Posted on 12/02/2012 7:42:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Chatting with a group backstage on the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live! in October, Michelle Obama made it clear that she wasn’t thinking about what she might do in the future. “I’m just looking ahead to getting Barack back in office and continuing the work he’s been doing,” she said. “Supporting him is my focus.”
But others think the first lady—who spent the past four years seeking to better the lives of military families and fighting to end childhood obesity before becoming one of the stars of her husband’s reelection effort this fall—could have bigger things ahead of her, if she so chooses. “Michelle is Superwoman. What can’t she do?” Samuel L. Jackson recently told Newsweek. “That’s why people love her. She can be on the Supreme Court and anywhere else she wants. She can be the president. She’s history and she’ll stay history because she is so amazingly smart and together.”
Jackson isn’t the only person thinking along these lines. “I’d love to see her get more into politics because it would be a breath of fresh air in D.C.,” says Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina. “She’s honest and straightforward, which is not what you see in Washington much. She is exactly what we need around here.”(continued)
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Too bad that non-qualification is followed. The framers wanted all government positions open to all people, not the caste that went to law school.
Probably that was among the reasons Obama picked Elena Kagan.
The anti-nepotism law could prevent Obama from nominating Michelle for the Supreme Court...but she could run for President in 2016. No prior history of elective office is needed (Taft, Hoover, and Eisenhower didn't have any).
Plus Nixon sent Kerry to Cambodia in December 1968. President-elect Nixon.
I agree.
She was not disbarred. She voluntarily suspended her license because she wasn’t practicing law (not that she ever really did). Some lawyers do that so as to not have to keep up with continuing legal education courses. I don’t know where that rumor started, but I looked on the Illinois Bar website and it just isn’t true. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Still, considering she never really practiced law, the SC is a bit of a stretch.
Harriet Myers would have been a judicial giant compared to a Michelle Obama nomination.
Thanks for clarifying that.
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