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Never mind.
Posted on 04/28/2017 11:05:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former First Lady Michelle Obama appeared to rule out running for elected office during her first public remarks since leaving the White House.
"It's all well and good until you start running, and then the knives come out." It's hard on a family, she said. "I wouldn't ask my children to do this again because when you run for higher office, it's not just you. It's your whole family."
But "public service will always be in our blood", she added.
Although Mrs Obama had played down her political ambitions before, while first lady, this is the first time she has done so since the election campaign, when she was widely viewed as the most effective weapon in the Democratic armoury.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How she sacrificed self and family for us! /S
When she agreed to marry a homosexual man, she knew the deal. She would get an educated man with prospects, and some kids - a good deal for any large homely woman. He would get “cover”, particularly in the gay-hostile black community where his political ambitions would first be tested.
The deal worked out beyond anyone’s dreams. Eight years in the White House, global celebrity status and extreme wealth.
No need to mess it up now with work, political or otherwise.
“Michelle Obama: ‘I won’t run for office’ for my children”
Well goonie goo goo!
She is a complete disaster.
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“But “public service will always be in our blood”, she added.”
She means public graft will always be in our blood.
Grifters.
“The public serving them”
I absolutely despise that term. They’re all in it for the money and power and nothing else. The Kennedys were all such stand up public servants along with the Clintons. You become a public servant when you aren’t equipped to do anything else. Or you become a community organizer.
Let me guess. He ran into the business end of all the regulations and labor laws he and his ilk legislated?
It wasn’t as much Federal as it was local and state fees, inspections, and requirements.
This is From TechDirt:
George McGovern On Why Politicians Who Haven’t Built A Business Are Bad At Regulating
from the good-points dept
With the passing of former Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reran a 1992 column he wrote about how much he learned from trying to start a business after he’d left politics. TheMoneyIllusion has an excerpt as well:
In 1988, I invested most of the earnings from this lecture circuit acquiring the leasehold on Connecticut’s Stratford Inn. Hotels, inns and restaurants have always held a special fascination for me. The Stratford Inn promised the realization of a longtime dream to own a combination hotel, restaurant and public conference facility — complete with an experienced manager and staff.
In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business, especially during a recession of the kind that hit New England just as I was acquiring the inn’s 43-year leasehold. I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.
He goes on to talk about how all sorts of crazy regulations, that may have appeared to make sense to the politicians passing them, were actually serving to create a huge headache for businesses — often because whoever is writing the laws has no idea what they’re talking about:
In short, “one-size-fits-all” rules for business ignore the reality of the marketplace. And setting thresholds for regulatory guidelines at artificial levels — e.g., 50 employees or more, $500,000 in sales — takes no account of other realities, such as profit margins, labor intensive vs. capital intensive businesses, and local market economics.
The problem we face as legislators is: Where do we set the bar so that it is not too high to clear? I don’t have the answer. I do know that we need to start raising these questions more often.
Mooch / Clinton campaign bus would smell like carp and cabbages
Can you imagine the flies swarming around in the campaign bus or plane. With the smell of carp and cabbage stew in the air
Can you imagine the flies swarming around in the campaign bus or plane. With the smell of carp and cabbage stew in the air
More like sucking at the public teat will always be in her blood.
I wouldn't run for office for her children either.
I too have decided not to run for public office.
Please will she list her qualifications first if any? Then maybe lol
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