Barack Obama, great President? Perhaps. But greatest dad ever? Definitely!

Courtesy of LA Times:

President Obama says he plans to stay in Washington after the end of his presidency so that his younger daughter can finish high school with her class, a rare disclosure about his family's personal plans. 

During a visit with voters in Milwaukee on Thursday, Obama said he wasn't sure where he and wife Michelle Obama would settle down for the long term, but added that they were putting off the decision until daughter Sasha finished at Washington's Sidwell Friends School in spring 2019. 

"Transferring someone in the middle of high school — tough," Obama told a group of people gathered to have lunch with him at a Milwaukee restaurant.

I am sometimes impressed by gifted politicians, but great parents are the people I admire the most.

And my admiration for President Obama just went through the roof.

Yeah Barack and Michelle Obama are great speakers. But the star of the family may in fact be six year old Sasha Obama.

Sent. Barack Obama made a surprise appearance tonight at the Democratic National Convention - via video from a St. Louis home - after his wife's headline speech at the Pepsi Center.

Sasha Obama, on stage with her sister and her mother, Michelle Obama, took the opportunity to speak with her dad, saying, "Hi, Daddy!" to the giant video screen.

And after Obama said he was with the Gerardo family in St. Louis, she quickly piped up, "Hi, Gerardo family!"

When Barack Obama asked Sasha how she thought her mother's speech was, the little girl said, "I think she did good."

"I think so, too," Barack Obama said. The father and his girls then exchanged I love yous, and he said he'd see them on Thursday.

Right when most of us were becoming convinced that Michelle Obama had delivered a speech that could not be one upped by anybody, her youngest daughter came out on stage and stole America's heart with a few short sentences.

I was moved by Michelle Obama's words to be sure, but the Obama who may have secured Barack's ascension to the White House is very likely to be little Sasha.