Michelle Obama was the wife of a state, then U.S. senator all during the war on terror. Only when her husband was running for president did she and he magically discover the “issue” of military families. Sure helps gloss over that ‘first time proud of my country’ bit.
In any case, with some important exceptions, most politicians who “support the troops” do so for political reasons. If they're Republicans, I'll call them out for hypocrisy if it becomes obvious they really don't care and are just saying what voters want to hear with little or no followup. If they're Democrats, I'll take what we can get since a half a loaf (or a tenth of a loaf) is better than nothing.
President Obama needs to be voted out of office. In the meantime, we're stuck with what we've got.
We may never know for sure why Michelle Obama’s name got linked with the military “fuel the soldier” initiative. Why would she want to claim credit for something like this? It's fraught with political peril for her — images of soldiers challenging her to come to morning PT come to mind. A few years ago I could have passed the Army's PT test, but today I'd fail, and Michelle Obama would probably fail, too.
That's part of what makes me wonder why she got involved — either it's a media screwup connecting dots that had no reason to be connected, or a political mistake by her handlers, or possibly, just possibly, she really **IS** behind some of this “fueling the soldier” initiative. Sometimes when politicians do things that make no sense it's a clue to what they'd do if their handlers aren't around.
36 posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 7:42:58 AM by kristinn: “Michelle Obama was the wife of a state, then U.S. senator all during the war on terror. Only when her husband was running for president did she and he magically discover the “issue” of military families. Sure helps gloss over that ‘first time proud of my country’ bit.”
34 posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 7:28:46 AM by Venturer: “Michelle Obama’s interest in Military Families will only be an interest as long as it looks good for her to be interested. It’s all as phony as she is.”