Obama Daughters Get H1N1 Vaccine

The emergence of the Swine Flu and the resulting vaccine has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive.  One doesn’t have to look very hard to find fringe groups who sincerely believe that the H1N1 virus is a “bioterrorism attack by the New World Order” and that the vaccine itself is a “eugenics weapon” aimed at reducing the world’s population.  As evidence of their theories, they point to the fact that President Obama refuses to have his own children vaccinated against the virus.

Those conspiracy theorists will now have to look elsewhere for their proof as the White House has announced that Sasha and Malia Obama received the H1N1 vaccine last week.

While that should shut the conspiracy theorists up for a while, something tells me it won’t.  The same article on the White House Blog confirms that while the First Daughters were vaccinated against H1N1, the President and his wife were not.  They received only the seasonal flu vaccine.  Of course, the President and First Lady are not in the priority groups for the vaccine as identified the by CDC - those under the age of 24, pregnant women and people with underlying conditions. But a good conspiracy theorist never lets the facts get in the way.

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Is This Girl’s Food Fight With Obamas Fair?

A Florida girl is now the poster child for an effort to get more nutritious lunches in the nation’s schools. The face of Jasmine Messiah, 8, will appear in posters all over D.C. as a part of the Healthy School Lunches campaign’s effort to lobby Congress.

In the poster, a dialogue bubble asks why the Miami-Dade County, Florida, girl doesn’t get healthy lunches like the First Daughters do. In fact, Jasmine is a vegetarian, but there are not vegetarian options in her school cafeteria.

The Obama girls get vegetarian options — and more. Why, Jasmine wants to know. Why? Continue reading »

Sasha & Malia Go Visit Their Parents – the Wax Ones

Sasha and Malia paid a visit to their mom and dad. But not the Obamas made of flesh and blood, nope this parental unit was made of pure wax. This duo doesn’t live at the White House but rather at Madame Tussaud’s Washington D.C. outpost.

According to an AP report, the two girls giggled at the site of the replicas of their parents and thought is would be “hilarious” if they took photos with the pair. There’s no word if they opted to do so or not. But they didn’t just go there to visit mom and dad.  During their visit they also checked out - and took photos of - Continue reading »

Malia Obama’s Another Holiday Baby

I’ve got to say Malia Obama’s got it rough. Having a holiday birthday is one of those things little kids usually moan about, but being a July 4 baby as the president’s daughter?

I’ll concur with a commenter on Jezebel’s coverage of the presidential birthday celebration for Malia: “that blows.” Continue reading »

Obama Skirts Free Speech Issue Over Kids Pics

There’s nothing that gets me more riled than someone constricting the freedoms of the press. Except maybe the president of the United States trying to repress the press.

President Obama has inflamed White House photographers yet again over his on-again, off-again rules for photographing the first kids. Continue reading »

The Obamas Enjoy A San Francisco Treat

A couple of weeks ago I took on a daunting challenge. I took my 3-year-old daughter on a cable car ride. Being a San Francisco native, our cable cars are something I hold dear…and apparently so do all tourists who come to my fair city. The line for the ride? Painfully long. By the time we got on the cable car packed with people, no one volunteered to give up their seat for a woman (me) who was clearly having trouble keeping her toddler under control and safe. You know who I should have been hanging out with? Continue reading »

Bo Obama Plush Toy Announced

PeoplePets (isn’t that a contradiction?) is reporting that there will indeed be a First Dog toy for your little one to love.

Sayeth the site: “German toy manufacturers Koesener Spielzeugmanufaktur have created a stuffed Bo Obama, made to resemble the famed Portuguese water dog who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” Continue reading »

Obama’s First President To Watch Sesame Street as a Kid

What do President Obama and the average toddler have in common?

They both love Cookie Monster. And they both watched him during their childhoods. Continue reading »