Toni Roman’s Blog

Granted that the Obamas are not royalty.  But after Caroline Kennedy’s bowing out of the Senate seat opened up by Hillary’s departure to the Executive Branch, the star of Camelot does seem to be setting, eclipsing, or whatever metaphor you want, they, the Obamas, do get stuck with similar duties.

Julia Roberts said she would “let” her children play with the Obama children.  Last time I checked, the Obama children were not pregnant out of wedlock or using drugs.  Out here in the heartland, we believe that our sons and daughters, nephews and nieces should get married first and then have children.  Nowadays, children are having children.  Twelve year fathers like the kid in England.  Celebrities seem to think that the moral code (what’s left of it) does not apply to them.  The whole point of rich and famous people in more enlightened times was to set a good example for others.

To the point, whether liberal or conservative, celebrities’ children are getting pregnant out of wedlock and they really are setting a bad example.  Many of us have heard the case of the high school  where a clique of girls got pregnant just for fun.  Bristol Palin is Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter who still has not married the young drug addict who got her pregnant.  Emma Roberts is another unwed pregnant teen and Julia’s niece.

I would not “let” my children play with celebrity children because, like any parent, I have to look out for my children no matter whose feelings get hurt.  I don’t care what color or what political party the parents of my children’s playmates are.  Those are irrelevant factors.  I DO care if my children’s playmates have parents who allow drug use or premarital sex or whose children have never had sex education, abstinence education, moral education (Sunday School or Temple School or the equivalent), anti-drug education, and temperance or responsible alcohol education (like Students Against Drunk Driving).  If my children hung out with tobacco smokers, I would probably pull them out of their current school and put them in a new school to make them find new friends.  I want my children healthy — not parents at age eleven.

I am sure that Julia Roberts did not mean to sound condescending to the President and First Lady when her own house is not in order but it sure sounds like a possible interpretation.