Elizabeth Lauten resigns: Why critics attack first daughters at their peril

After cruelly dissing Sasha and Malia Obama for their fashion choices and attitudes at President Obama's Thanksgiving speech on Nov. 27, Elizabeth Lauten issued a public apology, but she ultimately can't take back her 

Congressional aide Elizabeth Lauten resigned Monday after a Facebook post criticizing the teenage daughters of President Obama. If there's one area where most Americans seem united, it's in agreeing that the children of sitting presidents should be 

Over the holiday weekend, there was a strange little story that took off regarding a Republican congressional staffer named Elizabeth Lauten and her church lady-style scolding of Sasha and Malia Obama. The story begins 

WASHINGTON – An aide to a Republican congressman resigned Monday after her Facebook post criticizing President Barack Obama's daughters touched off a backlash . Elizabeth Lauten, communications director to Rep. Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, said 

Raising teenagers is hard. I know from experience — and I haven't had to do it under the watchful eye of the White House press corps. Or the hyper-critical eye of Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher, a Republican from