Damn, Can We Let Malia Obama Live?

[sheshe2]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evelyn-atieno/damn-can-we-let-malia-obama-live_b_11286818.html?

She chose to go to the music festival Lollapalooza instead of the DNC. For this she was criticized.

For some reason The Huff won't let me copy unless I send it to FB. You will have to go to the link to read it. Some cruel comments. Once again our first family is attacked.

Why is this family held to a higher standard than any other? It is because they are a black family that resides in The White House.

[tblue37]

1. She could give decorum lessons to the teenaged girls who lived in the WH before she did. nt

[sheshe2]

9. I know tblue.

They have class.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Then again

Their father is GWB. I'd be hitting the bottoe, too

[George II]

19. You mean the two who were caught drunk before they were 18, one of whom also had...

....a DUI?

THOSE two?

[tblue37]

23. Yep. nt

[KittyWampus]

2. Why bring up the fact they're black? Maybe you're not old enough to remember Chelsea Clinton

when she was in the WH.

Of course, that was before the internet.

But the vile pigboy managed to say truly nasty things about her.

I also remember DU posting lots of pix of the Bush girls having a good time.

[sheshe2]

6. The whole family has been treated with disrespect.

It has been unprecedented and vile. They have been held to a far higher standard than any white Presidential family.

Oh. I am old enough to know what they said about Chelsea.

I mentioned they were black, because they are and I have never seen a White First Family so vilified. Ever!

I will also say they have far more dignity and grace the way they handled the filth.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. They have been disrespected

for almost 8 years. Like you, I remember when Chelsea lived in the WH. Compared to Obama's daugters, she had it very easy.

[sheshe2]

20. Thank you!

Yes!

[CentralMass]

27. She was attacked too. A Google search will bring up quite a bit.

McCain apologized for some of his comments about her at one point.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Yes, I know she was...

I remember what Rush said about the WH dog. But I don't think she was attacked as much as the current residents are

[CentralMass]

29. Agreed.

[Warpy]

3. Small minds are always focused on other people

I hope her parents have prepared her for this, that her every move will be examined and criticized for some time to come and if she bothers with the gutter press and social media, she'll be under the impression she can't do anything right.

Given the choice at 18, I'd have gone to the festival, also. Good for her for living instead of being a prop in someone else's life.

[sheshe2]

10. They are a close family.

A good family. They are on this.

Thanks Warpy.

[MohRokTah]

4. Black Manager Syndrome.

African Americans in management must perform twice as well as their best performing white colleague to be considered in the same league as their worst performing white colleague.

[mcar]

5. She is a lovely, intelligent young woman

She has done this country proud. Shame on anyone who criticizes her or pushes rumors about her.

[Iggo]

7. You got a mouse in your pocket?

[sheshe2]

14. Not sure what that is suppose to mean.

[niyad]

21. because you used the word "we" in your header. meaning, you and who else. . . the mouse

in your pocket.

[sheshe2]

25. Okay.

I posted the title of the article. I get a tee hee, snark and no rec. Got it.

Sigh.

[tanyev]

8. She's 18, she's spent her entire teenage years in a fishbowl she didn't choose,

and her dad's not running for office again. I don't blame her a bit for skipping the DNC. I don't recall any point in the convention where Barack and Michelle appeared on the stage at the same time, so there certainly wouldn't have been a reason for either of their daughters to appear.

[madokie]

11. You answered your own question

"because they are a black family that resides in The White House. "

[cwydro]

12. I remember when DU was just loving the Bush girls and their shenanigans/

No one cared then.

Very difficult to grow up in the public eye.

But I hate hypocrisy.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. The hypocrisy is spending tens of billions of dollars on a drug war aimed primarily at marijuana

when fucking everybody and his bastard brother bob has smoked it at some point, and the sky has not fallen.

[niyad]

26. not all of us were in love with those two.

[cwydro]

30. I should have used the sarcasm tag.

DU loved to hate them.

[WinkyDink]

13. I don't hold them to a "higher standard," but I am nonetheless flummoxed by Malia's NOT wanting to

be present at this historic moment for ALL American women.

But then, I was a political junkie at age 10 and "voted" for JFK in my Girl Scout troop (the only one, so I promptly quit!).

[TNNurse]

18. No one in her family is running.

She did not need to attend. Pretty sure she has had enough of politics for awhile, if not a lifetime.

[niyad]

22. how DARE she wear a strapless dress, and show her SHOULDERS!!!! the brazen. . . .

[AgadorSparticus]

24. Let me get this straight, people are questioning why

a teenager wants to go to a rock concert over a political convention? 4 days of rock music v. 4 days of political speeches??? And to sweeten the deal, she gets to hang out with her parents? Yeaaa. Ok.....

Talk about digging deep for this outrage.