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Obama Eyes Babysitting Duties For Daughters
http://news.yahoo.com/ ^ | July 24, 2010 | ABC News

Posted on 07/24/2010 6:09:08 AM PDT by Biggirl

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's daughters might be growing up in White House, but that does not mean they have to miss out on a rite of passage for American girls -- a babysitting job. Obama, who has the headache of stewarding the slowly mending US economy, said in a television interview that he was also teaching his daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, about savings, interest and money management. "What I'm doing now with Malia and Sasha is they're getting an allowance," Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America."

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The Obama daugthers are going to learn about the economy from their father.
1 posted on 07/24/2010 6:09:11 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

What I’m doing now with Malia and Sasha is they’re getting an allowance,”

Starting them off on getting something for nothing.


2 posted on 07/24/2010 6:11:03 AM PDT by bikerman (Obama lied pelicans died)
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To: Biggirl

If you hire them, do you have to provide health care?


3 posted on 07/24/2010 6:11:32 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: Biggirl
said in a television interview that he was also teaching his daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, about savings, interest and money management.

Oh ... wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall during that lesson? "Here's how you steal money girls..."

4 posted on 07/24/2010 6:13:13 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Those with the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening)
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To: Biggirl
-17bam's BIG decision: How much to hand out for allowance. $10? $20 or $30... million?

-17's special Christmas gifts for his daughters:


5 posted on 07/24/2010 6:15:05 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: Biggirl
Obama, who has the headache of stewarding the slowly mending US economy ...

O. Ne. Zot. Who could write such a pathetically idiotic clause without throwing up? Who could read it without throwing up?

6 posted on 07/24/2010 6:16:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I hate other cultures. Everyone is rude and they never wash or use deodorant."~Anoreth)
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To: Outlaw Woman

nobama is so fiscally criminal if he tries teaching finances to his daughters shouldn’t he be reported for child abuse?


7 posted on 07/24/2010 6:16:54 AM PDT by hal ogen
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To: Biggirl

Micheele Obama Robinson baby sat in the home of Jesse Robinson Jackson. Jesse’s ancestors and Michelle’s ancestors came from the same location in “Friends Plantation”.

Jesse’s biological father was Noah Robinson, a married man. He was adopted when his mother married years after his birth.


8 posted on 07/24/2010 6:17:20 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Biggirl
that does not mean they have to miss out on a rite of passage for American girls -- a babysitting job

Of course it does. They would never be allowed to care for a child without being surrounded by adult minders and cameras. Why even pretend otherwise?

9 posted on 07/24/2010 6:17:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I hate other cultures. Everyone is rude and they never wash or use deodorant."~Anoreth)
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To: Biggirl
What a load of

1. BHOI knows nothing about economics - so how is the blind going to teach anything but blindness. See BHOI’s education and his current ruling style.

2. This is nothing more than using minors for political gain - “See we are just like you” therefore you should blindly follow my edicts.

I would hate to have to submit to a Secret Service/FBI/DHS background check just to have his daughters baby sit my children. Can you imagine the amount of total disruption of your lifestyle and privacy such an event would cause?

10 posted on 07/24/2010 6:18:32 AM PDT by Nip (Arizona Immigration Law - the case heard around the world!)
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To: Liberty Ship

.....and would one have to pay taxes on the added value of having the Secret Service agents that tag along.

Whoever hires them will have the most secure babysitting service ever offered.

If you added up the entire package, what would it be worth per hour?


11 posted on 07/24/2010 6:19:08 AM PDT by burroak
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To: Biggirl
.... parents could expect a full retinue of Secret Service protection for their little ones.

Let's see...who will be paying for that?! Oh yeah, US!

12 posted on 07/24/2010 6:19:16 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: Biggirl

Swell, that means Secret Service detail has to babysit now!


13 posted on 07/24/2010 6:20:29 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................Thanks, Susan!)
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To: Biggirl

All these fluff questions, while Rome burns.......


14 posted on 07/24/2010 6:20:51 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.)
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To: Biggirl

Being such a devout Christian, I’m sure Oilbama named his daughters after saints. Funny, I don’t remember a Saint Malia or Saint Sasha!

/sarc.


15 posted on 07/24/2010 6:21:50 AM PDT by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: Biggirl

But will they pay their FAIR share in taxes?


16 posted on 07/24/2010 6:22:26 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: bikerman
A 2 year old article says they were getting $1 a week. My kids got that much 40 years ago. Of course, my kids did chores beyond the normal stuff like making your bed etc .

My daughter was soooo cute at their ages. She just loved trying on my $600 shoes.

17 posted on 07/24/2010 6:22:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Biggirl

It’s a good deal for those that hire them. These babysitters will come with a couple of Secret Service agents to help them.


18 posted on 07/24/2010 6:23:11 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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“he was also teaching his daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, about savings, interest and money management.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!


19 posted on 07/24/2010 6:23:27 AM PDT by Rammer
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To: Biggirl
Well I guess if you hired one of the girls to babysit you would be assured your kid would have plenty of supervison.

1. Presidents daughter

16 Secret service agents
Ambulance
Helicopter on call
Streets in front of child's home blocked
Satellite trucks from all networks covering the “event”

Back from dinner and a movie with spouse, full body scan by SS before you can get your child back from first daughter. Smarter to drop the kids at the Whitehouse, well maybe not, who knows what they would be put through?

20 posted on 07/24/2010 6:24:21 AM PDT by Deepest South
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To: Biggirl

I’m sure they’re very nice girls but I’ll be damned if I’m going to use a 12 year old to babysit. On the other hand they’ll have the secret service agents to back them up...


21 posted on 07/24/2010 6:25:18 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: burroak

Exactly right. So lets say they’re ‘rock star’ babysitters and someone will pay them $100 for two or three hours. Will the Secret Service protection cost more? The time getting to the job and back will count as well since we can be sure dad won’t be taking them in the old family car.
Obamanomics. His kids get paid by other parents while others (we the taxpayer) pay for the jaunt. Net net,his kids get paid but it will cost the people a multiple of what they get. Five dollars in,one dollar out. Kind of like the stimulus.
(Will he claim two more jobs created?)


22 posted on 07/24/2010 6:25:29 AM PDT by wiggen (Government owned slave.)
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To: Biggirl

Will they gets a job at robbin-baskins? Will they join Americorpse to gets free college?


23 posted on 07/24/2010 6:27:08 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Biggirl

The more interesting question is FOR WHOM might they be babysitting


24 posted on 07/24/2010 6:27:39 AM PDT by Beelzebubba (Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly at first.)
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To: Biggirl

Some economy they are learning. Guess being part of the Ruling Class they are over paid and under worked.

How do you baby-sit with Secret Service agents there too? Who’s doing the baby-sitting.


25 posted on 07/24/2010 6:28:35 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Biggirl

This needed a warning. When I got to the part about BHO is going to teach his girls about “money management” I destroyed a perfectly good key board with a mouthful of tea.


26 posted on 07/24/2010 6:28:49 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: jazminerose

Those words are good for a few laughs. :)


27 posted on 07/24/2010 6:31:26 AM PDT by Biggirl (AZ Is DOING THE JOB The Feds Should Be Doing, ENFORCING The Southern Border! =^..^=)
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To: Biggirl

Then they discover that the babysitting jobs are already taken by illegal aliens.

Makes for a good story: Sasha and Malia learn that daddy is a nitwit.


28 posted on 07/24/2010 6:32:20 AM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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To: biggredd1

OMG, not Baskin-Robbins! The one actual job BHO had was at Baskin-Robbins. And he embezzled from his employer when he was there:

Obama Embezzles from Former Employer—CNN Thinks it’s Cute:

http://joytiz.com/2010/obama-embezzles-from-former-employer-cnn-thinks-its-cute/

“The moribund mainstream media doesn’t find anything wrong with a little ebezzling as long as it’s their beloved Obama doing the stealing. Ask a small business owner to appreciate the quaint humor of this beguiling little story from Obama’s youth.”


29 posted on 07/24/2010 6:33:35 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: Biggirl

Next up:

Michael Vick to the WH to teach the girls how to train Bo in basic obedience.


30 posted on 07/24/2010 6:35:31 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: Non-Sequitur
I’ll be damned if I’m going to use a 12 year old to babysit.

My parents didn't leave me alone for long when I was 12 years old...never at night...and that was in a small town, decades ago.

31 posted on 07/24/2010 6:36:36 AM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: Biggirl

Political sideshows:

Babysitting
WH Garden
“Let’s Move”


32 posted on 07/24/2010 6:36:49 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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I don't want them punished with a baby," Obama said

Are these the two girls that were sent to him to punish him and Michelle?

33 posted on 07/24/2010 6:37:05 AM PDT by shiva
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To: Biggirl

Thats rich. It is a baboon teaching a gibbon how to do organ transplants.
I hope the girls declare any income on their taxes.


34 posted on 07/24/2010 6:39:52 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Biggirl

I taught debate and theater for years, and I know what someone sounds like when they’re making something up off the top of their head. When I heard the audio of this, I was 98% certain he was making it up off the top of his head. He paused for a few seconds at the beginning of the sentence, and then he rephrased and repeated the question at the beginning, which are both tactics we teach for answering questions we don’t have a ready answer for. He doesn’t any more give those girls an ‘allowance’. He gives them whatever they want, more likely. That babysitting crap—oh, right. Like you’re going to be able to get the president’s kids (and their secret service agents) to come over to watch your toddler. That was more BS to make him sound like a regular All-American ‘good father’. None of that was true. 98% sure of it.

Oh, but then consider the source, so yeah, I shouldn’t expect anything different.


35 posted on 07/24/2010 6:40:21 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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What I’m doing now with Malia and Sasha is they’re getting an allowance...

Guess Mr. Teleprompter was in the shop for repairs. What a gifted extemporaneous speaker. Rule #1: "Engage brain before opening mouth."

36 posted on 07/24/2010 6:43:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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What? Can’t he make them baby sitting co-czars making a co-zillion dollars at our expense?


37 posted on 07/24/2010 6:43:09 AM PDT by Average Al
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Little Barry is the one who needs the baby sitting by an adult.


38 posted on 07/24/2010 6:48:00 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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And when he’s done teaching the daughters about the economy... Hugh Heffner will explain the birds and the bees.


39 posted on 07/24/2010 6:49:10 AM PDT by rwilson99
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ISGAS.

I Scarcely Give a S***....er....an Obama.


40 posted on 07/24/2010 6:49:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Batman11

Maybe not in your cracka religion.


41 posted on 07/24/2010 6:50:32 AM PDT by steve8714 (Our long national nightmare is over. We can resume our proper disdain for soccer.)
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To: Biggirl

They’ll have something he never did...a real job.


42 posted on 07/24/2010 6:51:26 AM PDT by steve8714 (Our long national nightmare is over. We can resume our proper disdain for soccer.)
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This is just another "look over here" on Obama's part....like going out for a burger.

And voila....Sherrod is no longer news.

43 posted on 07/24/2010 6:51:51 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Biggirl

And money management LOL


44 posted on 07/24/2010 6:52:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Beelzebubba

Two mommies


45 posted on 07/24/2010 6:52:36 AM PDT by steve8714 (Our long national nightmare is over. We can resume our proper disdain for soccer.)
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To: Biggirl

He should give them an allowance and then make each girl give 75% of her allowance to a stranger on the street -


46 posted on 07/24/2010 6:53:29 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Biggirl
"Malia said she got them free from Social Services."


47 posted on 07/24/2010 6:55:24 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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Wait till they have to start paying future taxes for their fathers reckless spending.


48 posted on 07/24/2010 6:58:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (Losing a wife can be hard. In my case it was almost impossible.)
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Great News all... 0 just created 2 jobs, this is a historical event for USA (United Socialism of America).


49 posted on 07/24/2010 7:01:39 AM PDT by Whats the Matter with Kansas? (Freedom is not FREE)
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Baby-sitting: $10 / hour
Secret Service Detail: $10,000 / hour


50 posted on 07/24/2010 7:06:35 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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