Hell with white; is America ready for a Republican First Lady?
Hint: the answer is “no;” and we never will be again.*
*the implied assumption is that any Republican First Lady will be the wife of a Republican President. Of which America must never have another.
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I wonder out of curiosity what First Lady’s politics were most at odds with her husband’s.
I hear Mary Todd gave her hubby fits. “Spent like a Democrat” she did.
Mary was more radical than her husband. For one thing, she was an abolitionist while he was an anti-expansionist. She was generally considered one of the best informed women of her day on politics- it was in fact one of the things that attracted him to her- though once in office her mental illness and her personal tragedies greatly [del]affected her ability to do good hair[/del] made her less political than she might otherwise have been.
I’d like to see president Amy Goodman.
DeNiro said: “Callista Gingrich, Karen Santorum, Ann Romney – now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?”
NOT “…another white first lady?”
The distinction is significant: What he actually said is obviously a joke, absurdly ignoring the fact that all FLOTUSs have been white, save the current one, and is obviously riffing off those who were saying 4 years ago that they couldn’t imagine a black POTUS, much less a black first lady.
The second line is a distortion that implies his intention was that now we have gone black, we’ll never go back, or some such.
I object to the OP referring to Robert de Niro as a “swarthy Italian”.
In point of fact, he’s only a quarter Italian. He’s also Dutch/German/Irish.
So, a right-wing candidate says something ridiculous and frankly pretty appalling – and this is clearly the fault of the left?
This is an interesting type of logic.
If they didn’t hear Gingrich, nobody would have been offended! So they’re the offensive ones.
Actually, a similar argument was put to me by my grandmother (liberal academic): that this a constructed controversy that is presented to us as an appropriate topic of discussion when in reality it has nothing to do with substantive problems. Student debt is a substantial issue. Corporatisation of universities is an issue. Access to healthcare is an issue. Bizzare and horrible comments are a symptom and choosing to ignore them will probably help return attention to substantive solveable issues.
Not saying I entirely agree with her analysis, but it did make me think.
Some people just can’t make up their mind what they want to be.
Though point of fact he’s none of the above.
Or better still: He’s a Pub, she’s a Dem (or vice-versa) and they’re the leaders of their respective parties and run against each other every four years and alternate in the Oval Office. Sitcom! 
I blame the parents.
I’ll tell you one thing, though, this incident has really opened my eyes. No way will I be voting for Robert De Niro in November.
He is, however, an entertainer. That makes anything he says okay.
Well, at least no one will accuse him of being a clown.
Let’s recall that Newt didn’t think that Rush’s lambasting of a congressional witness for three solid days was a big deal… though when pressed repeatedly, he conceded that Rush was right to apologize. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gingrich-scolds-david-gregory-why-is-rush-limbaugh-the-great-national-crisis-of-this-week/
So of course Newt now turns around and whines about a rather bland remark by Hollywood actor during an untelevised (?) fundraiser.
Hypocrisy, thinness of skin and an utter absence of proportion: Newt is the perfect modern conservative.
Not sure if “politics” really says it, but Bess Truman was reputed to be very anti-semitic. Legend has it that even as Harry Truman had a Jewish partner in his tailor shop, Bess refused to have him in her house, and Harry yesdeared.
In fairness to Harry he wouldn’t have much of a choice other than divorce: it was her house. 
Well, her mother’s; they didn’t own a house until long after he was president. (Neither his mother-in-law nor his mother would sleep in the Lincoln bedroom when they visited the White House.)
David Susskind told the story of how, after Harry and Bess moved back to Independence, he would sometimes drop in on the Trumans, and Harry would always take him out for a walk while they talked. One time David asked, “Mr. President, you used to receive me in the White House, why do you never ask me into your home?” And the answer was, “You’re a Jew, David, and no Jew has ever been in the house. Bess runs it, and there’s never been a Jew inside the house in her or her mother’s lifetime.”
Really? I wonder why. Was it because they thought “Abraham” sounded too Jewish?
Well, Laura Bush knew how to read.