Hail to the Chiefs – Malia and Sasha Obama

May 10, 2012 By 3,171 Comments

Is anyone really surprised by the fact that President Obama came out of the closet for gay marriage? What was most surprising is when he explained how his position (supposedly) “evolved,” by talking to his wife and daughters:

“It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” the president continued. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same-sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation, that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and, frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”

Let’s pause for just one second.  When Christian women run for high office, people inevitably bring up the question of submission.  Once, Michele Bachmann, for example, was asked during a debate, “As president, would you be submissive to your husband?”

People automatically assume that a Christian female President isn’t capable of making decisions without her spouse’s stamp of approval.  (I should add female Republican candidates –liberal women don’t get the same kind of questions.)

So are all those reporters who feared excessive family intervention in the White House all up in arms over the President’s announcement yesterday?  Um.  Not quite.

Liberals  everywhere are applauding him for his bravery and his wisdom.

So let me get this straight – it’s a problem if my mom listened too much to my dad, but it’s a heroic act if the President made a massive change in a policy position that could affect the entire nation after consulting with his teenage daughters?

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads.  In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.  Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.  Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

In this situation, it was the other way around.  I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.

Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking.  In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.
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  • Shocked

    For thousands of years women were oppressed, prohibited from owning property or voting, let alone allowed to hold political office as your mother has.

    Just because it’s been one way for a thousand years doest make it right, nor is it a valid argument. Whether I agree with Obama or not, I have no issue with him supportung something that he believes is right.

  • Fish

    Setting aside the fact that kids being raised by a male and a female parent is a debunked horseshit Christian talking point, Bristol Palin is a single mom whose own god-fearing, pro-family mother actively uses her lawyers and political clout to keep Levi Johnston away from his son. So using Bristol’s own logic, she might as well toss her son at a pack of wolves because it doesn’t have a father and will probably just grow up to watch Glee.

    • http://C4P&P4A indemind

      Fish-ing For LIES

  • Resettozero

    Don’t stop writing, Bristol. You’re gaining admirers on the basis of this blog alone. It is effective. Thank you.

    • otlset

      Sure brings out the nasty spitefulness, arrogance, reflexive ignorant hatred and prejudice of the left doesn’t it?

  • Tom

    You are nothing more than a bigot. The bible hates women. Despises them. In the bible it states that a woman should be submissive to her husband so if you were a true Christian you wouldn’t even consider running for president. A girl that got pregnant outside of marriage before she even turned 18 talking about the importance of a mother father household. Pathetic. This is about human rights. Basic human rights.

  • Scott Ihrig

    Was it having a mother and father that kept you from getting pregnant as a teen? Oops… guess not. And how is your baby doing without a daddy? Something about those who live in glass houses…

    • TampaDink

      How costly is it to heat a glass house in Wasilla?

  • lawlinglibertarian

    What an astonishingly ignorant post, Bristol. He didn’t “do his daughters bidding after consulting them”–they influenced his way of thinking by showing him their perspective.

    You’re for “traditional marriage”? You, and conservatives like you, want to return to the 1950s–or earlier–which is *incredible* given your personal history. Do you know what your hypocritical community would have done to you if you’d had a child out of wedlock as the result of pre-marital sex if we’d kept the “traditional” view of marriage for the past few “thousand years”?

    Your family would’ve either A) disowned you, B) carted you off to a remote abortionist or C) carted you off to a distant community where you could have your baby and then give it up for adoption. Or WORSE.

    Be grateful you live in a more *liberal* time, less dominated by the forces of theocracy that your parents and their ilk would have us return to living under. Astonishingly ignorant, Bristol. Astonishing.

  • GettingItRight

    You make me sick. You obviously have no right to dictate how anyone defines a healthy relationship considering your personal mistakes/incredibly stupid heterosexual teenage parenting blunders. Please go bury yourself in a hole and take the rest of the under-educated conservative idiots with you. Get a life and let others lead theirs.

  • Colleen

    “Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.”

    That’s funny because you’re a single mother.

  • green losangeles

    Bristol, What happens if your son comes out of the closet? Would you not allow him to have the same civil liberties as other Americans because of his sexual orientation?

  • Lauren

    “we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.”

    ….So I guess YOUR kid won’t be doing so great either, because he’s growing up in a single-parent household (without the full-time presence of a father)? I’m sorry if that’s harsh of me to say, but you deserve to hear it after writing this article. Seriously, how can you be so short-sighted, saying that same-sex parents aren’t as ‘fit’ as hetero parents, when you *yourself* don’t even fit that mold? Hypocritical much?

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