...did someone say "200,000 adoring Germans"?
Posted on 07/25/2008 4:31:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In a magazine interview Obama and his wife Michelle revealed that one of their steadfast house rules is not giving Christmas or birthday presents to Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven.
The couple explained that they spend "hundreds" on birthday slumber parties and want to "teach some limits". Santa Claus is still permitted to deliver seasonal gifts however.
The girls are also given an allowance of just $1 (50p) a week for performing household chores, according to People magazine. Those chores include making their own bed, setting and clearing the dinner table and putting themselves to bed by 8.30pm.
On the campaign trail, Mr Obama has often spoken of the need for Americans to be "better parents" who aren't afraid to "turn off the TV".
He has also exhorted black males to be more responsible fathers.
Though he has been away "98 per cent of the time", Mr Obama told People that before the campaign he did "the house and car repairs, the grocery shopping" and "sometimes the laundry".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He's been campaigning for 2 years and before that campaigning for the Senate!
I don’t think is sounds like Scrooge; but it sounds very Mohammedan not to celebrate CHRISTmas and not to celebrate birthdays.
This muzzie's idea of car repair is trading his Mercedes in when it loses the new car smell.
Hussein is not “white” enough to be a Santa Claus.
...did someone say "200,000 adoring Germans"?
Sen. Barack Obama kicks a soccer ball to his 10-year-old daughter Malia and, with a wink to a reporter on the sidelines, confides one of his wife Michelle’s secret talents: “She is the best Hula-Hooper I know. Once she gets the rhythm going, she can drop to her knees!”
PEOPLE: Someone told me today that you don’t do birthday presents.
Michelle: No, because we spend hundreds of dollars on a birthday party and movie tickets and pizza and popcorn ...
Barack: That sleepover is enough. We want to teach some limits to them. And their friends bring over presents.
Michelle: They get so much stuff that it just becomes numbing. Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she’s a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, “Ma, I know there is a Santa because there’s no way you’d buy me all that stuff.” [Laughing]
excerpt from People Magazine.....
Expensed against the campaign funds, I'm sure. Couldn't do that with their gifts. Didn't he just drag one of his daughters to Montana for her birthday? That was all for her, right? Everything is about him, Michelle, and his campaign.
Not buying your kids birthday presents? That is beyond strange. What did he have kids for to be photo ops and do the things his wife didn’t want to do. Being 10 and 7 and in charge of putting themselves to bed? Not at my home when the kids were younger.
No CHRISTMAS presents and he professes to believe in the Church of Christ? Excuse me while I BARF!
Your post reminds me why I love my wife. After the riots downtown in 2001 and the Clintons Mrs Stan Chesley Federal Judge’s resulting total emasculation of the Cincy Police, panhandlers absolutely ruled. Anyway, one night we went to a nice restaurant downtown and because nobody dared to go downtown in that atmosphere, we parked right in front of the place. As we got out of the car a very well fed fellow immediately accosted us for money for “food”. Without missing a beat my wife opened the backdoor of the car and grabbed an opened but large bag of potato chips and presented them to him. He actually became disoriented and mute, and as we entered the restaurant he put the chips in a garbage can.
I get sick of the BS L0L
Don’t recognize the children individually with birthday or Christmas presents........recognize them collectively. Isn’t the term “collective” so Obama?
Translation: spend “hundreds” on birthday slumber parties, inviting the children of their top contributors.
Actually, it would be very cool to see a guest list of an Obama slumber party. How many parents came to it too?
Spending “hundreds” for a slumber party may include wine, canapes and arugula for the parents of the child attendees.
Whenever I think of Obama, I picture him with a table saw and metric wrenches in his hand.
What kind of idiot would believe this crap?
Oh, wait...
or fixing the detonator... I mean alternator
More change!
P.S. Most everyone gives parties. Obama and Michelle spend big bucks for their kids parties. Why??
Their kids seem happy and well adjusted.
Key word: community. Individuals with rights are replaced with 'community' rights. Most communists identify with 'community', often because they are too ugly, untalented, cowardly, and lazy to succeed on their own. They really dig 'strength in numbers'.
These are the primary reasons Obama is a communitist. Did I mention he's a pussy? [one's balls get infinately bigger with a crowd of like-thinking communitists standing behind you.] There are probably only a handful of folks here who've experienced the 'joy' of an ecounter with people of African decent, but I'll just say that it can get 'communitarian' very quick, if you know what I mean.
Tribes are cool, but individual rights rule.
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