It’s becoming clear that we’re going to have a good-looking First Lady come January 21, 2009. (Am I dancing on the Clintons’ political grave too early? I don’t think so.) Cindy McCain is attractive, if in a pulled-unnaturally-taut, perpetually-downhill-skiing, Jadis sort of way. And I just love Michelle Obama. She is hotness. Hotness is she.
But hey, no way around it: girlfriend has spouted some weirdness. I blogged before about her informing you that Barack would criminalize apathy, which has worn further strangely rather than more normally for me. 
There’s being proud of America “for the first time in my adult life,” which, however “clarified” it was later, is a really odd thing for a campaigning potential First Lady to say.
Bottom line is she’s out there, clearly speaking for the campaign. I think she should be—she’s articulate, smart, and like I said, she’s a babe.
But you can’t put her out there and then act like she’s untouchable when she gets attacked. It’s not “shameful,” folks; it’s run-of-the-mill return fire, and it’s just politics. You don’t want those nasty old Republicans to have a weird sound bite to play with, then make sure she doesn’t utter any more of them.
Didn’t we just go through this with Chelsea, too? Look, either she’s out there or she isn’t, but if she is, she’s going to take an arrow once in a while, m’kay?
Finally, we don’t yet really know how McCain’s campaign will use Cindy, as they’ve had little to do for two or three months besides watch the Democrats beat themselves bloody. But if she goes out there, she’ll say her share of weird things too. She’ll face questions about stealing narcotics and what-not.
If they’re going to play a large role in the campaign, they’ll get positive and negative attention. Let’s please not act like this is some shocking revelation when it happens, folks.
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It’s entirely unavoidable, isn’t it? This is why I’m so glad that my husband never had any political aspirations; my big mouth would see to it that he never even got elected to a frickin’ school board…
I pay not the slightest attention to candidates’ spouses. Not one little bit. I don’t care what they say, I don’t care what they do.
Last time I remember you commenting on the hotness of a potential first lady we ended up with Clinton 🙁
Buzzregog: Yeah, but I was lied to then. We all were. 🙂
I’m sure we’re being lied to plenty now, and whatever happens in November, we’re all going to get the government we deserve–good and hard.
But I think the babe factor is going to be reliable.