re: #396 EmmmieG

Actually, I think that Michelle is nuts to go to Spain right now.

1. If she waits a few years, the girls will be more fun to travel with, and they won’t have to travel with seventy Secret Service agents and wait while security checks out everything. Honestly, that looks tedious.

2. It is going to set a lot of people off. For most of those people, it won’t have anything to do with color. My kids have swiped my book on this, but during some crisis (WWI, maybe?) Eleanor Roosevelt gave an interview in which she intended to show how she was economizing in her household, but all that came across was that she had 10 servants. She was chagrined, and Frankling laughed at it, but still, the point here is perception.

In politics, it is everything.

I suppose. It’s just that Michelle’s ‘extravagance’ has been such a thing for so long that I’ve stopped taking it seriously. I don’t see anyone else in public life cutting back. Including Rush.