Current Events > Michelle Obama usurps Hillary Clinton as America's most admired woman

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/814612/michelle-obama-usurps-hillary-clinton-americas-most-admired-woman
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I thought that happened like, ten years ago...
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i mean, she hasnt accomplished nearly as much

but she is 10000x more charismatic and hasnt had 30 years of attack ads run against her, and has no publicly stated ambitions so there's not really any substance to attacks decrying her as a political animal--only obviously racist shit was thrown at her

also her marriage to barrack fits the bill for what both conservatives and liberals want to see in a public figure's marriage. conservatives loved to attack clinton for her political marriage and even liberals knew it was not based on love. barrack loves the shit out of her in such clear and overt ways that you can't call it political acting, and i think for a lot of people that is reason enough to love the shit out of her too

imo her political instincts are shit, she is literally the poster girl for democrats trying to be upstanding and getting screwed over for it. her political goals as first lady were inoffensive but also pretty inconsequential

she will make a fine house rep in 2020 and if she doesnt run she's selling herself short, but she's never going to be president. again, IMO.
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>most admired woman

>lost to Donald Trump

lmfao
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Darkman124 posted...

i mean, she hasnt accomplished nearly as much

but she is 10000x more charismatic and hasnt had 30 years of attack ads run against her, and has no publicly stated ambitions so there's not really any substance to attacks decrying her as a political animal--only obviously racist shit was thrown at her

also her marriage to barrack fits the bill for what both conservatives and liberals want to see in a public figure's marriage. conservatives loved to attack clinton for her political marriage and even liberals knew it was not based on love. barrack loves the shit out of her in such clear and overt ways that you can't call it political acting, and i think for a lot of people that is reason enough to love the shit out of her too

imo her political instincts are shit, she is literally the poster girl for democrats trying to be upstanding and getting screwed over for it. her political goals as first lady were inoffensive but also pretty inconsequential

she will make a fine house rep in 2020 and if she doesnt run she's selling herself short, but she's never going to be president. again, IMO.

Im 100% certain that she will never run for President. I always got the feeling that she hated living in the White House and seeing how busy Barack was. Why would she want to go right back to that kind of life?
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YookaLaylee posted...

Im 100% certain that she will never run for President. I always got the feeling that she hated living in the White House and seeing how busy Barack was. Why would she want to go right back to that kind of life?

inclined to agree, but i cant imagine her not becoming a representative. she cares about issues and does not lack in ambition or drive
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She thick

CirocObama posted...

I never would have thought hrc was americas most admired woman. Woulda thought Oprah or something.

Shes been irrelevant ever since she ended her show 6 or 7 years ago
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Michelle has this thing called a heart that Hillary has always been sorely lacking.
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CirocObama posted...

I never would have thought hrc was americas most admired woman. Woulda thought Oprah or something.

lol she isnt
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Michelle Obama got the most amazingly, viscerally, intensely nasty racist shit that I've ever seen on the internet thrown at her basically for mostly just existing in a proximity to Barrack. Like, she was getting it even worse than he was despite being scarcely involved in politics at all. And a lot of these things weren't from alt-righters, it was just old embittered boomer republicans.

We're a long way off from racial equality in this country in so many ways
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ultimate reaver posted...

Michelle Obama got the most amazingly, viscerally, intensely nasty racist shit that I've ever seen on the internet thrown at her basically for mostly just existing in a proximity to Barrack. Like, she was getting it even worse than he was despite being scarcely involved in politics at all. And a lot of these things weren't from alt-righters, it was just old embittered boomer republicans.

We're a long way off from racial equality in this country in so many ways

Most of the hatred I see towards her has nothing to do with race and everything to do with school lunches.
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supercrono posted...

ultimate reaver posted...

Michelle Obama got the most amazingly, viscerally, intensely nasty racist shit that I've ever seen on the internet thrown at her basically for mostly just existing in a proximity to Barrack. Like, she was getting it even worse than he was despite being scarcely involved in politics at all. And a lot of these things weren't from alt-righters, it was just old embittered boomer republicans.

We're a long way off from racial equality in this country in so many ways

Most of the hatred I see towards her has nothing to do with race and everything to do with school lunches.

You honestly aren't looking very hard. Any time anything with Michelle is made with a comment section, especially in conservative spaces, it's endless people calling her a monkey or chewbacca or secretly a man, etc
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Im more surprised that Hillary was somehow still the most admired woman.
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