First Lady

Why All Women Should Love Michelle Obama

Heather Wood Rudúlph | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

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Heather Wood Rudúlph

Most of us can learn a thing or two from this woman who came from humble beginnings on the South Side of Chicago to excel at the country's top institutions, with the goal of helping others.

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Fashionable First Ladies From Around The World (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 10.02.2008 | Style

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Fashion and politics go hand-in-hand. As outfits worn by Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama, and Sarah Palin take center stage, we began to wonder what poli...

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Hillary, not Michelle, is the Democrats' True First Lady

Dakis Hagen | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Dakis Hagen

Maybe after being bludgeoned by the Clinton machine, Michelle found Hillary's easy liberalism a little hard to stomach. But now she must be silent.

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The Truth About First Ladies (or Husbands)

Keith Ablow | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living

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Keith Ablow

We don't get true insight into the psychological dynamics that define the marriage, let alone into either of the individuals who make up the union.

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Michelle Obama: So 21st Century

Adele Stan | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics

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Adele Stan

Michelle Obama's Convention speech should go a long way to reassuring Joe Average, if not Joe Wingnut, that Michelle Obama has figured out how to be a first lady for her time.

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Unfetter Women's Intellect on Campaign Trail

Lisa Witter | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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Lisa Witter

Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?

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Are the Candidates' Wives Fair Game?

Paul Peete | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home

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Paul Peete

This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

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A Presidential Cookie

Amy Ephron | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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Amy Ephron

I have a theory that in order to be First Lady you have to have a cookie recipe.

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Senator Obama: Remember the (First) Ladies

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

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Myriam Miedzian

There is enough to criticize Hillary about without demonstrating what might be perceived as both a lack of historical awareness and lack of sensitivity to many women's life experiences.

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Is America Ready For A First Lady Who Did Not Major In The Dewey Decimal System?

236.com | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

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In a profile of Michelle Obama published by the New York Times, the 44-year-old Chicago native and Harvard grad revealed that she only recently finish...

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Hillary's "Husband Problem"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin

History suggests that rather than enhance her image the way a wife enhances a male candidate, a husband can complicate a woman's leadership aspirations.

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What Obama Must Do

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

Experience is one of the many things that might contribute to good judgment, but it is not a proxy for it. Experience by itself means nothing. The real question is who has better judgment?

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