I told you guys months ago that it was just merely a matter of time before Michelle would be compared to Jackie.  And now, WeNews has done it.

“During Barbara Walters’ interview with Michelle Obama last month, I never heard Walters say why she chose the first lady as the most fascinating person of the year.

I dug up the transcript, watched the video and confirmed that Walters never said why.

Michelle Obama did a lot that was fascinating before 2009.

After bootstrapping her way to an elite college and law school where she was outspoken about racism, she left corporate law for high-profile policy work in politics and health care and won a powerful corporate board position.

All the while she battled her husband to pick up his slack on the parenting and insisted on her own demanding career after his election to the U.S. Senate. She told Vogue in 2007, “The days I stay home with my kids without going out, I start to get ill.” She said she loved her work challenges “that have nothing to do with my husband and children.”

Am I the only one who misses that formidable woman?

She began slipping from public view during the primary when her negative ratings–spurred by media portrayals of her as angry and vehement–threatened Barack’s campaign. She has yet to re-emerge.

She was nowhere to be seen during her national interview with Walters. It was as if the opinionated Michelle has been packed away somewhere in the China Room, a la “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

The woman in her place now insists that mothering is her only priority and her career was never a big part of her identity. She told Time Magazine in June, “I don’t want to have a say” in national issues. Her standard stump speech now includes a line that she’s lucky her husband handles all the “hard” stuff.

Why is such a powerful woman now mimicking Jackie O, who dumbed herself down for the media and trained her voice into a whisper?” Lisa Nuss, WeNews Commentator

Of course, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon now with reasons why Michelle is like Jackie O and of course the naysayers are chiming in with the why nots.  For me?

It’s a no brainer….just look at this woman.

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