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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJill Biden on the cover of August's Vogue (EDITED to add the cover story):
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When Jill Biden visits community colleges, which is a lot these days, she is received in highly choreographed settings by a governor, say, or members of the public as the nations first lady. But to administrators and teachers, she is Dr. Jill Biden, college professor. At Sauk Valley Community College in Illinois, there were pink and white flowers set out everywhere, befitting her visit; they even matched her white dress and pink jacket. But there was also a Welcome Dr. Biden sign so huge that the period on the Dr. was as big as her head. It felt like a subtle rebuke to that scolding she was subjected to back in December for using the title she has every right to.
Indeed, in all the places she goes lately she is honored as a woman with several degrees who has worked really hard her whole life at the most relatable job there is. Everyone has a favorite teacher, after all. On her visit to the Navajo Nation in April, Dr. Biden was introduced by someone I came to think of as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of Indian Country: chief justice of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court JoAnn Jayne, a tiny woman with hair pulled back in a tight ponytail, wearing Doc Martens: Dr. Biden, millions reap inspiration from your quote Teaching isnt just what I do; it is who I am.? In Birmingham, Alabama, she was introduced by a lawyer, Liz Huntley, a sexual-abuse survivor whose parents were drug dealers. I want to thank Dr. Biden from the bottom of my heart for the role that she plays not just as the first lady but for her heart for educating. She told me shes grading papers on the plane, yall! What? Who does that?! You know, they say being an educator is a calling in your life that you cant resist, and she just wont let it go.
The December debate over titles seems awfully small in the face of all of this: Jill Biden opening schools, visiting vaccination sites, traveling to red states to sell the American Rescue Plan, telling folks that help is here. The role shes fulfilling on these visits is, in many ways, neither first lady nor professor but a key player in her husbands administration, a West Wing surrogate and policy advocate. An underestimated asset, as Mary Jordan, the Washington Post reporter whos written a book about Melania Trump, put it to me. Its hard to imagine Joe doing this without her.
Which is not to say that Dr. Biden, who is constitutionally shy, doesnt take special delight in these visits. She becomes looser, goofier, and more expansive. You generally hear her before you see her because she is often laughing. She is, quite simply, a joy multiplier. As part of her elevator pitch for free community collegepart of the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan President Biden proposed to Congress in Aprilshe likes to talk about one of her most dedicated students, a military interpreter from Afghanistan who came to America to start a new life. A few semesters ago...I got a text from herit was like six oclock in the morning. On my way to the hospital to have my baby, research paper will be late. To which I replied, Excuses, excuses. It gets a big laugh, even from the jaded press corps.
https://www.vogue.com/article/first-lady-dr-jill-biden-profile
no_hypocrisy
(46,210 posts)jimfields33
(15,986 posts)Even Laura bush had pictures in Vogue. trumps have to be fuming. Lol.
sop
(10,270 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,760 posts)Yup. They were sending a message.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)soldierant
(6,934 posts)understands what motivates educators as much as her father understands what motivates people to undertake service in the military, Exactly as much.
Diamond_Dog
(32,100 posts)Since they complained that Vogue never put the sour faced Slovenian on their cover in 4 years!
Doesnt Jill look beautiful!
malaise
(269,193 posts)panty models
Dr. B looks lovely
2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)fantastic to represent genuine and accomplished to the core, as opposed to flash/trash. Genuine and accomplished is an "old fashioned value" I would love to see make a huge comeback.
mrsadm
(1,198 posts)just before she married Trump; it showed her shopping for clothes and getting ready for the wedding. I don't remember if she was on the cover.
twodogsbarking
(9,832 posts)She does look beautiful.
ShazzieB
(16,541 posts)tanyev
(42,626 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Malignia can even think that far ahead? She probably couldn't see how disgusted she would be with him after less than twenty years.
Danascot
(4,694 posts)calimary
(81,514 posts)Just in a different order.
Danascot
(4,694 posts)I hadn't noticed.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Both she and our President Biden have kind eyes and sincere smiles.
There is no comparison to that last phony freakshow couple.
spooky3
(34,483 posts)calimary
(81,514 posts)Totally genuine. Bolognia always looked like she was avoiding smiling to fend off crows feet and laugh lines. Jill isnt looks-obsessed like that last one was.
But then again, thats really all the last one had going for her.
bluescribbler
(2,123 posts)nt
liberalla
(9,264 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,804 posts)Stunning photo at the South portico balcony.
Dr. Jill does us all proud.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Botany
(70,592 posts)zuul
(14,628 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 29, 2021, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Lovie777
(12,331 posts)speaks volume.
ananda
(28,879 posts)No more toxic Trumpers.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)And I usually hate florals
She looks lovely and so normal
lark
(23,160 posts)The contrast with the hate filled porno harriden couldn't be more stark.
Unwind Your Mind
(2,042 posts)PatSeg
(47,623 posts)We are so lucky to have her.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)🙂
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)Such class and grace.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)But that woman is beautiful to the point of being hot. Not "hot for her age," but just hot. What a superlative woman to help present today's America to the world.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)to see her and her positive attitude and intelligence.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)Inside and Out
Politicub
(12,165 posts)sarchasm
(1,012 posts)Kudos to Vogue. Lovely!
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Lovely pictures!
no_hypocrisy
(46,210 posts)The Trump family meddled with the inaugural plans of a Vogue executive, Stephanie Winston-Wolkoff and they defamed her and they placed the embezzlement of funds squarely on her shoulders. Anna Wintour has a long memory.
Takket
(21,635 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,627 posts)Marcuse
(7,520 posts)All that sounded great, but the magazine could not guarantee that Melania would appear on the cover, Winston Wolkoff wrote.For the record, not all First Ladies are put on the cover of Vogue. Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, yes. Laura and Barbara Bush, no, she continued. Melania wasnt going to do anything for Vogue or any other magazine if she wasnt going to be on the cover. Give me a break! she texted. Forget it.'
Later in the book, Winston Wolkoff recalls Melania telling her over the phone about Vogues coverage of Stormy Daniels: Annie Leibovitz shot the porn hooker, she said, naming the same photographer who shot Jill Bidens 2021 Vogue cover and with whom Melania had been offered a shoot as First Lady in 2017.
Im so glad I didnt do that profile in Vogue, she then said, per Wolkoff. You know, they came back two months ago and asked me to do it again. It might be a cover, they said. Are you kidding me? I dont give a f**k about Vogue or any other magazine. They would never put me on the cover.
[link:https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/melania-trump-may-regretting-2017-185937912.html|
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)aurora the great
(75 posts)"The first lady for all of us". Well put. Makes my heart smile.
mcar
(42,382 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,970 posts)... hit! Jill has wonderful style! Funny how Meliana couldn't quite get it... because her trade was looks. She always looked too severe. And, Jill's forte is not appearance... yet, she excels. I guess Vogue photographers help, but they can only use what's there... Jill is a natural.
dv421
(170 posts)One thing most do not understand (thankfully) is how difficult it can be to be married to a widower. Dr. Biden is an incredible person, and reminds me of my wife. My departed wife left in 2003, I married again in 2010. There are still days that I miss my departed wife intensely, and my (now) wife not only understands, but helps me through it. I'm sure Dr, Biden did (and still does) the same, but she also has helped the children. I have the upmost respect for Dr. BIden and my wife, it is not an easy road.
President Biden is right when he says that you get through it, but you never get over it. Tell me to get over it and you will draw my ire...
Jilly_in_VA
(9,999 posts)Wow! Strong , beautiful women front and center at last! No more plastic princesses.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)but it required her to smile, something she couldn't do without cracking the spackle generously applied over her Botoxed facial muscles.
Alas, poor Malaria, we hardly knew thee. And yes, that's a good thing.
ShazzieB
(16,541 posts)Damn, that's less than two hours from me! If I'd known, I could have been there.
LudwigPastorius
(9,181 posts)Bwahahaha!
Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)I like it when she is called Dr. Jill Biden or Dr. Jill. It holds her person and accomplishments to her. She has a part of herself that is hers. Not first Lady or the president's wife or Joe's wife. She has her own self made title.