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第一夫人米歇尔

　　不满新书“虎妻”负面形象失声痛哭，谴责“无能老公”管不住手下嘴巴，大叫“我恨这个地方”，竟希望奥巴马连任失败——

　　美国第一夫人“大闹白宫”

　　刚为度假和丈夫恶吵 希望奥巴马连任失败

　　自从新书《奥巴马夫妇》披露人前友善亲切的美国第一夫人米歇尔竟是“后宫干政”的“虎妻”后，立即在美国引发一片哗然。刚刚出版的最新一期《国民问询报》惊曝秘闻称，由于不满新书“虎妻”负面形象，日前米歇尔竟痛哭失声，冲进椭圆形办公室和丈夫奥巴马大吵，谴责老公“无能”管不住手下嘴巴，并大叫“我恨这个地方”！据披露，新书《奥巴马夫妇》可谓伤透了第一夫人米歇尔的心，而经历了一连串打击后，米歇尔或许压根就不想让丈夫当总统，甚至根本就希望奥巴马连任失败！

　　第一夫人失声痛哭

　　据报道，《纽约时报》记者乔迪·坎特日前出版了其新书《奥巴马夫妇》，并在书中惊曝内幕称，虽然第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马在公开场合一直表现友善的面貌，呈现白宫的软形象，但是私底下却经常“后宫干政”，她多次因不满白宫团队力促丈夫“换人”，不知节制花大钱到国外旅行或购买昂贵衣饰，性格火爆的她甚至“像女王一般”经常在白宫内“大发虎威”。

　　《奥巴马夫妇》一书出版后，立即引发美国上下一片哗然。据《国民问询报》的一名内幕人士披露，1月9日，当米歇尔获悉书中秘闻后，她顿时失声痛哭，由于不满新书“虎妻”负面形象，米歇尔冲进椭圆形办公室，向丈夫奥巴马严厉责骂白宫助手向外界泄露了关于她的“负面情报”！

　　内幕人士披露，米歇尔一方面对白宫助手泄露她的“负面情报”感到非常愤怒，一方面对丈夫奥巴马的无能深感不满——因为身为总统的他居然无法管住白宫职员的嘴巴，任由不利于第一夫人的传闻满天飞！

　　内幕人士披露，为了挽救负面影响，奥巴马赶紧嘱咐白宫新闻发言人杰伊·卡尼在白宫的例行记者会上指责《奥巴马夫妇》一书“过度渲染事件并与事实脱节”，并称媒体“不负责任”。而巧合的是，就在1月9日米歇尔“大闹白宫”的当天，奥巴马手下干将、白宫办公厅主任比尔·戴利突然辞职，这或许正是米歇尔向丈夫奥巴马施压的后果。

　　刚为度假和丈夫恶吵

　　“第一夫人”米歇尔竟然在白宫内失声痛哭斥骂，将当时在场的助手们惊得目瞪口呆。但内幕人士披露，这并不是米歇尔第一次在白宫里因情绪失控而“发飙”了。一名华盛顿特区政界高层的消息来源对《国民问询报》透露，就在几个星期之前，米歇尔刚刚在白宫里为度假地点的问题大闹过一次——这名消息来源称：“几个星期之前，奥巴马提议这个冬天最好在戴维营度假，因为去夏威夷度假将会引来更多人关注她花钱没有节制的问题。但奥巴马刚说完，米歇尔就发狂了，她大声叫喊着说她不愿意在天寒地冻的马里兰州过两个星期，却放着温暖宜人的夏威夷不去——结果奥巴马只有屈服。”

　　希望奥巴马连任失败

　　种种迹象显示，经历了一连串打击后，米歇尔或许压根就不想让丈夫当总统，甚至根本就希望奥巴马连任失败！内幕人士披露称，米歇尔其实丝毫不留恋白宫生活，事实上，早在奥巴马竞逐参议员时，米歇尔已十分反对，常在竞选活动进行时致电丈夫，要他买牛奶鸡蛋回家。。而当2008年奥巴马当选总统时，米歇尔也曾向朋友表示迷惘，曾打算与两个女儿继续在芝加哥多住6个月，只是偶尔到华盛顿履行职务。

　　内幕人士披露称，过去几年来，身为第一夫人的米歇尔一直承受着巨大的精神压力，一方面，她的丈夫奥巴马由于经济政策屡屡受到国内民众的谴责，另一方面，她的两个女儿甚至也在学校遭到同学的奚落，再加上焦头烂额的奥巴马最近一直忙于政事，很少陪妻子女儿享受家庭生活。米歇尔对奥巴马称，她已经受够了白宫的生活，如果他还要竞选连任总统，她就带着两个女儿——13岁的玛丽娅和10岁的萨莎返回芝加哥，并和他离婚！ (木子)

 

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Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'

The Obamas' biographer on the introverted president, the strength of Michelle and the stains the Bush family left on the White House carpets

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Jodi Kantor: 'I find the Obamas incredibly compelling.' Photograph: Juliana Sohn

One of the things we learn from your book, The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage, is not only how the first couple make their marriage work but that Michelle Obama owns a pair of $515 designer trainers…

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I know! It's kind of astonishing.

The lifeblood of any piece of reportage is in this kind of telling detail; how difficult was it for you to get that kind of access to the White House?

Well, I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in. I feel the White House is almost a character in this book. What does it mean to live in this place? It's a home, but it's also an office and a military compound and – by the way – it's also a terrorist target.

It interested me that it has no private exit or entrance for the family. I was in the White House a few months ago, standing in the Diplomatic Room and Sasha [the Obamas' youngest daughter] appeared with her grandmother. She was coming in from school and the staff just nodded and smiled, but I was a bit embarrassed that she had to run past a reporter to get home. It must have felt a little uncomfortable.

You are scrupulous in the book about not proffering a personal opinion of the Obamas. But who would you rather be stuck in a lift with – Barack or Michelle?

I find the Obamas incredibly compelling because I've been covering them for five years. It's less about liking or not liking them than about following the drama of the story.

Is President Obama as charismatic as everyone says he is?

In Washington, he's considered quite an introvert. A few days after he became president, he hosted a Superbowl party. He greeted everyone politely but, in essence, he wanted to watch the game as normal. He said to me later it was a point of pride for him that he wasn't a politician who stood there and shook hands. That has not gone across well in Washington because most presidents are schmoozers and he is not. Many people believe that Michelle Obama has the charisma.

One of the most interesting chapters in your book deals with the discomfort faced by the Obamas when they realised most of the staff in the White House are of African-American descent. Has their tenure improved race relations in the US?

It's way too early to tell. When I wrote the book, I felt that that question was still beyond our grasp. The question I focused on was: what is the day-to-day experience of being the first African-American president and first lady? For example, when the invitation came for Michelle Obama to appear on the cover of Vogue, her advisers were split by race. The African-American advisers really wanted her to do the cover because not that many African-American role models had done so. On the other hand, the white advisers were far more cautious because the country was in terrible economic straits and Vogue is a pure luxury magazine – the newsstand price alone is something like $5. In fact, she chose to do the cover and there was very little criticism. To me, that is one tiny look into the real mosaic of what's going on.

Have the Obamas read the book?

I don't know. I haven't heard back.

You say in your acknowledgements that you became a political reporter for the New York Times at the same time as you became a mother, did you ever find it hard to balance the two?

At one point during the 2008 campaign I got called up and screamed at by an Obama aide. It was 7pm and I'd just got home. My daughter was about two and she was sitting on my lap and she took control of the cell phone and began singing the Barney song down the phone: "I love you, you love me. We're as happy as can be." It was just surreal and kind of amazing on her part. In a way, it was the best thing to say to an over-agitated campaign aide.

Your book makes it clear the Obamas have distinct personalities – you say he's more cerebral, finds it difficult to connect with the public, whereas she's warmer and more feisty. Do you think it's the differences rather than the similarities that make their marriage work?

Absolutely. I don't think he would be president without Michelle Obama because she's the one who connects him with other people.

Can a marriage ever truly be one of equals when one partner is the leader of the free world?

The answer to that is in the book. On the one hand, Michelle Obama comes to the White House and really has to play second fiddle in a job that is not well-defined. But I watched her find ways to assert her power. This is a story of a woman who, at the start, was put in a very retro role. Her challenge is to find ways to be powerful. In the White House, she goes from not having that much power to having so much internal leverage because she's so much more popular than he is.

Did you see parallels in your own marriage with the Obamas' partnership?

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally. There's some emotional delegation of power.

Do you think, as some are saying, that Obama will be a one-term president?

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! I guess the question I have is whether he has the capacity to reboot… to reformulate the idea of why he wants to be president because the 2008 formula no longer works. He needs to spell out a new, compelling and realistic vision for the country.

Have you met Bo, the White House dog?

Yes. Getting an "interview" with Bo is far easier than with the Obamas. He becomes a kind of substitute because he runs around the White House all the time in the corridors. He's the perfect ambassador for them because you can rub your hands all over Bo and he's perfectly happy, whereas the Obamas like to protect themselves.

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This ‘angry black woman’ is one fierce first lady
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A new book about the Obamas portrays Michelle — as she put it herself this week, denying it — as an “angry black woman.”

Maybe she is. Maybe she isn’t. Here’s my question: Where’s the angry black man, her husband, when we need him most?

I know. Angry black men are supposed to petrify all us nervous nelly white people.

But three years into Barack Obama’s rocky presidency, I’m over all that. Enough of the serene, professorial accommodator who retreats, retreats, retreats — whether it’s tax cuts for millionaires, a $50 billion jobs program or indicting somebody, anybody, for causing the bankruptcies and foreclosures of millions.

How many times, when Barack did his community organizer nice guy routine, did you think to yourself: Michelle would never put up with this baloney.

Imagine her towering over hang-dog Mitch McConnell or that pipsqueak John Boehner. She could deck them both — and her skinny husband, too.

So Mitt Romney’s been assailed for saying he likes to fire people? Barack Obama should fire tons of people, starting with his do-nothing attorney general, Eric Holder. Never mind Holder’s inability to punish any Wall Street or big-bank robber barons, how about not even a single executive from BP, which nearly wiped out the Gulf Coast?

“The dirty secret of Obama’s background is that the values of Harvard — not of Kenya or Indonesia or Bill Ayers — have most colored his governing style,” writes New York Magazine’s Frank Rich, who used to be an Obama fan. In other words, Obama’s no leftie socialist, as his opponents and the tea party claim, but a centrist pragmatist, like Bill Clinton, yet so in the tank to big money that he spent zillions to bail it out without demanding any reforms, and then left regular Americans with the bill.

What a contrast to the famous story about another young president, John Kennedy. In 1962, when U.S. Steel’s chairman broke a White House deal and raised the price of steel — but not workers’ wages — Kennedy, no socialist either, blasted the company by name. He said U.S. Steel threatened America’s “economic recovery and stability” while soldiers were fighting in Vietnam and that he’d have his own attorney general, his fire-eating brother Bobby, go after their corporate records if they didn’t back down. They did — in two days — and JFK became a populist hero.

You know, sooner or later honeymoons with first ladies end. Nancy Reagan went from adoring wife to a word that rhymes with witch. Stoic, no-nonsense Barbara Bush soon drew comparisons to George Washington on dollar bills. Hillary was derided as the ultimate, controlling, lesbian version of the word that rhymes with witch. Even sweet, supporting, Laura Bush was ridiculed as “dime-bag Laura.”

Yet until this week the worst I’d heard about Michelle had to do with her constant sleevelessness (OK, enough with the biceps already) and her stuffing down cheeseburgers and fries when she’s Ms. Healthy Eating Lecturer in Chief.

I’m told it’s sexist and possibly racist to talk about an “angry black woman.” Well, all I know is this: When a nation’s as ticked off as American is today, with abundant reason, somebody in the White House’s better show some righteous rage. If he can’t, let her.
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I don't think he deserves to be re-elected. Kick him out of Washington DC.

 

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Black is still never an accepted colour in America.

 

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First Lady?

First Bitch?

Which is which?

Or both the same?