The Best and Worst First Ladies ever

01/15/2024 | Everyone

[Responsibility2nd]

Earlier today I went and posted this thread...

The last good Vice President.
01/15/2024 | Everyone

Lively discusion. X broached the topic of First Ladies. So I thought - as we wait on the Iowa Caucus - I'd bring up First Ladies. 

So. Who's the Best First Lady we've ever had? Who was the Worst? (Hillary or the Mooch)

Jill Biden

Melania Trump

Michelle Obama

Laura Bush

Hillary Clinton

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan

Rosalynn Carter

Betty Ford

Pat Nixon

Lady Bird Johnson

Jackie Kennedy

Mamie Eisenhower

Bess Truman

Eleanor Roosevelt

etc.

 

[Jane Long]

🥰

[MayflowerMadam]

“Killed somebody, too.”

Right. A car accident, right? Her ex boyfriend?

[x]

Pat Nixon and Melania Trump were the best. They didn’t attract attention to themselves. Hillary Clinton and Jill Biden have been the worst.

[MayflowerMadam]

For me:

#1 for toughness, character, and smarts is Abigail Adams.

For pure class is Melania.

[wardaddy]

Bttt btw

[stanne]

Link?

Really?

Inside reporter clams a source close to Melania says something Melania may have said is your source

Responsibility2nd I am surprised.

This is the biggest pile of bs I’ve seen in a long time

[nopardons]

And IF her mother hadn't snared Dr. Davis, for a second husband, Nancy NEVER would have traveled in the circles that she she did, in Chicago, as a tween and teen. Nor would she EVER have gone to that school there and mixed and mingled with the kids she did.

So there was less than NO reason for her to, many decades later, behave badly on her two visits to that school.

[Beowulf9]

I did like Barbara Bush. She was very down to earth. Funny story.😄 God bless Barbara Bush. With all that fame and money and position she kept her head.

[Beowulf9]

Good things to bring up. Fabulous stuff.

[nopardons]

That she was and a terrible SNOB!

The school, though Conservative, once upon a time, was known as: "THE BITCH TRAINING GROUND". Was that true? I really don't know. Some of the parents and girls were, many weren't and still aren't. And yes, my progeny still do keep in touch with some of the old classmates, so I do know this for a fact.

[nopardons]

Long, long, loooooooooooong ago ancestor was; NOT her father.

[DesertRhino]

They don’t get to have it both ways. If they are a trusted advisor to the president as they claim for the last couple of decades, then their positions matter. You don’t get to claim to be a trusted advisor and simultaneously claim innocence that nobody can judge your political positions. They have to pick one. Be a wife completely out of the political world, or be influencing the husband. So which is it?

[DesertRhino]

Part of my special charm

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I would vote for Big Mike for the worst First Lady BUT Jill is actually guilty of ELDER ABUSE...

And being elderly myself I don’t like to see the elderly get abused...

[Liz]

[ronniesgal]

i never heard Laura Bush claim to be a trusted advisor to Geo 2.

[cowboyusa]

Saturday Night Live’s Nixon:”And you, Kennedy having sex with all those women. Well that never happened when Nixon was in the White House.😂😂

[MikelTackNailer]

Dana Carvey of SNL's impersonation of Bush the senior was admired and got him an overnight stay at the White House. As George Bush he said "The White House is indeed haunted. I thought I saw the ghost of George Washington floating down the hallway. I put on my glasses and it was just Barbara."

(Yes, I know Washington was pre-White House)

[TexasFreeper2009]

I was never embarrassed by Hillary when she was first lady, unless that odd dancing on the beach with bill thing happened while she was still first lady.

But Mooooooooooooochelle embarrassed me all the time with her walmart shorts, her awful dresses, he manly arms and her grifter mom being dragged along

[Beowulf9]

😄 I’m sure Barbara took this in stride. I like she was like that :)