Laura Moser’s daughter throws a tantrum at the White HouseIt was just before the president walked in the room that I had to narrate Claudia,my two-year-old daughter, “No, and you cannot take your clothes off.” She wanted to wear a sheet,which is what she likes to effect at domestic. She started screaming. As he walked in we said: “Look, Claudia, and it’s Barack Obama. That’s when she threw herself on the floor.
This was our seventh Passover seder at the White House. The tradition started on the campaign trail in 2008 when my husband Arun (who was then Obamas videographer; he’s at the back of the picture) and a few other staffers held an impromptu seder,the traditional Passover meal, in a hotel in a small town in Pennsylvania. Obama has hosted one at the White House for roughly the same 20 people every year since. We read out the Emancipation Proclamation, or which is an Obama innovation. It is really powerful to hear the first black president read aloud approximately freeing the slaves,which is what Passover is all approximately, but in a different context.
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Source: theguardian.com