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Michelle Obama Objects to Sasha and Malia Dolls

If you were one of the many skeptics who aren’t buying the Ty company's claims that their recently released dolls--Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia--have nothing to do with President Obama’s daughters, you’re in good company.

Michelle Obama has objected to the Ty company’s thinly veiled exploitation of her daughters. According to a spokesperson for the first lady, Michelle believes "it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes.” Bravo!

Michelle didn’t add (nor did she need to) that she’d hardly be flattered to have her daughters represented in the TyGirlz line, which includes Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton.

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Comments

 

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) said:

I'm not even sure it was veiled at all. The company's reaction is absurd (but what do you expect, I suppose, from the people who brought us the Diana Bear?).

January 23, 2009 4:44 PM
 

g8grl said:

Her children aren't really private citizens.  The Obamas have been pushing them out into the spotlight almost from the beginning.  I see this as no different than with the Palin kids.  Sasha and Malia even did an interview with Access or Extra or some such TV entertainment magazine.  At least this isn't negative nastiness the likes of what the Palin kids have had to put up with.

January 23, 2009 6:25 PM
 

Michelle said:

Just what I expected from Michelle Obama.  I like our President and he will do a fab job but his wife will ruin it for him. I could see in her face from the get go that she is a royal pain in the a** and a total B****!  

Excuse me first lady but your children are not "private". Should have thought about that when you and Mr Pres decided to run !    Get over it. I will now go buy the dolls just to spite her.  I think she should be honored since the dolls are so cute.  I get sick and tired of "stars" and public figures saying their life should be private! Give me a break and stop crying over spilled milk.  The girls probably love having the dolls named after them. My two girls would think it was way cool!  

January 24, 2009 11:54 AM
 

oklahoma reach out news said:

Machell Obama is right, why use her children to make a buck, the world have made millions off their father. We want a President to fix this country after the mess George Bush left us in not a monry machine

January 24, 2009 10:11 PM
 

dee said:

Hold on here a minute! On Obama's campaign official site, they are selling Obama Family coloring books just to name a few things! And let's do remember, who exploited children during the campaign when the democratic party bombarded t.v. ads, infomercials, online websites such as youtube, with "Children" being used to bring in votes! So really, you can have it both ways, if your on the right party side!  I can only imagine with all of the b.s. that Sarah Palin was subjected to, how this site would ridicule her for objecting to anything!  Gee how soon you forget how viciously she and her children were attacked! I have seen on this site, many contributing editors etc., vehemently attacking Sarah Palin, for much less! Leave it alone!

January 25, 2009 11:42 AM
 

Kristen said:

I'm once again intrigued by the fervor with which Obama is embraced while his wife is hung out to dry.  We are all always going on and on about a mother's willingness to do anything to protect their offspring.  I don't think there is anything wrong with her wanting to control the way in which her daughters are offered to the world.  That's a key difference.  In campaigning, she had the control on what they did, where they went, etc.  This is just making money off of them, and the parents have no input.  How is that okay?  Because they chose to take on a public role?  It wuold be difficult to navigate being in the public eye and maintaining some privacy.  I know that's a debatable point for many people.

Again, I just wonder why he is the Golden Child and she gets the Angry Black Woman treatment all the time.  "She just looks like a b****!"  Interesting.

January 26, 2009 12:21 PM

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Hannah Tennant-Moore is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Buddhist Writing (2008); The Sun; Guantanamo: Inside the Prison, Outside the Law; Tricycle; Turning Wheel (as the winner of the Young Writers Award); and elsewhere.

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