Call me petty. But my husband and I do not EVER make those kind of comments in public. We never run one another down or disparage marriage.
We have our differences, of course, we do. And I wouldn’t imagine anyone thinking that I kowtow to him.
The idea that mocking someone’s faults “humanizes” them is simply foreign to me.
"Today, he still didn't put the butter up after he made his breakfast. I was like, 'You're just asking for it, you know I'm giving a speech. Why don't you just put the butter up?'" she told a roaring crowd at a recent Chicago fundraiser for women backing her husband's campaign.It's the sort of intimate ribbing that makes a famous person seem more regular, and observers say it helps humanize the first-term senator from Illinois who has shot to political stardom.
DePaul University marketing professor Bruce Newman, who has written several books on political marketing, sees the teasing as a strategy for Obama, through his wife, to appeal to professional women who might otherwise vote for one of his chief rivals for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
By joking about his domestic foibles, Michelle Obama is showing herself as a woman who doesn't kowtow to her husband, he said.
"It's a clever strategy. I think it's very wise," Newman said.
No one has even brought up that it may not be true. Hillary loves to spin fabulous tales for different audiences. "Little white lies", the type that the Libs at Snopes will let pass and not ding a candidate (D) for telling.
I don’t know, I take it as more humorous than serious. I think it is a display of her personality more than a statement about their marriage. I find her funny. I find their politics appalling.
I am SO with you. Who advises these people?