Her mom added, "She is really skinny and only ever wears pants. Mayara is timid and ashamed of her body. This was the first time in her life that she wore a dress, and it was borrowed from a friend in the shantytown because she doesn't own one."

The high school sophomore, who hails from one of Rio de Janeiro's slums known as favelas, had been picked by UNICEF to join the counterpart Junior 8 forum of teenagers because she stood out as a community volunteer. She shares a single room with her parents and two younger brothers and can't afford the bus fare to attend a good high school.

"Why are they looking at her like that? This is a girl who is articulate and intelligent and just wants to do the right thing," the father said. "Instead, they are forcing her into a negative light."

Just saw the film clip on the news - Obama was turning to help the other woman down the step.

for gods sake! men are men thank goodness! they all look at a womans a-- if they are normal! Us woman look at mens don't we?? I do! just because he is president doesn't make him a priest! he is a normal man and normal men look at women! Go suck a lemon all you complainers!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ1JASVdB1I

watch the video and take the false outrage somewhere else

amazing what you can still do WITHOUT photoshop!

Leave it to the New York Post to put Obama in the worst light possible.

A friend of mine discovered antigravity via the NY Post. She used it to line her bird cage, and the crap was so offended that it floated half an inch above the paper.

Uhm...don't blame Obama about the outrage, blame the tiny little people like clip-on-tie who take a photograph out of context (probably knowingly) just to create dirt in order to help their own flagging political system.

Unethical is a big steaming pile of crap and the right has it smeared all over their hands.