Book Depicts Tensions Between First Lady, Aides.
First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president's wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple's relationship.
New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, in a book to be published Tuesday, portrays a White House where tensions developed between Mrs. Obama and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary and presidential adviser Robert Gibbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/01/06/us/politics/AP-US-Obamas-Book.html?hp
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Michelle Obama -- best first lady since the FDR administration -- and she is the equal of Eleanor in my view. I would like to hear a lot more from Michelle Obama.
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)other than self-absorbed sociopaths?
Beaverhausen
(24,464 posts)but thanks for letting us know about this book. Not.
applegrove
(117,885 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)You are my heart throb for a First Lady!.
supernova
(39,345 posts)That's just what I was thinking when I read the OP!
She got rid of Rahm? Good.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)and now I wish she could move the rest of the corps out of the administration. May her power increase and we put People First in all our policies.
TBF
(31,892 posts)NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)She couldn't stand the guy. He wasn't fired, but he was demoted to a lesser job.
Seems Rahm has a history of being totally obnoxious.
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)I'd never have guessed anyone could think him obnoxious.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)at our company that women can see the fakes faster than the men.
That may sound sexist - but past history has shown that to be true for a few cases.
Under different circumstances, the opposite may be true.
elleng
(129,798 posts)Its sometimes a difficult distinction to recognize, but its true.
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)One major reason is that oppressed classes always know more about their oppressors than the oppressors themselves know. That absolutely includes scoping them out psychologically AND intuitively and yes, women excel (as a rule) at the intuitive because that realm was at once relegated strictly to us and made undesirable -- or at least suspect -- as a human trait by the Patriarchy.
It's a survival skill. Ask any African Americans who are keenly aware of their past. You'll likely get an earful.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)That was true amongst the African people in South Africa. There are a few valuable lessons I learned from them.