No one wants to read about the wife of a puppet.
That Many?
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Is that the collapse of the book buying market or is that how much the subject interests people? You could argue she has more influence over policy than any First Lady in history. I might look at a copy, at least with certain lenses (realizing that the press corps is chock a block with garbage people paid to lie for the Democratic Party).
One amusing aside about Jill Biden is that her 1st husband has been willing to offer a comment now and again for attribution. Jane Wyman assiduously refused to say a word about Ronald Reagan to the media and told Edmund Morris to pound sand as well. I’m not sure anyone in the media attempted to speak to Betty Ford’s 1st husband, who was still alive at the time.
Agreed. The number sounds inflated.
“Dr.” Jill has her “doctorate” from a “school” of “education.” My quotation marks are commentary. enough said.
Jill Edith Wilson Biden. At least Edith wasn’t an adulteress like Jill with Joe.
“Dr.” Jill has her “doctorate” from a “school” of “education.” My quotation marks are commentary. enough said.
One of the nuisances of our time is that state legislatures have been otiose in the face of inflation like this. A proper teacher-training program would provide course work on techniques and track internships and apprenticeships. Instead, schools of education have expanded like a blob into a mess of other areas and offer what amount to parody degree programs, none more contrived than that you describe. Research degree programs belong in the arts and sciences faculty and conceivably in a some occupational faculties (engineering, medicine, agriculture, public policy, business). They do not belong in teacher-training programs because the study of learning and the study of schools can be undertaken in faculties of psychology, public policy, sociology, history, and political science (depending on what question you are studying).
At least Edith wasn’t an adulteress like Jill with Joe.
I think Mr. Stevenson has said he thought that was underway during the time they were married. IIRC, Nelia Biden had hired her as a baby sitter at one point. What’s not disputed is that she tried to grab a piece of Mr. Stevenson’s business during their divorce proceedings. Also not disputed is that she was attracted to the likes of the young Joseph Biden. One utterance of Ayn Rand that’s actually worth pondering was ‘show me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will show you what his moral values are’. What we know of the young Biden suggests he’s always been cartoonish and lacking in scruple.
Through years of studies and observations [TS/SOG], I have concluded that the run-of-the-mill Ed. PhD/credentialed idiot is not quite as wrong all the time nor as disconnected with reality as the typical econ PhD cultist in leftist superstitions about economics and conspiracy theories against markets. .
Why does someone need to kill eight years or so of higher dyseducation to learn how not to teach [see US kids’ test scores compared to the World] little kids to read and write?
Garbage people. Garbage policies.
I don’t hate her. I’m not impressed with her taste in men, but I feel for anyone seeing a spouse slip away, and she’s got to feel the burden even moreso with a sense of patriotic duty to keep Joe going. I’m glad the press hasn’t gone all-out trying to turn her into the glamorous and wise First Lady like they sometimes do. I think they were planning on selling Harris that way. But Jill Biden seems like the last person I’d want to read a book about, particularly if it’s AP-approved and almost certainly won’t expose anything about the family.
There are three purposes of such books:
1.) Money laundering
2.) For the subject to brag “I have a book written about me” at parties
3.) To have large number of copies sit unsold behind the register at book stores in order for the show to properly show its political leanings.
I don’t hate her. I’m not impressed with her taste in men, but I feel for anyone seeing a spouse slip away, and she’s got to feel the burden even moreso with a sense of patriotic duty to keep Joe going. I’m glad the press hasn’t gone all-out trying to turn her into the glamorous and wise First Lady like they sometimes do. I think they were planning on selling Harris that way. But Jill Biden seems like the last person I’d want to read a book about, particularly if it’s AP-approved and almost certainly won’t expose anything about the family.
Isn’t that cute?
She and the rest of the Bidens had to have known he was imploding mentally and put the kibosh on any campaign. Were she responsible, his resignation would be forthcoming now.
Her stepson has, for over 20 years, been in the influence peddling business. Judy Agnew might have plausibly claimed she didn’t know her husband was on the take. Not so, Jill. The grift her stepson and brother-in-law were engaged in was quite public and we have every reason to believe she and her husband were hoovering up much of the take.
It’s not unusual for parents with ordinary skills to have rotten kids. (Ronald Reagan and Wm. F. Buckley had exasperating children). The lurid depravity in the Biden family is rather out of the ordinary and they make excuses for it (see, for example, their public remarks when it was revealed that Hunter was banging his brother’s widow).
I’m glad the press hasn’t gone all-out trying to turn her into the glamorous and wise First Lady like they sometimes do.
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Obama received many a puff piece, but no one ever tried to peddle the notion that they were ‘wise’. None of the rest of them were presented as glamorous. Feature writing is seldom antagonistic. The 1st Ladies who received bad press were Mrs. Reagan and Mrs. Clinton. The latter was the target of criminal investigations, behaved like she had something to hide, and is known to be a terror to work for; the former was not shy about stating her personal views (which were ordinary enough but contradicted the sort of therapy-culture notions prevalent in the word merchant sector and contradicted canons of magazine article feminism as well).
There are three purposes of such books:
Recall an earlier era (1989) when the Speaker of the House was nailed for this sort of money laundering. A friend of his who ran a printing company was the conduit, and it was immediately evident because he had no distribution network and paid Jim Wright royalties which exceeded industry norms by a factor of ten. It’s a reasonable inference that no trade publisher in that era would have dreamed up such a scam. Well, look at trade publishers in our era.
I don’t hate her. I’m not impressed with her taste in men, but I feel for anyone seeing a spouse slip away, and she’s got to feel the burden even moreso with a sense of patriotic duty to keep Joe going.
There’s nothing patriotic about letting your husband who has severe signs of dementia, bugger up the country you supposedly love. Not to mention the fact that he is clearly ill and still working. A pretty cruel wife lacking in a duty of care. I’m sure It’s not the “burden” of service keeping her there, it’s more like the prestige and perks of being First Lady of the United States of America.
Melanie was mocked and humiliated the entire time her husband was President, and all she did was support him and do her duty as First Lady. She deserve a bit of sympathy. IMHO
I’m not sure she was ‘mocked and humiliated’ except in the sense that there are no filters anymore, so any sort of rude opinion can be widely distributed. It was amusing in its way that someone who worked as a fashion model and is well preserved enough that she could still earn a living in that trade if she chose to was never on the cover of a single women’s magazine.
I agree with you that Mrs. Trump would have preferred to be doing something other than what she was doing. By all appearances, she’s an introverted woman who is at home only with a small circle of intimates. Next to Melania, Jackie Kennedy was Carol Channing.
Not to mention the fact that he is clearly ill and still working.
I doubt he’s doing much other than signing papers put in front of him and preparing for a few public appearances (which he botches).
Ordinarily there would be pathos in the Biden’s situation. The circumstances are so bizarre and grotesque that there simply isn’t.
I’m not sure she was ‘mocked and humiliated’ except in the sense that there are no filters anymore, so any sort of rude opinion can be widely distributed.
Maybe- stemming from the no-filters social media. Yet, Trump was kicked off Twitter for using social media as it was intended. So I’m sure something could have been done about the vitriol Melanie received. She seemed to be mocked with a level of nastiness which previous First Lady’s hadn’t experienced. And the media kept at it, with no reason. She barely put a foot wrong or said anything out of place or context. Michelle Obama could do an interview and act as she pleased. Hillary- well- was Hillary. Yet, Melanie, as you say, had this introverted and quiet presence. It was more than just negative press or opinion. They went after her because they hated her husband. This piece summarises it well.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/535169-scorned-and-mistreated-melania-trump-deserved-much-better-from-the-media/
She seemed to be mocked with a level of nastiness which previous First Lady’s hadn’t experienced.
I seem to remember members of the press falling, exasperated, upon their fainting couches from exposure to the national humiliation that was her Christmas decorations …
Well, now we know what the Bidens’ friends and family will be getting for Christmas.
#Melania (not Melanie). Oh dear. 🤦🏻♀️
I suppose the spouses of politicians do provide some interesting but rather transitory tidbits about their lives but I have noted that it is media reporters and personalities provide the most vituperative and salacious items when they slip through the cone of silence.