A Real Wife, In a Real Marriage

Hey, Jarmapu, last week McCain, Obama, and Hillary were in Wshington, D.C., during the FISA extension vote. McCain voted for it, Obama against it, and Hillary didn't even show up! Stop being lazy and read the mountain of legislative accomplishments that Obama has accumulated; Obama has out-sponsored Hillary on bills by a ratio of more than 20 to 1 !

She is just another spoiled rich person trying to tell us that she is just like us. I make $250k in five years by working round the clock and she makes it a year. Stop Bsing us and be who you are... another fat cat who wants the power.

I do not envy politicians' wives, who, like ministers' wives, can never win. Kudos to anyone who is in the spotlight just long enough to receive criticism and less support than their spouse.

I agree -- as a mom of a young boy I too will strive to make sure that he sees women as unique people. I will also try to get him to pick up his socks and put away the butter. With respect to my girls, my wish for them is that they turn out to be as interesting, smart, self-confident and dynamic as Michelle Obama.

Indeed fake or real marriage has very little to do with the competency of a president and comander in chief. The new perspective that Obama brings to the Political platform is what I find refreshing. "There ought to be no white America or black America, there ought to be the United States of America". His ideas and assertions bring to bear his open-mindedness and willingness to transform America's image internally and from a global stand point;- even willing to engage our adversary that is an audacious and couragious venture. Some of these perspectives clearly distinguishes him from the rest. Further more the Clintons in my oppinion did what they can do when Bill was president. Now it is time for the "old" to yeild to the "new'. The same old way of doing business as usual isn't going to cut it! Enough already of the Bush/ Clinton Dynasties!

Poor people. You are all in for a rude awakening after the elections. The real scandal will hit the perverbial fan. No one is squeaky clean. I'm certain they have thier skeletons like every other human being. Mother Teresa already died.

I applaud Michelle Obama's directness and her relation with her husband, BUT that hardly qualifies as a good enough reason to vote for her husband as our president.

@tm2018: Ditto. And how dare the name of my alma mater be trotted out throughout this piece, as if it validates this fluff. It really saddens me that it's often black people who hold other black people to stereotypes while seemingly being against them. (And, FYI, this observation comes from a black woman.)

What I would like to know is who are "these people" who have referred to Michelle Obama as "bossy and emasculating"? So far, in all of the articles I have read about Barack and Michelle Obama, no one quoted has referred to her as such, making it seem as it is only the author of this piece who believes her to be so. Next time either identify "those people" in order to address those concerns or don't bother to write the piece at all.

Early in the campaign, I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Ms. Obama at a small group meeting of professional women. (I even have a picture of Michelle with her arm around my shoulder, which I treasure.) Not only was I surprised at how tall and fit she was, but Michelle was beautiful, poised, articulate, feminine and, yes; confident. I don't believe she is emasculating at all. It simply does not fit the personality of the woman I met and chatted with.

Early in the campaign, I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Ms. Obama at a small group meeting of professional women. (I even have a picture of Michelle with her arm around my shoulder, which I treasure.) Not only was I surprised at how tall and fit she was, but Michelle was beautiful, poised, articulate, feminine and, yes; confident. I don't believe she is emasculating at all. It simply does not fit the personality of the woman I met and chatted with.

I know nothing of Ms. Obama but I seem to remember puff pieces of this style as the msm tried to sell Theresa Kerry to the great unwashed.