Everyone should have a chief of staff !
 

The First Lady

Work-Life Balance a Challenge, Says Michelle Obama, But Having White House Staff Helps

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First lady Michelle Obama greets Jeanette Rivera Boria, project leader of Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson company, and David Lissy, CEO of the Bright Horizon Family Solution, at a meeting with representatives from Corporate Voices for Working Families in Washington. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

By DeNeen L. Brown
First lady Michelle Obama called her "current life" in the White House "a very blessed situation, because I have what most families don't have -- tons of support all around, not just my mother, but staff and administration. I have a chief of staff and a personal assistant, and everyone needs that."
"Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants," Obama said with a laugh as she spoke before a crowd of business executives meeting today during a "Corporate Voices for Working













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I want one too, oh wait I would have to pay for it :06:

They're just people like the rest of us, remember?

Well no. The rest of us do not hold a position in the Executive Office of the President nor do we have a Public Law authorizing a staff.

It goes with the position. :)

I don't have $500.00 tennis shoes either:88)

I just wish someone would pay $250k on my wardrobe...

I perfectly understand that she needs a support staff. She is after all a busy lady. I am sure her comment was in jest :oops:

I hear her mom is enjoying her stay as well. :yeah:

The steak dinner partys are fine with me also.

It's just that all these things are stacking up giving the impression that whole lot of partying is going on.

I would not say a whole lot of partying is going on. The White House is the peoples house and they have opened it up to enjoy. However, I have not received my invite. I'm sure it is forthcoming. :hmmm: What I find interesting is they do go out on the town. That I have not seen, well, ever to be honest. In all reality I think they are genuinely regular people just with some strange ideas on how to run things.

I have a Chief of Staff. She's called my Wife.

The cats are our support staff. Now granted they can only keep the rodent population down and provide comedy relief but I have high hopes for the addition of a dog soon. My empire grows!

Cats... support staff... :o:nope::rotfl:

Actually, I was making fun of your typical liberal when asked about their hero, Barack.:up::haha:

Actually, this thread tends to make fun of the typical conservative, without even trying. Go figure....:|\\

Please explain:06:

I think he's referring to percieved overreaction to this event, even when in jest. M.O. most likely intended her statement to be a compliment to her staff, and/or a joke. Obviously, she is not so naive as to think that everyone can obtain a staff. Nobody is that stupid.

Of course, I am just guessing because Enigma rarely makes any kind of clear point. Evidently conservatives are so far beneath him that their opinions do not warrant his consideration or comment. It's a pity that the rest of us are too biased or ignorant to understand his opinions, otherwise he might take the time.

What I think he fails to understand is the objection to government officials(especially democratic ones, being "for the people" and all) being treated like royalty. But I really wouldn't know. All I have to go on is his occasional one-liners, and one post where he responded with an actual opinion because I accused him of the same thing he is doing now.

Enigma, if you want to make succinct arguments, can't they be more like this? This argument actually has a point besides simply assuming that conservatives are stupid. A beneficial discussion could be built on it.
I've yet to meet the person who questioned their own judgements because someone called them an idiot.

I understand she was joking and making light of it. Just wondering what Enigma is saying or is it just an enigma? :hmmm:

Like I said, I think he's percieving an overreaction. He thinks that you're not joking. But once again, that's just a guess.