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Actually... my 72 year old mother in law lives with me. She's paralyzed with MS and after her husband died last year, my wife and I bought a house and moved her in. Despite the medical challenges, she's great to live with... funny, loves watching Crime TV and is a sports nut (I always have some place to watch Sunday football) and is a politcal junkie. This year we got her an absentee ballot... she voted for Obama.
Having my MIL live with me is actually an excellent buffer to my wife... she usually takes MY side.
If the mum had serious health problems, BY ALL MEANS she should live with them! That's only right and decent. But this lady is healthy and active.
The First Family has a staff at their beck and call 24/7. They don't NEED granny moving in to take care of the kids. There's a staff for that.
I think you all are taking yourselves way too seriously. Lighten up people. Teatime posted a comment about Obama having his MIL to deal with after a hard day at the office. Taken in the context of Obama's office being the Oval Office and Obama being POTUS, it's pretty funny to think about--if you can put aside partisan bias and think about it. If the MIL-living-with-family weren't such a stereotypical joke, why would there be so many TV shows and skits done about it?
So, it's another "first". We have our first African-American (or mixed race or whatever term you deem most politically appropriate) President. And now we have our first "First Mother in Law".
Thank you!!!! At least someone gets it!
But CNN says it's not a "first." Bess Truman had her mother staying at the WH, I believe.
Most married men I know say same thing "Mother in laws are a pain and they dont want them around"
Dont be so PC its unbecoming
You missed the point.
The righties here can knock themselves out scorning Michelle (and now her mom). I just felt that it needed to be pointed out that teatime likes to scream "sexism" almost any time people mention Palin, yet if you search her name here, she mentions Michelle dozens of times, and most of the comments are not in a positive light, including the thread here.
A staff of strangers ... having Grandma Robinson at the White House is going to bring something stable from home for the kids.
Hmmm, Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, and the Bush twins didn't need "something stable from home." Are you saying that the Obama kids are deficient? And little Amy Carter had to adjust to big city "Yankeeland" after being raised in the South. Hell's bells, the Carters even sent her to a public school in D.C.
The righties here can knock themselves out scorning Michelle (and now her mom). I just felt that it needed to be pointed out that teatime likes to scream "sexism" almost any time people mention Palin, yet if you search her name here, she mentions Michelle dozens of times, and most of the comments are not in a positive light, including the thread here.
Typical hyperbole. I scream when y'all TRASH Palin over her female attributes, not "any time people mention" her. You really don't get the difference, do you? Pathetic.
How about this -- since you have an insatiable desire to call me a name, you can call me an "in-lawist." That's at least relevant.
Who cares? Why make this such a big issue.. it's not! our economy is in the toilet! THAT is the issue, not grandma moving in!
Bitter much?
As "findingme..." recognized, this was SUPPOSED to be a funny thread to lighten things up. But your company chose to use it instead to attack me and NOT keep it fun. So, whatever. You people are even stiffer than your candidate.
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That's at least relevant.