Michelle Obama and the Evolution of a First Lady

NY Times ^ | 1-6-12 | Jodi Kantor

[STARWISE]

*snip*

“She feels as if our rudder isn’t set right,” Mr. Obama confided, according to aides.

Rahm Emanuel, then chief of staff, repeated the first lady’s criticisms to colleagues with indignation, according to three of them. Mr. Emanuel, in a brief interview, denied that he had grown frustrated with Mrs. Obama, but other advisers described a grim situation: a president whose agenda had hit the rocks, a first lady who disapproved of the turn the White House had taken, and a chief of staff who chafed against her influence.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Okay ... I read the entire article and all of the comments at the site. And I have to say ... I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

All of the rumors about conflict between Rahm and Jarret and Gibbs and Michelle are apparently true. So are the rumors that Michelle is controlling and difficult. But what do the NYT readers take away from the article? Michelle is a goddess!

Amazing & sickening.

And oh, BTW, Michelle thinks white America is sitting around just waiting for a black woman to screw up. What an enormous chip she has on her shoulders.

Note to FLOTUS: Your skin color is irrelevant. It’s your commie-red values that bother us.

[expat1000]

No, it’s not you that lives in a cave, it’s them who have departed from reality.

[cricket]

The reading thus far, seems designed to take the worst of Michelle and fashion the mix into Michelle Obama as 'heroine'; martyr; visionary and Presidential Advisor.

Lemonade - or Kool Ade - the majority of those commenting at site; appear to be loving it. As well; believe these 'same', would gladly call Michelle; "Your Highness".

(A little scoring; but with soft pencil; IMHO; but interesting read, nonetheless.)

[exnavy]

Gee, trouble in Paradise, who would've thunk?

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Our rudder isn't set straight"

Hee hee. If anyone knows about "rudders" it is the esteemed flotus. She has one of the biggest.

[firebrand]

Read between the lines: Sounds like she hates all the responsibilities of her position but now that it looks as if the perks might be vanishing, she has come on board.

[PghBaldy]

I spend time with a large group of liberals on a regular basis. One time, one of them (one of the few black people in the group) went on about how she was a new Jackie Kennedy. It was the first time I had heard that from any of them. Usually, all I hear is how horrible the Repubs are. The other thing- I can’t tell you how many times I have looked at pics of the First Family and thought she was trying to harm him politically- especially the pics of her in the ugly, inappropriate shorts on one of their trips. That’s what I kept thinking of when reding this claptrap. Reading between the lines, though, she sounds disagreeable with everyone. Not a surprise...

[nathanbedford]

PING

[ronnie raygun]

We have all come in contact with this kind of arrogance in our daily lives, think about it

[Eric in the Ozarks]

She’s not one of us.

[hal ogen]

The “WORST LADY”.

[Louis Foxwell]

Wow. Four pages of...that. I'll pass.

After chewing through page 1, my reaction precisely.

[HotKat]

That’s exactly what I said.

[SkyPilot]

Okay ... I read the entire article and all of the comments at the site. And I have to say ... I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I read the comments on the NY Slimes piece. I have to say this is the perhaps biggest piece of propaganda I have read in 10 years.

The bigger story here is how the NY Slimes is in collusion with the White House, Democrats, and beltway reporters to peddle this garbage.

There are scores of outrageous and laughable comments, and they all parrot this one:

"Michelle...you are awesome, as is your husband. What a team...I'm in for the re election...2012...We need you and i know it is not easy...stay with it...we have your back...and we will help carry the banner... YOU GO!!
jo An honolulu - Jan. 7, 2012 at 1:13 a.m. Recommended26 Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter

Despite the one of the most massive media propaganda campaigns in recorded history, the press has failed to cover up the internal ugliness of this awful woman:

If you look at the immediate and forthright comments that elicit from any nation article about Michelle Obama on Reuters or AP, they are overwhelmingly negative from the get go.

People don't like her - period. She has selective monolithic "group" support where her loyalty rivals that of a dictator: blacks, feminists, food stamp collectors, and the Oprah New Age crowd. And....that's about it.

Most discerning individuals can take a collective and honest look at someone and figure them out pretty quick. The cold hard truth is that Michelle Obama is vain, mean, stupid, egotistical, entitled, narcissistic, venal, crude, greedy, slow, grandiose, false, and vindictive. And those are her good points.

"A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones."

Proverbs 12:4

The only justice in all of this is that she makes The Community Organizer's life a private hell.

[Scotsman will be Free]

What do you expect from people who work in a school system? My sister in law used to be fairly conservative. She became employed in a school system and after a few years became an arrogant, ignorant, insufferable, liberal idiot. I no longer speak to her. It’s waste of time and effort.

[Venturer]

She needs a rudder on that tremendous stern of hers.

[bert]

The evolution required a great deal of money, work and skin creme

She is not comfortable in her own skin

[SumProVita]

“A Harvard-trained lawyer, she had given up her career for what initially seemed to her a shapeless post...”

The implication here is that she gave up her career in law to be First lady. WE KNOW that’s not true.

I wonder what exactly happened to her career in law??????

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So she’s no longer proud of her country? Whatta POS.