First Lady Michelle Obama has some advice for
embattled pop star Justin Bieber. She was asked to
weigh in on his recent run-in with the police.
“I would pull him close. You know, I don’t know if it
would be advice as much as action,” Obama said in
a recent interview with Univision Radio host Enrique
Santos. “I would be very present in his life right
now. And I would be probably with him a good
chunk of the time, just there to talk, to figure out
what’s going on in his head, to figure out who’s in
his life and who’s not, you know.”
And Obama is not the only one at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. being asked to weigh in on
Bieber’s case.
A petition created on the White House’s “We the
People” site calling for the government to deport
Bieber and revoke his green card has garnered more
than 250,000 signatures — far exceeding the
100,000 signature threshold to require an official
response, ABC NEWS reported.
“That response will come I’m sure relatively soon,”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last
week.
The petition, which was filed on the day Bieber was
arrested for an alleged DUI and drag racing, says:
“We the people of the United States feel that we are
being wrongly represented in the world of pop
culture. We would like to see the dangerous,
reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin
Bieber deported and his green card revoked.”
Michelle Obama, who was not asked about the
petition during her radio interview, was nothing but
motherly when it came to the famous wayward teen
who could face a trial in Florida as early as March 3.
“I found that to be the case with my kids,” she said.
“They just want you near, you know — they want
that advice from a parent. They want to see you on
a daily basis, you know, because the thing is he’s
still a kid. He’s still growing up. So, I would pull him
close.”
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