Raising the Obamas
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
It takes a village to raise their two daughters.
When self-proclaimed Hockey Mom Sarah Palin leaped onto the national stage with her five kids in tow, she stole the show with the mom voters. Suddenly, no one remembered Barack's onstage banter with his little girls at the Democratic Convention or Michelle's stories of juggling work and family. The only mom that mattered in this election was the one from Alaska. This week, the Obamas are wrestling their way back into the mama limelight.
In an attempt to paint the Obamas as the ordinary family next door, Michelle's friends and neighbors spoke with the Associated Press about how the Obamas are raising their kids while running a national campaign. Michelle's mom plays "air traffic controller" for a cohort of friends who swoop in and take the girls to school and piano lessons, handle sleepovers and braid their hair.
Michelle Obama's longtime friend Yvonne Davila described the First Lady hopeful as "you and I, she's the woman next door, she's the woman down the street."
This election is all about being the regular Joe Six Pack with regular problems -- who can forget Sarah at the Vice Presidential debate talking about how to pay for college or Joe Biden getting choked up when he talked about being a single dad. The latest move from the Obama camp seems to be to remind voters that Sarah Palin isn't the only working parent in this race.
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She has other people take her kids to their activities. Yeah she is a good mother. Not
- Anonymous
Michelle is home taking care of those children. She has stopped working to stay home. While Sarah and Todd are always on the road, taking the children out late at night or leaving them with their older siblings.
- Marquita
She’s a good mom and a great example to her children. She didn’t put her career goals on hold just because she’s a mom. I think Anonymous is jealous of a beautiful woman who is strong, smart and who may some day be our first lady.
- Jo
um Marquita did you read the article? Her mother is the air traffic controller and they have friends and family shuttle the girls around. So, yeah, she is home caring for the kids. She may have quit her job to help campaign, but she worked up until this campaign and has said in many articles she will probably go back to work after. I find it funny that she is a great example b/c she didn’t put her career goals on hold just because she is a mom, but Palin is doing the same thing and she is a terrible mom! WOW! The left surely has two sets of standards!
- Anonymous
Why are people so nasty? I think both Michelle and Sarah are both great moms. Since when is it wrong to get help from friends? It’s called having a great support system. My mother-in-law keeps my children for me when I go to classes at night and sometimes when my husband and I need some time alone. How is this any different? This article is not about politics. It’s about how one woman manages to cope during a very busy time in her life. It would be great if we could drop the political biases for a moment so that we could get the real message here.
- Andi
It will take a village to prosecute Obama’s extended family, ACORN. I just saw one of his follower’s mug shots on TV. I guess he didn’t train them as well as he thought he did. Of course, why would he care if some are arrested as long as he gets some of those illegal votes through. It’s amazing to me how there are still people who believe in this liar. He has lied repeatedly about his associations with countless radicals. Jesse Jackson made a statement last night that said it all but I am guessing Obama followers will just ignore that, too. Why do you think Jesse Jackson is under the impression that Obama will not put Israel first anymore? What a scary thought for America if our greatest ally will be ousted by Obama. How can we even chance this? It would be the end of America.
- Lori M
So Anonymous are you saying that because she has care givers for her kids that it makes her a bad mother?
- Liz
Do your research Lori M. Here’s a statement put out by ACORN on 10/13/08: “Senator Allied with ACORN as Recently as 2006, Now Turns Cold Shoulder October 13, 2008, Miami, FL - U.S. Senator John McCain’s recent attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) are puzzling given his historic support for the organization and its efforts on behalf of immigrant Americans. As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College – Wolfson Campus.”
- Okay then...
Lori you are a very closed minded person. You can’t always believe everything that you read, especially when it comes to the campaign. He’s not counting on illegals vote because they can not vote. Did you ever think that maybe Jesse Jackson is just jealous of Obama? Besides this is supposed about Michelle being a mother not Barack.
- Justine
Senator McCain did NOT give ACORN $800,000.00. Senator McCain did NOT personally train ACORN workers. Senator Obama DID. ACORN is a well-known corrupt Democrat organization that has one agenda. To make sure their candidate gets elected. Obviously they don’t care how they do it. They are making a mess of this election because of their illegal activity. Why can’t Democrats run a fair election? And excuse me but you are wrong as far McCain supporting ACORN. You must be ignorant to think that McCain would actually support a well known corrupt organization that is completely biased. Did it ever occur to you that McCain was at that rally for political reasons? It had nothing to do with support for the organization itself. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT IS CORRUPT. I am far from close minded, by the way, I see a candidate that has repeatedly been tied to radicals and hate mongers. What you may think is close minded, I call having my eyes wide open to the truth. If you choose to ignore the facts that is your choice. I have done alot of research on Barack Obama and his past seems to have alot more skeletons in the closet. Most importantly to me, he stood in front of the American flag with his hands by his side while other candidates had their hands on their heart. He DISRESPECTED every American and those of you who don’t recognize that don’t understand what the American flag represents. The stripes on the flag represent the blood shed for the freedom of Americans. Those of you who choose to ignore this are the demise of America. You ruin all that America stands for with your liberal ideas. When you take God out of the picture what do you think will happen? God is out of schools and out of court rooms. What do you think this will lead to? Really… A teacher recently took 60 six year olds on a field trip to the courthouse. She took them there to watch her marry her lesbian partner. Do you honestly think this appropriate for six year olds? Six year olds should be going to the zoo or to a museum and NOT to watch an immoral marriage that they couldn’t possibly understand at the age of six! This is what we have to look forward to if liberals get in office. Our text books will
- Lori M
Anonymous, first if you had watched any of the various television specials on the Obamas you would know that Michelle campaigns on day trips so all of the places she goes, she is able to get home from. By the way she was a homemaker but their student loans were still high and they needed the money. So yeah, according to you she didn’t put her career on hold! That being because her husband and her family needed her to not do that. Lets think about Sarah, her water broke and she got on a plane for several hours just to have her child born on Alaskan soil… Brings that whole Secessionist thing to mind doesn’t it.
- Marquita
Did you really all hell is going to break lose if Barack gets office? Would you trust him more if his last name was Smith? If you claim to be SOO OPEN MINDED you would not be against same sex marriages. Sorry Grandma- but this is not the 1950’s and people do not have be caged but not living the cookie cutter life life style. Those six year olds had permission from their parents to attend a wedding that brought two people together that love each other. Excepting differences teaches love not hate. What if someone you love is gay and here they can not pay for their homes and end up losing it. I don’t understand why so many just signed away their life without asking questions. And by the way Acorn doesn’t care who is in office. Does it scare you to think that someday our children will have a text with a picture of biracial same sex couple? And about crossing your heart to the flag: it must look like McCain is always crossing his heart with those T-rex arms of his.
- Justine
Justine You are literally sick in the head! You are a far liberal and a liar at that. ACORN does care who is in office. They are for Democrats and Democrats only. You are deaf, dumb, and blind. You are dillusional if you think it is ok for six year olds who do not understand what being GAY is, should be subjected to witness a marriage between two women. Sorry, but I find that repulsive! There is nothing sacred about it. I never read once, in the Bible, about two women or two men getting married. Have you? Oh, I don’t know why I am asking you, you have probably never read the Bible. As far as your nasty comment about McCain’s arms, you should be ASHAMED! That man fought for your right to free speech and you turned around and chastized him for it. You are INHUMANE and disgusting! Barack Obama has socialist ideas and if he gets in office he will destroy America. There won’t be America the free anymore. It will be America the chained. Our government will tell us what we can and can’t do. That is what the Nazi’s did and look how that turned out. Barack Obama flat out lied in the debate last night and I am glad John McCain called him on it. Obama said he would “look into” the concept of drilling. That means he doesn’t plan on doing anything. With no oil we will be dependent on foreign oil as usual. Same old politics, new black face!
- Lori M
Lori I’m not a lair and I have read the Bible I even go to church not that is any of your damn business. Just because I do not follow in steps of others. And believe it or not there are gay six year olds. Since you are so in one with the I guess you think all of us are going to hell. And I did not say anything about McCain fighting for our country all I said he has T-rex arms and may maybe T-rex, McCain and you all have age in common. For you to put “Same old politics, new “black face”” only makes me believe even that you are a racist *****. DONT EVER CALL ME INHUMANE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Justine
Justine SO MUCH ANGER…apparently, somebody has really offended you with religion in the past. I am not religious. I am spiritual. There is a difference. If you have read the Bible and you go to church what is it that makes you think GAY MARRIAGE is ok? It’s not ok according to the Bible. It specifically says a man should NOT lay with another man the same way he does with a woman. How more specific can you get? As far as your ridiculous comment about there being GAY six year olds… Really?! You are stretching on that one and that does not excuse the behavior of the lesbian teacher who took small children to watch her marry her lesbian partner. There has got to be a place where you draw the line! Children are innocent, they do not understand why two women are getting married. People should not advocate this because it is wrong according to GOD himself. So, you probably are thinking I hate gay people. YOU ARE DEAD WRONG! My children have gay teenage friends who I love very much. We spend time with their friends, taking them out to dinner and having BBQ’s together. They are very much welcome in my home. I am not a hateful person and I am far from being a racist. I think the people that are racist are the people voting for Barack Obama just BECAUSE he is black. That is racist. As far as the inhumane statement goes, I stand by that and this is why: John McCain has deformed arms because his arms were repeatedly pulled out of their sockets when he was being tortured. His arms, his hands, and his fingers were also repeatedly broken by the men who captured him. So yes, I find it inhumane that you are referring to his arms as T-rex arms. It is offensive and completely heartless. Perhaps if you were tortured in the same manner, you wouldn’t think it was so funny when others made remarks about you and your deformed body. Do you make fun of handicapped people, too? By the way, I am only 41…I am not the GRANDMA that you think I am. But, I can say with age comes wisdom. That is why I am choosing John McCain. He is a wise and KIND man. You could stand to learn something from him. Humble yourself like
- Lori M
