Michelle Obama vs Ann Romny

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The wives of presidential candidates of Barack Obama and Mitt Romni, Michelle and Ann are distinguished by everything: skin color, age, background and even manner of bake cookies. But there is a golden rule that unites them: never remember the dirty socks of the husband, scattered around the house.

Four years ago, on the previous election race, the inexperienced Michelle Obama willingly shared the details of her personal life with reporters. She said that their two little daughters do not like to hug with dad in the morning, because he “ smells and snores ”, said that they have a rule in their house: she could tease her husband, but he could not. And finally, once complained that the hut was not able to convey its weary socks to a basket with dirty linen. Republican opponents immediately took "dirty socks" into circulation. The wolf publication of Fox dubbed her "Evil Black Woman."

Michelle Obama and Ann Romny met only once - on the television debate of presidential candidates, where it is believed that Mitt Romny won a crushing victory. Photo: Reuters

For four years in the White House, Michelle Obama learned to like people. According to Gallup polls, 66% of Americans sympathize with her today, this is 23% more than in 2008. At a party congress of democrats a month and a half ago, she spoke in a completely different way, dirty socks were forgotten. Yes, she did not want the life in the White House for her children four years ago, she said the first lady from the rostrum, dressed in a tight -fitting sleeveless dress, demonstrating her fit hands. But she agreed with her husband’s desire, because she is a devoted wife. Did she have to lose a lot, moving to the White House? Certainly. But now she understands that this was an excellent solution not only for her children, but for the whole country. Does anyone suit the leader of this country better than her husband? No.

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A week before , another woman, completely unlike Michel, performed at another party congress . Twenty years older, with snow -white skin, in an old -fashioned red dress, in gold earrings and a gold bracelet, accustomed to a rich life since childhood - Anne Romny. She told how she gave her husband all her life. She assured that she did not care about politics, but she was a matter of love. In the hall of the woman, which was more permanent, cried. The nail was the remembrance of the program about how Mitt's husband asked her permission to participate in the election race. She then asked him: "If you defeat Obama, can you save America?" Mitt nodded. And then she said: "Okay, come on to battle." I must say that Anne Romny was also not always such a brilliant speaker - once her intervention was already worth her husband of the Senator's post in 1994. She then incessantly told reporters about how they live richly. Romney lost the race.

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The speeches of both women are overwhelmed by modesty not by chance. After the wife of President Bill Clinton Hillary (when she participated in the election race, she openly said: “If you vote for Bill (Clinton - approx. Ed.), The Americans wanted a less politicized first lady. The modest librarian Laura Bush (George Bush’s wife, - approx. Ed.), Was the most popular first Lady of the United States according to Gallup (the survey was conducted since 1969). She was sympathized with 85% of Americans. The secret of Laura Bush was that she " never had a bad mood ." The ideal first lady should always smile, invent more and more new compliments for her husband, to be a wonderful mother and in no case be interested in politics.

For Anne Romney, this task is easier than for Michelle Obama. Romny did not work out a day in her life , which she does not regret, and does not stick his nose into politics, because "this is too complicated a game." Obama had more ambitions - she was a successful lawyer (they met Barack Obama when he came to her on an internship), then worked at the city hall, then entered the board of the Board of the Big company Treehouse Foods. That is, she really had something to lose with the move to the White House. When they ask her if she does not give her husband advice in political affairs, when he asks, Michelle cannot restrain herself: "Do you really think that I will keep my mouth shut?"

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But the rules of the game are the same for everyone. Therefore, both Obama and Romni have to participate in the cooking contest ( both recipes ), where Obama, by the way, won, and train in public confessions of love to her husbands. The second, I must say, better manages the Romny - they have been writing up commercials about their love for 20 years. In addition, Romny twice helped his wife cope with fatal diseases . Americans, or rather Americans, (the first lady is unofficially instructed to fight for the female electorate) is to their liking.

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The success of Anne Romni and Michel Obama, like the success of their husbands, is also measured by polls. Obama, like her husband, is still leading, but Romny, like her husband, is rapidly catching up. According to the ABC News / Washington Post survey, 40% of Americans sympathized with Romni in the spring of this year, they became 12% more by the fall.

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