My thoughts regarding candidates’ spouses posted elsewhere would have been better shared here.
This article – with the right amount of humor – beautifully sums things up. Spouses are fair game. They reveal much about the man – and alot about who how he might handle power.
My take was that the Clintons’ and Obamas’ marital relationships share a common denominator. An overly strong, know-it-all wife. One who imposes her will on her husband – and on us.
Her dominance makes the relationship seem not just wrong, but almost evil in that the man becomes pathetically weak. He reveals this weakness in his poor character and judgment. Neither Clinton nor Obama has really grown up.
I think any leader of the free world needs to show that he has the appropriate power and strength in his marital relationship in order for us to be assured he’d show power and strength in equally important relationships. Ones that would affect us, not just his family.
