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FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot'
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.
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. (See: Michelle Obama: No longer a 'caricature')
In a new book on the presidency, “Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House,” Richard Wolffe writes that because of the constant pressure of the past 22 months the president's circle of friends and confidants “shrank rather than expanded.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20101124/pl_politico/45558
seriously....this is news? and this is valid criticism? some of her words are valid for criticism...but i see nothing here....
its interesting because it appears the media love affair with obama and now his wife is eroding...but the erosion seems cheap, artificial maybe....or is it just our nit picky sensationalism driven media making a story out of nothing...
i'll go with the latter
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.
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. (See: Michelle Obama: No longer a 'caricature')
In a new book on the presidency, “Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House,” Richard Wolffe writes that because of the constant pressure of the past 22 months the president's circle of friends and confidants “shrank rather than expanded.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20101124/pl_politico/45558
seriously....this is news? and this is valid criticism? some of her words are valid for criticism...but i see nothing here....
its interesting because it appears the media love affair with obama and now his wife is eroding...but the erosion seems cheap, artificial maybe....or is it just our nit picky sensationalism driven media making a story out of nothing...
i'll go with the latter