Politico's Michael Calderone notes that this Sunday's NYT mag Obama cover story is the fourth Obama since the election: "Clearly, the Obamas prefer to think of themselves as largely unaltered. ‘'The strengths and challenges of our marriage don’t change because we move to a different address,’ the first lady said, the president studying the carpet as she answered. But even as they serve as sources of continuity for each other, their own partnership is undergoing significant change, not just in outward circumstance — the city, the exposure, the security, the staff, the house and so on — but far more fundamentally...."
The media takeaway: Michelle on marriage with the profound "bumps happen to everybody."
I prefer Hillary's undeleted expletives and the telltale lamp-hurling bumps on Bill's head...
Somehow, I can imagine Barack Obama, the morning of January 21st awakening in the White House and saying to himself, "We won! At last I can be my real self". And then, on the pad next to his bed, he writes, "Find a real self. Arrange briefings".
ReplyDeleteHire czars to avoid dicey Senate confirmation...
ReplyDeleteCNN and excellent journalism in the same sentence. I can't take it any more.
ReplyDeleteObama and Michelle and Hillary and Bill. They are the same. Four nerds sitting in a law library endlessly thinking up how to screw each other and anyone else in order to get ahead. The best America can give the world.
ReplyDeleteI hear the NY Times is paying for Obama's next date night.
ReplyDeleteScreams heard coming from the Lincoln bedroom - "Who's your Daddy?"
ReplyDeleteMichelle on marriage - thats like listening to Steve Phillips talk about sex.
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