posted on Feb, 20 2010 @ 08:25 PM
As soon as I saw this was about Michelle Obama I thought I would share some similar humor which comes out my years of military service.
My wife use to tell me when I was a newly Commissioned Field Grade Officer that any woman or wife that thought she was as smart or equally entitled to
the rank that her husband commanded was a complete idiot and not a woman worth a sack of beans and would mumble away until I heard something about
"Hanger Queens." She would end by saying being proud of your husband doesn't mean you have to become your husband. For crying out loud...she would
say, "what if your husbands a complete prick?"
She use to tell me that some General's wives actually thought they were Generals and thought the little ranking people should be their minions just
because she was the "THE WIFE" of General. Some wives demanded Salutes and how to properly call one another were not what my wife thought wives
should be forcing on each other. I now see her moral courage as a living example to real women not sugar coated and not needing a successful man to
define who she was and or what she was.
Sometime in the early 90's we attended a very specific Washington, DC function and I remember she got to meet McCains wife, Elizabeth Dole's wife
and of course the many other Joints Chief of Staff hierarchy of wives at some typical politico function.
Generals or politicians wives she use to tell me from time to time over the years were "messed up in the head." She once directly refused a
General's wife to her face because she refused to be her little minion and told her she was a dependent wife just like her and her Id card would
prove it. Except with better housing she was just another wife/dependent. Needless to say, the Nancy Pelosi type General's wife called her a Nazi
wench and left in a tizz.
This attitude that my wife displayed always amused me, but it did tick off the brass in big ways. I loved her just the same....with a grin...because
I knew in my heart she was being as honest as real woman can be and her lack of pretense and or psychological need not to be me is probably the real
truth I married her. Her polite refusals and her reminder of some senior wives actions earned not only my respect, but the respect of many other
Officers wives.
Anyway, thank you Michelle, for that juicy memory that reminds me and others that your equal to your husband, but not the little people, let alone
just another wife standing by her man because you got lucky.
Arrogance seems to be in style and so far it's the only dish the Obama's do well.