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All the talk of lost privacy, the difficulty of living in the White House, the yearning for the normalcy of Hyde Park (Chicago) we read it in The Obamas and have read it many times before, is understandable but also a little unseemly. The Presidency is not a career. Nor is it a component piece in a greater picture of familial contentment. It is an unimaginably demanding mission that inevitably exacts a toll. To carry it out, a President is going to miss some dinners, acquire wrinkles, gray hair, and worse. But we dont want to hear complaints. We prefer our warriors happy. (Underline added by The TerryReport)
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It seems that Mrs. Obama resents her husbands choice to become president of the United States. Who is she to think that whatever life they might be having is more important or worthwhile than what they are trying to do now? We have had many first Ladies who didnt like living in the White House or carrying out the duties assigned to the wives of presidents, one of the most notable being Bess Truman, the wife of Harry Truman, who became president on the death of FDR and served through 1952 until Eisenhower became president following his election. Whatever Mrs. Trumans objections, they were generally kept out of the press (there was no media back then, just radio and newspapers) until long after they left the White House.
It seems like she resents the idea of her husband being more important than her. Perhaps they were married with some unspoken understanding that she was the leader and he was lucky to be following her. Then, the unexpected happened and he was thrown into one high office after another. I dont know this, of course, I am just guessing based on what I have read and seen.
The whole thing of their relationship is a big mystery to me and Obama, the president, has said things on several occasions to give the idea that she is the real boss in the family, which is not exactly a good image for someone who is supposed to be, after all, Commander-in-Chief. Whatever. I am not going to bother to read this new book trying figure it out. Ill wait until the movie comes out or, better yet, the first serious books of history hit print sometime in the future.
Doug Terry, 1.19.12
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