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More Than We Want to Know About Obama

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 09:19:47 PM EST
Tags: Barack Obama (all tags)
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Michelle Obama has an interview in Glamour magazine. Do we really need to know this?

In an interview with Glamour magazine, Michelle Obama reveals that her husband, Barack, is so “snore-y and stinky” when he wakes up in the morning that their daughters won’t crawl into bed with him.

Context:

Referring to their daughters, Mrs. Obama says: “We have this ritual in the morning. They come in my bed, and Dad isn’t there — because he’s too snore-y and stinky, they don’t want to ever get into bed with him. But we cuddle up and we talk about everything from what is a period to the big topic of when we get a dog: what kind?”

Mrs. Obama thinks these sorts of disclosures will prevent Obama from being deified and then knocked down. I think it's information I'd rather not know.

I'd also rather not wonder whether the comment means they sleep in separate beds ("my bed" -- "he's not there") -- some things should stay private and that's one of them.

Update: Glamour Magazine has "corrected" the quote from Mrs. Obama, adding the word "if", which eliminates the interpretation that they sleep in separate beds. See below:

OBAMA: My hope and my gut is that I am just Mommy. We have this ritual in the morning. They come in my bed, and if Dad isn't there -- because he's too snore-y and stinky, they don't want to ever get into bed with him. But we cuddle up and we talk about everything from what is a period to the big topic of when we get a dog: what kind?

Actually, I think it sounds just as odd with the correction. Now it sounds like the only reason he wouldn't be in the bed is if Mrs. Obama kicked him out because he was snore-y and stinky.

[hat tip on Glamour correction to Media Matters.]

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    More Than We Want to Know About Obama | 27 comments (27 topical)

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    I wonder how many ... (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Meteor Blades on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 09:42:06 PM EST
    ...voters choose their Presidential candidate based on how stinky s/he is said to be?

    Harold "Stinky" Stassen (none / 0) (#27)
    by joejoejoe on Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 03:45:38 AM EST
    Oh-for-9. I'm just sayin'...

    [ Parent ]
    My Candidate has a "fresh pine scent." (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Ben Masel on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 10:16:23 PM EST
    Vermin Supreme sleeps in the woods.

    Amazing... (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by desertswine on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 09:43:53 AM EST
    just like the bushes...

    When the clan is in Kennebunkport, all the Bush children, the president included, stream into their parents' bedroom at the crack of dawn for coffee.

    yuk

    Hmmm... (5.00 / 2) (#11)
    by mindfulmission on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 10:05:44 AM EST
    Why do you bring attention to it if you don't want to hear about it?

    And why you add things (such as do they sleep in the same bed) that aren't there if you don't want to know/wonder about?

    It seems that are you are reading FAR too much into this.  But I am getting used that here on anything related to Obama.

    Maybe so (none / 0) (#1)
    by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 09:29:48 PM EST

    but they sound as normal as can be.

    The more unfiltered and genuinely human... (none / 0) (#3)
    by Dadler on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 09:59:39 PM EST
    ...our politicians can be, the better.  Being too filtered and less human is hardly the better choice.  I can't quite get why it would make you uncomfortable -- it's not like she said how thumpin' a lover he is or something.  And they very well could have another bed or couch or whatever that he crawls into when the girls want into mama's bed in the morning.  Cohabitating takes many forms for many reasons.

    Talking too much about it is another thing, but I haven't seen evidence she's dropping bedroom gossip at all the campaign stops.

    probably the same number (none / 0) (#5)
    by cpinva on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 10:16:55 PM EST
    voters choose their Presidential candidate based on how stinky s/he is said to be?

    who choose their presidential candidate based on the type of underwear they wear. i hope no one asks sen. clinton if she wears briefs or a thong!

    you're right jeralyn, some things i just don't need to know about the candidates, or most people that i don't sleep with, for that matter.

    i blame the "fast food" media for this nonsense, and the idiots that actually watch or read it.

    Sometimes what we want ... (none / 0) (#6)
    by chemoelectric on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 10:59:45 PM EST
    ... isn't what we need. Better to de-prude our society than to have perfect comfort.

    Just as long as they don't locate their bed in a public restroom. Words are words, but public restrooms are places of business.

    Up close and personal (none / 0) (#7)
    by Dulcinea on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 07:04:13 AM EST
    and disgusting.  I am already on overload with this nonsense and there are miles to go before they (the MSM and the candidates) sleep.  After it's all over, we get a Bush.  

    What's worse (none / 0) (#8)
    by Jlvngstn on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 09:06:11 AM EST
    That or "Boxers or Briefs?"

    Maybe a little more about (none / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 09:55:12 AM EST
    Obama and a little less about Paris and Danni Lynn (sp?) wouldnt be the worst thing in the world..

    One person's view (none / 0) (#12)
    by Deconstructionist on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 10:10:14 AM EST
    ... speaking at a rally in Iowa, Hillary Clinton tried out a tactic she may come to rely on during the campaign--- humor. Responding to a question about the bad men of the world, Clinton made a veiled reference to her notorious marital difficulties, and sent the crowd into an uproar.

    "What in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men?" she repeated, while smiling, raising her eyebrows and nodding. Although Hillary was forced to deny the joke when the press later descended on her, she offered this plea of sorts: "You know, you guys keep telling me, `Lighten up. Be funny.' You know, I get a little funny and now I'm being psychoanalyzed."

    Not about Bill. (none / 0) (#16)
    by Dulcinea on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:25:36 PM EST
    Her reference was to the rabid right-wing conservatives who have stalked her for years.  The anti-Clinton media decided it was about Bill.

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    Not about Bill. (none / 0) (#17)
    by Dulcinea on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:26:18 PM EST
    Her reference was to the rabid right-wing conservatives who have stalked her for years.  The anti-Clinton media decided it was about Bill.

    [ Parent ]
    My bet is that (none / 0) (#13)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 11:39:53 AM EST
    I'd also rather not wonder whether the comment means they sleep in separate beds ("my bed" -- "he's not there") -- some things should stay private and that's one of them.
    this comment is related to the days he gets up early to go to work and she not.

    She's a domestic engineer? (none / 0) (#14)
    by oculus on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:06:59 PM EST


    [ Parent ]
    As far as I know. No? (none / 0) (#15)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:17:43 PM EST


    [ Parent ]
    I believe she is an attorney (none / 0) (#18)
    by Molly Bloom on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:28:02 PM EST


    [ Parent ]
    Isn't she (none / 0) (#19)
    by Maryb2004 on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:29:56 PM EST
    in-house with the University of Chicago Medical Center?  Or some related hospital/health care organization?

    [ Parent ]
    Per Wiki: (none / 0) (#20)
    by oculus on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:36:41 PM EST
    Michelle Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is Vice President for Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals.
    It is more than somewhat ironic Jeralyn posted this in light of her view we don't need to know this stuff. Then again, why am I reading and commenting. Looky-loo.

    [ Parent ]
    Well, if so, then the whole (none / 0) (#21)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:47:59 PM EST
    "morning ritual" thing sounds like a crock to me.

    I have an 8 & 5 y/o as well, and the only time we - or anyone else I know where both parents work - get to snuggle with the kids in the AM is when we're on vaca.

    Otherwise it's all about getting up and getting dressed and fed and out of the house to work, school, soccer, church, etc., etc.

    [ Parent ]

    I've never paid attention to her before (none / 0) (#22)
    by Maryb2004 on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 12:50:43 PM EST
    I didn't realize this was how they met:

    She was working as an associate at law firm Sidley Austin, in the Chicago office, when she met Barack Obama. She was put in charge of being his mentor while he was a summer associate


    [ Parent ]
    Jeez, she's a dynamo, (none / 0) (#23)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 01:28:12 PM EST
    read this, maybe she should run.

    [ Parent ]
    Elizabeth Edwards v. (none / 0) (#25)
    by oculus on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 05:25:46 PM EST
    Michelle Obama.

    [ Parent ]
    Me thinks... (none / 0) (#24)
    by fafnir on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 04:16:29 PM EST
    Obama is still smoking cigarettes.

    I got a totally different vibe on (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 01:30:50 AM EST
    "stinky."

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