Obama Daughters

So I just recently read an article in the paper called "Coming of Age at 1600 Pennsylvania."  When I saw what it was about -- a breakdown of the lives of Malia and Sasha Obama -- my first response was "Oh, this is gonna be some boring article about the Obama kids livin it up in the White House."  But it was actually interesting to me!

The article mentioned that "President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have endeavored to shield their daughters ... from public scrutiny."  Michelle Obama has made it a point in the past, and well now I guess in the future, to keep her daughters' lives, for the most part, private.  "In an election in which the mom in chief is a key campaigner, there is one thing that Michelle Obama has promised she will not discuss: her daughters' dating lives."

"Just about everything else in the parenting realm, it seems, is fair game."

Theeen the article went on to say that no, neither of the Obama kids are dating.  And it listed all of the sports they're involved in, that they aren't allowed to watch TV on school nights, they're fans of the Hannah Montana Movie, they give their dad the space he needs to be prez, they make their beds every morning, and, oh yeah, Malia went on a field school trip to Mexico over last spring break.  You know, in case you're keeping tabs on the president's daughters.  I guess we know pretty much the whole layout of their everyday lives now, huh?

I just found this article to be really counter intuitive because it was talking about how the Obamas want to keep their daughter's lives private and away from the general public, yet it listed as many details as it could about their lives.  To me, that doesn't seem very private.

P.S. I know this doesn't have having to do with the moral of this blog post, but one thing about this article irked me.  It was written before the election results so bear with me.  "In another four years, Sahsa will be a teenager, and Malia will be heading to college before her father's term is up -- if he wins re-election."  I dunno, that last part, "before her father's term is up -- if he wins re-election" stuck out at me as annoyingly cocky.  Peace out.