And the most fascinating person is .... Michelle Obama.
I'm meh on this choice. Barack was the most fascinating last year, and I'm not that fascinated by his wife. I feel like I learned everything I'd need to know about her when she was vetted for the campaign.
Don't get me wrong, I really like her. I think she's a great example for the tough choice many women have regarding whose career should be put first: theirs or their husband's. You'd think it's a no-brainer when your husband wants to run for president. But they had two kids, supposedly had student loans they only recently paid off and she was making bank at her job.
This is a woman who graduated from Princeton University then Harvard Law School. She went on to be a lawyer, work on Mayor Daley's staff and was ultimately a top administrator for the University of Chicago Medical Center. She made a helluva a lot more money than Barack did when she was a hospital administrator and he was in the Senate. And Michelle's admitted she wasn't too keen on him pursuing politics. I like that she doesn't put Barack on a pedestal and acts like any other wife does with her husband. She's kind of over him, in a way.
You could say Michelle became the nation's top housewife. She went from making nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year to planting stuff in the White House backyard and having everybody wonder who puts together her outfits. But I kind of admire the way she does it; in a way where you don't think she sacrificed anything to be in this role.
I'm sure my Uncle Mike is reading this and imagining sugary syrup just pouring from my fingers as I type. So I'll throw him a bone. I don't think her arms are that great. They're OK, but I think there are celebrities whose gun show I'd buy tickets to first. Her arms look like she could give me a mean right hook, but that's not attractive to me. I like less muscular arms, give me long and lean. Like Gisele.
My mom is apparently first in line for Sarah Jessica Parker's gun show, but I'll pass on that too.
Gisele's arms look like they are going to wither up and fall off. Long live toned arms!
ReplyDeleteSuprising some photographer hasn't caught her scratching her back against a tree. Not a fan.
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Michelle Obama Pay to Play scheme:
In 2002, Michelle Obama was hired by the University of Chicago Hospital as its “Executive Director for Community Affairs” at a salary of approximately $120,000.
In January of 2005, Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator.
In March of 2005, Michelle Obama was promoted to “Vice President for Community and External Affairs” and her salary bumped nearly $200,000 (from $121,910 to $316,962). This position was “newly created” for Mrs. Obama.
In February of 2006, Barack Obama requested a $1 million earmark for a new hospital pavilion at the University of Chicago.
Effective 9 January 2009, Michelle Obama resigned her position at UCH.
Effective 14 January 2009, Michelle Obama’s VP position was eliminated, its functions absorbed into another executive’s position. This prompted writer Don Rose to ask “[If] that work can be folded into another guy’s, why was it separate in the first place?“
Touche Uncle Mike, touche.
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