Barack Obama puts family first ahead of White House summit by taking kids to school

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Times Online

For a man tasked with changing the world and the way we see it, Barack Obama is making an effort to maintain a semblance of normality in his family life in the week after his historic election victory.

Although he is due to make his first visit to the White House as President-elect later today to meet George W Bush Mr Obama still found time this morning to make the school-run with daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven, at their school in Chicago.

Pictured in the dark blue joggers and cap in which he has made his security-flanked trips to the gym this week, Mr Obama was seen helping his girls out of the car, before giving them a kiss and sending them on their way to school.

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In between choosing his administration and planning to avert economic armageddon, Mr Obama found time to spend three hours at dinner with wife Michelle in their favourite restaurant in Chicago on Saturday night, as a couple who have made no secret of their tenderness and closeness throughout the election campaign.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5124827.ece

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. An intelligent and curious man...

Openly affectionate to his family and others, one who does not attemt to hide out in large executive mansions or Hollywood-set "farms", articulate, engaged, appreciated by a hopeful and expectant world...

Will the American people be able to process this change, after 8 years of really bad comedy and farce?

[amdezurik]

2. if he had been brought up like that

even dumbaya might have turned out almost human...

[AlbertCat]

7. C'mon....

...Dubya's girls got fake IDs so they could be drunks too! There's a lotta love there!

[amdezurik]

8. the kind of 'love' you really don't want...

[bdamomma]

3. what a good dad he is.

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. It's SO NICE to have a President who isn't a despot or sociopath. n/t

J

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. There are four pics at the link, but I just love this one. So classy.

[JDwho]

6. He continues to display extraordinary character.

I really admire him and his devotion to his family. I believe his devotion to this country has the same strong foundation.

[uppityperson]

9. I am glad they are taking time now since in 3 months he'll be very busy.

Once he gets into office I am sure his time will be more severely limited and I'm glad they are taking the time now.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. Just like Nixon. Highly focused, but not obsessive. Ahem.... Poor old Dickie.

Like so many other Presidents, his record in relation to South America and elsewhere was beyond hideous, yet some-one described him as the last liberal Republican; and maybe he was in some ways.

[4lbs]

11. Hey, in the last picture, what does he have underneath his arm?

Those look like newspapers.

Funny, I couldn't tell for sure, because I never saw * with them.

:shrug:

[tanyev]

12. That's nothing. Sarah needs a special Louis Vuitton suitcase to carry all the newspapers she reads.

[meow2u3]

13. Pres-elect Obama demonstrates REALfamily values

Actions speak louder than words, cons!

[Wizard777]

14. Democrats the family values party. Whodathunkit?

We can still use our redneck dictionaries too.