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We're all still waiting for the Obama family to bring home their probably-Portuguese water dog sometime next month. In the meantime, first daughters Malia and Sasha were surprised by their folks after school on Wednesday with this totally sweet swing set. As you can see in the above photo, the play equipment has been installed right outside the windows of the Oval Office—as if scoring a play date at the White House wasn't already the hottest ticket in town.
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Unique childhood is an understatement
There's something poetic about a sweet swing set behind a 12-foot iron fence, guarded by heavily armed Federal agents.
Don't forget the minefield, the hover sharks, and the trained attack facef**king venom bats. The latter we got as a goodwill gift from Vladimir Putin.
Malia is their bat queen.
this is probably some sort of trojan horse installed by Halliburton.
Can I has one?
Killer Swing? Someone rescue those cute little kids!
"I want to go to there!"
Uuuh... Aren't the first daughters a little old for those swings by now? They might have gone for a set maybe a little bigger.
An article said Mrs. Obama swung on one of the swings so it may be big enough. The White House is a fairly large structure as a point of reference.
Wow, if it's big enough to support the FLOTUSs prodigious rump then it must be big enough.
Her ass isn't anywhere as big as Laura Bush's was.
prodigious? hardly.
Unless that's a midget walking in the background, it doesn't look too small to me.
Bitchin' faux tire swing.
I thought that was George Bush's swing set that he left.
Could you change the title? The first thing I saw was "Obama Daughters Get Killed" and my heart skipped a beat. Then I saw the picture and reread the title. Just an idea to maybe change the adjective.
i kinda felt the same thing at first glance.
I would hope if that were to happen - God forbid *spits over shoulder* - DCist could come up with a better headline than "Obama Daughters Get Killed".
That is an event that does not deserve a passive headline...
It appears to be a swing set and tree house in one. I want one!
Frankly, I am disgusted. This monstrosity utterly cheapens the people's house and everything it stands for. The two little brats have plenty of public playgrounds in DC to play in should that need arise.
totally disagree. a regular-person's house would have something like this. we didn't elect a king, we elected a regular guy. anything that makes our president less unique and different from us is a good thing to me.
Absolutely. Let the children of a man who receives about 10 billion death threats a day roam the streets freely. Finding casual hopscotch renderings, playing stickball and putting baseball cards in their spokes.
Or maybe they go to a soda counter for some egg creams? Or catch a play at Ford's Theater with their parents? Whoops!
We elected a regular guy? I voted for Black Jesus.
No No your confused this swing set isn't for those drunken spoiled rotten Bush Twins Jenna and Barbara.
And its not like their Jenna and Barber's Grandfather didn't install a swing for his grandchildren to play on when he was President.
Or how about the putting green, or the running track, or the outside pool or the basketball court, or the tennis court, or the Truman balcony, or the East and West Wings, or the solarium on the third floor, hell even the whole third floor which was added.
Jealous? Just because your childhood stank doesn't mean that others should have to suffer.
This monstrosity utterly cheapens the people's house and everything it stands for.
Cheapens the people's house? Given the last 8 years, it's still a big step up. Save the heavy-handed outrage for something relevant.
Wowsa. Are you really this big a douche? You're putting us on, right?
This is about as interesting and newsworthy as the article revealing that Obama prefers Coke to Pepsi.
Now all those street fanatics have more reasons to hop over the White House fence.
What did the Bush Twins play with?
Me?
A bottle of Jack Daniel's, a hand full of ecstasy and a Marine Security Guard.
an 18" dildo named "Jeb"?
daddy's collection of handguns and his autographed copy of "My Pet Goat"?
all the booze in the White House's liquor cabinet?
The Bush girls had a swing. Of course, the media didn't really report on it and they kept it indoors. And like alot of people, they eventually got tired of it. But yeah, they had a swing.
It looks like daddy got his girls a make believe wrecking ball on that swing set. Maybe he hopes to teach them allegorical lessons about smashing injustice, entrenched political values from another generation, and the Republican machine.
Or, maybe they'll turn out to be young demon children who make SS agents line up for a daily ritual of who gets their junk smashed. "Shut the fuck up, Special Agent STFU! My daddy owns this beast, which means he owns you, which means I own you, which means one of you is about to get kick in the ass from the front side!"
All of which is to say, I hope one of their new playmates is Little Gordon Ramsey, the youngest, bestest food sadist out there.
Wow, that swingset rocks! I would totally play on that and I'm only slightly younger than Michelle. Having shopped for swingsets a couple of years ago I'd wager that their set cost somewheres around 5K? It's adorable that the three swings are at varying heights, two lower ones for the girls and one higher one for the Barack or Michelle...