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  • Nicholas Carey
    Flâneur • Seattle
    • Feb 2001
    • 20389

    But Dad...

    All the other kids get to

    Now, following Obama's veto, thousands of parents will get all excited. The veto will be imposed to everyone by default. Why? Because Obama said so.


    The daughters of Barack Obama, the president of the United States of America, have been banned from Facebook. A decision one can understand and share. They are the daughters of the president and exposing their activities, friendships and habits is totally unsafe for someone in that role.
    “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction,” Goebbels said as the Nazis rose to power—one of those quotes that sound apocryphal but are not.​
    — Adam Gopnik
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