Posted on 06/27/2009 4:51:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Michelle Obama raises fears over Hillary Clinton-style debacle Democrats are fretting as the first lady seeks a wider role in the White House Michelle Obama
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Michelle Obama has sparked fears that she is suffering from 'Hillary-itis' and wants to influence politics on healthcare Tony Allen-Mills
Over the past five months Michelle Obama has basked in some of the most flattering reviews ever earned by an American first lady. Yet the first stirrings of discontent are beginning to surface as President Barack Obama’s wife emerges from her newly installed White House vegetable garden in search of a meatier political role.
Reports last week that she is seeking to expand her influence in her husband’s administration set alarm bells ringing among Democratic veterans.
Despite denials from White House officials that Michelle Obama is suffering from “Hillary-itis” — a burning desire to help her husband run the country — her long-running interest in healthcare has raised painful memories of 1994, when Hillary Clinton presided over a political debacle as her health reform proposals collapsed in Congress.
As a Harvard-educated lawyer and a former hospital administrator from Chicago, Michelle Obama has been dealing with the shortcomings of US healthcare for much of the past decade.
Yet since her husband became president in January she has mostly steered clear of the contentious debate over the soaring costs of treatment, insurance and care for the poor.
Instead she has emerged as a fashion icon, a model mother and a symbol of African-American achievement. The angry black woman who once suggested she had not been proud of her country until her husband ran for president has since been hailed as the most glamorous first lady since Jackie Kennedy.
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I smell trouble...
She wasn’t ELECTED.
Like that matters to this crowd....or to the majority of our fellow Americans.
“As a Harvard-educated lawyer and a former hospital administrator from Chicago, Michelle Obama has been dealing with the shortcomings of US healthcare for much of the past decade”
her solution was to dump patients out the door of the hospital.
Bring it ON, Michelle. The SOONER you start ‘helping’ The Boy King rule his country, the SOONER we can be rid of the both of you. :)
Let her try, she will be a failure just like Ms Clinton. Ms Clinton has a desk job as Sec Of State and is virtually ignored on the world stage.
I guess the Clinton’s were no match for Chicago politics.
if anything like her wardrobe, that's probably just waaaay too much of Michelles eau-de-cologney-barf-a-loney-perfumey you're smellin
This is like saying Helen Thomas is as hot as Scarlett Johansson. Does the media think we are really that dumb. Michelle could not be any more opposite of Jackie Kennedy.
I thought the 2 for 1 one deal with the Obamas was referring to her @ss..
Please people don’t bring out the belt!
MaBelle - Rahmorama ‘’16
Who needed multiple tries to pass the Illinois Bar and gave up her license just four years later.
Oh Lord, not “two for the price of one” again.
(One of the comments on the Times, UK article used this phrase.)
We had enough and aplenty of that with the Clintoons.
Geez! She looks like a guy! Maybe that another of 0's secrets.
Rush was talking about Cher's kid last week. He said that she had a surgical procedure called an Adadicktome
Maybe she's filling in for Larry?
If she comes out and starts flapping her lips about what she and dear leader really think about America and freedom and whitey...that would be trouble for the democrats.
Anyone who tells her to shut up and sit down like they had to do with Queen Hillary will be shouted down as a dirty racist - Rev. Wright style.
Better for her and dear leader if she play happy homemaker.
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