Every time I mention how bizarre this is, people tell me that it’s a hallowed American tradition to have wives insert themselves into the political process. I still find it weird and off-putting that a Cabinet meeting is turned into a circus to accommodate the delusions of grandeur of an unelected, uninteresting person.
It wouldn’t occur to me to have my husband open one of my lectures. And a lecture is a lot more serious than a Cabinet meeting.
It’s insulting to inflict wives and girlfriends on people who are at work. Husbands and boyfriends, too, but women don’t do that kind of thing nearly as often as men.
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It’s been a thing since at least Billary.
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“been a thing since at least Billary.”
More like Eleanor (and is actually probably older than her).
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Yeah, but still, Hillary was sharp. Jill Biden is a fucking moron. Hunter Biden once said something funny to the effect of “the drunkest I’ve even been is still smarter than you could ever comprehend” lol.
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Recruiting has really gone downhill.
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Jill Biden is very embarrassing, and the worst part is that she’s unaware of it.
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“people tell me that it’s a hallowed American tradition to have wives insert themselves into the political process”
I wouldn’t quite put it that way… it’s more a tradition that if the first lady wants to have an active role around policy makers then people put up with it.
Of the last several first ladies only Hillary and now Jill Biden have done that. IIRC neither Laura Bush, Michelle Obama nor Melanie Trump got anywhere near policy.
Previously Barbara Bush didn’t get directly involved but a lot of her public statements were PR related (attracting criticism to keep her husband or sons from getting it). Nancy Reagan and Rosalyn Carter were very much in the thick of things. Betty Ford and Patricia Nixon weren’t (IIRC Ladybird Johnson wasn’t and neither was Jackie Kennedy or Mamie Eisenhower).
All first ladies are very public figures now and that is a hallowed tradition but they use it in different ways.
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