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NBC assigned White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie to report on the distaff side of Inauguration Day. She found Michelle and her daughters "glamorous and yet simultaneously really seeming like a pretty ordinary American family." She quoted the Rev Joseph Lowery lavishing praise on First Daughters Malia and Sasha in his benediction. "Angelic," the minister called them. The girls are skipping their parents' Inaugural Balls: "They have a better idea. They are going to stay home here at the White House and watch movies."
ABC turned its attention to their father, running a series of introspective soundbites from the Campaign '08 archive. Barack loved his mother and felt the lack of his father. He also came up with this riskily honest self-assessment that already set him apart from ordinary politicians when he said it this time last year: "If you do not have enough self-awareness to see the element of megalomania involved in thinking you can be President, then you probably should not be President. There is a slight madness to thinking that you should be the Leader of the Free World."
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