I'm sure Michelle Obama means well but........

[monmouth]

the time has come for her to immediately stop talking about the family's private life in such an open manner. I know many, including her, think she's being cute, girlfriendly and down to earth. She's not. I don't care what any of the candidates look like, smell like, etc. early in the morn. I've had two husbands and raised two sons, it ain't pretty.

The reason I bring this up is that I participate in another message board w/bellsouth. Very Right, White, and southern if you get my drift. The consensus of opinion over there is: "Obama needs no enemies, he's got his wife to do it for him." I've seen it a lot, it bothers me. I really like Obama, he's very, very important in this race and for his race and everyone else. Statements like the ones she has been making would be acceptable probably amongst close girlfriends. I know she means well, she's bright, charming and an asset to his campaign. But HE is the star Michelle, you're the one that helps him to maintain that status. I love that old saying of my youth, "some times it's better to be seen and not heard."

[daninthemoon]

1. Agree 100%.

[NYCGirl]

2. So you think she should have given a policy talk to GLAMOUR MAGAZINE?

http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/09/michelleobama?currentPage=1

Because that's where the interview is from.

[jillan]

7. She should have said that he is a great guy - great father, very

committed to his beliefs. A model citizen. The greatest guy in the world.

She may be our First Lady, and should be acting as a professional - not like your best buddy.

[NYCGirl]

9. It's GLAMOUR MAGAZINE, not the Wall Street Journal. It's fashion and

makeup and sex.

[jillan]

14. She is still applying for the job of first lady.

Today everyone is talking about Obama snores and stinks. The msm loves it.

I can imagine the conversation at Oprah's this weekend after everyone has a few drinks:rofl:

[NYCGirl]

21. You do remember this Biden statement, don't you?

Speaking to a group of 130 twenty- and thirty-something supporters of his leadership PAC last Thursday, Biden indicated that while he thinks he could be an effective chief executive, as far as the job itself goes, he could take it or leave it.

“I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep,” he said.

http://thehill.com/under-the-dome/making-love-in-the-white-house-is-even-better-2006-06-27.html

[jillan]

23. Well - we know Biden is one happy man.

Funny you brought that up - I just posted that link at another site where we were talking
about TMI.... He did say that before he announced (I noticed how you didn't put the date on there), but he shouldn't have said it.

Wanna slam Biden? Here, I'll do it for you.
Michelle said that about Barack just to prove Biden wrong. Afterall, Biden called him 'clean'. hahaha.

[NYCGirl]

26. Sorry, I didn't memorize the date Biden announced. You want a TMI Edwards

quote?

[jillan]

27. Go for it - it's Friday ya bastards :)

[NYCGirl]

28. I posted this in an earlier "outraged about Michelle" thread:

So, the moral of this story is that the media world is very different from when Mamie Eisenhower was on the TV with Edward R. Murrow.


http://www.esquire.com/features/edwardsgothic0807-2

"I hope this isn't too personal," I said to Edwards, "but I was reading about how Elizabeth discovered her cancer this second go-around. It was a broken rib, correct?"

"Yes," Edwards said.

"The papers said you were hugging her -- which is always nice to hear, a married guy hugging his wife. It must have been bizarre. What happened, you just hugged her and heard a snap?"

"Maybe it is a little personal," Edwards said, laughing self-consciously.

"Maybe I don't want to know?"

"It was a perfectly reasonable question," he said, bailing me out.

"So hugging was perhaps a euphemism?"

"That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it," he said, raking his forelock with his fingers.

[jillan]

31. Another happy man!

Those dam Democrats - they actually love their wives!

[monmouth]

8. As a potential First Lady, do you recall Lady Bird, Jackie, or Mamie discussing

thse type things? I think not, Glamour or not. It's a publication, for all to read. She needs to class up a little, don't you think?

[NYCGirl]

11. What type of things? It's a sin to be human in the morning? "Snory and

stinky" are the perceptions of her little girls — when they get a bit older, they won't think boys are stinky any more.

As for those first ladies, the press was quite a bit different back in those days. They wouldn't have printed any of those type of things. LBJ was, personally, a rather classless and mean SOB.

[daninthemoon]

15. I could've gone my whole life not thinking about what Obama

smells like in the morning. I really would have preferred it. See, now I have to think about what giuliani smells like. Well, he may smell like perfume if it was after one of his drag nights. The real nightmare I can't let go of now, is what do you suppose old ass Freddy smells like? See, this is a slippery slope we don't need.

[Bucky]

Well, thank you for driving us straight off that slippery slope then.

But actually thank you for reminding me about what Fred Thompson might smell like in the morning. It also reminds me that I need to go clean out my fridge.

[jillan]

24. you guys are too funny!!

[Bucky]

19. There is this one quote from Mamie Eisenhower to consider

"My husband's jism tastes distinctly like Georgia peaches"



Somehow they still lost the south in '52.

[Pirate Smile]

25. I'm very glad I wasn't eating or drinking when I read that.

:spray:

[Cha]

36. Oh please! You give Mamie, Lady Bird,

and Jackie as examples?..From the '50's, '60's, & '70's?

I think it's funny and hopefully it will appeal to others, too.

With all due respect.. some people are just too uptight

[bigdarryl]

3. She needs to stop down grading her husband before some other woman starts to hit on him

she has been doing this ever since he got on the national seen even telling him at on point quote: your not all that.

[Bucky]

13. Oh, you're probably just worried about Monica Lewinsky having joined his campaign

But hey, after twelve years those knee pads can get pretty worn.

[illinoisprogressive]

4. My son thinks it is adorable and I am reminded about my kids when they were younger

My son, Eric, at the time 8, use to use air freshener to spray sometimes whenever his sister, Kelly, 12 then, would walk by him. He claimed she smelled.

[Pirate Smile]

32. My son won't lay down on Daddy's side of the bed. He says his Dad's pillow

stinks, it smells like Dad. I don't smell anything. He likes my pillow and says it smells like me. I can't smell anything on any of the pillows. :shrug:

[jmp]

5. Would anyone have thought it was cute ...

If Barack had said that his wife stinks in the morning?

[bigdarryl]

6. HELL no

[NYCGirl]

12. You're missing the point. Her KIDS think Daddy is "stinky" in the morning.

She doesn't, or she probably wouldn't be sleeping with him, would she?

[jmp]

17. If he had said that his kids think his wife is "stinky" in the morning ...

Would that have been cute?

[Bucky]

10. "Very Right, White, and southern if you get my drift"

No. Could you please be more specific?

Please keep in mind that that particular quote was not what Mrs Obama set out to focus on. It was a silly aside. She wasn't talking about her husband's stinky feet even in that paragraph where the quote comes from; she was talking about her relationship with her daughters--turning on the Jackie O, as it were.

It's a sad comment on society, but people really do give a shit about candidates' family lives. Personally, I only care about Rudy Giuliani's. For all their divorces, McCain, Thompson, & even Gingrich seem to have their shit together on the homefront and none of it is worth considering. But cuddling in bed with her kids humanizes Mrs Obama and some voters actually care about that crap.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. I figured she was talking about morning breath.

But maybe next, she'll tell us how he is in bed in the lovemaking department. :)

[Catherine Vincent]

18. Matthews just mentioned that quote, btw.

[AlCzervik]

20. meh, i'm giving her a pass, Obama has run for office before but this is a national stage

and maybe she doesn't realize fully yet that every thing she says, eats and breaths will be fodder.

[zulchzulu]

22. Ferchrissakes....

...this shit is like reading the skank Maureen Dowd's screeds out of her derriere...

Can we talk about the issues at hand or are we doomed to friggin' nonsense ad nauseum?

[gorekerrydreamticket]

29. I agree, this is the kind of People magazine shit that ....

candidates and their spouses should not go into...There are plenty of relevant issues to talk about.

[jmp]

33. It's her fault that everyone is talking about this.

That's why you have to watch what you say to reporters.

[zulchzulu]

35. So tell me who doesn't stink in the morning?

I don't f*cking care.

[Peregrine Took]

30. I heard a very astute comment today on WCKG Chicago wherein someone

noted that she is not a really experienced campaigner and not used to the idea that as idiotic as it seems you just have to recite the same old crap over and over to reporters and interviewers.

As boring and mind numbing as it is - its what the pro's do. Michelle probably fell into the trap of feeling she has to say something fresh and original or funny every now and then but its the worst thing you can do.

You have a script and you read from the script and don't deviate.

Its sad but its the way you have to deal with the sharks in the media nowadays.

[Connie_Corleone]

34. One sentence out of a long article about her and her family.

Pundits will always search out for the stupidest things to focus on.

Too bad most of them didn't bother to read the entire article, if they read it at all. That includes some people on DU too.

[JI7]

37. this is another case of liberals making something bigger than it is

getting scared over some wingnut saying something bad and then thinking we need to change or stop doing things because of it.

[angee_is_mad]

38. Oh PLEAse!!!!!!!

Give me a break. He is running a campaign base on change therefore Michelle will not be the typical first lady and will probably not speak like one. At least she didn't make a comment that she isn't like Tammy Wynette, baking cookies and standing by her man.

I think your web group would have had a field day with that one, but Michelle is too intelligent and savvy to make a mistake like that.But I'm sure the Billary supporters will definitely make a mountain out of this molehill.

[killbotfactory]

39. I'm sure Obama is confident enough to take some good-natured ribbing from his wife

What a non-issue

[Ninja Jordan]

40. "I've had two husbands and raised two sons, it ain't pretty."

Great quote.

[Imagevision]

41. Well folks...this story too shall pass. geeeezussss...!!