Barack Obama's entire family on show

by Mark Silva As one might expect, Sen. Barack Obama has been highly protective of his young daughters, shielding the children from the glare of media coverage of the presidential campaign underway. So he carefully chose the venue for their national TV debut: Access Hollywood -- a platform more familiar to those following the divorce of Christie Brinkley or tribulations of Lindsay Lohan than those watching politics closely. "The first interview with the entire Obama family,'' as it was promoted by NBC's Meredith Vieira on the Today Show and broadcast on the syndicated Access, went off without a hitch and Obama's daughters took center stage. "Nobody expected them to open up so much,'' says interviewer Maria Menounos, herself a star of shampoo commercials. "The girls took over this whole interview.'' Yet it was mainly such fare... [read full story]