Posted on 03/27/2014 4:40:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama is staging picture-perfect photo ops on her tour of China — but back home, her East Wing office is fraught with tension and anxiety, according to a new insider account.
Her office “can be a confining, frustrating, even miserable place to work,” writes former White House press assistant Reid Cherlin in an article in The New Republic.
“Jealousy and discontentment have festered, as courtiers squabble over the allocation of responsibility and access to Mrs. Obama, both of which can be aggravatingly scarce,” he continues.
Michelle Obama has a strong approval rating (69 percent in a February Gallup poll), is a fundraising asset, and has generated considerable publicity for her pet causes, which include healthy eating and exercise, and finding jobs for returning vets.
But Cherlin, who also worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, describes a strong measure of discord behind the feel-good initiatives. He compares the rollout of her “Drink Up” initiative encouraging people to imbibe more water to an episode of the TV show “Veep” for its hiccups.
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She is a real klutz.
tai chi in heels,,,,any engineers out there who want to calculate the stress on those heels ?
No.
How on earth can one do tai chi in skinny black patten heels?
Geeze—it’s amazing how stupidity abounds these days.
69.MO.NO.
I can see why past rumors of her ‘pregnancy’ persists.
Both require 'inner peace', MO fail at this, big time.
She's preparing for next season
Can we Tai Chi her to the moon? Do not pass GO. Do not collect any more American money.
Why does she ALWAYS dress INAPPROPRIATELY??? She dresses like a CRAZY PERSON!
Are there pictures of the Mooch PREGNANT??
Access to Mrs. Obama aggravatingly scarce?
That sounds like a GOOD thing.
At least they were kind enough to not ruin our eyes by showing moosechele doing a forward kick.
Just the thought of that make me want to puke.
And didn’t she just fire her gay baker?
“Her office “can be a confining, frustrating, even miserable place to work...” “
I think she needs to take them with her on more vacations.
Hit me the same way. Not believable.
“Damn, these pale yellow people move weird.”
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