r they fi real...Malia' s tshirt is now political statement

[evanovitch]

Malia Obama wears a message on her T-shirtBY ANNE BRATSKEIR | Special to Newsday
6:23 PM EDT, July 9, 2009

Malia Obama is getting into the political arena without uttering a word. Instead, she's letting fashion do her talking.

Just a couple of days after President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedey agreed to cut back on nuclear weapons, the 11-year-old was spotted in Italy wearing two T-shirts that blared anti-nuclear sentiments.

As the president readied for the G-8 talks there, Malia turned out in a gray T-shirt bearing the famous Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's peace sign logo during a visit to the Coliseum in Rome.

(For the record, mom Michelle Obama went more neutral in a white cotton silk dress by Narciso Rodriguez with a turquoise starburst brooch).

[evanovitch]

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http://www.greenpacks.org/2009/07/09/mal...ks-with-russia/

[diabolical_Tanya]

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[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

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She has the Barack Mouth!

[diabolical_Tanya]

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[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> </div></div>
...and the Michelle Body!

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Malia Obama wears a T-shirt with a CND symbol on it in Rome, Italy on 8 July 2009. Photograph: Reuters

The last time Malia Obama hit the headlines it was because her allergy to dog hair was complicating the first family's hunt for a puppy. This time, though, the 11-year-old may have unleashed a greater controversy.

While Barack Obama struggles to reinvigorate the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, his elder daughter has apparently launched her own campaign to educate the planet about nuclear weapons. She was snapped leaving a Rome ice-cream parlour today in a T-shirt bearing the CND symbol, one of the world's most recognisable and political logos. Given the intense sartorial scrutiny to which her parents have been exposed, it seems unlikely that the T-shirt was packed or pulled on by accident.

Since it was first sketched out by the British designer Gerald Holtom to accompany the Aldermaston march in 1958, the CND logo has become a universal peace symbol. Holtom, a conscientious objector during world war two, explained that his own anguish had informed his iconic design.

&quot;I was in despair,&quot; he said. &quot;Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.&quot;

In the 1960s, the design was adopted by the hippie movement and has since appeared on mugs, T-shirts, soldiers' helmets and even a platinum-and-diamond Tiffany pendant.

But while some may see a contradiction in the daughter of a US president – the office that first authorised the use of nuclear weapons against civilians – brandishing the international peace symbol, Obama himself may not be surprised.

In a public letter to Malia and her younger sister Sasha last year, the US commander-in-chief expressed his hopes that his daughters would continue the family tradition of campaigning. &quot;It is only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realise your true potential,&quot; he wrote.

A CND spokesman expressed delight at seeing the logo on a member of the first family.&quot;Perhaps Malia has been the driving force behind the administration's push towards a new disarmament deal? We'll get an 'I'd-rather-grow-up-than-blow-up' T-shirt in the post to her straight away.&quot;
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[evanovitch]

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wid each writing di choice of a Tshirt tekking awn a life of its own...now really.... mek u realise seh di behaviours pon yah no all dat outta wack.....mek it up as dem go along fi mek it news indeed

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A CND spokesman expressed delight at seeing the logo on a member of the first family.&quot;Perhaps Malia has been the driving force behind the administration's push towards a new disarmament deal? We'll get an 'I'd-rather-grow-up-than-blow-up' T-shirt in the post to her straight away.&quot;
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Maybe they did not do enough research on Barack?


<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">Chicago Tribune Photo, 2005</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">Published: July 4, 2009</span>

In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.

The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced “the twisted logic of which we are a part today” and praised student efforts to realize “the possibility of a decent world.” But his article, “Breaking the War Mentality,” which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.

[neutral]

Re: r they fi real...Malia' s tshirt is now political statement

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> </div></div>
...and the Michelle Body! </div></div>


It`s good to see the young lady setting out her stall on worldly matters,I think we could see her following up with hopefully some more controversial tit bits in the future,..good for her.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It`s good to see the young lady setting out her stall on worldly matters,I think we could see her following up with hopefully some more controversial <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">tit bits</span> in the future,..good for her. </div></div>

LOL...be careful!

[julie*mango]

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bwoy mi tell yu *smh*

[Nylah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">wid each writing di choice of a Tshirt tekking awn a life of its own...now really.... mek u realise seh di behaviours pon yah no all dat outta wack.....mek it up as dem go along fi mek it news indeed </div></div>

ohmigod

u are killin me today

[Tuff Gong]

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<span style="font-style: italic">President Barack Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama arrive in Accra, Ghana with their daughters Sasha and Malia Friday, July 10, 2009.</span>

[Tuff Gong]

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