Althouse: Malia Obama goes to Lollapalooza...

August 4, 2014

Malia Obama goes to Lollapalooza...

... "in a summery daisy-print skirt and top and some grungy boots suited for the muddy field."

21 comments:

madAsHell said...: I wonder which poor bastard secret service agent pulled the short straw?

I have to believe that following a 16 year old to the TeenFest is not what the agent had in mind when they signed up.

Pussy in Cartagena? Maybe.
TeenFest in Chicago? No Way!!; 8/4/14, 4:42 PM
tim maguire said...: I can't beleve they're still holding those. Come on, Malia! Your parents went to Lollapalooza!; 8/4/14, 4:59 PM
MadisonMan said...: My opinion is that a 16-yo child who is allowed to go to a concert in some place like Chicago without a parent is being spoiled. Very rich, and being spoiled.

A concert in the same town as your parents? I'd say yes to that. Going half-way across the country? No.; 8/4/14, 4:59 PM
Birches said...: Wow. 90s fashion is back. Malia's outfit looked liked it came off the set of Blossom.; 8/4/14, 5:06 PM
Fandor said...: I hope Malia had a good time. She's just a teenage girl, like any other, and needs to be with her peers.
The press should stay away from the children of famous folks. If and when they (the children) become "famous" in their own right, by all means, snap away.
In the meantime, back off.; 8/4/14, 5:09 PM
Bob Ellison said...: What is the point of this story? Why did you link to it, Professor?

Poor judgement.; 8/4/14, 5:21 PM
MayBee said...: Malia is having quite the summer. Living and working in on a tv show LA (I don't know who she's living with) and lollapalooza in Chicago.; 8/4/14, 5:50 PM
Fandor said...: The Secret Service...the ULTIMATE NANNY SERVICE!
We should all be so lucky!; 8/4/14, 6:16 PM
Will Cate said...: heh heh... To paraphrase Chris Rock, even if I had a whole warehouse full of shits, I would not give one.; 8/4/14, 6:56 PM
Be said...: Say what one will about things, Malia, just like the Bush daughters, Chelsea before them, Amy Carter, etc, etc, are all children of privilege.

Okay. Now that we've got that established, could I just say that I think she looks an awful lot like her mom (Maybe before her mom went Unhappy).

Have mentioned before that I have similar body proportions to Mme Obama, though I am more likely to smile than she is. There are so many substantive things that we could criticize Mme Obama on. The Ad Hominem (Moo Chele, etc) isn't necessary.

Anyway, am happy to see some of the rare photos of a current First Daughter. I think that the young lady is quite beautiful. She looks like she could be Sudanese, and they (along with the Ethiopians) are some of the most beautiful people in the world, imho.; 8/4/14, 7:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey...blogger....leave those kids alone.; 8/4/14, 7:53 PM
cubanbob said...: It wasn't her idea for dad to run for president. Let the kid be a teenager. Others have snarked here that she is the child of privilege to which I say so what. If her dad wasn't president and she was just a rich kid no one would be commenting but because her dad is the president the kid is subject to being killed or kidnapped simply because who her father is. So enough of the carping about the secret service protection. As anyone who has cared enough to read my comments on this blog I have no love for this president but my disdain for him is purely on idealogical and policy lines and not on personal animus. It really bothers me when people go off on his kids. Say what you will about him but so far there is nothing to indicate that he hasn't been a good father and husband and if the book is true been personally very decent along with his wife to the SS agents that guard them unlike Hillary.; 8/4/14, 8:56 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I'm assuming she's traveling with a friend and the friend's parent is there chaperoning. I don't think she's just escorted by the Secret Service.; 8/4/14, 9:12 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Maybe she has old friends in Chicago and they invited her to come out and stay with them, and there's a parent who goes along to the concert.; 8/4/14, 9:14 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I think it's nice that she's getting the chance to go to Lollapalooza.

I took my sons to many concerts when they were that age. Parents do go along.; 8/4/14, 9:16 PM
Tari said...: And the poor thing listened to Lorde performing live without benefit of auto tune - good grief, the poor child. Worse than Katie Perry by a lot, I'd be willing to bet.

(We were listening to the concert intermittently on satellite radio and my husband kept going back to it, saying "it's like a car wreck, I can't look away." It was dreadful.); 8/4/14, 9:20 PM
SteveR said...: The night of my fifteenth birthday (in NM 1972), I drove with a friend to see Jethro Tull at The Pit in Albuquerque. Festival seating no less. Parents? Are you kidding me?; 8/4/14, 10:08 PM
Be said...: My first concert without parents was to see A-ha at Shea's Buffalo theatre, my sophomore year of HS, I think? (What would make 13 at the time, as I graduated early.) We weren't chaperoned, and we were made fun of, because of it being A-ha. I won the tickets on a late
night contest while studying for a midterm.

My next un chaperoned concert was Yes's Big Generator tour (1987 Fall?) We were in the nosebleed seats. I couldn't get over how many older men were offering us cigarettes, and, more particularly, how many wanted to touch and cuddle.; 8/4/14, 10:24 PM
cubanbob said...: Ann Althouse said...
I'm assuming she's traveling with a friend and the friend's parent is there chaperoning. I don't think she's just escorted by the Secret Service.

8/4/14, 9:12 PM

No doubt true, I rather doubt her parents would allow her to go alone but discreetly she does have secret service protection.; 8/4/14, 10:36 PM
bgates said...: I think it's nice that she's getting the chance to go to Lollapalooza.

Me too. Especially since she's less than two years away from hearing demands that her father force her to enlist so she bears some of the risk of his endless wars.

Right?; 8/4/14, 11:13 PM
Robert Cook said...: I went to my first concert at age 17 in 1972 in Jacksonville, FL, (YES on their "Close to the Edge" tour, with the Eagles as opening act). Just a pal, who drove us...no parents. A year later, a relative concert veteran by then, I flew to Atlanta to see The Who ("Quadrophenia" tour), stayed with high school friends in their freshman year at Georgia Tech.

(Funny: at that Who concert, the opening act was Lynyrd Skynrd, who were very good. It was the only time I ever saw them, even though they were a hometown Jacksonville band who had played my high school a number of times, performing for typical high school dances. But then, I never went to high school dances.); 8/5/14, 7:16 AM