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Obama's Kids
Political Animal — OBAMA'S KIDS.... Andrew Sullivan goes ballistic about the Obama family interview with Access Hollywood: I can barely credit that Michelle Obama agreed to this and that Barack Obama went along with it it's not what they would have done a few months ago. One great aspect of the Obama marriage has been the way in which they appear to have brought up their daughters as very regular girls, down-to-earth, normal and sane. Displaying them in this way was bad judgment and poor parenting. Fame is a toxin. Children deserve to be protected from it as much as they would from lead paint. ...

"Trivialities"
TalkLeft — ... discusses Andrew Sullivan' reaction to the Obama kids doing an Access Hollywood interview. Personally, I have a hard enough time being a father to my own girls without taking time off to critique how anyone else is raising their own. But I was struck how Sullivan rates this and others issues in terms of importance: ...

Andrew Sullivan, gobsmacked by reality [Karl]
protein wisdom — Excitable Andy is getting slightly excitable about the sense that Barack Obama’s “ample self-regard is lapsing into hubris”: That simulated faux-presidential seal was both tacky, silly and presumptive - a small version of “Mission Accomplished” Obama could well do without. The decision to give his acceptance speech in a stadium, rather than the traditional convention hall is also an unnecessary over-reach. The night will be freighted enough with history; it needs no new drama to set it apart. And the drama of the first black man accepting the nomination - with Obama’s ...

Media narratives, flip-flops, and the numbers
The Reaction — ... like a conservative, talking up guns and a closer union of church and state, veering shamelessly to the center on core issues like abortion and death penalty, sounding more and more like a Republican (and like Hillary in the long lead-up to the Pennsylvania primary) with each passing day, and exhibiting, as one of his more well-known and outspoken supporters labels it, "hubris," a campaign "far too cocky for its own good" -- with all this, and more, it hasn't been one of Obama's stronger periods, and he's been taking some major hits, not least because of how the media have ...

Evening news round-up
Sister Toldjah — ...   Little Green Footballs has discovered another Fauxtography scandal, this time over doctored photos handed over from Iran that show one too many launched missiles.  It looks as though the Iranian gov’t did the editing, but of course - contra to the MSM’s assertions to the contrary - they didn’t figure it out until the conservative blogosphere made them aware of it.  Andrew Sullivan … criticizing Obama?  I think this may be a first. And speaking ...

Obama’s Double Somersault With a Twist Flip-Flop
Pajamas Media — ... him the benefit of showing his children off to the voter (thus garnering all the political capital), while saying out of the other side of his mouth that he “regrets” the kids’ exposure which pleases those who may have looked in askance at his exploitive use of his own family. It’s the ultimate, cynical, double somersault with a twist flip-flop. And he’s using his own family as lead characters in this little Kabuki production. Even some Obama supporters are disgusted with this move. Andrew Sullivan: I can barely credit that Michelle Obama agreed to this and that Barack Obama ...

Hubris Gets in the Way of Unity - Barack Forgets Hillary (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... If you can believe it, Obama adulator Andrew Sullivan recently suggested that the Barack Obama campaign is "far too cocky for its own good." Like many conservatives, Sullivan, expert on the subject of self-absorption, is occasionally worth listening to. ...

Andrew Sullivan . . .
Patterico's Pontifications — . . . gob-smacked again.