Obama Finds Lesson in Malia's Bad Grade

[kpete]

Obama Finds Lesson in Malia's Bad Grade
Malia and Barack Obama
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The day after election losses for his party, President Barack Obama left Washington to speak before a kinder, gentler crowd: a group of Wisconsin schoolchildren, one of them a little boy with "OBAMA" shaved into his hair. The president was there to speak about a bipartisan education initiative, but felt the need to refresh the big, unrelated problems facing the country. (Even the Education secretary introduced him as a man dedicated to education "in spite of two wars" and a "really, really tough economy.") Perhaps to soothe his supporters' concerns that his presidency is in trouble, Obama reminded the audience of his successes, saying that Election Day '08 was “a day of hope, it was a day of possibility, but it was also a sobering one" because of the troubles the country faced. Now, he's dealing with "the rescue part" of his job. Obama finally deviated from his script, telling of how his daughter Malia learned to try, try again—to learn science. Her scores had faltered, but she just earned a 95 on a test. Obama said his daughter had learned not to "slack off" and to want success for herself—perhaps a lesson for dejected Democrats.

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[AlinPA]

1. 95 is a bad grade?

[Hippo_Tron]

4. 95 is what she got after her efforts to improve her grades

[pnwmom]

9. He also announced that she'd gotten a C. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

2. Then why is he slacking off on doing his job??

Talk is the place to start and when that does not work then you really work to get things done. He needs to take his own advice.

[stray cat]

5. How many hours do you work each week - do you ever not think of your job and what to do?

[Angry Dragon]

13. I am sorry I did not make myself clear

I do not expect him to work 24/7/365. He has talked to everyone he can probably more than once. The test of a leader is to know when to get hard with the people and just say enough is enough. Get a good bill out there and then let everyone that wants to beat it down can. At least that way the people can see where everyone stands. The way they are doing it is just hiding behind this or that, worrying if they can block a filibuster. I say get it out there, let them filibuster and then when the people in the republican party get sick and have no care one can show them who to blame.

[EFerrari]

3. If this object lesson was stretched any tighter

it would be a Heimlich Maneuver.

[pnwmom]

6. A stupid lesson for someone as smart as Obama -- saying that

a C wasn't acceptable. Malia and Sasha aren't representative of every child.

For some children in some subjects, a C might be a real achievement.

We don't live in the mythical world where every child can be above average. And an empathic father wouldn't be invading his daughter's privacy by discussing her grades in public.

(According to another news account, he announced that Malia had gotten a C and that wasn't good enough. It might not be what she is capable of, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good grade for a different child.)

[ddeclue]

7. Obama threw Malia under the bus?

:popcorn:

[pnwmom]

8. If I were Malia, I would feel that my privacy had been invaded if my father

had used my C grade to make a political point.

[Divine Discontent]

12. LOL... I do like that! I think I too would have been quite miffed! Um, Dad, I know you like to

talk about other people instead of yourself - but don't reveal my C's!

[Orsino]

10. "The day after election losses for his party."

Oh. "Read it at Politico." Fucking wankers. :eyes:

[Divine Discontent]

11. spot on! we won 2 Congressional seats! One that hadn't been won in over 100 years.

We lost two gov seats, one of which was not shocking, the other yes. but, yeah - party's losses!