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America's first family will get vaccinated against swine flu when they are advised to, President Barack Obama said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.

"We want to get vaccinated. We think it's the right thing to do. We will stand in line like everybody else and when folks say it's our turn, that's when we'll get it," Obama told CNN's "State of the Union."

With the northern hemisphere entering its autumn flu season and infection rates again beginning to spike, many Americans are waiting for the first deliveries of (A)H1N1 vaccines, expected to come in the first weeks of October.

The emergency services personnel and others who are at risk or vulnerable, including pregnant women and children with underlying conditions, will be first to get the vaccine.

"After that, I think, you're looking at kids, so Malia and Sasha would fall into that category," Obama said referring to his two young daughters. "I suspect that I may come fairly far down the line."

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that the flu season had begun earlier than normal and that the number of detected cases had risen.

"The Obama family plan is to call up my HHS (Health and Human Services) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and my CDC director, and just ask them, what's your recommendation? And whatever they tell me to do, I will do," Obama said.

This is great propaganda. It would be scary if it is true, like if his kids really are to be injected with the same death serum as the “useless eaters”.

Reminds me of a Torchwood episode where aliens demanded the handover of 10% of the Earth’s children, to be used as their drugs. Government debated which kids to hand over, Prime Minister guaranteed no one at the table would hand over their own, but then after wards privately ordered his closest assistant to do just that for PR appearances.

Unlike the TV show where the PM’s assistant had the honour to shoot his kids and himself in preference to handing over the kids, I imagine Mr Obama saying: “You want to sacrifice my children? Oh, excellent Mr Rockefeller Sir, what ever you say Sir, that will be very good press Sir, thank you Sir”.