Michelle Obama Watch

Sigh…

I’ll repeat myself….

Michelle Obama is going to be The First Lady.

The first Black First Lady.

You don’t think that’s going to be a job unto itself?

That THAT could take up all her time?

In addition to that..she has 2 small children that she’s got to fight and keep on ‘this side of normal’

And, guess what – I think she and the President-elect, have a REAL MARRIAGE, and while the rest of the world descends upon him, she’s got to help him have a pocket of sanity.

From where I sit – Michelle Obama will be busy from sunup to sundown for the next 4 years.

We’ve always had to have it all. When were we able to NOT work? You learn a lot after 350 years of “juggling.”

Ain’t that the truth. I guess there is a racial component. We never had an either/or option so one isn’t superior or inferior to the other.

Please explain to me how Michelle is going to lose her identity by doing what matters to her. She is an individual with a family – a loving, husband who respects and cherishes her as an equal and an individual and child who are well adjusted, loved and cared for and she is intelligent with a bright, lively mind and spirit. None of that is going to change even as her live changes.

Successful high-profile individuals know how to adapt and know when and where to make the necessary changes and are comfortable with shifting roles to do what matters to them. Shifting into Mom mode to care for the children and work with her partner does not mean she loses her identity. She is smart enough to know that it is not an either or proposition and that despite the way these insecure pundits like to think – why because she is her own person and secure enough within herself with who she is, what she wants, what matters to her. Like her husband she is guided by her own internal compass and instinctively does what in her assessment is best for her situation and circumstance taking in to account what matters most to her.

She has made it clear that what matters most to her is the well being of those she loves and that includes her own well being. She takes care of herself so she can take care of her loved ones.

These pundits need to get a life and stop projecting their own insecurities and fears onto those around them. Being an independent individual is not position dependent all that stuff is external. Independence is about self determination and self respecting choices. Being and individual is about living your individual truth based on what matters most to you. It means shifting and adapting as needed to manage and maintain the balance that works.

These insecure, selfish, self serving, whiny pundits, who are never satisfied, claim to want her to have choices and be respected. However they do not respect the choices she makes because they are not the choices they would make in that situation. Respect the woman – respect the choices she is making – whether you agree or disagree.

Michelle is doing what she feels is best for her daughters. This will be a time where her availability to them and her husband will be her priority. Living her life is her career. She has the authority to make executive decisions and choices which she feels is best for her. She is intelligent and focused enough to be successful in her role as mommy and wife and still have outside interest that may not be as demanding as a full-time job in someone else’s company. But as First Lady she will do a great service if she continues her work with the military wives and families support organizations. I also hope she is offered to give her input on some policy changes that affect military families as well as early childhood and middle-school education issues for all children. I believe she is being patient for her time to come without being too headstrong. Michelle represents such a vast majority of women and issues of the modern woman, lets embrace her and let her know we love and support her.

Michelle Obama is just as qualified now as she was when President-elect Obama started running for office. The education and knowledge that Mrs. Obama has acquired can never be taken away from her. Why are we having this conversation. Did anyone question Laura Bush giving up her teaching career or Hillary Clinton when she gave up her law career to be first lady? And please not referring to Mrs. Obama as the first black first lady, she is a human being, a female, a wife and a mother. Why should it make any difference what ethnicity she is, she is now our new first lady, a very qualified, intelligent, humble, dignified first lady. Will everybody please just give her the honor and respect she deserves.

Michelle’s greatest achievement is paving the road for her husband to be the most powerful man in America and maybe even the world. If she doesn’t do anything else, she has done enough and believe me she will benefit well from it! He gets to do all the work-she get’s to bask in the glory! How is that for being strong and independent!

Rebecca Traister can kick rocks….take that bra-burning bullshit down to the lake, tie a boulder around it and LET IT GO!!

Rikyrah and Alsace, I can add nothing more to your comments save a hearty “here, here!”

A woman who is smart and capable rises to any new challenge she faces as she moves along in her life.

Michelle Obama is the epitome of those qualities. Everything she has done so far in her professional life has prepared her well for the tasks and jobs she will take on as First Lady of the Unites States of America.

She will be remembered in history for being many things, a great mom, a wonderful wife, her professional accomplishments and being an incredible First Lady.

The fact that she isn’t being paid for this role in no way diminishes what she has already acheived.

As a woman, I look forward to having her in the White House and I can’t wait to see the global impact she will have.

What could be greater than that?

No, Rebecca Traister is right that there is something wrong with how the first lady is assumed to be the perfect housewife and feminine foil to the masculine president. However, nothing says that Obama must blindly conform to the stereotype. Hopefully, Michelle Obama will challenge these stereotypes while she is First Lady