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Michelle Obama: Having kids was a "concession" that cost "my aspirations and dreams"
2020-05-08
Bye Big Mike!
[DISRN h/t Insty] In her newly released Netflix documentary "Becoming," former first lady Michelle Obama described having children as a "concession" that cost her "aspirations and dreams"

"My relationship with Barack was all about our partnership. If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal.

The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children. I wasn't really ready for that. That really made it harder.

Something had to give ‐ and it was my aspirations and dreams. I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,' but it felt like, ‘I can't do all of this so I have to tone down my aspirations, I have to dial it back.'"
Posted by:Frank G

#22  Being in America, a land she was never proud of, is a concession.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-05-08 21:40  

#21  She should have had some of them abortions her ideology loves so much.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-05-08 19:13  

#20  (S)He could have been Mike-oynce...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-08 14:05  

#19  Biology, nothing! It's all in the paperwork.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-05-08 13:44  

#18  It's as unpossible as Barry fathering them
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-08 13:15  

#17  I didn't think this was biologically possible.
Posted by: charger   2020-05-08 12:43  

#16  Gee, thanks Mom!
Posted by: Sasha and Malia   2020-05-08 12:32  

#15  Malia and Sasha now have a new nickname: "Hey, Concession, what's up?' (or however kids talk these days.)
Posted by: Matt   2020-05-08 11:56  

#14  Wow.

Cover for one of her girls is all I have here.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-08 10:48  

#13  At one point there were rumors that the kids were acquired when the politics required them. DNA relationship testing might have been interesting or have squashed rumors....
Posted by: 3dc   2020-05-08 10:22  

#12  A comment only a witless moron would make.

Or someone who really wanted to make sure they weren’t forced into the VP slot.
Posted by: KBK   2020-05-08 09:27  

#11  "woman"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-08 09:08  

#10  M. Murcek beat me to ot:

Something had to give ‐ and it was my aspirations and dreams. I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,'

Yes - the phony baloney $300K / yr. job that you didn't get on your own at Univ. of Chicago Medical Center. Not to mention how badly and permanently you just insulted and stomped on your two kids just for a fucking soundbite. Reprehensible barely begins to describe this wookie, er, woman.
Posted by: Raj   2020-05-08 08:45  

#9  oh, poor babay. You coulda been Oprah...um, no, she has a personality not a soulless ego.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-05-08 08:21  

#8  Think of how much more she could have earned stolen in no-show jobs if not for having to raise the whelps deal with nannies.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-08 08:14  

#7  What did you expect when you chose to marry a Muslim?
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2020-05-08 06:21  

#6  He's bashing motherhood. How very Dhimicrapic.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-05-08 01:43  

#5  Note that this is all part of Zero's $68 MILLION sweetheart deal to "produce" shite documentaries for a tech company whose entire rickety business model depends upon favorable regulation by political appointees in Washington at the FCC.

NFLX got its money's worth, sure.

Most corrupt era since the Robber Barons
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-08 01:05  

#4  A comment only a witless moron would make.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-08 00:57  

#3  Big Narcissist
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-08 00:39  

#2  What a crock of egesta. GTFOH, Michelmagne
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-08 00:35  

#1  Not the Bee. No sympathy here Big Mike for your difficult, arranged but chosen life. You sound as hollow and souless as Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-05-08 00:31  

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