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    Can't Obama Just Talk to Malia and Sasha?

    Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:05 PM | By Emily Bazelon
    Why is Barack Obama writing an open letter to his daughters? I guess when you become president, you talk to your kids via Parade magazine. Parts of Obama's letter to Malia and Sasha, 10 and 7, are the usual empty-ish rhetoric ("I want all our children to go to schools worthy of their potential"). In the part that's more real, he charges them with "righting the wrongs that you see and working to give others the chances you've had." Lovely, yes. But also a sentiment he could get across at a family dinner or bedtime. By doing it in public, doesn't he put a huge burden on them, adding to the one they're already shouldering? And isn't he using them, too? This combined with the release of those photos from the girls' first day of school at Sidwell Friends makes me wonder.
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