The story of Sasha Obama working at a takeout is distasteful and vomit-inducing. I guess Michelle must definitely be planning to run for office if such a vulgar show had to be staged.
Bleh.
Cheesy Takeout Show
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The story of Sasha Obama working at a takeout is distasteful and vomit-inducing. I guess Michelle must definitely be planning to run for office if such a vulgar show had to be staged.
Bleh.
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They made a TV show about it? Because that would be gross. Or do you just find it troubling that she’s working at a takeout place to begin with?
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The whole spectacle is ridiculous. Like that time when Obama had to prove he’s an ordinary guy by going bowling and visiting a working class deli.
They must really despise us to think we will eat up this ridiculous story. And we must really deserve it if we do eat it up.
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It is playacting. But if it’s real, that’s the kind of job a 15 year old could get on her own without daddy and mommy’s help.
At my friends’ high school, none of the wealthy children had that kind of after school or summer job 20 years ago. They did shit like being sent to Prague to write or volunteer work.
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I prefer that the enormously wealthy just be who they are instead of faking a love for McDonald’s and the Gap.
This is very distasteful. And to involve a kid in this simply stinks. They exploited the girls from the start so I have no idea why I thought they’d stop now.
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It’s not like she could get the “normal” experience of a summer job with all the Secret Service agents tailing her.
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Neither will she get the normal experience of taking out a loan to go to a community college or of worrying about making ends meet. That poor little rich girl. 😃😃😃
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Sometimes comfort is a double edged sword. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Have they exploited the girls? I don’t feel like I’ve seen much of them since Obama took office. So I don’t have much of a sense of the girls at all. But then again, I tend to gloss over completely when it comes to the children/wives of politicians. So it’s possible I missed the exploitation.
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Remember the puppy? Remember Michelle’s endless stories about how she controls what they eat? Followed by Obama’s stories about how he wants to control their bodies? Followed by Michelle’s convention speech two weeks ago?
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Yes. I hate when politicians do the “I’m a regular Joe Blow” thing. But teenagers–even teenagers who are the children of powerful people–should and often want to, work. It gives them a bit of independence and self determination. I was so proud of myself when I first started working. This might be a pure publicity stunt–and if it is, that is indeed gross. But it’s possible that Sasha just wants a normal summer job. And if she does, it seems a shame to prohibit her.
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I’m sure there was no shortage of less photo-op ready jobs for her. The only reason people work at takeout windows is because they don’t have anything better available. She has a world of opportunities available. And we are to believe she chose this? With an authoritarian mother like the one she has? Yeah, right.
Now Michelle’s entire convention speech that I thought was so beautiful has started to stink.
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—She has a world of opportunities available.
Yes she has, in the future. But if she worked for some “Obama Foundation” (at 15 and with no qualifications), everybody would blame her and her parents for that too…What if she’d babysit the kids of some senator? 🙂 There is no way to please potentially hostile audience in her situation.
What should a kid of wealthy and famous do in case she actually wants to earn her own money? (Or if controlling parents instilled this idea into her.)
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She could teach African American kids or immigrant kids from poor families to read. Of course, then she’ll have to forego the crucial salary of $8.15 per hour but I’m sure she’ll cope.
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But why should she forego a salary? I am sure she is involved in all kinds of charity anyway (noblesse oblige), but earning money and doing charity work are two different things. And I disagree that the first should be reserved for the poor and the second – for the rich and famous… In fact, having personal experience with both is important for everybody…
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When a mega rich person hunts for the “experiences” of the poor, that’s called slumming and is nothing but distasteful. It reminds me of those new Russians who play at being street beggars because it piques their jaded sensibility. I don’t understand why the very rich can’t just stay in their cushy lives without having to entertain themselves with playing poor.
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Maybe it’s a way to avoid the girl to grow up spoiled and make her experience what it means to earn your own money through work, starting from the bottom up.
Living a shelterd life and having everything handled to you has its downturns.
Or maybe I’m just having flights of fancy.
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She’s not starting from any bottom. She’s starting from the White House. Faking poverty they will never experience is bizarre.
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When my mother previously told me the same thing, I foolishly disagreed because of thinking that in America everything is different due to “pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps” mentality of self-reliance.
For instance, you once wrote approvingly of Zuckerberg’s decision not to leave anything (?) to his daughter.
Now I told her I was wrong.
Btw, my mother and me saw the photo and an article about her summer job in the Israeli main newspaper. It also mentioned her dancing publicly in a somewhat revealing fashion at some music festival. I was surprised Sasha felt free to do that, considering her family. I would be afraid to breathe wrongly in her place, and you described her mother as a strict parent.
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Politics tends to bring out the worst in people.
Let’s hope I’m wrong and Michelle doesn’t want to run for office. It’s too sad if she does.
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