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Barack Obama Does Not Give Birthday Presents To Children
telegraph.co.uk ^ | July 25, 2008 | Alex Spillius

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bahhumbag; happybirthday; islam; mohammedanism; noyoucant; obama; obamafamily; scrooge; unamerican
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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".

He's been campaigning for 2 years and before that campaigning for the Senate!

41 posted on 07/25/2008 5:08:32 PM PDT by flyfree
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t think is sounds like Scrooge; but it sounds very Mohammedan not to celebrate CHRISTmas and not to celebrate birthdays.


42 posted on 07/25/2008 5:10:34 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: flyfree
the house and car repairs,

This muzzie's idea of car repair is trading his Mercedes in when it loses the new car smell.

43 posted on 07/25/2008 5:12:58 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hussein is not “white” enough to be a Santa Claus.


44 posted on 07/25/2008 5:15:18 PM PDT by Born In America (Will vote only for the NON-CLIMATE CHANGE CANDIDATE, irrespective of party affiliation....)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214569,00.html

People Magazine article


45 posted on 07/25/2008 5:17:53 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: InvisibleChurch

...did someone say "200,000 adoring Germans"?

46 posted on 07/25/2008 5:18:41 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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.....


47 posted on 07/25/2008 5:21:09 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"they spend "hundreds" on birthday slumber parties..."

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.

48 posted on 07/25/2008 5:21:21 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Anti-Bubba182

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!


49 posted on 07/25/2008 5:22:02 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( VOTE FOR McCAIN 2008! Support Florida's Gus Bilirakus, FL-9; McCainNow.com; LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: mylife

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.


50 posted on 07/25/2008 5:24:51 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: mikey_hates_everything

51 posted on 07/25/2008 5:26:39 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: nkycincinnatikid

I get sick of the BS L0L


52 posted on 07/25/2008 5:27:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


53 posted on 07/25/2008 5:29:23 PM PDT by Fizzie
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To: Free ThinkerNY
he did "the house and car repairs...

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...

54 posted on 07/25/2008 5:29:58 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Rome2000

or fixing the detonator... I mean alternator


55 posted on 07/25/2008 5:34:46 PM PDT by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job)
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To: pcottraux

56 posted on 07/25/2008 5:38:23 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: mylife

More change!


57 posted on 07/25/2008 5:39:06 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: PhiKapMom
I always considered my kids birthday...a very special day..Their own day...The birthday presents came with love. It's not about money. It's "personal".

P.S. Most everyone gives parties. Obama and Michelle spend big bucks for their kids parties. Why??

58 posted on 07/25/2008 5:40:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I have friends who give their children "experiences" - like trips and visits to attractions instead of material gifts.

Their kids seem happy and well adjusted.

59 posted on 07/25/2008 5:43:43 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: Notasoccermom
when African children reach a certain age, they are initiated into the community ..

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.

60 posted on 07/25/2008 5:43:55 PM PDT by budwiesest (Tribes are cool, but individual rights rule.)
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