So... Mrs. Obama didn't particularly like Rahm Emmanuel or Gibbs

[apples and oranges]

and she wanted her husband to go further left and pursue certain issues more aggressively (according to the new book The Obamas)?

Sounds like she could have been a member of DU! LOL!

[Little Star]

1. I have to agree with her about Rahm...

Gibbs I have no clue.

[Peregrine Took]

13. I get the distinct feeling that Rahm prefers to deal with old fashioned women - the

type who stay in the background or bring in the sandwiches when the men are having a meeting.

A "Mad Men" type of girl.

[roguevalley]

15. I love Michelle. I knew she was ultra cool from day one. She is awesome.

Barak should have listened to her.

[gratuitous]

2. She's clearly a traitor to the Democratic Party

Ban her for insufficiently supporting our president.

[sharp_stick]

3. The whole book sounds like

pretty weak work of fiction so I'm not going to hold any of it as even remotely true, even if it would be a welcome truth.

[zipplewrath]

7. Oral history

I'm always a bit suspicious of any oral history. Oral history which is someone telling you what someone else thought is even worse. An oral history that claims to know the intimate conversations between husband and wife, especially a couple like this, is down right unreliable.

[SixthSense]

4. wouldn't surprise me

I never liked Freddie Rahm myself, real slimy character

[leftynyc]

5. If you believe this book

which I have no reason to.

[immoderate]

6. Rahm's appointment marked the big sellout.

And Michelle noticed.


--imm

[superpatriotman]

8. Maybe Daley, too?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002143148

This house, is clean.

[Summer Hathaway]

9. ...

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/09/gossip-wonderland


"The book is about a relationship between two people whom the author has not spoken to in years. In fact, the author did not interview the Obamas for the book so the emotions and private moments described in the book, though often seemingly ascribed to the President and First Lady, reflect little more than the author's own thoughts."

[roguevalley]

16. what else can they say? everyone says the same thing when books like this appear.

[Summer Hathaway]

17. I'm not sure

who you mean by 'they'; the people who the book is about, or the people who insist it's factual?

I am always suspicious of books written about people who were not interviewed, especially by someone who is not in a position to 'know' what really goes on in a marriage, or in the WH, etc.

How does this author know what Michelle thought, what she and Barack discussed between themselves - or anything else for that matter?

[gateley]

10. Haha! Wonder what her username is! nt

[WolverineDG]

11. If true, BFD

Since when do First Ladies have to like everybody? And I for one am tired of the whole "good little girls like everybody; bad little girls don't" BS attitude.

[bullwinkle428]

12. SHE NEVER REALLY LOVED HIM!!1!

Somebody had to be the first...

[marlakay]

14. Makes you wonder if she reads blogs but doesn't post

I bet she does…on a friends tablet or computer never from hers.