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left-of-center2012

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Mon Dec 14, 2020, 08:19 PM Dec 2020

Michelle Obama has spoken out to defend 'brilliant' Jill Biden ...

Michelle Obama has spoken out to defend 'brilliant' Jill Biden in a lengthy Instagram tribute, days after a 'misogynistic' Wall Street Journal writer called the 69-year-old 'kiddo' and said that her doctor title 'sounds and feels fraudulent'.

The former First Lady, 56, penned a ‘gushing’ post about the wife of President-elect Joe Biden, praising her work as Second Lady during Obama's presidency, as well as her accomplishments as a 'teacher, mother, wife, and friend'.

She also hit out at those who cast 'doubt' on the achievements of 'professional women'; although she did not name him, Obama appeared to be making a thinly-veiled swipe at WSJ writer Joseph Epstein, who prompted furious controversy on Friday when he published a piece in which he called for Biden to 'drop' her doctor title.

Obama and Biden are understood to have formed a close friendship during the eight years working they spent working alongside one another when their husbands were President and Vice President, from 2009 to 2017.

Full article at:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9051543/Michelle-Obama-pens-gushing-tribute-brilliant-Jill-Biden-controversial-WSJ-piece.html

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Michelle Obama has spoken out to defend 'brilliant' Jill Biden ... (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Dec 2020 OP
What the F is with all those quotation marks? niyad Dec 2020 #1
Here you go ... left-of-center2012 Dec 2020 #3
Thank you! niyad Dec 2020 #4
Small potatoes compared to Melania who bragged about her university education, linguistic abilities keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #2

keithbvadu2

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2. Small potatoes compared to Melania who bragged about her university education, linguistic abilities
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 08:45 PM
Dec 2020

Small potatoes compared to Melania who bragged about her university education, linguistic abilities and received a 'genius visa'.

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