The Obamas knock Sarah, Britney, Lindsay off the covers
Americans taken by a seemingly normal American family? Actually paying money to read about them and none of them have been arrested for anything yet?
And we can only imagine what's going to happen to media sales if the Obamas actually get that dog!
(For your own Obama family portrait, click on the "Read more" line below. Also down there is an Obama family Thanksgiving video.)
--Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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So Sarah's family is not normal?
A working mother and stay home father makes them abnormal?
Posted by: fsteele | November 30, 2008 at 03:15 AM