Does anyone remember any other first lady being compared to Jackie THIS much?

[Clio the Leo]

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I certainly don't remember Laura, Barbara or Nancy ever being compared to Jackie Kennedy. But for the last two days, it's been Michelle/Jackie, Jackie/Michelle....

I suppose that it could have something to do with Michelle and Jackie being simmilar in age at the time they were in the White House, but I think it speaks more to their common class and refinement than anything else.

Either way, I'll take it!

[lisa58]

1. I don't remember ANY first lady being compared with Jackie...

...but Michele deserves to be.

[crikkett]

2. Jackie came off as kind of ditzy in vid's I've seen

not so, our M.O.

[bigwillq]

4. A lot of women of that era

acted like Jackie did. Despite that, Jackie was still a very intelligent lady.

[crikkett]

13. I have to say that I'm sooooo happy women aren't expected to act

that way anymore.

Hooray!

[Clio the Leo]

8. I think what you're interpreting as "ditz" was just her soft voice...

... but no, the woman was smart enough to marry Jack Kennedy and Ari Onassis AND raise two well behaved children in the midst of it all.

[NYC Liberal]

3. What I don't get is why people think she has to TRY to be just like her

"Oh Jackie would never wear that." "Jackie always did this." etc.

Why can't Michelle be her own woman and if there happen to be similarities to Jackie O., make them? Michelle shouldn't have to be a clone of her.

[Clio the Leo]

5. You are correct however....

.... I think they very fact that Michelle even evokes Jackie's name is a huge compliment.

Of course it could have nothing to with anything other than the fact that shift dresses are back in style. lol

[NYC Liberal]

9. Oh absolutely! And far superior to, well, this couple...

(Not to mention...the clones :rofl:)

[crikkett]

14. Oh, my. Did that really happen?

[NYC Liberal]

16. Amazingly yes! 3 other women showed up in the same outfit as Pickles

[DevonRex]

17. That's my throw. Seriously. Right off my couch.

[Drunken Irishman]

21. I never liked the bedroom drape fashion of Laura Bush.

[DevonRex]

18. I have a little different take on it. Michelle has her own sense of style. Jackie did too.

They're both striking women, beautiful even though their features aren't perfect when taken separately. Yet somehow when they're all put together you can't look away. So, for rational people, the similarity is that they're rather unique and not afraid to be so.

[Drunken Irishman]

25. I don't think it's negative.

American politics just hasn't had a First Family like the Kennedys since, well, the Kennedys.

Most our presidents have been older and not nearly as stylish.

[Hekate]

27. I don't think Michelle does any such thing...

She wears what flatters her tall, slender frame (usually) and the sometimes-bouffant hairdo is more a product of the texture of Michelle's hair than any copying of Jackie's style.

Hekate

[OHdem10]

6. Michelle holds her own alone. The Media always mentioning Jackie

in the same breath is really annoying. That is my opinion.

[polichick]

7. imo Michelle is simply (and beautifully) Michelle - but the msm needs a story...

...and the elegance of the two women gives 'em something to talk about.

[Clio the Leo]

10. But it's not just the media....

... I work with a 60 something southern white woman who is quietly convinced that the President is some kind of sleeper agent commie Mulsim terrorist and all she can talk about is "Jackie and Michelle ... Michelle and Jackie...." (In a positive way)

I think Michelle may ulitmately WIN my co-worker over to the President's side and I suspect that'll be true with a lot of people.

[polichick]

11. Well, whatever works I guess! lol

[EffieBlack]

12. Could anyone have imagined in 1961 . . .

that the next First Couple to capture the sense of style, inspiration and excitement of the Kennedys would be negro?

[Beacool]

15. It's all media spin.

Jackie was Jackie and Michelle is Michelle. They are unique and distinct, one does not need to be compared to the other.

;)

[DevonRex]

20. I actually think that's where the comparisons come from - their uniqueness.

And might I say that I love, love, LOVE the fact that Hillary's photos are getting so much attention. It always made me sad that she wasn't treated better. Well, it made me angry, not just sad.

But now just LOOK at her. She is wielding real power and she shines while doing it. We have much to be grateful for and proud of with this trip. Time to shut up because I'm all teary again.

:hug:

OMG. Now I'm handing out hugs. Yesterday I was spitting fire. Now I'm teary and huggy. *sigh*

[CBGLuthier]

19. Well it has been over 40 years since we had an

incredibly beautiful first lady. The fact that she is smart and professional is just icing on the cake.

[DrToast]

22. Barbara Bush?

:P

[MiniMe]

23. It is the first time since then that we have had small children in the WH

I think that is what part of the comparison is.

[rvablue]

24. IMO, there is no comparison. Zilch.

Jackie O. was the "ideal" for that time.

Michelle Obama is a groundbreaker, both in her fashion and in her intelligence and wit and down-to-earthness.

She is a transformative person.

To me, at least, Mrs. Kennedy was more the epitome of a notion, the perfect character to fit the mold, so to speak. And I see Michelle Obama as more a carver of a new mold/model.


(caveat: the comparison doesn't offend me. I just think it's not very complete.)

[Hekate]

26. Although Michelle is already a high-achieving career woman & Jackie had to wait until after ...

... her second widowhood to find a career she loved as an editor (at which she was reputedly quite competent), those of a certain age cannot help but make the comparison -- and there is nothing bad about it, as far as it goes. Michelle is outgoing, Jackie was shy; Michelle is older than Jackie was, and more self-confident; Jackie came from a broken home, but one in "high" society, although sliding down the scale in terms of wealth; Michelle's family of origin was emotionally strong and supportive, but of modest means and marked by her father's illness. They are really different in most ways.

But what presents to the public eye is that they are both:
Young
Tall
Slender
Well-dressed with a sense of personal style
Poised
Beautiful, in different ways
Mothers of two young children
Wives of charismatic, tall, handsome, powerful men

It's really inescapable.

Hekate