Michelle is Barack's weak link There is not much love for Michelle Obama. America might have gone gooey for Barack, but there is something about the missus that raises the national hackles. Now that she might be on her way to the White House, which is no mean privilege, she declares that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." That sounds a lot like an exaggerated sense of entitlement. The 44-year-old lawyer, who grew up in Chicago, married Obama in 1992 and is mother to his two daughters, hastily 'clarified'. What she really meant to say was that she was proud of America for finally rising above its history of racial divide by backing a black candidate. Maybe. But the remark still stinks in a nation in thrall to a jingoistic sense of patriotism. Just because she is black, does she not feel proud of WWII, men on the moon, truth, justice and the American way? Michelle comes across as a bit prickly. She doesn't have Barack's charm or politician's polish. Early on, she revealed that she made him quit smoking as a condition for being allowed to run for the presidency, and would kick him out of bed in the morning for being 'stinky'. Full story ...
There is not much love for Michelle Obama. America might have gone gooey for Barack, but there is something about the missus that raises the national hackles.
Now that she might be on her way to the White House, which is no mean privilege, she declares that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."
That sounds a lot like an exaggerated sense of entitlement. The 44-year-old lawyer, who grew up in Chicago, married Obama in 1992 and is mother to his two daughters, hastily 'clarified'.
What she really meant to say was that she was proud of America for finally rising above its history of racial divide by backing a black candidate.
Maybe. But the remark still stinks in a nation in thrall to a jingoistic sense of patriotism. Just because she is black, does she not feel proud of WWII, men on the moon, truth, justice and the American way?
Michelle comes across as a bit prickly. She doesn't have Barack's charm or politician's polish. Early on, she revealed that she made him quit smoking as a condition for being allowed to run for the presidency, and would kick him out of bed in the morning for being 'stinky'. Full story ...
Come to think of it, why do media find it easier to knock the living daylights out of these ladies than out of their husbands?
Well, I fought it out on the work front, got him fired for serious incompetence and replaced him.
One of France's potential problems is that the French military is very separated from the French society, especially the officer corps, but the soldiers too with the end of conscription. The French military is quite out there on the far right, for example. In the early '60's it was a problem, and we didn't have national crisis since ; I wonder how the French army would react to such an occasion. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
