, stays in Montanta.” That’s what I always say.
shortsshortsshorts: Aren’t we voting for someone with a black baby either way?
Obama is wrong. Americans cannot make their decision without knowing the presidential childrens’ views on candy, bubblegum and puppydogs. John McCain needs to bring back his sons serving in Iraq and make them answer these same questions.
The children were duped into thinking they were going to see Hannah Montana.
I read that as “we were in Madonna.” I do all kinds of crazy things when I’m in Madonna.
if you are not white and in Montana, that actually is news and reporters will be there to ask you questions, even if you don’t happen to be running for president.
I remember my very Montanaian, 4 ft 9 inch saint of a grandmother telling me several years ago about a girl who got preggers outside of wedlock and she said “That child has a little Black in it.” I nearly choked on my homemade chicken soup.
Before the week’s over Barack’s going to have to disown TV, Access Hollywood, Maria Menounos, Al Green, half of the Temptations, Mrs. Garrett, Jim Webb, the ghost of John Ritter…
Is this some sort of secret reference to ‘Hannah Montana’?
Barry is probably right, given the kid’s ages. Once is enough.
Imagine42: Win! Awesome.
jasonelias: I’m all for disowning Maria Menounos. She hasn’t been returning my phone calls.
Well Hope-a-long Cassidy just voted for FISA. Fuck freedom — that shit’s for sissies anyway.
Brutus Harlot:
But who hasn’t been in Madonna?
Brutus Harlot: Ask Chip Z’NUff (of 80’s hair metal band Enuff’s’Z’nuff(sp?)) about what he did when he was in Madonna…
shortsshortsshorts: actually, those children are part white - what kind of real black woman has children who are part white?! Outrage!
I can’t wait until they turn into teens at the white house. Can we say drama and scandal?
ManchuCandidate: I’ll step up- I have not ever been in either Madonna or Montana, but I would not rule either out for the future.
“When in Montana” sounds like an early 1980s porno, or a Kathleen Woodiwiss novel.
My question is, when are we going to see someone with down with Meghan McCain and as her what nicknames daddy has for mommy.
Maria Menounos is my second-favorite tangential campaign personality, after the good Rev. “BUT I’M WHITE” Pfleger.
I was hoping Obama would redeem himself from the pandering bullshit lately by coming out strongly for some fantastic liberal policy. But redeeming himself with his adorable family works too. Can we talk about how he threw a cute 2-hour hotel dance party for Malia’s birthday? Because he totes did.
The Obama kids are too cute and wholesome for Teevee.
NotUrEvryDayWEzl: That first sentence sounded so creepy…
mookworthjwilson: No, it cool, I’m gay.
Only someone with a depraved mind would ever see anything else in that sentence…
Johnetic: You too! She’s a tease.
ManchuCandidate: According to her, ARod
Every Obama post on the Caucus blog is a massive magnet for retard comments. What are these people doing all day? Hanging around the house and hitting refresh, just dying to spew some more nonsensical bile? A circus of stupidity.
Imagine42: Well played.
jasonelias: Okay, girls! Under the bus with grammaw now!
Imagine42: Ha!
policonoclast: Oh god. Oh God Jeebus! I’m calling my pastor.
I’m just waiting to see the “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe” drunkfest that I bet McCain family vacations are like.
Obama’s children are about to spend the rest of their lives in the funhouse known at the “Secret Service Bubble”. They won’t be able to take a leak without the Secret Service knowing about it.
On the other hand, when the girls get to be teenagers, Obama could order his bodyguards to kneecap any skeezy, hormone-crazed boy who gets within 50 feet of his daughters. As the father of a 16-year-old daughter, I heartily concur. Hmmm…maybe I should run for President.
Obama’s kids will have to write major “Daddy Dearest” best-sellers to pay for all the psychiatric counseling.
NotUrEvryDayWEzl:
More scandal and drama than, say, the Bush Twins? What with drugs,drunkness,
arrests and other drama.
Trust me these girls and any other girls will be sants by comparison
When Jimmy Carter was elected, Channel 9’s cutesy news reporter, Henry Something-Or-Other, went and interviewed Amy’s classmates. All I remember was the kids gossiping about some boy who was going to ask her to go steady with him.
For you young ‘uns, this was not skeevy, but cute and laughable, as she was only in 4th grade, and there was no Britney Spears.
I think the Obamas are right. We’ve gotten to see the girls interact with their parents, and they’re charming and normal, and that’s all we need to know. For them to do more press would be icky.
Obama’s kids are described as articulate, and smart. I believe that everyone is missing a glaring message here. The message is that kids, no matter who they are and what their circumstance, if given the opportunity and access, just as these two kids, will achieve much and be a credit to their family and society. The problem in the minority communities is that kids lack opportunity and access to information and education, part of it to be sure is their upbringing, but to a much larger extent, it is the system that they and their families must navigate to survive. Obama’s kids obviously have access to the best educational opportunities and cultural engagements, something most kids in minority communities will never have in their entire lifetime.
mangoskinny: Hear hear. After playing tennis with my daughter tonight, we’re reading from the essays of E.B. White at bed time. I’m not rich, and I’m not kidding.
But I’m biting the bullet again and ponying up for another year’s private school tuition and still driving her there in my ‘90 crapbox Camry. (I’ll probably die before it does).
Lascauxcaveman:
You are to be congratulated. My son who is now 34 went to college after graduating high school, but after two years he got homesick, (he is an only child.) He came back home, but has never been in trouble, and is not what the system calls the typical minority kid. He is active and building his own business and working everyday, just like his Dad. I have never completed high school. I have a GED, and with a few seamester of college. But I am the author of two books and consider myself to be a very good artist,(not tooting my own horn.) So, it’s all possible with some direction and support from those around you. But the system has to help in a big way by removing the roadblocks from your path, particularly the ones that are unfair and unnecessary.
he died like he lived life: ugly and not funnily. RIP some douchebag.
Paradise: motherclucker! see kids, this is why you don’t have multiple tabs open; you start posting like crazy and the next thing you know you’re posting things in the wrong thread and then talking to yourself like your some crazy cracka.
i’ll just go die now.
Paradise: Damn! Since i mentioned dying in my comment, I though I was getting my first-ever eulogy there! (Although technically not a eulogy, I guess).