Posted on 09/14/2010 11:24:38 AM PDT by Justaham
In August 2009 a nutrition-advocacy group put up posters in Washington DC featuring a photo of a young girl with the caption, "President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I?"
The group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, soon got a call from the White House with the word: the posters must go. "They called and said, 'Please take those down, you can't mention the kids' and so forth," the group's president told the Washington Post. "They felt that mentioning the president's children was off-limits. They said [they're] not going to allow the use of their daughters as leverage."
A year earlier, in July 2008, candidate Obama allowed his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, to appear on a segment of "Access Hollywood," but soon came to regret his decision. ''I don't think it's healthy,'' he told ABC, ''and it's something that we'll be avoiding in the future.'' Since that time, there has been a general rule that Obama's children are off-limits for most public discussion. But it's been a rule the president has observed at times and ignored at others. Now, it appears, is one of those times he's ignoring it.
Today Alfred A. Knopf for Young Readers is announcing the publication of a new book, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, by Barack Obama. The cover will be a painting depicting the two young girls, along with First Dog Bo.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The president has time to be writing books?!
Is this what Obama does all day?
The short one one the leash favors her mother.
Who’s the third kid?
Oh God- more millions in royalties from a ghost written piece of fiction, to suport the obama tribe (Chicago clan) in the manner to which they have become accustomed, thanks to obseqious book buys by every school district and libary in the US....
barrrrf
Couldn’t he have just written to them and kept it private? Why punish the rest of us? I wish he’d just shut up already.
Hopefully he will get hit with some of the “taxes on the rich” he wants to increase.
Illustrated by Loren Long... And written by ... who?
Like I want to read what William Ayers writes about American History, dumbed down for seven-year-olds...
How many thousands of copies are the American Library Ass. buying for public libraries and schools?
Interesting he found time to write a book btwn vacations
So it’s OK for Obama to destroy the future of OUR children and enslave them in government debt, but we can’t say anything about his children. I’m SICK of the Progressive Double Standard.
please. Zero didn’t write this or his last book. And considering the guy uses a teleprompter for school visits and was never published in the Harvard Law review, I’d be surprised if he could string together 5 sentences on paper
Of course any money made on the book will be donated to charity...right?
New Childrens Book Coming from President Obama
Links on that thread regarding the Bertelsmann thing.
You’re probably right, which begs the question...what does Barry do btwn vacations?
He has no shame. There is no way he wrote this. Which one of his staff wrote it? I think Valerie Jarrett did.
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