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Malia Obama At Pipeline Event: Do Former 'First Kids' Normally Attend Protests?
Christian Science Monitor ^ | jan 31 2017 ast | Colby Bermel

Posted on 01/31/2017 1:19:42 PM PST by drewh

Less than a week after the inauguration of President Trump, an Obama has already spoken out against one of his policies.

No, not the 44th president, who left the White House last Friday. In fact, it was Barack Obama’s eldest daughter, 18-year-old Malia, who attended an event at the Sundance Film Festival this week to express solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – the Native American group that for months has protested the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

The news was revealed by “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley, herself a vocal activist against the oil route, in an interview with Democracy Now!:

Tuesday morning, Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering DAPL’s expedited review and approval. That night, Malia, Woodley and others at Sundance assembled in support of Standing Rock.

Opponents of the 1,172-mile pipeline argue that it would run through ancient Sioux burial grounds, and that the project could possibly leak into the Missouri River. Last month, the US Army Corps of Engineers – the federal agency overseeing DAPL’s construction – ordered a stop to construction pending further review.

The most direct parallel between Malia and another first child, Kendall says, is with Amy Carter, the youngest of former President Jimmy Carter’s four children. Both were around the same age at the time of their fathers’ inaugurations – Amy was 9, Malia was 10. Both are Ivy Leaguers – Amy went to Brown University, and Malia will attend Harvard this fall.

The teenage Amy was known for her political activism, having marched with counterculture figure Abbie Hoffman. Both were arrested in 1986 at an anti-CIA demonstration in Massachusetts. A year later, after she and Hoffman were acquitted, 19-year-old Amy invited supporters to another CIA protest at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia.

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1 posted on 01/31/2017 1:19:42 PM PST by drewh
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only if they have aspirations of being a community agitator.


2 posted on 01/31/2017 1:22:50 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: drewh

Stockholm syndrome


3 posted on 01/31/2017 1:23:26 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Does she get SS protection? I don’t think she does...

I think she should go protest in a muslim country. She’d make a really cute hostage, wearing orange....


4 posted on 01/31/2017 1:23:29 PM PST by Professional
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Malaria is making herself a public figure, and fair game for disagreement, ridicule, and derision ... she’s in the same category as Bath-house Barry and his partner Moosechelle.


5 posted on 01/31/2017 1:25:06 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is Fake News)
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To: drewh

Like Daddy, Like Daughter...no difference...


6 posted on 01/31/2017 1:25:29 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: drewh

Amy Carter did this crap for years.


7 posted on 01/31/2017 1:25:42 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Who is picking up the travel tab for this year of worldly experience?


8 posted on 01/31/2017 1:27:17 PM PST by ptsal
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To: drewh
Sure. Amy Carter.

Al Gore's daughter Karenna also likes to get arrested.

9 posted on 01/31/2017 1:27:54 PM PST by x
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she was in new York at the met yesterday...


10 posted on 01/31/2017 1:29:04 PM PST by drewh ( >)
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Just about all former presidents’ children take part in political protests or political ralllies.


11 posted on 01/31/2017 1:29:37 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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Only first kids who are laying a foundation for further political office like State Senator and rabble rouser on a short fuse to the White House. The acorn.......


12 posted on 01/31/2017 1:30:12 PM PST by CARTOUCHE (You thought '68 was bad juju? You aint seen nothin' yet. Much blood will be shed on both sides.)
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She needs the attention.


13 posted on 01/31/2017 1:30:48 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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Didn’t Jimmy Carter’s kid protest?


14 posted on 01/31/2017 1:31:39 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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When you’re a liberal elitist, someone ELSE always picks up the tab eh?


15 posted on 01/31/2017 1:31:51 PM PST by Professional
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Far as I’m concerned she can do whatever she and her parents say she can. Who cares?

I would bet that Dick Nixon would have probably put a bullet in his daughters head if they turned up at an anti-war demonstration however.


16 posted on 01/31/2017 1:31:59 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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She is emulating her mom and pop by mooching off rich liberals who collect black celebrities as status symbols


17 posted on 01/31/2017 1:35:37 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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“Opponents of the 1,172-mile pipeline...”

Just to be clear, almost 90% of it is already in the ground - on both sides of the disputed area.


18 posted on 01/31/2017 1:36:25 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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They do when daddy is a Marxist.


19 posted on 01/31/2017 1:42:40 PM PST by servo1969
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When your father was the Community Organizer and Chief, the obvious answer is yes.

20 posted on 01/31/2017 1:48:13 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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