Michelle Obama Goes Rogue, Discusses Current Events with Grownups
In January Michelle Obama placed her hand on a Jonas Brothers album and swore to serve four years as "mom in chief," but now it looks like she's got another plan. An agenda, if you will.
Why, all of a sudden, she's become a regular opinion-having machine…
Last month, Mrs. Obama celebrated the enacting of a pay-equity law with a reception for women’s advocates at the White House. Last week, she supported the economic stimulus bill on her visit to the housing agency and another to the Department of Education.
Policy! That means she's come within ten yards of policy! God, mom, you're not supposed to do that…
"She went to some lengths to say she was going to be first mom in chief," Myra Gutin, a scholar of first ladies at Rider University in New Jersey, said of Mrs. Obama. "I don't think we ever really imagined her edging toward public policy like this. It's not like she's making public policy. But it's a little less neutral than some of the other things she's talked about focusing on."
And surely Michelle Obama will find a way to promote education, economic stability and support for working families while remaining 100% neutral on policy matters, 100% of the time. Heck, women really can have it all!
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The New York Times reported on "Dad in Chief" too. My favorite part is this:
"He seems like such a good father, in fact, that many of us began expecting him to be our parent, too. What is good governing if not good parenting — what with providing a moral compass, negotiating bickering between red and blue siblings and making sure the spinach gets eaten before we indulge in dessert?
In the first weeks, those in parenting circles were downright exuberant about what a better parent to the country this one was than the last. “A good parent doesn’t try to be their child’s friend,” says Dr. Hannah Solky, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. “A good parent says, It is time to put away ‘childish things,’ or, It’s time to ‘pick ourselves up’ and ‘dust ourselves off,’ instead of handing you the credit card and telling you to go shopping.”
Those around the new president have found themselves describing him as dad in chief, too. In explaining why Obama was no longer demanding that those free-spending A.I.G. executives be fired, as he had during the campaign, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said the president’s tack was more “like that disappointed parent that doesn’t embarrass you in the mall, but you feel like you’ve let somebody down.”
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NYT I'm loving you.
She hosted a dinner and supported her husband as every good mom should. My mommy told me to listen to my father when I was young she also took me out to dinner or lunch to reward me for being her good girl. Our "Mom in chief" is doing a good job parenting this nation.
Anyone who thought Michelle was going to have the class of a Laura Bush was and is naive. She will follow in Hillary's footsteps, and it won't be to her or the country's benefit.
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