http://twitter.com/#!/mamaswati/status/445586275383652352

What’s wrong with ThinkProgress? How much time have you got?

In case you missed it, ThinkProgress isn’t terribly good at thinking:

http://twitter.com/#!/thinkprogress/status/445585257203777536

In her piece, “The Obama Administration has turned the parental into the political,” TP’s Tara Culp-Ressler addresses the Obama administration’s penchant for using “the language of parenting as a tool to argue for policy.” She acknowledges that there’s criticism of the paternalistic approach, but that’s as far as she’s willing to go. She doesn’t seem to have a problem with it. In fact, she thinks the Obamas have done a pretty good job:

The approach of acting the parent isn’t a perfect strategy, especially when it comes to women’s issues. But both Obama and his wife have been able to largely come across as genuine, and that’s thanks to their ability to undermine assumptions about them and their race. For politicians who are always expected to be “twice as good” — and, in some ways, have embraced this framing for the black community — it’s perhaps not a surprise that they’ve chosen to double down on this aspect of family values.

Ugh. Not a surprise, maybe. But it’s pretty sickening nonetheless.

http://twitter.com/#!/JGreenDC/status/445587120779194368

http://twitter.com/#!/teeocee/status/445587883974344704
http://twitter.com/#!/SonnyBunch/status/445589747256541185

http://twitter.com/#!/BenHowe/status/445586777848676352

Smells just as rotten, though.

http://twitter.com/#!/jedditelol/status/445590220524621824

Just because the Obamas insist on treating us like children doesn’t make them our parents, let alone good parents.

http://twitter.com/#!/jenjhall/status/445592199984848896
http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/445587971635298305
http://twitter.com/#!/iowahawkblog/status/445589039559606273
http://twitter.com/#!/MistressOfSham/status/445592689581359104
http://twitter.com/#!/K_P_Brown/status/445588222325051392

The Obama administration wouldn’t be caught dead doing that.

http://twitter.com/#!/exjon/status/445589664938749954

This whole damn thing is creepy.

http://twitter.com/#!/FreeBeacon/status/445588150287478784
http://twitter.com/#!/ZurzoloD/status/445589148041093120
http://twitter.com/#!/nvm624/status/445592189314162688
http://twitter.com/#!/conkc2/status/445588762622312448

And we’re maxed out on Daddy and Mommy Government:

http://twitter.com/#!/Me_In_Jersey/status/445588735770759170
http://twitter.com/#!/RickSheridan/status/445589734195068929
http://twitter.com/#!/RonMoss_RAM/status/445592295589822464

Let us know when you find out.

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