1. Malia is a cute, smart, and very pretty little girl. But what's with the name? "Malia" implies badness in Latin.
2. What Michelle said about Angelina Jolie is not that much of a slam, and it's the sort of thing I'd have said to a child myself, since I don't like my kids thinking that Hollywood people are important.
3. Unlike some of the other ugly things Michelle has said about Obama (he smells bad, they're going to get a dog whether he wants one or not, etc.) this wasn't bad at all--it doesn't denigrate him. It was a closely calculated remark, probably something thought up in advance. It points out that, like Joe Average, he doesn't love shopping and new clothes. Makes him seem more down-to-earth and normal, less of a metrosexual.
I agree that this is a mean, foul-tempered, resentful woman who would be a COMPLETE disaster as First Lady.
I would not take it that way. "MALI" was an ancient Kingdom in Africa; copy and paste this:
http://www.thenagain.info/webChron/Africa/Mali.html
With that being offered, I still find the child's name somewhat disturbing -- it seems to fit the afrocentric "f---k whitey" syndrome that Michelle, her former pastor, and all too many of the hyphenated crowd seem to have oozing from their pores.
Racially based venom is sickening to me, whether it is coming from the black liberation lefties or the neo-nazi lefties.
What an awful sounding name and unlucky for the reasons you cite. Are Michelle and Obama too dumb to know that malia means bad in Latin?
"Malware" is an example of this Latin root
"Malicious" is an example of this Latin root
"Malpractice" is an example of this Latin root
And, to top it off, Latin is a dead white language! < /sarc >
I wasn’t terribly impressed with the interview. Michelle needs to pay attention to what her acting coach tells her.
It seems too contrived.
Apparently, Malia is a popular female name in Hawaii.
According to this site
MALIA: Hawaiian form of Mary, meaning "beloved".
If my highschool Spanish still serves me,malo means bad in that language.