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Earlier today I went and posted this thread...The last good Vice President.01/15/2024 | EveryoneLively discusion. X broached the topic of First Ladies. So I thought - as we wait on the Iowa Caucus - I'd bring up First Ladies. So. Who's the Best First Lady we've ever had? Who was the Worst? (Hillary or the Mooch)Jill BidenMelania TrumpMichelle ObamaLaura BushHillary ClintonBarbara BushNancy ReaganRosalynn CarterBetty FordPat NixonLady Bird JohnsonJackie KennedyMamie EisenhowerBess TrumanEleanor Rooseveltetc.

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s grandson on Tuesday fondly remembered her as a public servant, fierce advocate for multiple causes and a woman who was “like everyone else’s grandma” during a memorial service in Georgia. Jason Carter delivered one of many tributes to Rosalynn Carter, eliciting laughter regularly during some of the lighter moments in the day’s proceedings, including when he acknowledged each of the living first ladies in the audience.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Friday on “The View” that Michelle Obama was one of the most vilified first ladies in history.” Hostin said, “When you think about Michelle Obama in particular, I think she was one of the most vilified first ladies in history.” Co-host Joy Behar said, “No, Eleanor Roosevelt has that distinction.”

First lady Jill Biden is traversing the country in the final weeks before the midterm elections, adding several stops to her already travel-heavy time in the White House and outstripping her recent predecessors in terms of campaign appearances and active fundraising. Biden this week visited Tennessee, Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida. Her solo trips, while President Biden has been traveling out west this week, have been focused on top issues for her portfolio, including education, the military and COVID-19, but also include fundraising for Democrats.

Melania Trump epitomizes the qualities that Americans should admire in our First Ladies. While clearly both fashionable and beautiful, Mrs. Trump’s most impressive qualities are her toughness, determination in the face of a hostile media environment Every year on the Ringside Politics program, we award our “Turkey” of the year during Thanksgiving and our “Champion” of the year in late December. This year, the “winner” of our turkey award was House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fitting choice for such a failed leader. However, our “Champion” award was a more difficult selection. During the past year, many fine people distinguished themselves...

<p>Rapper Nicki Minaj went off on a profanity-laced tangent targeting Melania Trump during a concert in New York Saturday night, telling attendees to “pray to God we don’t stuck with a motherf*cking Melania” Trump as First Lady.</p> <p>The 33-year–old Pinkprint rapper was performing at the Tidal X 1015 concert in Brooklyn Saturday when she took a break for a profanity-filled political rant.</p>

LOS ANGELES -- A trio of former first ladies, including Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and current first lady Michelle Obama will be among those attending Friday's funeral service for Nancy Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum... Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are also expected to attend, along with former first lady Rosalynn Carter, according to officials at the Reagan Library. Former President Lyndon Johnson's daughters Luci and Lynda are expected to attend, along with Tricia Nixon Cox, a daughter of President Richard Nixon. The White House announced Monday that Michelle Obama will...

EXCLUSIVE: It's Chelsea vs Huma! The two competitive, power-hungry women vying to become Hillary Clinton's official First LADY Hillary has all but admitted that Bill Clinton will NOT be her First Man Daughter Chelsea seems an obvious choice to fill the First Lady's shoes But the candidate's classy confidential confidante Huma Abedin is also in contention 'Hillary owes Huma, big time,' says one Washington insider There's no law that says a first lady must be a president's spouse - or live in the White House, says presidential authority Carl Sferrazza Anthony The first woman called 'first lady' was Harriet Lane,...

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When did the Presidents wife, known for nothing other than servicing the President (except Mrs. Clinton) become anything other than a White House tour guide, a la Jackie Kennedy? When is the Congress going to cut off all project funds these unelected concubines seek to steal from the American taxpayer? If the position of First Lady is anything requiring the spending of one dime, they should have to run for it separately and it should not just automatically be the Presidents wife. If these women are going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars, shouldn’t they be vetted? Or is sleeping...

America’s new First Lady Michelle Obama wowed the crowd election night with her red-and-black Narciso Rodriguez dress from the designer’s spring 2009 collection. She accessorized with a black cardigan, kitten heels, diamond bangles and earrings.

This is a stunning election season that is ablaze with drama. Regardless of what happens in November, we will either have the First Black President or the First Woman Vice President. It is also a stunning season of contrasts. On the one hand, we have a true American War Hero. John McCain was tortured, maimed, and kept in a virtual box by a ruthless enemy. He suffered for years, refusing special treatment that would place him ahead of fellow prisoners of war. He came out of this experience a physically broken man, but with an enormous gratitude and devotion to...

Normally attacking a man's wife would be classless. In this case it is Michelle Obama who is classless, clueless and completely unsuited to be First Lady. In saying that the first time she could be proud of her country in her adult life was when the public started to swoon for the Messiah, she shows contempt for the country. That should not be rewarded with the right to be the public face of our country. Contrast her sad commentary with Cindy McCain introducing her husband this morning. (video here) Brookfield, WI — During her introduction of Sen. John McCain at...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush spent the weekend at the White House, where they attended a T-ball game today. The President will meet with Polish President Lech Kaczynski tomorrow to discuss plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe. Bush and Polish president to focus on missile shield Reuters WARSAW: President George W. Bush meets President Lech Kaczynski of Poland on Monday to iron out details of plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe that is straining relations with Moscow. Underlining the growing tension between Russia and the West, President Vladimir Putin on...

Joe, the guy behind the counter at the store in Canterbury Center, has a way of sniffing out the Next Big Story. Maybe this is because Joe reads all the papers first thing every morning. Or maybe it's because as a conservative curmudgeon he is quick to tap into the zeitgeist of the largely conservative, largely curmudgeonly blogosphere, where small stories echo and bounce and expand until they evolve into Big Stories and wind up in the MSM ("mainstream media" in blogspeak). In any case, Joe is a goldmine of ideas for a columnist, especially one of a liberal bent...

WASHINGTON - Not to be outdone by their husbands, the first ladies are getting their chance to shine on the nation's coins. Starting next year, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and all the rest will begin appearing on a new series of gold coins. It will be the first time in history that the U.S. Mint has produced a series featuring women. While a new presidential series will be $1 circulating coins, the wives will be on half-ounce gold coins with each likely to sell for more than $300. Both coins were authorized by Congress in 2005 with lawmakers modeling the...

She was running behind schedule that day, and the mostly female crowd waiting for her was restive. There is only so much multitasking that can be accomplished on a folding chair when the speaker has already run 90 minutes late, and many women were murmuring about the children they had to pick up and jobs they had to get back to. Even one of the warm-up speakers joked that they should all get a free bottle of ketchup in recompense, and some in the audience eventually gave up, explaining themselves as they headed out the door. But anyone who was...

John and Teresa Heinz Kerry display a different kind of relationship. She complains that she gets bad press because she's "opinionated," but Americans are accustomed to opinionated women in at least 57 different varieties. A lot of American men are married to such women. The public image of the Kerry Heinz marriage reflects something else, a certain stiffness verging on awkwardness. Although he grew up in a wealthy environment, there's a quality of the nouveau riche in the various Kerry houses, an excessiveness that we didn't see in that earlier wealthy presidential first couple of JFK and Jackie. Read more:...

CASTRO VALLEY -- Pari Cariaga can now say that she knows people in high places -- really high places. Last summer, the Castro Valley fourth-grader expressed to her parents, Hilarie and Rudy Cariaga, that she had been feeling lonely because she was an only child. "She came in one day and just started to cry in my lap," Hilarie said. "She had told me that it was due to the fact that she had nobody to play with." After seeing this, Rudy suggested to his young daughter that she write a letter to none-other-than first lady Laura Bush, an only...

TERESA Heinz Kerry has presented herself to Americans as a multi-lingual free spirit, a woman with a taste for a Seventies-era Jacqueline Bisset coiffure and a habit of tossing a sweater over her shoulders, as if her political outings demanded no more of her than patio luncheons in Nantucket. Were she to take up residence in the White House as first lady in a John Kerry administration, no-one would expect her to fade into the chintz. She is in many ways a contrast to Laura Bush, who has sought above all to look imperturbably well-kempt. After nearly four stressful years...