Discussion: GOP Staffer Apologizes For Telling Obama Daughters To Show 'A Little Class'

system1 · November 30, 2014, 2:06pm

Discussion for article #230652

anniew · November 30, 2014, 2:13pm

The fact that she needed to pray to realize that what she said was so mean spirited is telling.

buford · November 30, 2014, 2:20pm

Apology not accepted…fuckwad…

antisachetdethe · November 30, 2014, 2:22pm

They should be dignified, like Jenna and Tonica

antisachetdethe · November 30, 2014, 2:33pm

Who can forget the Bush daughter (aged 21) in the back seat of the Presidential limousine?

castorita · November 30, 2014, 2:34pm

Just imagine the uproar if a Democrat called the Palin kids trailer trash for their behavior: brawling, cussing, getting pregnant out of wedlock…! The Palins would immediately play the victims and cry to the press. The Obama’s…not so much.

antisachetdethe · November 30, 2014, 2:34pm

This is the same brilliant Elizabeth Lautner who Twattered her love of shagging

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/no-gop-rep-really-doesnt-love-shagging-his-aide-does/thu-08072014-123pm

antisachetdethe · November 30, 2014, 2:35pm

Lautner’s former boss? Deadbeat dad Rep. Joe Walsh

don · November 30, 2014, 2:36pm

Yada yada yada, stupid republican bitch.

anniew · November 30, 2014, 2:38pm

Their clothes are normal, completely acceptable and age appropriate. Trouble is, it’s back to the old thing that many people see black children as much older than they really are. Sasha is 13, but apparently to the staffer she looks like she should be at a bar. Ugh.

I also hate that the pics showing the girls laughing and smiling with their father during the same event are not the ones being spread around.

henryauvil · November 30, 2014, 2:42pm

You have to give her credit though. At least her statement displayed genuine self-awareness and regret, unlike the typical Republican “I’m sorry if anyone was quote-offended-unquote ‘apology’”. I give her props for her humanity–a rare thing in today’s GOP.

antisachetdethe · November 30, 2014, 2:44pm

She only apologized after being savaged on social media. She did this as an attempted PR recovery. Interesting that your inaugural post would be to defend the indefensible.

randyabraham · November 30, 2014, 2:47pm

I wonder how many hours of “prayer” were required to make this shrew understand her ignorant, hateful screed was wrong and demeaning to the office she holds?

harposnarx · November 30, 2014, 2:57pm

Lauten apologized on Friday in a Facebook post that she also later deleted.

Nothing screams sincerity more than the delete key.

Maybe she took a poll at the Bible and Policy Study and the Christianist posse, ignoring their own spawn’s sloth, could not live with “apologizing” to the Blahs in the White House.

To these moral defectives, nothing says RETREAT more than an apology, even a bullsh*t Gooper one.

enon · November 30, 2014, 2:57pm

After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents and re-reading my words online

sooooo… a communications aide doesn’t understand how publicly criticizing the teenage daughters of the president – while throwing in a nasty shot at the parents – is possibly not the classiest thing to do…

sherlock1 · November 30, 2014, 2:57pm

Oh…if ONLY Sasha and Malia could comport themselves like those Republican mavens of good taste and decorum…Willow and Bristol.

I swear to gawwd’…It’s ALWAYS “Opposite Day” at the GOP.

trippin · November 30, 2014, 3:03pm

I won’t post the links to photos of Jenna taking off her bikini bottom under her skirt in full public view, but they’re out there for anyone to Google. Real classy, that one.

henryauvil · November 30, 2014, 3:03pm

I think what she said about the Obamas was repellent and stupid, and I am not “defending” it. I merely pointed out that she offered a genuine apology, which is rare on her side of the fence. If you can’t accept an apology, no matter the motive behind it, you can’t claim the higher ground. Maybe she’ll reflect on the ugliness and dogma of the worldview she’s adopted, and decide to change. If you don’t want to encourage that possibility, then you’re obviously content with a perpetual bitter partisan divide. The Sarah Palins of the world can never apologize or admit they were wrong, and the Mitt Romneys of the world believe “no apologies” is a mark of character. Call me naive, but I hope progressives are bigger and better than that. But some of the bitchery and snark on here seems to be right on her level.

jalus · November 30, 2014, 3:04pm

When you write about a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old, calling them classless and telling them they look like they belong in a bar, you are simply not a nice person.
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The Twitter backlash was just the beginning; things are likely not going to be great for Ms. Lauten when she walks into the office on Monday. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.

elisa_d · November 30, 2014, 3:06pm

She offered the apology, then deleted it. No replacement, either.