Barack Obama’s wife has built a career out of telling us how difficult it is to be Michelle Obama. She’s such a victim, you couldn’t possibly understand what she’s been through. It’s a tough life, earning millions from speaking engagements and enjoying the kind of influence most Americans can’t imagine. And, of course, she’s complaining again.
On a new episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Michelle Obama reflected on her life before, during, and after her husband’s presidency, complaining that the public refuses to recognize her as an “accomplished individual” apart from her marriage. She’s tired, she said, of being defined by the man she chose to marry.
The problem with her absurd argument is that she built her entire public identity around being exactly that.
Even more insulting is that her modus operandi hasn’t changed at all over the years.
As First Lady, she routinely framed her time in Washington as an ordeal more than an honor. She described the White House as isolating, the scrutiny as suffocating, and the loss of privacy as unbearable.
She should have told her husband to resign… or not to have run at all.
As much as I try to forget the years the Obamas were in the White House, it’s hard to forget how she complained about the personal sacrifices she and her family endured, as if being First Lady was some kind of punishment imposed upon her.
Gratitude has never been her strong suit.
She now insists she’s reduced to “Barack’s wife,” and she’s not happy about it. While I can’t blame her for not likely being associated with Barack, she’s suffering from a horrible case of selective memory. She probably doesn’t want people to realize that she leveraged her status as “Barack’s wife” to become a celebrity author, a Netflix producer, and a multimillionaire speaker. Even before the White House, her career benefited from her husband’s influence. According to former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, Michelle was angling for a cushy position at Northwestern or the University of Chicago Hospitals soon after her husband’s Senate victory. “She wanted a job… for two to $300,000 a year, the wife of the new senator,” he said.
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That’s not exactly the behavior of someone who dislikes being overshadowed by her spouse—it’s the behavior of someone who just loves cashing in on the connection.
Obama went on to say that constant attention to her fashion or appearance is part of a cultural habit to “put women in their place.” And then she tried to make her so-called struggle a clarion call for empowerment. She called on women to “keep climbing” and “keep going,” warning that some men still “aren’t ready for a woman” leader.
Give me a break.
If Michelle Obama truly wants people to see her as her own person, she might start by acting like one. Blaming everyone else for her success story being too tethered to her husband is so pathetic and hypocritical.
