We will have to wait and see whether the Obamas get the seal of approval from Quinn, or whether Michelle, like Hillary Clinton before her, does something to piss her off.
So far, in the eyes of the Beltway Mob, the Obamas have passed muster. They enrolled their daughters at Sidwell Friends, the same school Chelsea Clinton attended. Before reading the article I suspected their reasoning is similar to the Clintons' reasoning that the media won't be able to freely access the school and the girls will get some privacy.
I thought about Michelle Obama's rather obvious status-seeking, but the security argument was the real reason. The article mentions it:
Lelyveld declined to elaborate on the reasons, but it is believed that Sidwell's experience with handling the security and privacy of the children of government leaders played a role. President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia went to Sidwell. Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, graduated from there. Three granddaughters of Vice President-elect Joe Biden currently attend the school: Maisy, 8; Finnegan, 10; and Naomi, 14.
The daughters also like Biden's grandkids, students at the school, and that was a factor.
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