Michelle Obama made an off-the-cuff remark last week that is making some waves:
It’s not clear how intended the slap was.
But the sting of Michelle Obama’s words last week while campaigning with her husband in Iowa has roughed up the Democratic race for president.
The wife of Barack Obama told an audience in Atlantic, Iowa: “If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.”
She didn’t elaborate, but with her husband’s chief opponent, Hillary Clinton, married to the world’s most famous philanderer, she didn’t need to.
Funny though it might be, stuff like this can turn around and hurt Obama’s campaign considering that he’s trying to get votes from a Democratic electorate that mostly likes the Clinton Presidency.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 am
Wrong. Nice of them to take a sound bite and not include the rest of what she said. Here is the context in which that comment was made:
“We’ve adjusted our schedule to make sure that our girls are first. So while he’s traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning. I get the girls ready. I get them off. I go and do trips. I’m home before bedtime. So the girls know that I was gone somewhere, but they don’t care.”
She was not speaking about anyone’s philandering ways. She was speaking about taking care of her own household, literally. Her own family. Her own girls. Her own responsibilities. Because as she said, if you can’t take care of your own house, you can’t take care of the White House.