Posted on 04/17/2025 6:29:57 PM PDT by simpson96
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is setting the record straight about her marriage, brushing off rumors of a split from former President Barack Obama and calling out the sexist assumptions that fueled them.(snip)
Michelle Obama made it clear that her choices had nothing to do with marital discord. “This year people couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself,” Obama said. “They had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing. This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?”
She added, “That’s what society does to us. We start actually finally going, What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?’ And if it doesn’t fit into the stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.” The bestselling author and former First Lady, who spent eight years in the White House without scandal — unless one counts Barack Obama’s infamous tan suit — said her efforts to make room for her voice and decisions have often been misinterpreted.
“I feel like it’s time for me to make some big girl decisions about my life and own it fully,” she said. “Because if not now, when? What am I waiting for? Look, the summers are—we’re in the summer countdown at 61, right? It’s not so tragic if something happens to you and you’re 80. So now is the time for me to start asking myself these hard questions of who do I truly want to be every day?” Michelle also spoke about the discomfort women often feel when asserting themselves. “When I say ‘no,’ for the most part, people are like, ‘I get it,’ and I’m OK,” she said. “That’s the thing that we, as women, I think we struggle with — disappointing people.”
Despite the rumor mill, the Obamas have continued to share affectionate public messages.
Adam used Eve as a sacrificial penguin.
In her mind’s eye, Michelle wears a Scarlet V on her forehead, for all to see. “Behold!, my perpetual state of suffering.”
It almost makes her think of those red wounds from the nails hammered into the palms of Jesus, not that she would ever say THAT part out loud.
“eight years in the White House without scandal”
So much for expecting any truth in this article.
I was just speaking with my niece today about what utter trash psychology is telling people to be in love with themselves and to ignore the commitments they have made to their children and their spouses. Sick.
Religion has far superior solutions than any of that vacant caca sold by psychology.
“This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?””
NO, it couldn’t, because you are a MAN, baby.
Maybe they’re both seeing another man?
She? It?
If these quotes are accurately MO’s, for all her schooling, she didn’t learn much.
Obummer is happy as a clam...
NO MORE NEED FOR A BEARD.
She told everyone to eat lots of greens for fiber. We didn't listen.
Barack, too. (Huffington Post, 2011):
Remember arugula-gate, when Obama asked Iowa, "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately? See what they charge for arugula?"
,,, what were you, truly? That's the first question to ask.
LOL
“How is Moochelle a “best selling author”
The usual Simon and Schuster, Crown and Viking Press Dem money laundering operations. Millions of dollars in advance for 40 thousand books sold.
As the former first lady, the First Wookie had a duty to attend the Carter funeral and Trump’s inauguration. Instead she showed herself to be a spoiled, selfish diva. The dirty secret is that she fears being compared to Melania because she looks like the Hulk.
Such as, "Dear Big Mike, I love it when you bend me over!"
The guy made her rich and now she’s dumping him.
The rest is just verbal vomit.
Wookie speak. Isn't he lovely?
So it’s all about me means Big Mike has decided to be on all fours instead of Barack.
As I recall the advance for her book was around $65 million ... I'm guessing that's multiples more than real, established authors like Dan Brown, Steven King, Koontz, etc. get.
See, we're all supposed to pretend that the publisher believes they're going to get all that back and more in sales ... a book that was ghostwritten even ... instead of recognizing it as payment for "services" rendered by Obama while he was in the White Hut.
To be a no-show at Carter's funeral tells all.
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