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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Secretary of Fashion
Neither were the two dozen plus "czars."
LOL - classic Rush!!!
What have you got against pancakes?
I think the Aunt Jemima thing with the First Lady of the United States is crude and could be considered racist.
you realize that this will be used by the leftist to show how racist we are at Free Republic
She should go out on the pro wrestling tour. That would keep her busy
You have to remember, when the old Chicago boys retired, or needed to get out of town
they went to Hot Springs, or Little Rock to get away.
Clinton was emulating his hero's, and trying to be just like them.
Now he has to deal with a carpetbagger from Chicago,
slick Willie just cant win with this guy
i AGREE...
that was a stupid post way beneath freeper. I found it disgustingly childish.We really don’t need that here.
Skeletons. Closet. Out.
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wonder if it is a plant intent on making us look bad, sure Jim would not find it funny.
Michelle has more experience in health care than ZerO or Hillary. At least she worked for a hospital. OK, it wasn’t a real job, but, that is more than those other yahoos.
I hope so.
"...you realize that this will be used by the leftist to show how racist we are at Free Republic..."
"...is crude and could be considered racist..."
You're right, anything that they don't like, they start yelling Racism, and they're going to say it no matter what. Rush harps on this constantly concerning our RINO legislators. Don't worry what they think and quit trying to make them think that we're nice. They care nothing for you and only look at our refusal to lower ourselves to their level as weakness.
People eat pancakes.
Nah, we do have some little boys that are sometimes posting at a 4th grade level...I understand the anger, and maybe the point was to highlight Michelle’s lack of competency at anything..it was just dumb.
I don't consider what was posted to be racist, but inappropriate for mature human beings.
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