by Gary Krasner
I don’t know if any pundits took note of the many news items (like the post below) mentioning that thousands of Syrian children are appealing to Obama’s daughters to intervene via military force in Syria.
The banners and placards read the same message:
Malia and Sasha Obama: Tell your father that we are being assassinated. from Children of Syria
Here’s my commentary about this:
GW wanted the media to lay off his daughters. They deserved a life of privacy as much as that was feasible. So GW never made references to them in any public statements. I also personally believe that GW didn’t want his daughters to become so prominent that they would become media-popular and thereby become targets of jihadist violence.
Obama made the same plea to the media to leave his daughters alone. Yet Obama has hypocritically made frequent public references to them, both in light-hearted fashion, but also in relation to serious issues, such as last april, concerning the Trayvon Martin shooting.
What Obama actually wanted was to have the media leave his daughters alone with respect to embarrassing things, while he was free to exploit them to his advantage by referencing them when HE wanted to. And the liberal media has complied with Obama’s request and left his daughters alone, unlike the way they reported on GW’s daughters.
But as obama’s reverend Wright would say, the chickens have come home to roost. Because people abroad are not letting Obama have his cake and eat it too. Obama’s references to his daughters has made his daughters prominent enough for Syrians to leverage in appealling to US intervention.
And this was to be expected. When the POTUS addresses a major media event like the Martin shooting—-that’s been hyped into a racial incident—-by saying he doesn’t want his daughters to get shot like Trayvon was, he makes his daughters fair game for others to exploit.
And in this case, the use of his daughters is far graver. The Syrians are seeking military intervention in an arab client state of the terrorist state of Iran. And now Obama’s daughters have been injected into this affair.
And Obama only has himself to blame.