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orichalcum) wrote2008-06-07 09:29 pm
orichalcum) wrote2008-06-07 09:29 pm
Dysfunctional much?
From a NYTimesarticle
about the internal dynamics of the Clinton campaign:
"On election night, Mr. Clinton grew playfully competitive with his wife over who had done more events or had had more impact, Mr. Rendell said. Mrs. Clinton was superstitious and rarely watched election night coverage, but in the hotel suite, Mr. Rendell showed her husband county-by-county returns.
“The president wanted to know exactly what the returns were in the places he had been and Hillary hadn’t been,” Mr. Rendell said. “He kept showing Hillary, and she would laugh.”"
The awful thing is - I know couples like that. And I don't think of them has having healthy relationship, no matter how "playfully" it's phrased. You'd think he'd be proud of the amazing accomplishments of his spouse (who gave a terrific speech today, btw, which did much to soothe a lot of my irritation towards her).
In other news, this weekend the Obamas hosted 11 7-year-old girls for a pizza-and-sleepover birthday party at their house for their daughter Sasha, who has had her dad at home for all of 10 days in the last year but got him to make pizza for her birthday.
about the internal dynamics of the Clinton campaign:
"On election night, Mr. Clinton grew playfully competitive with his wife over who had done more events or had had more impact, Mr. Rendell said. Mrs. Clinton was superstitious and rarely watched election night coverage, but in the hotel suite, Mr. Rendell showed her husband county-by-county returns.
“The president wanted to know exactly what the returns were in the places he had been and Hillary hadn’t been,” Mr. Rendell said. “He kept showing Hillary, and she would laugh.”"
The awful thing is - I know couples like that. And I don't think of them has having healthy relationship, no matter how "playfully" it's phrased. You'd think he'd be proud of the amazing accomplishments of his spouse (who gave a terrific speech today, btw, which did much to soothe a lot of my irritation towards her).
In other news, this weekend the Obamas hosted 11 7-year-old girls for a pizza-and-sleepover birthday party at their house for their daughter Sasha, who has had her dad at home for all of 10 days in the last year but got him to make pizza for her birthday.
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Sasha Obama, on the other hand, wins!
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On another topic, poor Sasha! It's gotta be hard to see your Dad that little. And her Mom's been pretty busy too. She's very little to understand everything that's going on.
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"His ache for time lost with his daughters feels palpable. On his plane recently, he described the nightly calls home. Malia, 9, is loquacious, rattling off every detail of her day. Six-year-old Sasha, whom he has nicknamed Cool Breeze, goes monosyllabic.
How was your day? “Fiiiine,” Mr. Obama mimics her uninterested voice.
Because, well, when you haven't really seen your Dad much for a year and you're six, of course you're going to distance yourself... And the adult Obamas made that choice knowingly, and knowing what it would do to their family, but still. Got to be hard for a six-year-old.
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Sasha
Hopefully she'll have 8 years to come to terms with it.
Re: Sasha
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I completely get that Obama has made a careful and thoughtful choice and I am sure he is trying his best with his kids. But the history of how First Children turn out is not reassuring, and for them to be dealing with it so young seems particularly cruel.
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But yeah...it's got to be really hard on them nonetheless - and campaign seasons have gotten so much longer and more grueling than they used to be.
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