Adorable Children Seem To Confuse Michelle Obama With Santa

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from Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/online/adorable-children-seem-to-confuse-michelle-obama-with-santa/




826 National, a nonprofit that runs writing programs for kids in eight cities nationwide, recently published an anthology of letters from children to Michelle Obama (http://www.826national.org/826store/366/i-live-real-close-to-where-you-used-to-live-kids-letters-to-michelle-obama).

a sampling of the requests letter-writers made to Michelle:

Can I borrow some money so we can move into an apartment and buy a new Mustang convertible? I don’t mean to waste money. I will use some of the money to buy a drum set and have a cool pool. Can I have $10,000 to buy my passport to go to Las Vegas? Send me a picture of the White House and the statue of Abraham Lincoln. — LUIS MOLINA, age 10, Los Angeles


Please bring me scary stories like the ones my second-grade teacher has. For example, a book full of scary stories that are very, very scary. Bring me a thing to put my books in because I have a lot of books and they are too heavy in my backpack. Please bring me a cute fish too, like the ones in “Finding Nemo.” — JUAN BENITEZ, age 7, San Francisco


Please put a statue of me in Echo Park. Thank you. J.K. No, really. I want a tuxedo on the statue. — ANDRES ORTEGA, age 11, Los Angeles


Hi, we are 10 and 9 years old. We live in Boston. We hope you send letters back to us. I think that you should shut down cigarette and liquor companies and try to keep drugs off the streets. Robots may be able to help you. — AIDAN SHEILL-LOOMIS and NICHOLAS ALLAN of Boston


On Saturday, the New York Times ran an op-ed that excerpts some of the book’s most notable notes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28letterstomichelle.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1&pagewanted=all

[kestrel91316]

1. Best Kid Request Ever:

".....I think that you should shut down cigarette and liquor companies and try to keep drugs off the streets. Robots may be able to help you....."

:rofl:

[FSogol]

3. +1 n/t

[Raschel]

2. The children must sense that she is a nurturing figure.

[Fleshdancer]

4. This is sooo cute!

Thanks for the laugh :)

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5. i live in Echo Park!

Im starting the campaign for Mr. Ortega's statue stat!!

[Fleshdancer]

6. It better have a tuxedo on it!

:rofl: