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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you realize that this will be used by the leftist to show how racist we are at Free Republic
Do YOU realize that what you just said is exactly how PC became the rule and how the libs control all discussion?
Should we all begin to worry what the MSM or the libs think? NO!!
I have been on this site long enough to remember our outrage at the cartoons and portraying not only Dr. Rice but Clarence Thomas as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom, are we now assuming the role of the Democratic Underground of who can be portrayed in a negative stereotype?
Did we not have a problem how Conservatives Blacks were portrayed?
is the discussion to include a caricature of a modern Black women in civil war clothing, attired in the dress of the slaves, even the company that featured the Aunt Jemima character moved on from that Gone with the Wind portrait of
Blacks.
By all means let us have the debate, but not at a Democratic Underground level.
If we lived in a perfect world I would certainly agree with you, but we are not dealing with people who respect anything and will do and say anything to accomplish their ruin of America.
Our civility may be one of the traits that allowed our enemies get so far ahead, sort of like W's "compassionate conservatism". Times are desperate, we must fight fire with fire.
I have and will show proper respect, where respect is due. Just because the HNIC has been able to steal his way in to the Presidency, doesn't mean michelle is the honest First Lady of our country.
She must be drinking again.
Which is EXACTLY why some of us are trying to confront and combat the racist posts that pop up disturbingly frequently on FR these days.
Maybe she could parade around in a designer burka?
They don't think we're smart enough to know NOT to drag Michelle Ubama into the debate?
We're not THAT stupid.
Are we?
“the most flattering reviews ever earned by an American first lady”?
This mean, antiAmerican socialist with the shelf ass and a scowl?
Just a turd who hitched her wagon to a politician.
Laura Bush, Class and a pleasure.
michelle obamma lamma ding dong, garbage like her kenyan husband.
“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.”
It seems they are drinking the Kool-Ade on the other sode of the Pond as well.
Like she is not already running the show? This makes me SICK!
Are you a lawyer if you’ve given up your law license???? Seems to me she’s a Harvard educated ...well...nothing.
Guess Walpin was just a warm-up...
I was just visually pointing our the sheer lunacy of people who compare the impeccable style and poise of Jackie to the beast Michelle. If the white guilt crowd must slobber over a stylish black woman in a position of political power, Condoleeza Rice would be a better bet.
” hailed as the most glamorous first lady since Jackie Kennedy.”
Barf. Which koolaid drinking idiots are saying this.
I do feel so much better and secure knowing both nobama’s intel and FR PC cops are looking out for “what’s best for us”. Thanks you and keep up the good work.
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