During an appearance to promote her new book "The Look" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Michelle Obama complained that America wasn't ready for a female president and called out supposed sexism for being behind the loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump in 2024.
“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” she told the audience. "That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.”
“You know, we’ve got a lot of growing up to do,” she continued. “And there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.”
The complaints built on previous comments she made during other book tour appearances that she had been under a "white hot glare" as first lady, a reference to her being the first Black first lady.
She said,
Let me be clear, these were our people who were going after me. This started when we were running against our party. The beginning of turning me into an angry shrew who diminished her husband, who didn’t love her country, who was unpatriotic…These people are lying. They’re making stuff up because they’re trying to win.
“I had to be smarter than them. I had to outsmart everyone and that came to everything I did, including what I wore," she added.
The book is about fashion, but Obama is proving her ability to turn absolutely everything into a race issue.
She wrote a book about fashion, then argued that the political world judges more on women's outward appearance than on their qualifications and accomplishments.
Kind of doesn't make sense that she would write a fashion book if she were trying to be taken seriously then, does it?
Also, when you consider that she was on the cover of Vogue three times and current First Lady Melania Trump has been snubbed by that publication, it pretty much destroys her argument.
It's ludicrous to think that Kamala Harris's race was why she lost the election to Trump.
She sounded like almost as much of an idiot (or maybe more in some ways) as then-President Joe Biden, she never had good polling numbers except for the two weeks after she was selected (not elected) as Biden's replacement, and people just knew that she would be a worse president than Biden, even with his dementia.
Furthermore, I believe, along with many Republicans including Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), that Michelle Obama could have run away with the 2024 election if she had wanted to run.
Either there's something super nasty in her past, or she just likes to complain about her victim status a lot more than actually do anything for her country. For whatever reason, she refuses to prove herself wrong. And I'm very glad she does, because we don't need another radical Democrat president, irrespective of their gender or race.
