mutt walking dog... at least the dog has papers
Posted on 06/19/2013 5:56:15 PM PDT by drewh
MICHELLE Obama dazzled Dublin with her grace and charm, and almost outshone her husband in Belfast with her eloquence, sounding every inch the professional politician. And that is exactly what could be on the cards for her.
The talk in Washington is that she is a politician-in-waiting with her eyes on a particular seat.
"She (Michelle) is only waiting for the right time," a Washington political insider told me. And 2016 would fit that bill.
By then, her husband will be ending his second term and she would have no campaigning constraints. And 2016 also happens to be the year that a US Senate seat will be up for grabs in her native state of Illinois.
Republican senator Mark Kirk, who won her husband's old seat there, is up for re-election that year and Mrs Obama would have little trouble getting the nod from the Democratic Party.
She would be a fundraising magnet with the power of the Obama political machine behind her. A poll has even been carried out on her chances in a hypothetical match-up against Mr Kirk. It had her leading 51pc to 40pc.
She would be a formidable candidate. A lawyer and an intellectual powerhouse, who excelled at Princeton and Harvard Law School, she first met her husband when she mentored him at a Chicago law firm.
She lacks political experience. But so did another first lady before she went on to become a US senator for New York.
Hillary Clinton has already blazed the trail for Mrs Obama, and what Mrs Clinton did in New York in 2000, Mrs Obama could do in Illinois in 2016.
Chicago is also the Obama political power base and it has a strong African-American electorate. Mrs Obama would also do well among Irish-American voters.
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an intellectual powerhouse what did she figure out finally how to take the wrapper off a candy bar before she devoured it
What a hideous outfit! Is she wearing one of hubbie’s jackets?
As soon a her husband was elected the first time, I looked and her thought I saw someone saying to herself that it will be my time in the future. She feels that it is hers for the taking.
She had to hand over her law license
I wonder if she will still want the gig when she discovers that it doesn’t offer multiple 150 million dollar vacations?
Christopher Hitchens said this, in part, about the Mooch’s Princeton paper: “To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”
Alcohol or pills?
mutt walking dog... at least the dog has papers
I had to restrain myself also. The Obamas bring out the worst in me.
Man, Hitch was funny. I miss him and Breitbart.
16 years of obama presidency
Wait a minute! Didn’t Moochy want to retire in Hawaii?
Look up Hottentot on google and you’ll see images of wide hips and big bottoms that match Moochelle perfectly.
No she isn’t. She hates DC. Someone is trying to raise money on that kind of scaremongering.
Tougher with each passing day.
I think it’s just her. She probably has written much for YEARS.
Great. Then she can be appointed Secretary of State and get more of our diplomats killed. Then SHE can run for president.
Gotta keep those vacations on the public dime a-commin’.
The media who hypes Michelle is the same one which demonizes Gov Sarah Palin. Bias much.
Please, no.
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