Move Over, Barack Obama: Sasha and Malia Should Write Their Own Book

"Here's the plan, It's bait... some pundit will take it and make insensitive comments about the Obama girls, the President will then fire back with righteous indignation. The public will sympathize with the angry father over the hack comedian, giving the American people a new narrative for which to view his struggle with the Right Wing. It worked for Clinton." ~ someone will say this on an important blog or cable news program

Our president publishes a precious book he wrote before he came into office and you people search for and publicize the nasty petty criticism, the phony outrage and swinish sarcasm of the conservatives, then you coyly equivocate that just maybe the conservatives go a little overboard on "the battered, pre-maturely grey president" Face it! If the Virgin appeared in the white house lawn supporting an Obama initiative your people would challenge her demanding real answers on the "virgin birth question" Your media and the majority of the narrow minds that follow you prove that Europe did'nt fill America from the top down...

I have a serious, non political question. Is it accetable for the president of the United States to be making money from outside sources while actually holding office? Have other presidents done so? Will he be donating all proceeds to charity and if he does, would that make this more palatable? If this IS outside the mainstream actions of a sitting president, where is the line drawn on making money from outside projects while in office? My personal opinion is that he should have waited until he was out of office to write and publish a book of any kind.

The girls were at every speech on Obama's campaign trail before he was elected--guess it was OK then? but not OK now? I'd love to see him write about all their travels and all the countries they visited on the taxpayers expense. Maybe with the proceeds from the book, he could pay back the taxpayer for the cost of all their travels for the past 2 years.

Every one makes much to do about nothing. Obama is not using his girls to do anything. This is just your opinion, and I wish that all this hatred would stop and the american people get down to the real issues..He is not expoliting his kids, he writing a book to kids, which is something a log of fathers should do.. All of you that just have ro critize, get over it and get a life...

This is plain silly. No he is not expoiting his daughters. They seem to be lovely well-adjusted all-American girls. OK he used an impressionistic illustrator's picture of them on the cover in profile to fulfill a book contract he agreed to before he was elected. I say if it is OK with their Mom it is OK with me.

I think it's horrible to say that using the Obama girls to help neutralize the harsh critics of Obama. Can't he stand on his own record? If he can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. To use little girls like this would be sick in my opinion. It's not their job to prop up their father's tarnished image and besides that nothing can help him now.