I love how engaging the President is with his daughters!!

Man their lives are a-changing. They can’t go to the sandwich shop without getting mobbed by folks. But when you’re in the limelight like that, those are the things you have to deal with. I wonder where they were. It looks like a regular sandwich shop around the way. Looks like they’re enjoying their vacation…

They are such a beautiful family. Malia looks like her dad. I love them. They put a smile on my face. It’s nice to see such a good example of a dad.

Awwww how sweet…

Bill Clinton f*cked on his wife and he was lauded as the first Black President. I even heard ignorant Negroes claiming him as the first black president because he ate McDonalds; he plays the saxophone, and cheated on his wife - and they all laughed and thought it was funny. If you asked me, that was one of the biggest insults to the Black race.

Now look, we have a real Black man who adores his wife, loves his children to death and in one swipe to have shattered all stereotypes and people, including some blacks, are saying Obama isn’t black enough. Do y’all see how f*cked up this sh!t really is? Black people’s minds are in a brown paper bag for white people to take it where they want

Yes my president,enjoying his vacation. I love that he is still a good father despite the craziness around him. And yes I love to vacation in Hawaii as well.

puleeze comb they heads somebody!!

There is nothing wrong with Malia’s hair. Sasha is a lil frizzy but hey she is a kid. The hair can’t be perfect all the time like Michelle’s. They are kids TETE. They are flawless regardless.

IM WITH YOU TETE. I LOVE OBAMA BUT COMB THOSE BABIES HEADS! LOL

Did anybody see our Prez with his hat backwards? I was dang he fine. Michelle is lucky her man is our President very affectionate and a good father. I like that the girls hair is natural. Although, I still want my lace front but I wear my hair au nappy y natural.

@ # 8 My daughter hair is like Sasha’s, it’s really soft and curly and even if she get’s her braided it still will fizz up. But like you said they’re just kids for goodness sake!!!! Give them a break!!!!!!

Anyway glad to see my president taking vacation before he’s in office cause he has a lot of shit on his plate.

Malia do look like her dad. Their life’s are changing really quick. Its good seeing him with his daughters.

Just from Sasha’s smile, I can tell she likes to get into a little trouble, lol.

We have a president that is uniquely different from any of late. He doesnt belong to that small powerful upper crest society, who run have run this country for so long.

Petty minds look at the photos of Barack and his daughters and the first thing that commands their small minds is hair. WOW It is never too late to elevate above hair and nails. \
@TETE I bet his little girls would know the word you should use is “their” not “they”

@14

Touche’

Every time I see him and reflect how he’s the president I’m in awe every time. Love this man!

I want to see a full day of the Obama family. I LOVE THEM

Someone make a show

I WOULD NOT CHANGE A THING ABOUT THOSE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRLS. IT MAKE ME SICK TO THINK THAT WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD PEOPLE COULD BE SO DAMN STUPID.. WE WILL NEVER GET ANYWHERE WHEN PEOPLE MINDS ARE SO PETTY. THE OBAMAS ARE A BLESSING TO US IN THE WORLD FOR PEOPLE TO BE SO STUPID IS JUST MEAN. PRESIDENT OBAMA IN FIRST LADY PLEASE DON’T LET THESE FOLKS CHANGE WHO YOU ARE AS A PRESCIOUS GIFT TO US FROM GOD. FOR THE MOST PART WE ALL LOVE YOU GUYS YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEAUTIFUL THERE MAYBE THREE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE STUPID HATERS AND WE WILL BRUSH THEM OFF. ENJOY YOUR VACATION HAVE A BLESSED TIME AND SEE YOU ALL ON JANUARY 20TH 2009.

Damn. It must be nice to have a father…. :{

I still cant believe this man got elected president. WOW..!!!

for the love of god…how are people able to get that close to the president???…in open space for that matter??

WTF??!!?!?!

is it wrong to love our president? great man!

Thank you, #14!!! Sheesh. These are children and even though you comb their hair, they go out and play so it can get messed up. It can’t stay in place all the time. Boy, we can be petty sometimes. The girls look just fine.

AWWW…. HOW NICE

UMMM #19, ARE YOU GONNA BE OKAY??

Beautiful thing!!!!

I am related to this man …………. I will tell the kids everything from this blog and maybe they will start to be like how yo’ll want them to be i.e. rihanna, paris hilton, britney, miley cyrus

1. I like seeing men out with their kids

2. These kids need a personal hair stylist cause those heads aren’t cutting it. Ya’ll know you would NOT send your own kids out looking like that.

3. Where the hell is the secret service cause he’s a lil to close to the public right now. Its cool to try to be normal but everybody ain’t happy he’s going to be president.
I need him to make it the inauguration causeall my travel is paid for with no refunds!

HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!!!

dang i agree with the other bloggers comb that child’s hair or put some “let’s jam” or something on it to hold those frizzies down LOL!! it is not that serious people this is a blog are all black people going to proclaim their blackness and be on their “best behavior ” now that the present is bi-racial hell you should be and have been doing that all the time!!!!
HOLLLLAAA!!!

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with the childrens’ hair. The hair is not knotty from sleeping on it and it doesn’t look like they just woke up and let it go. They have manageable hair and they were probably running around playing all day in the Hawaii sun. You people make it sound like Barack and Michelle are not taking care of their girls.

It must be nice to wear shorts and flip flops this time of year.

Good luck and God bless the soon to be first family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhNkpy8RvaI.

Obama 4 life this is sick!!

Michelle has been keeping a low profile on this vacay. I have been looking at all their pics and except a few that she shows up in, she has not been out and about with them. I’m sure because her hair is not picture perfect cos I can get like that on vacay when i avoid the cameras.

@ 24 Creamy. What do u mean? Im going to be okay. I just saw the father daughter pics and got a lil upset.. Lol

I’m with #30 and laughing at @14!! So true..
and @19.. Even if we don’t have dads.. we can still be successful.. remember, Obama’s dad was not in his life. So, don’t let it hold you back, alright?

I love Michelle though.. Where is she? (sad face) lol

didn’t realize u were #33 too yeah.. don’t let it get to you… maybe you can change that for your own family in the future when u start one. g/l

Jesus all this bickering about hair. Let it go.

I just hope Barack and his team think rationally and give themselves long term plans on how to resolve this damn recession. Not to mention the withdrawal from Iraq. Hell there’s another hotbed of terrorism breeding in Pakistan right now. The Obama administration needs to destroy out the heart of these problems—the madrassas which are indoctrinating young minds with extremist views and inciting violence.

On a lighte note, tt’s a good sight seeing this wonderful BLACK FAMILY! Hope everything goes well for his inauguration.

Now that is awesome, I love to see President Elect Obama with his daughters.

@ 35. Yeah u r right. Its just hard to think about whats missing in ur life. U know?? But i hope to be a happy, successful person and have a family of my own.. Yall going make me cry.

EVERYBODY KEEP SAYING COMB THEIR HAIR , FOR GOODNESS SAKE THEY ARE ON VACATION ENJOYING THERE LAST DAYS OF FREEDOM……. LET THEM BE!

For those of you making negative comments about the girls hair. It just tells me that that you don’t have little girls. I have a 4 year old …and the only time her hair looks perfect is only within a few hours after I wash and braid it.

Keep in mind they are young and they are on vacation! Who looks perfect every moment of the day. DAMN!!!

I think black women are too conditioned about relaxing their hair. There is nothing wrong the Sasha and Mahlia’s hair. When I went natural my mom did not like it. I get more positive responses from people who aren’t black than from black people.

I love my President!!!!!!!!

Aint nothing wrong w/ them child’s heads. They were prob in the pool and we all know what the pool does to black folks heads. lol

19. WHAT I SAY GO’ES…..I was thinking the same exact thing and i’m almost in tears.

This man and his family! I’ve never cared so much about someone I didn’t know, TO ME he and his family is The American Dream.

love the obama’s!!!

Leave Malia and Natasha’s hair alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are more important things than their hair.

I luv the Obama family and Barack is soooo cool and down to earth!

I WISH THAT THEY JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE AND GIVE THEM SPACE TO ENJOY THERE VACTION THEY MIGHT NOT BE COMMING TO HAWIIE FOR A WHILE.AM SURE THAT THEY WILL COME AGIAN FOR THE HOLIDAYS NOT THANKSGIVEING THEY ALWAYS SPENT THAT AT HOME WILL NOW HOME WILL BE IN DC.

HIS LITTLE GIRLS ARE GROWWING UP FAST NEXT TIME WE ALL SEE THEM THEY WILL BE MURCH OLDER. AND THERE FATHER WILL STILL LOOK GOOD.

so glad he has time to spend with his children too cute!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/53438297643560a3/

Beyonce’s latest “God Bless America”! really hawt and she done a excellent job on this track!

Some people are dumb concreteloop didn’t post the other pics of them coming from the pool thats why their hair is frizzy they went swimming and out for ice-cream UGH…PPL Focus on the wrong things

I’m here amazed at these comment about these children’s hair lol you people are amazing

haha he looks so funny in that first thumbnail! lol still cute nonetheless. aww daddy’s girls =)

@ Linda. .. beautifully spoken.

I guess it’s official…light-skinned brothers are back!

i desperately want to spot them while im back home in hawaii!!! but he be going to random places!!!! lol

Our first “BLACK PRESIDENT” , and all you people can talk about is there hair, so much for “CHANGE” in 2009

CORRECTION “talk about their hair”

on a more serious note, i think the paps should cool off the obamas….where the security at????

Obamas are the perfect image of the black family.

Nothing is wrong with the kids hair.Like mentioned before…kids play.They’d never be able to be a kid if a personal stylist is up in their heads all the time worried about their hair instead of playtime.

Oh and these pics are beautiful.It shows how active Obama is in his daughters lives.

Cute girls but, come on Michelle comb sasha’s head! Malia isn’t too far behind from needing a comb either.

If it was anybody else’s daughters some of you would have a lot to say, so I don’t see what’s the big deal, and Michelle gets no pass from me AT ALL, and yes i said Michelle……those little girls heads always needed some Just For Me and a comb from day one, it’s nothing new!

Sasha’s head ALWAYS looks a mess( that head aint been combed in days), sorry folks, but it’s the truth! Michelle knows better than that…My daughter would never step out in public with her head lookin like that, vacation or not. I’m a hairstylist, and women in the shop have been talking about this from Day 1 since laying eyes on those girls….Michelle needs to stop those girls by my shop ASAP, that’s just ridiculous! It has nothing to do with a personal stylist, playin, or whatever else some of yall are sayin…..my little girl knows she better not EVER let nobody touch her head after it’s been done, and I know a lot of the sisters feel me on that! Just keep it real…..

@ Greatestloveofall

“Terrorism” was a campaign/political tactic used to scare the American public and the rest of the world into backing the Bush administration when they wanted to invade Iraq. They used the terms terrorism/terrorist quite frequently to keep you fearful so that you would submit to thier will. Basically your government controls and brainwashes you.

Not all Madrassas’ are radical. Most of them only teach boys and girls about their religion and are there because schools in the country are either lacking or underdeveloped. A lot of individuals are ignorant to the functions of Madrassas’ because of the way the American media portrayed them, they even went so far as to say Barack attended one in Hawaii which is completely false. They new how we percieved Madrassas’ so associating Barack with an already negative school would make him look like the “terrorist” they claimed he was.

Another reason why they are termed “violent” or “radical” is because they are tought to refute and defend their beliefs against the western ideologies of democracy, feminism and capitalism (which is about to go down the drain). If another man’s ideologies were forced down your throat, wouldn’t you want to protect and preserve your culture and beliefs? Just because it’s for America doesn’t mean it’s for the rest of the world.

OMG PEOPLE HAIR GET REAL LIKE YOU DIDNT HAVE HAIR LIKE THAT COME ON .

IM GOING TO AGREE WITH 21 HOW THE HECK THEY ARE GETTING SO CLOSE TO HIM .

THERE IS NO PRESIDENT I REALLY EVRY SAW THAT I COULD LITERALL TOUCH HIM OR GET CLOSE ENOUGH WITH A WEAPON LIKE THOSE IN THOSE PICTURES.
NOT EVEN BUSH
iI THINK THEY NEED TO PUT MORE PEOPLE ON HIM

I HAVE TO SAY OBAMA AND HS FAMILY ARE LOVELY TO WATCH A VERY GREAT EXAMPLE FOR FUTURE BLACK FAMILIES
WE SHOULD BE REAL PROUD

AND STOP COMMENTING ON RIDICULOUS SH $%^&^& T
BUT IF THEY WAS HALLE BERRY YOU WOULD BE LIKE SHE HAVE NICE HAIR
SO STOP THE MADNESS CAUSE YOU PEOPLE ON HERE SOUND REAL IGNORANT

COME ON BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT HIM NOT HIS KIDS HAIR CAUSE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NOTHING AND
IF YOU WASNT BLACK COMMENTING ON THAT RIDICULOUS COMMENTS ON
T HE HAIR OF HIS CHILDREN GO COMMENT ON YOUR OWN PEOPLE HAIR AND BLACK PEOPLE STOP RESPONDING TO THAT CRAP STOP LETTING PEOPLE DEGRADE US LIKE THAT .
THANK YOU
AND WHAT

OOPS ABOUT TYPOS IM TRYING TO DO TWO THINGS AT ONCE HERE ANYWAYS SORRY ABOUT TYPOS

@5 How do you know Obama won’t or hasn’t cheated on his wife? You know as much about this man as you know about me, which nothing. I agree with you about that Bill Clinton comment. I find it disturbing that people find infidelity something to be desirably linked to black people. Then again there’s a lot things I find screwy about this culture of ours. But that’s another story. LOL!!

Great Family Man…Awesome

wonderful pic of obama with his little lady obamas. i have seen many pics of the girls, especially sasha, where their hair was groomed to the eyeballs–particularly during specific occassions when it should have been. but the girls are on vacation and as somebody else said, a little girl’s hair is easily mussed within about three hours or so after doing it. anybody that has a daughter knows this to be true. sasha and malia look like normal little girls at play and there’s nothing wrong with that.

i admit… i wear wigs…. but when it’s off…my hair is natural… i love my nappy roots… proud to sport the nappiness!!! it’s hott…. and it’s me!!! God didn’t make me with straight hair… or long flowy hair…. he made it nice and natural!!! whose to say what’s “good” hair and what’s not?!?!? hair is hair is hair is hair is hair!!!!!! whether it’s nappy…straight…curly…frizzy….. long….short…. etc etc…… it’s hair!!! GET OVER IT!!! WE ARE BLACK PEOPLE…. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD…. GET THE F*** OVER IT!!!

i forgot to put my WOOT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT at the end…. so WOOT WOOOOOOOOOOT

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@ 63–It pains me that as a Black woman and hairstylist (I have a couple in my family), you seem to have no appreciation for the strength and beauty of our natural hair. I’ve never thought that all or any of us NEED to “relax” our hair or cover it up with someone else’s for us to be fly and as fabulous as we inherently are. I’ve been natural all my life, except for color and I only blow it out a few times a year for fun. Sasha’s hair looks like mine when I rock a bun or ponytail and curly hair (loose or tight curls) frizzes. Period. I don’t goop my hair up with gel and wax and whatever–I just let God’s weather do what it wants to my hair and I’m ALWAYS together. When it’s wild and free (think early Kelis), I get props from us and other races as well constantly. We have what some of us thought we might never see…..an African-American President of the US…..and all people are focused on is the natural hair of his daughters. I, for one, hope this encourages the next generation of young black girls/women to be proud of themselves and the looks that God gave them and not feel forced to alter it to conform to any group (Black or Caucasian/mainstream). Peace

Coco, thank you for your entry. It is refreshing to have an intelligent conversation about people who will actually affect our lives versus an entertainer. With that being said, I hope we as a people don’t feed into that white folks hype about what is considered beautiful. We don’t know if those girls went swimming, if its humid or what the conditions are. They look adorable. We unfortunately are in an era where black women would prefer to destroy their hair through weaves and relaxers instead of embracing its natural pattern. I don’t understand how in 2008, with all of our edumacation (spelled it that way on purpose), we still feed into the hype about our features somehow being less than whatever the norm is suppose to be.

@14, i agree touche lol

coco, preach girl! lol

did anybody talk about jenna and barbara bush’s hair? i didn’t think so…moving on…

i agree with most of you, where’s secret service? but then again, these are just four pictures so we don’t know what was really happening and they are in hawaii so maybe it’s different lol

that is sweet for you to take out your daughters without mommy witch means father daughter day.

#45 their names are Malia and Sasha

I am really sad by the ignorance spewed on this page regarding these Beautiful girl’s hair!!! Come on now black women, we need to raise the level alot HIGHER!!!! I suppose region has alot to do with it- I will probably be slapped for this generalization.. but Don’t care.. here it goes… You women from the South need to come off that uptight stress about Hair!! I’m just as concious about my hair as the next black woman.. actually,as the next Woman in general! but you need to realize you are NOT your hair!! you’re so much more than that… and to hear you constantly barage any hair out of place on a child or woman’s head.. is just UGLY!! you sound UGLY and it just gives an image of you sittin there with an UGLY scowl on your face staring at the computer… Now… is that what you want??!?! I know you are intelligent classy woman.. now Act like it!! and if you’re not.. well… LEARN TO BE!!

her hair is combed. it’s just frizzy. and i can’t believe someone actually said that they need a perm. THEY ARE LITTLE GIRLS. i hate when black women perm their little kid’s hair and then lament that the girl’s hair won’t grow. i’m so happy that my mother made me wait until i was a teen to perm my hair because she let me make my own decision (i ended up deciding to stop perming my hair as well). we need to stop being so obsessed about hair

on another note. beautiful family

Instead of enjoying the Norman Rockwell moment that is “A President and his Daughters on Vacation we are bickering about the girls’ hair, SO PETTY!! Who gives a flying squirrel’s nuts that their hair isn’t up to some of your standards. OUR President (A BLACK MAN) is tooling around town ON VACATION with his daughters. Maybe Michelle was asleep when they left the house. You are so quick to find fault with something, that you totally MISS the beauty. MORE men should spend quality time with their daughters, nappy headed or not. They are in HAWAII and anyone who has visited HAWAII knows that the humidity is crazy and will frizz neatly combed tresses. Get Over it, Move on, and leave the girls alone.

It’s only ignorant based on the fact that these little girls are Obama’s daughters to most of you…..Like I stated before, if it was Angelina Jolie’s nappy headed little girl (god knows she needs to do something to that baby’s head IMMEDIATELY before it does anymore damage to her hair than it already has), some of you same people would be all over her! It don’t change the fact that Michelle gets no pass from me as i stated before, these girls heads ALWAYS looked like this from DAY 1, not just on this particular vacation….NO EXCUSE FOR IT AT ALL, if she’s not going to perm it, at least put a hot comb to it and keep it kept up……whats so ignorant about that? I like Obama just like the rest of you guy’s, but i’m not obsessed like the majority of you are….Some of you black folks kill me lol! I REPEAT…..THOSE LITTLE GIRLS HEADS ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS, not just this particular vacation!! I digress…..

Ok, hes the pres now, he needs to get those girls hair done

@ Tanya, you are so ignorant and do nothing but contribute to self-hate that is among black women. Black women criticize EVERYTHING about what is completely natural about black women, especially hair. There is nothing wrong with LITTLE CHILDREN being LITTLE CHILDREN and having their hair do what it does while they are playing. Why does the hair need to be bone straight or permed? What is wrong with loving your NATURAL hair, God made black people’s hair this way, so learn to love it. I would NOT put a perm on a 7 year old girls’ head, that’s just irresponsible in my opinion. As someone with long, flat ironed but natural hair, any EDUCATED hair stylist knows natural hair is typically HEALTHIER than permed hair, and you hsould not perm a little girls hair.

why don’t you advocate sasha get skin bleach too so she can be lighter because being DAT DARK SKIN SHO AINT CUTE YALL!!! :/SARCASM

@tanya why would you hotcomb a child’s hair? is this an african- american thing? my family is caribbean and they would never perm or hotcomb a child’s hair. a child is meant to be a child and there is nothing wrong with our hair. if the child gets older and wants to perm it so that they can try a different look, then whatever. idk if it’s a culture thing but i just don’t agree with that

Tanya,

Personally speaking, I was not defending these girls becuase they are Barack Obama’s daugheters. I’m defending them because they are kids and there is nothing wrong with their hair. Sasha and Malia do not have nappy hair. If you look at the damn pictures you will see Sasha has some strands coming out of her ponytail. That does not mean her hair was not combed that day. It just means she was out in about playing all day and her hair wasn’t as perfect as it was when she first got it done. Malia often wears cornbraids in her hair. I assume Michelle has her hair done this way so she wouldn’t have to worry about the fuss. Sasha is only seven and hair looks a little thinner than Malia’s so mayber her parents didn’t think it was a wise choice for her to have braids.

Who has the time to worry about what their kid’s hair looks like every second of the day especially when you have such an active schedule.

And for the record, Zahara’s hair is not nappy. For you to say that about a child speaks volumes about YOU!

Were about to go into 2009 and black people are still talking about hair texture as if it really matters. I am so thru with you self-hating fools.

You say you’re happy that we finally have a black president but then you go and make the silliest remarks about the man’s family. This isn’t even constructive criticism. Petty, petty, petty!!!!

I can see some black people now when this man officially takes office. They’ll be picking apart every damn thing they wear and how the hair is done. But that is to be expected from envious self-hatred individuals.

I didn’t want to get into this foolish discussion about hair, but Tanya’s comments just broke me SMH. So sad, we are almost 10 years into this new century and black women still are suffering from that hangover from slavery. The fact this is one of the better black blogs out there, doesn’t prevent it from filtering out comments of ignorance and self-loathing.

What is all this shit about combing hair or giving it a perm?? There is NO SUCH THING AS “GOOD HAIR” AND “NAPPY HAIR”. It is just a distinction made by uneducated, untravelled fools. You should be happy you’re allowed to be seen in public. Women in countries like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia have to wear burkhas outdoors. Consider that liberty, yet complain about how somebody’s hair (and child’s at that!) isn’t up to your white, European standards of beauty.

No other group of people have these issues.

Our beautiful President elect is out on vacation with his children…and all you can say is that they need their hair done….REALLY…..IGNORANCE IS BLISS….even going into 2009…

FYI….if you have children…their hair looks great for a HOT vacation day…my daughter’s hair would have been twice as bad….

The entire family looks great….

OMG YALL…. THEY ARE IN HAWAII!!! IM SURE THEY DO LOTS OF SWIMMING THERE. WHY WOULD MICHELLE KEEP COMBING THEIR HAIR EVERYTIME THEY GET OUT OF THE WATER? THEY ARE KIDS, THEY DONT CARE HOW THEIR HAIR LOOKS. YALL NEED TO CHILL OUT. IF YALL WERE IN HAWAII WOULD U GET YOUR HAIR DONE EVERYTIME YOU GOT OUT OF THE POOL, JUST TO GET IT MESSED UP AGAIN FROM SWIMMING??? DONT THINK SO.

Ignore Tonya!! She is a hairdresser. She thinks EVERYONE should get a perm and weekly wash and sets.

tanya probably suggests her customers get their hair permed every 3 weeks. i bet her customers hair is falling out and no longer than 4 inches, though bone straight is all that matters LOL

euro-centric thinking even still smh

The secret services do not protect our president well. I won’t be surprised if something happens to him tomorrow…Can you imagine ?!?!?!?

I totally agreee with #80/PETTY PEOPLE. They are so ignorant it’s a shame. They are little girls for crying out loud. They play and their hair gets messy, so what! And you know these clowns don’t know anything about the humidy in Hawaii and what it will do to your hair. They are probably some grown folks that have never traveled outside of their hood. A vacation to some of these clowns is going to Vegas over and over again. Lol So pathetic. They need to wake up and get a life fast! White people don’t have to put us down. Some of ya’ll fools are doing it to yourselves. We are about to have our first black president and some of you all are still on the same ignorant BS.. Please leave Obama’s girls ALONE!

“Aww,” is all I can say.