Lovely Ladies! Thank you for letting us vicariously sit in on your lunch. I didn’t know that Margaret was like that to Denis…poor Denis! I really want Obama to win and I think that Michelle needs to take a back seat, take care of the kids, and don’t talk to strangers. What ever it takes to win at this point; however, I draw the line on the sleeveless dresses. I stand by my previous statement that she has a right to bare arms.

I loved this style of sharing. The topic is becoming a bit tiresome, but joining the WOWers for lunch was a real treat. I especially like the spontaneity of a conversation served up “al a minute”.

My advice to Michelle is to avoid making Barrack sleep on the couch too often. Since FDR, it’s been presidents with loveless political marriages, e.g. Truman, JFK, Johnson, Clinton and Bush, who’ve used warmaking as anger management therapy. My take on Michelle is she’s a very tough cookie. Thacher’s psychologically castrating behavior towards her husband might explain the counter phobic psychodynamics of their son Mark who is caught up in the “Dogs of War” style abortive coup financed by oil interests to seize power in Equatorial Guinea. If that country’s extraction request is granted, he could spend remainder of his life with the already convicted plotters in the infamous Black Beach Prison.

Wonderful to be a drop on a water goblet and listen to the conversation! I agree with Lesley Stahl that Americans are adverse to any person taking power who is unelected and that does include the First Lady. I think the Clintons tried to forestall the criticism when he said “you get two for the price of one”. However, as we all know, his plan did not work. I thought Judith’s remark that a First Lady “cannot win” with the public if she participates in political debate or takes as a cause a controversial issue was poignant. True but sad also. The First Lady must be anti the anti unless it is a cause that is overwhelming accepted, such as literacy or the fight against drug use. Denis Thatcher was a practicing dentist and was able to continue his profession while Margaret was Prime Minister. I don’t know if a First Lady could work outside the White House at a law firm or hospital while still carrying out her duties as First Lady. An interesting question but I have a suspicion that Judith’s premise that she “cannot win” would fall into place again. The video lunch is a marvelous way for all of us to participate. I hope the wowers will make this a regular feature.