Thursday, June 12, 2008

CINDY AND MICHELLE

RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES

Michelle is vibrant, intelligent, and educated.

She would make a delightful First Lady.

Apart from a warm and sincere smile, I very much look forward to her speaking her mind at times. Who knows, she might become the first female president one day?

Michelle and her husband clearly care about each other, the affection is palpable, a very refreshing and unusual situation in First Families.

Cindy has inherited family money and not much else I can see.

Her recipe-publishing caper - recipes taken from others - was a public relations disaster.

She's not well educated and sounds it.

She has paid for so much plastic surgery on her face, it is now embarrassing. Same with hair bleached until it looks weird. She looks like a bad job of embalming.

It has been widely reported that she and her husband have separate bedrooms. There is certainly no sense from photos of affection between them. They have a pre-nuptial agreement, and he gets to use things like her jet on contract terms.

He, of course, at least until he finally started turning into a trilobite fossil, had a reputation as a skirt-chaser. Same old, same old is the prospect here for the White House.