steelincotton wrote:I like Michelle Obama. She's the first, hopefully "first lady" that I could actually relate to. She's actually worked for a living and is a down to earth person. Can I get an Amen!
Look at that drug addicted, spoiled rich daddy's girl, seven home owning, face lifted, 20 years younger elite billionaire mistress Cindy McShame! And.... Cindy has the nerve to put down Michelle?
Michelle Obama is a winner hands down in comparison to that robotic Stepford Wife!!
Hyperbolic bias, yet again. Other first ladies -- from both parties -- have worked. And not all as Harvard-trained lawyers. The only meaningful thing "first" about MO, should she become first lady, is that she's African-American. Examples of modern first ladies who actually "worked for a living" include: Laura Bush (schoolteacher and librarian), HRC (practicing lawyer), Nancy Reagan (sales clerk, nurse's aide, actress), Rosalynn Carter (dressmaker's aide to her mother to support her family after father died when she was 13), Betty Ford (dancer, model, dance teacher to, among others, children with disabilties), and Pat Nixon (many part-time jobs to put herself through college, like sweeping floors, managing a pharmacy, etc., and teaching high school after college). The other two post-1960 first ladies -- Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson -- came from wealthy families. I hope you don't consider those first ladies who were stay-at-home moms to have not worked for a living. Most women I know would tear into anyone who expressed that opinion!
In any event, my point is this: while I agree that there is much about Michelle Obama to admire, and your enthusiasm is more than obvious, the only "first" about her in this company of ladies is, most likely, her color. There have been other first ladies who, in addition to working, came from humble backgrounds, were mothers, and, I daresay, were "down to earth." Implicitly tearing them down doesn't elevate MO.
As for your attack on Cindy McCain -- who should be off-limits if you think attacking MO is off-limits -- none of us in the general public has any no idea as to whether she "is" still drug-addicted (there's no doubt she once was) or spoiled. The wealth you assail her for pales in comparison to that of Teresa Heinz Kerry (who I'm sure you attempted to make First Lady in 2004), who rather than being born to it like CM married into it. Is one worse than the other? I don't know, but the creation of the wealth in both cases has nothing to do with the person who lucked into it. Also, if reports are to be believed, CM is not even close to being a half-billionairess. As for being a mistress, she is if you are defining the word as a woman who has and wields power and authority, as opposed to the pejorative "other woman" definition. She may have been the latter for no more than 13 months in 1979-80, but she has been Mrs. John McCain -- which by definition is not the "other woman" -- for approaching thirty years.
There's also the issue of her having Sudan investments in Darfu where they are currently sponsoring genocide, legal troubles, and now the latest "recipe-gate," which she supposedly stole from another magazine. To top it all off, she's basically another scorned weak woman like Hillary Clinton, whose husband has had some infidelity issues (of course John McShame has denied this), but she'll stand by her man, especially if he can become president right? If you add it all up, it's not exactly what I would call a shining example for a first lady.