Why Michelle Is Sliding (Oh noes!)
As the first lady wades into the health-care debate, she’s grappling with a 10-point drop in the polls. Linda Hirshman on why being first lady is harder than ever. Party giver Michelle Obama snagged the White House East Room for her soiree this afternoon. Of course she was entertaining a bunch of older women who had sad stories about their trouble getting health insurance, just as the polling shows that older women aren’t so sure about her husband’s health plan. As three women of a certain age told stories of bad insurance and getting caught in the Medicare “doughnut hole,”...
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