[napscoordinator]

I hate these types of stories. Keep in mind. Democrats will not ALWAYS be in the White House. We are so short sighted in our complaints. If we do away with the office of First Lady for Michelle, we will get rid of the Office of First Lady for Gloria Cain, Anita Perry, Mrs. Gingrich, Mr. Bachmann, or whoever is our President in January 2013. Someday Mr. Palin will need the office. Keep the office, Michelle Obama won’t be using it after January 2013. Just to ensure that I am right about our complaints, not one time in EIGHT years did any FREEPER or Republican for that matter complain about Laura having this office.

[mewzilla]

If a Pubbie's spouse was pulling this kinda cr@p.....

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka, and five star hotels: First Lady accused of spending 10m

.....I'd be just as incensed.

[Chuzzlewit]

while I don’t entirely disagree with the article, it contains an awful lot of ugliness...

we can win on the issues and not get involved in this kind of invective.

[rollo tomasi]

"If we do away with the office of First Lady for Michelle, we will get rid of the Office of First Lady for Gloria Cain, Anita Perry, Mrs. Gingrich, Mr. Bachmann, or whoever is our President in January 2013."

That would be fine by me. Any Presidential extravagance/perks have always been a pet peeve of mine, even when discussing George Washington's perks. The Chief Executive and the White House are not royalty. The same goes for Congresscritters when they exempt themselves from certain laws they lay upon the citizenry.

Our politicians are to serve, not to be served, including their wives.

"But without those perks, no one would want the job." That would be the whole point about desiring to do public service, to give of themselves, not see $$$ at the end of the rainbow. We have a Constitution that tackles Separation of Powers, Division of Powers, specific duties by each Branch, specific limits of power by each Branch, along with a detailed line of succession. We have a spending problem, fraud waste and abuse at each Department and Branch of government. It is high time we curb perks and exemptions while emphasizing servants when talking about public servants.

[Maceman]

If we do away with the office of First Lady for Michelle, we will get rid of the Office of First Lady for Gloria Cain, Anita Perry, Mrs. Gingrich, Mr. Bachmann, or whoever is our President in January 2013.

Good.

The nation will survive without an activist first lady.

[lacrew]

I don’t agree with the tone of the article; but, I would not object to elimination of most FLOTUS staff, no matter what party affiliation.

The advertised cost for her office is $1.3 million...but Michelle has staff outside of her office, running $360k. We’re approaching $2 million here, just to ‘service’ the FLOTUS?

How about one personal secretary. You don’t need a ‘staff’, unless you are a ‘decision maker’.