Posted on 06/19/2013 5:56:15 PM PDT by drewh
MICHELLE Obama dazzled Dublin with her grace and charm, and almost outshone her husband in Belfast with her eloquence, sounding every inch the professional politician. And that is exactly what could be on the cards for her.
The talk in Washington is that she is a politician-in-waiting with her eyes on a particular seat.
"She (Michelle) is only waiting for the right time," a Washington political insider told me. And 2016 would fit that bill.
By then, her husband will be ending his second term and she would have no campaigning constraints. And 2016 also happens to be the year that a US Senate seat will be up for grabs in her native state of Illinois.
Republican senator Mark Kirk, who won her husband's old seat there, is up for re-election that year and Mrs Obama would have little trouble getting the nod from the Democratic Party.
She would be a fundraising magnet with the power of the Obama political machine behind her. A poll has even been carried out on her chances in a hypothetical match-up against Mr Kirk. It had her leading 51pc to 40pc.
She would be a formidable candidate. A lawyer and an intellectual powerhouse, who excelled at Princeton and Harvard Law School, she first met her husband when she mentored him at a Chicago law firm.
She lacks political experience. But so did another first lady before she went on to become a US senator for New York.
Hillary Clinton has already blazed the trail for Mrs Obama, and what Mrs Clinton did in New York in 2000, Mrs Obama could do in Illinois in 2016.
Chicago is also the Obama political power base and it has a strong African-American electorate. Mrs Obama would also do well among Irish-American voters.
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Do we know, even now - with confirmation that is - why she 'gave up' up her Law license? Like Barry's past - there are many things about Michelle; better suited to fiction.
The only 'powerhouse' that exists per Michelle; in that which is held in the minds of her admirers; which we can note; IS a big house by any fair measure.
Worry more; that Michelle will be pulled in to replace Hillary on Ballot - after Hillary suffers some 'debilitation" - at last moment. A 'debilitation' of convenience to Obama, Inc.; that is.
Just ask her why she surrendered her law license and sue to get the official file released... use her husbands tactics against her.
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Here’s a pleasant thought—by the time she has served 2 terms, her daughters will be old enough to run for office......
As for the intellectual powerhouse....like her husband, I see no evidence of acumen in anything but being a freeloading wookie.
Incitatus.
They are the biggest losers in the USA. They vote their own troubles upon themselves and the country. Very sad situation.
That is just...
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ANY Black *D) running would have 105% of the Chicago Black vote, like MOST major U.S. Cities today.
Go find a YouTube video of Hank Johnson from Georgia. Certified moron.
Dog walking dog?
OT, sorry.
Bob Bauer-remember that name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T98OYWvY5Pc#at=132
Skip the Senator part and just make her President. It will save us some money.
We could call her President Incitatus.
I think Moo already prepped everyone as she stated she was a single mom.....pushed aside for Reggie.
There are a lot more of us than just a “handful.” But we are still greatly outnumbered by the libiots in this state.
I think that’s what she’ll go for, actually. Why bother to be a senator when you can go directly to president?
She has no qualifications, but neither did her husband.
I am NO fan of Hillary but look at the history of each of these women before they became the spouse of an elected official. No comparison.
Michelle’s 15 minutes will be pretty much up come January of 2017. Frankly, it will probably be sooner.
She’ll be the first female prez mark my words. Nothing we can do. Country screwed.
Mrs Obama would also do well among Irish-American voters.
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huh?
“Illinois voters are stupid enough to do this.”
Already she has 150% of the dead voters in her camp.
A run for the Senate is quite believable and explains the makeover and the walking lessons.
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