She is an adroit businesswoman, has done a remarkable amount of charity work and has frankly had a very trying marriage with McCain and handled it with a lot of dignity and class, even while suffering a stroke. But blaming her for a lucky draw of birth is totally unfair. Her silly comment about being not proud of America aside, she has done a lot more for America and proved the genuineness of the American dream than most of her critics, I'll bet you that.Īs far as Cindy McCain goes, she is rich and she is white. 0ĭoes it really matter? First of all to the people who criticize Michelle Obama, all she did was grow up in a working class family, put herself through Princeton and Harvard and head a public interest agency working for disadvantaged Americans for the past 15 years, while raising two daughters. Michelle Obama observed she was proud of her country for "the first time in her adult life." She took a lot of flak and I could understand why only after I read Mitt Romney was hard pressed to name a single thing wrong with America. Though she was obviously angry, having been relegated to the home front raising kids while her husband was off making his way in the world, she covered it up with humor. The last evidence the public heard was when she dismissed her husband's VP opponent in 1984, Geraldine Ferraro, as "rhymes with rich." When she became First Lady she was reduced to ghost writing books for her dog, Millie. She has a wonderful sense of humor but not one appropriate for a First Lady. They become the target of society's contradictory expectations for women/wives and ya can't please everyone.īetty Ford was a personal favorite of mine and I respected her husband for never muzzling her (as I'm sure he was advised to do). This may be the reason why it doesn't spawn from the Robot Factory.I try to avoid judging women who become first ladies regardless of what I think of their husbands.
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