{"id":2164,"date":"2008-07-29T09:59:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:59:25","slug":"the-all-american-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"The All-American family"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was reading the article in People Magazine this week about John McCain and his family. You know, his son who recently\u00a0 served in Iraq as an enlisted Marine<\/a> during the “surge”, the other son who is recent grad of Annapolis and is probably headed in that direction soon, his adopted daughter who was given to Cindy McCain<\/a> while she visited Mother Theresa’s orphanage. That’s real riveting, tear jerking stuff about a real unique American family.<\/p>\n

Oops, my bad. I was reading People, but it was a different kind of story…a boring-ass story about a boring-ass family in whom People<\/a> thought you’d be more interested. From Michelle Malkin’s “The Brangelina-fication of the Obamas<\/a>“;<\/p>\n

\u00a0I lost 15 IQ points reading the slavering profile: Michelle hula hoops with her daughters! They\u2019re just like you and me! The kids have slumber parties! They\u2019re just like you and me! Barack did laundry, but he didn\u2019t fold! They\u2019re just like you and me. The kids get small allowances. They\u2019re just like you and me! The Obamas wear normal clothes doing normal things.<\/p>\n

THEY\u2019RE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s supposed to be an \u201cexclusive\u201d first and last look at life at home with the Obamas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, so they can pump up these people all they want, but what’s the damn story here? What do they show us about the Obama’s that we couldn’t have guessed for ourselves? Isn’t the story of the McCain family much more compelling than a couple of yuppy Ivy League parents doing their laundry and struggling with paying for piano lessons and summer camp? I see that crap everyday on my way to work on the subway, for pete’s sake. Tell me something I don’t know…that’s why they call it “news”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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