Malia and Sasha Obama attended their FIRST state dinner!

[CTyankee]

They are so pretty!

http://www.today.com/parents/all-grown-sasha-malia-obama-attend-first-state-dinner-t79381

[KamaAina]

1. This thread is useless without pictures.

[CTyankee]

3. oh, thanks KA! I don't know how to do that...

[KamaAina]

7. Right-click on the image, choose "Copy image location" from the dropdown,

then Ctrl-V to paste the URL into your post. The DU software does the rest.

[CTyankee]

13. thanks. All I know how to do is the way I post art in my art history threads. I have

to go to tinypic .com and it's a bit of a process. tinypic is like photobucket but I just like it better...

[Hekate]

16. Oh my, those two are beauties. And Mom let Malia have a strapless gown!

[monicaangela]

2. Just beautiful!

Thanks for posting this CTyankee.

[malaise]

4. Lovely indeed

Rec

[panader0]

5. Beautiful and refined young ladies.

I'm sure they had an amazing time growing up in the White House, and will be thrilled when they move out
and dad begins a private life.

[CTyankee]

6. do you know where Malia is going to college?

[KamaAina]

8. If she chooses Yale, I sure hope they don't put her in Calhoun College!

One of our twelve residential colleges (dorms with amenities like libraries and theaters) is named for the notorious South Carolina slaveholder and secessionist. Debate is raging over whether to change its name. Its master (!) has already removed art depicting Calhoun's slaves from the common areas.

[CTyankee]

12. I know about this fuss since I live in New Haven. Were you a 'hounie'?

I'm glad they're doing it but I think I read someplace that all of Yale's presidents had been involved in slavery...

Some day, KA, Yale will win The Game...this year it will be at Harvard and I'm glad. It's depressing to be in the Bowl when once again Yale goes down. My ex husband went to Harvard and never got over it...

[KamaAina]

17. Nope. Saybrugian here.

Beware!

Bart Giamatti was involved in slavery?!

[CTyankee]

21. not Bart (I loved Bart! and I love Paul, too. I mean the old guys...

I go past one of the colleges when I take my husband downtown (he serves as the volunteer chair of the Homeless Committee for the City). Is iit Saybrook or Calhoun right on Elm Street?

I like "Saybrugian." Is that a poke at "Cantabridgian," the Cantabs for short?

[KamaAina]

23. Both are right on Elm.

Saybrook on the south side at York, and Calhoun the other one on the north side at the corner of College.

I do not know the origin of "Saybrugian". It sounds to me like an attempt to make a quasi-Latin demonym out of "Saybrook".

[CTyankee]

24. Cantabridgian then is demonym of Cambridge. Hey, I learned a new word...

[KamaAina]

19. We're in the tournament!

First time in my lifetime!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/120462731

[CTyankee]

22. My current husband is the sports fan. Glad to see the bulldogs in the running, tho...

I try to watch the CT women play. Geno is such a great coach...

[jberryhill]

9. Trump University?

[rurallib]

26. !

[Hekate]

20. Chelsea went to Stanford, far far away from Washington DC

Just sayin,' the young grad has some fine choices.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

11. Yes and no about growing up in the White House

I'm sure it's often felt like living in a gilded cage.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

10. Always thought Malia was a beauty

And that Sasha was cute, but - WOW! - Sasha is going to turn a lot of heads.

Malia looks very much like someone I know who is very beautiful, so I guess I've always been partial to her looks.

I'm glad the girls are getting the opportunity to get all glammed up before they leave, since they've had to put up with a lot to get to this point.

[liberalfromaustin21]

14. How cute

Nice pictures, by the way. Thanks for posting them.

[ananda]

15. Classy and beautiful!

Thanks for posting.

[CTyankee]

18. just like their parents!

[lostnfound]

25. Such a joy to have had that family as First Family

Do great things with your lives, young ladies.

[justhanginon]

27. I am really going to miss this first family. It is so nice

to have a story come on tv or read in the paper about them with no worries about what is coming. They are a class act all the way and a superb exemplar of the American family for all the world to see. I wish the family nothing but the very best as they return to regular life.

[OregonBlue]

28. Arent they just beautiful.