This might come as a surprise to all of you, but being the First Lady is tougher than Michelle thought it would be. As a matter of fact...
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FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot'
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She has glamorized kitchen gardening, spotlighted childhood obesity and invited thousands of students, many of them minorities, to official White House events.
Expectations were high for a different kind of first lady, and in many ways Michelle Obama has lived up to them, maintaining the kind of high public profile that was widely anticipated when she and her husband came to Washington.
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At the same time, she has been a victim of those expectations, disappointing some in Washington who hoped she would be a more expansive social presence, and eliciting the familiar criticism of recent first ladies that she keeps too much to herself.
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Poor, poor baby. She's married to (supposedly) the most powerful man in the world, but SHE'S a victim. If she's a victim, what do you call the people the Chicago Dems have been sucking dry for 75 years so they could stay in power?
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As I recall, Jackie Kennedy was well read and refined. She sought to shelter her kids, not use them as stage props for political BS. Camelot was based on ALL of America moving forward. Camelot was NOT about pushing forward any of the political leanings of the WH couple and their crazy ass radical friends!
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Camelot came complete with individual prosperity too. Perhaps if the peasants were eating as well as Arthur and his Court, it might seem a little more like the heady days of the American Camelot?
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But that's just a guess.
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And BTW, anyone remember anyone from the Kennedy Administration shoving the citizens around like we get shoved now? And try as I might, my research shows not one single instance of laws being passed, "...so we can read them", during the Kennedy years.
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Schteveo
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