If the President puts them on display, why are they sacrosanct? They weren’t just tagging along, they were props.
He chose to be President while his children were young, he chose to put his parenting on display, people have a right to make observations - his children were immodest in dress and acted like brats.
Those kids are not stupid. The look on their faces says it all. They’re bored out of their skulls by the simple-minded lameness of the event. Worse than that, they’re being used to make their father look like something that he isn’t (empathetic, warm-hearted, compassionate, presidential), and they know it. If the staffer made a mistake, it was in not pointing this out.
The problem here is a communications director for a DC pol made those swarmy remarks. It's not appropriate to post negative stuff about anyone's kids, politician or not. I thought the real story was her lacking the judgment to be communications director for anyone.
The pictures are from a WH function. They should've been posted with no comment except that this is Sasha and Malia at a traditional WH event. The photos speak for themselves.