When I saw this photo released by the White House of the President and his daughters watching the First Lady’s speech tonight, my first reaction was shock.
THOSE are the President’s daughters? What the hell happened to the little girl who was yelling “Hi, Daddy!” at the video wall so much that Jon Stewart was annoyed? How can four lousy years make me feel so OLD?! 
Good grief. They’ve really turned into young ladies.
<wanders off, muttering that there’s gotta be a cane here somewhere with her name on it>
Imagine how Barack and Michelle feel!
Yeah, once those hormones kick in, girls turn into young women, like, overnight. It’s very disorienting to observe!
My son once got out of the car arriving at a campground to find that, over the course of a 3 month winter, his dozen little playmates got taller than him and, worse, all suddenly grew boobs. Poor kid didn’t know where to look.
their mom got them to eat healthy and exercise.
Hey, it goes both ways. I came home from 5 weeks at summer camp in high school to find that while I was gone, my 13-year-old brother’s voice had dropped. The first time he opened his mouth to greet me was one hell of a shock.
Hard to believe looking at that photo that Sasha just turned 11.
OMG, they’re so grown up. They look like young ladies instead of little girls. Aww.
good heavens!
the secret service is going to need more agents.
I doubt it. Most fathers do well enough without commanding the Secret Service, FBI, CIA and US Armed Forces. I trust that most of the fine young men that the Obama daughters date will bring them home safely and before curfew.
My second thought on seeing that was how much Obama has aged.
That job ages people so fast.
Which brings up an interesting question: how on earth can you have a normal adolescence as the kid of the POTUS?
Going to a movie?
Burger & shake at the mall restaurant?
High school sports game?
It’s not like having your own older brother bodygard that keeps you safe from the bullies; it must be like being the constant center of a federal national security operation. With radios, op centers, convoys, helicopters, sentries, sniffer dogs and snipers, surrounded with enough firepower to take over a small town…
What if everytime you wanted to hang out at your friend’s place, someone first had to schedule a planning meeting, then brief a team…
I hope for their sake it’s not as bad as I’m imagining it…
Interesting thought. I wouldn’t be surprised if, on some level, they wanted their dad to lose this election. Not only to have a chance at a few years of “normalcy” before they turn eighteen, but also so they could have their freaking family back, and not have to watch their father worry every night thinking about the welfare of an entire country.
I’m shocked that the living quarters we provide for our President has such a hideous sofa!
holy Shit, I Just Realized People Want to Kill My Dad-Sasha Obama (the Onion).
the clinton’s mentioned that it was easier to have chelsea’s friends come to the white house. they have a movie theatr there and are able to get films in. perhaps that is how you deal with the dating daughter… all dates happen at the white house.
susan ford had her prom at the white house, and married a secret service agent.
(This quip actually caused some controversy at the time, as some people thought it was in poor taste to joke about killing people like that, especially since Obama has in fact ordered a lot of people killed that way. Personally, I still thought it was pretty funny.)
Several years ago I got to see the Secret Service in action when a protectee came to our island.
I was working at a dive shop at the time. The wind had shifted making diving rough on the other end of the island. A shop over there booked out our entire boat and added that they would be bringing their own tanks. WTF!?
They arrived and we loaded their tanks. And then several hard sided Pelican cases - one clearly marked as an AED. A few of their cases were locked with padlocks. Those cases stayed closed. Weird.
I led the first dive and two women buddied up and swam along the wall looking at the fish and coral. And all the other divers were fanned out in an arc, just above and behind these two women, and spent the dive looking at them. Weird.
It was only during the surface interval between dives that I finally figured out what was going on. There was one woman who looked vaguely familiar. She was with her partner. Only then did I realize they were Mary Cheney and Heather Poe. Even though Mary was an adult she had a full Secret Service detail.
If adult children of the POTUS and VP get that attention I cannot imagine how any of their minor children can have anything approaching a normal childhood.
I felt ancient enough when, for the first time, we had a president younger than I am. I expected to be a **lot **older before that happened!
Holy hell. I opened this thread thinking, "Yeah, yeah, they’re four years older than when DaddyBama was elected. What were you expect — "
And then the pic opened up. Their faces are recognizable, but DAYUM they did grow up!
You have the idea. There are people who are suppossed to be older than us.
Teachers
Doctors
Clergy
Presidents
Now I’m older than the POTUS, older than the bishop of our diocese, and just about the same age as my doctor and the priest of our congregation.
And I’m only fifty seven.
