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| How much of dad's blasts will land on son's shoulders |
He
fidgeted and squirmed and seemed to talk at times out of turn, but nothing that
I haven’t seen many other kids of that age do.
SO
I CAN kind of comprehend the offense being taken by some at people who dare to
criticize the youngest of the Trump clan. There is a sense that we’re really
focusing our ire at Donald J. by going after the most vulnerable of the family.
But
I also have to question the motives of those who want to get all upset at
anyone who dares point out the behavior of Barron – which from the bits I saw
on television did border on the type of antics that, if I had done them as a
kid, would have gotten me a threat of the back of my mother’s hand across my
face.
How
many of these same people all eager to praise Barron Trump and defend his honor
are the same people all upset that there weren’t tons of reports about the
Obama daughters.
No
one could possibly be as clean as Malia and Sasha were during their eight years
of living in the White House, is what they want to believe. It has to be a
cover-up of illicit activity by the Obama brats, as they want to see it.
OF
COURSE, THERE also are the outlandish stories that some people like to spew
(and claim that accounts denying their legitimacy are the ultimate in “fake
news”) about how the Obama daughters are adopted as part of a cover-up over the
phoniness of the Obama marriage.
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| Would Barron's defenders have protected Obama girls? |
In
those stories, now former First Lady Michelle Obama is transvestite and “Barry”
is just the ultimate freak! Nonsense, to be sure, but I wonder how many of
those ideologues willing to defile an entire family’s reputation are now talking
about the righteousness of la familia
Trump.
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| Even Chelsea defended Barron |
Some
will say that protecting Barron is the same as the way that former first
daughter Chelsea Clinton was protected from the public eye. Heck, Chelsea
herself has issued statements in recent days saying people should back off the
Trump kid.
But
there are others who will claim it was wrong to keep hands off of Chelsea in
those days. I’d wonder how many think only conservative ideologue kids deserve
a private life. Which in my mind cheapens the whole issue.
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| Patrick had his own incident as a kid |
BESIDES,
THERE ARE times when a political kid’s activities get into the public eye.
I
still remember back to 1992 when Patrick Daley, the son of Mayor Richard M.,
used his parents’ trip to New York as an excuse to have a party at the family
home in Grand Beach, Mich.
Like
many teen parties, it got out of hand. There was property damage, a shotgun was
brandished and one teen wound up getting hit over the head with a baseball bat.
I
remember thinking at the time this didn’t deserve all that much attention; how
many teen parties filled with stupid antics got coverage. Although I remember
being told by some of my reporter colleagues that Daley, the mayor, had a
sanctimonious attitude toward others in embarrassing circumstances, and
therefore deserved similar treatment.
PERHAPS
THAT IS the same line of thinking some are taking toward Trump. Although it may
well be that getting that incident so thoroughly out in the open was to
Patrick’s benefit. He’s 41 now, and most certainly doesn’t have this skeleton
in his closet. It’s truly a thing of the past.
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| Has Amy outgrown youthful protection? |
At
what point, however, does a political kid become “fair game” for criticism? I
wonder if Amy Blagojevich is about to learn that lesson.
She’s
understandably P-O’ed that no one is taking seriously the desire of her father,
former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for a reduction of his 14-year prison
sentence seriously.
But
using Facebook this week to say that now-former President Obama was “selfish
and spineless” for not granting his request for a pardon or sentence
commutation? Those are just the kind of “fighting words” that are likely to
make her the target of criticism herself – political “kid” or not.
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