re: #234 Gus 802

I’ve always been kind of sympathetic to first ladies. I say ladies since we have yet to elect a woman as POTUS. They’re sort of cast into the spotlight. You can’t really gauge the ideology of a spouse in the end. Hillary was the first to push that envelope with me but she did back off from the Evitaisms in the end.

More or less. My favorite to date is Laura Bush. I really liked Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. I even think that Rosalynn Carter has much to admire. Imagine having a husband like Jimmy?

I can pretty much agree with all that. With one caveat - Michelle Obama has said some things that have really worried and irritated me (like the “for the first time…” comment, etc…) but even I wouldn’t refer to her by terms that could be construed as racial. Being a minority myself, I am, perhaps, more sensitive about that sort of thing. The “First Wookie” crap? There’s a lot to criticize her for, politically, but it has nothing to do with race, or her appearance, and everything to do with being ugly on the inside, IMHO.