going to have the confidence. we talked about this before. i felt like, you know, there are some guys who don t want to date a really hot girl because they don t want to be threatened, they don t want her to get too much attention. i don t know any guys like that. i worry that mitt romney might make a pick based on insecurity and an insecure pick would be a safe pick like rob portman or a gimmicky pick, chris christie. i thought the only confident pick was paul ryan. he s got a national cachet not because he s been a kooky speaker but because he s a policy wonk. that s interesting. he s young, refreshing, articulate. there s nothing wrong with this guy as a pick. you can all talk policy, that s fine, but this was the confident pick. so just on sheer optics of it, i like to see this new confident
makes the political, personal and writes about the struggles the president s grandmother faced in the workplace. mrs. obama writes, even though barack s grandmother worked hard to support his family, even though she was good at her job, she hit that glass ceiling. men, no more qualified than she was, were promoted up the ladder ahead of her. so believe me, barack knows what it means when a family struggles. joining me now is nia-malika henderson reporting for the washington post. nia-malika, it s tricky for first ladies to get into talking policies too much. michelle obama seems to have the perfect touch when she does talk policy, she has a tone that makes them seem nonpartisan. that s exactly right. she is, as you said, a perfect surrogate. who needs bill clinton who has been widely off message, when you have michelle obama? she in some ways is a better surrogate for his husband s policy than her husband because
mrs. obama writes, even though barack s grandmother worked hard to support his family, even though she was good at her job she hit that glass ceiling. men, no more qualified than she was, were promoted up the ladder ahead of her. so believe me, barack knows what it means when a family struggles. joining me now is nia-malika henderson reporting for the policies too much. michelle obama seems to have the perfect touch when she does talk policy, she has a tone that makes them seem nonpartisan. that s exactly right. she is, as you said, a perfect surrogate. who needs bill clinton who has been widely off message, when you have michelle obama? she in some ways is a better surrogate for his husband s policy than her husband because she is able to marry the personal, his background story, with the political. and you know, this wasn t always easy for the first lady. when she came in, there were some you know, some
the reason they don t talk policy is they know they are not bred in. once you have all the top secret intelligence, you know how much you don t know. so, they are very reluctant to give advice. i don t know what he has on his desk. i don t know what s shaping his decisions so i m not offering advice. eisenhower, lawrence, is a hero of mine for a lot of reasons. one of the reasons is because of the restraint he showed while president. but he was far less restrained after he was read in giving advice to kennedy and lbj. and the perfect person to warn against the rise of the military industrial complex as he did, which was meant as a warning to future presidents. he gave it to the end of his presidency. you don t read books you tell me. do you have any questions?
it will last until tomorrow. but hopefully we can come back monday and talk policy, not scandal. chuck, you know, as we watched some of the live pictures outside of congressman anthony weiner s house where he stays there, that key discussion that luke is talking about with his wife, huma abedin, that and all of the other variables out there, what do you think led to today? well, i think when you look at the fact that his wife came home, and that s what he kept saying, clearly, the impact of nancy pelosi, and then the chairman of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz. then on monday afternoon to ann curry, the president of the united states. the three most important leaders actively right now in the democratic party all said go. we do know behind the scenes that former president clinton, who was essentially trying to serve as a counselor of sorts to anthony weiner had gotten