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Lady MacBeth

By lex, on January 7th, 2012

You know, I believe I’ve seen this play before.

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis’d. Yet do I fear thy nature,
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.

– Macbeth Act 1, scene 5, 15–18

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January 7th, 2012 | Tags: | Category: Politics and Culture

57 comments to Lady MacBeth

  • Kid
    January 7, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    I was taught that if I can’t say something nice

  • Sim
    January 7, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    I hate you so much right now Lex.

    All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
    All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
    All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!

    I’m meant to be walking the dog and now all I have is Macbeth quotes bubbling in my brain.

    Speak I charge you!

    Bastard.

  • Grizzledcoastie
    January 7, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    And I thought Hillary was a cold, far-left, empathy-free Marie Antoinette/ Imelda Marcos wannabe. I guess I’d never met Michelle, whose false smile looks as fake as a plastic flamingo.

  • Mike47
    January 7, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    I wonder what the Secret Service think of her? I bet the answer ain’t printable.

  • John
    January 7, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    Mullah Michelle is a first class harridan.

    She is obviously the one who paid the most attention when attending Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church for twenty years, and no seeks to ensure that Barack is not diverted from his core beliefs.

    I have never seen such a bitter, unpatriotic woman, or one with such an entitlement mentality, spoiled from decades of undeserved reparations (under whatever name- equal opportunity admissions and grades) to being the beneficiary of Chicago style largesse with six figure income from a make work job that was eliminated when she left.

    Our socialist President and “First Lady” are successfully destroying the very foundation of our country.

    She deserves no respect, and cannot be believed any more than her husband.

    Our nation has never had a tradition where incoming adminstrations conduct purges or criminal prosecution of the outgoing, but there has never been a need before this one comes to its sleazy end in January 2013.

  • SCOTTtheBADGER
    January 7, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    She has made me think of Lady Macbeth for several years, now, albiet without Lady Macbeth’s personal warmth.

  • Mike Myers
    January 7, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    Cut the kid some slack. She was thrust into a position for which she (and her husband) were totally unprepared.

    But she was prepared for her customary role of hell on wheels. She’s just bringing her “A” game to a new course–and boy howdy does she “got game” in that regard.

    You know they say that Socrates willingly drank hemlock to escape from an unhappy home. When I was last in Athens I saw the barred cell in a cubbyhole in a rock wall near the Acropolis where the tourist guides say that Socrates was imprisoned. I doubt the story is true, and the cell wasn’t much, but I suspect some husbands would be happy to occupy it just to get a little peace and quiet.

    But a lot of Presidential candidates, and some Presidents have wives who come in for a lot of criticism of various sorts. Some of it’s fair, some of it’s not. Back in the 2008 campaign, I was listening to a radio pundit comment on an audio clip where Hillary was screeching about something or other. He said “She sounds like my first ex wife”. I was driving at the time and laughed so hard I danged near ran off the road.

  • MaxDamage
    January 7, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    Normally I could give a whit about a man’s wife. If she be graceful, all the better for him and I’m thankful he has her with him. If she be not, it’s his burden, not mine. He’s the one who made the vows.

    So why do I suddenly get the impression that we elected a tag-team of professional image consultants?

    I’ve seen it mentioned before that in the Navy a man’s wife and her behavior may be a consideration when it comes to gaining flag rank, the social niceties and such being more important as one rises. Still, this just chaps me.

    To judge a man’s worth on your opinion of his wife strikes me as placing your nose where it has no right to be, and in a just world would earn five knuckles to the snoot. More to the point, why is Obama’s wife in the media spotlight and why should I care to know her opinions? We elected him, not her. She should be hands-off. The kids should be hands-off. Distant relations he doesn’t know the names of should be hands-off.

    And we wonder why we only find professional politicians willing to run for the office.

    I contend that if I knew my family would be the subject of intense media scrutiny and press releases I could be Jesus himself come back from the grave and I’d not even apply for the job of President.

    – Max

    • SCOTTtheBADGER
      January 7, 2012 at 11:38 pm

      By the same token, she should realise that she was not elected, has no business making any decisions, and should keep her own hands to herself.

      • SK1
        January 8, 2012 at 5:50 am

        Michelle Obama runs the roost, that’s for sure. She likely subscribes to the rule, ” If Momma’s not happy, no one’s happy…”

        Her actions, statements and lack of common sense draw fire….she doesn’t care what it costs or who it hurts, she wants her pound of flesh. She is the poster child for the entitlement society her husband champions.

        To say that she is off limits is naive as she knew the rules when her lack-wit husband started running for the White House in 2004. The most galling aspect is her , ” do as I say, not as I do” attitude and lecturing others while being a spendaholic on her lavish vacations

        I wish I could spend 10 minutes with POTUS & FLOTUS as I would give them a piece of my mind…..They have mangled our country in ways that will take decades to correct.

  • fliterman
    January 7, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    Vultures.

      • SCOTTtheBADGER
        January 9, 2012 at 9:29 pm

        Nope, nope nope, Flit is being complimentary. We have vultures here in Central Wisconsin, and those buggers fly even better than the Bald Iggles that we also have here, ( Wisconsin having the largest population og Bald Iggles in the lower 48 ). Watching vultures fly, where they can ride the thermals, and just hover, is an actual pleasure. Flit, being an aviator, is comparing us to some of the masters of flight, so cut him a little slack.

    • UltimaRatioRegis
      January 8, 2012 at 3:52 am

      Lemme guess, Flit, for the first time in your life, you are proud of your country.

      Or you don’t see why people do “all this for a flag”?

      Hillary was openly and vocally scornful of those in uniform. Michelle is cut from the same Red banner.

      Is criticism of that somehow unwarranted?

      • SJBill
        January 8, 2012 at 10:10 pm

        We’re only eight days into 2012, URR, but your comment may wind up in contention for “Best of the Year”.

  • xformed
    January 8, 2012 at 4:31 am

    URR; flit missed the class that discussed ‘cult of personality.’ Also the history about angry tyrants across the ages, and what they are capable of doing to adherents and antagonists alike, user their rule, for their own pleasure.

    Top it ofwith the known tactic of name calling when one cannot defend their position.

    I consider this: She is unhappy in her circumstances and ability to have the access to the halls of power, arguably, with a confirmed seat at the head table, even if by proxy, and she is angry it’s not going her way….a (small) part of me is saddened that another human can be so rage filled, when it couldn’t really ever get much better for her. A small part because her ‘ungracious’ behavior effects me and my offspring and the Nation’s existence.

  • OldT6Flyer
    January 8, 2012 at 4:40 am

    I had breakfast with a member of congress who had met both the President and First Lady. His observations on the President was on the lines that he was a cold-bloded Chicago Pol that, despite his claims to want to work with the opposition, as a committed leftist that was using power in a dangerous way. Much was made of the appointment of Czars and their “shakedowns” of constituent groups to support their agenda “or else”. Of the first lady, the most polite comment he offered was that “she’s much worse”.

    This day we learn of a lavish White House “Alice in Wonderland” themed party. That they planned and managed to keep the event secret says volumes of the attitude of this administration toward their subjects. Of course this could not happen without a complicit press.

    It amazes me how the Republicans always get labeled as out of touch with the “little guy” while this administration, in particular, has demonstrated disdain and poor taste (at best) over and over again and yet remains somehow immune from such charges. Well perhaps those who still hold to the false hope that Obama and his ilk have anyone’s interest but their own power and prestige in mind will wake up.

    But I’m not counting on it.

    • virgil xenophon
      January 8, 2012 at 8:52 am

      OLDT6/

      It’s been widely commented upon for years, even by those in the MSM who are otherwise true “lefty’s” that GOP members of Congress are invariably FAR more polite and considerate (how is your mother’s ill health, etc) of the “little people” i.e., porters, janitors, cafeteria workers, doormen, Capitol Police, etc., than are the Donkeys, supposed champions of the “little people,” who are observed to more often than not brush by such people with indifference bordering on disdain on a daily basis.

  • Frank Derfler
    January 8, 2012 at 4:46 am

    I simply must observe that this is a first class blog with a first class crew. Lex and you inspire and entertain. Now I will retire and lurk with a smile.

  • Mike Myers
    January 8, 2012 at 8:01 am

    Hey folks why all the pre-emptive strikes on Flit? If he posted on this question, I didn’t see it. And if he didn’t post, there’s no reason to prep the battle space with an early barrage.

    But I’ve had some time to reflect; and on reflection, I long for the days when A. Mamie Eisenhower was hiding empty vodka bottles in the Rose Garden; or B. Betty Ford was a secret alchoholic; or C. Nancy Reagan was being criticized for spending too much money on fancy china for the White House and for consulting with astrologers. Those foibles I could deal with–and none of those ladies were pushing themselves or their problems in the country’s face.

    • Kris, in New England
      January 9, 2012 at 11:03 am

      Mike: Flit did comment, thusly:

      fliterman
      January 7, 2012 at 11:07 pm · Reply
      Vultures.

      I believe that was directed at … us.

      • fliterman
        January 9, 2012 at 11:22 am

        Only if the shoe fits, Kris… only if the shoe fits.

        • UltimaRatioRegis
          January 9, 2012 at 8:02 pm

          Flit, you cannot be that obtuse, can you?

          You remind me of McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, after his lobotomy. Michelle and people like her despise you. No matter how much they tell you otherwise, or you want to believe it, they despise you. You served in uniform, and did so with honor. They hate nothing more. They have been known on occasion to say so loud enough for people to hear.

          And yet you are an apologist for their despicable behavior as if you just got out of twenty years in a North Korean prison camp.

  • virgil xenophon
    January 8, 2012 at 9:03 am

    Considering the “First Lady” I’m reminded of the (probably apocryphal) Churchill’s reply to his lifelong tormentor Lady Nancy Astor who said to WSC at a banquet: “Winston, If you were my husband I’d poison your wine” when he supposedly answered: “And if you were my wife I’d drink it!”

    • Advokaat
      January 8, 2012 at 9:22 am

      Another Churchill/Lady Aston conversation:

      Winnie:”Madam, you are the ugliest woman I have ever seen.”

      Lady:”Mr. Churchill, you are drunk, drunk, drunk.”

      Winnie:”True. But, tomorrow, I will be sober.”

      • Quartermaster
        January 8, 2012 at 10:03 am

        The exchanges between those two are legendary. Alas, Michelle Obama is reality. The photoshop of the Marie Antoinette painting is quite appropriate given her expensive predilections.

  • Comjam
    January 8, 2012 at 9:54 am

    As a bit of an intellectual exercise, and relying on my faulty memory, here’s how I, average Joe, recalls press treatment of First Ladies, going back to 1932:

    Elenore Roosevelt: Secular saint; held weekly press conferences of her own.
    Bess Truman: Devoted spouse, but did not share her views with the press. They left her alone.
    Maime Eisenhower: Looked down upon, mocked. “She dresses like Maime Eisenhower,” is considered an insult.
    Jackie Kennedy: Queen Jacqueline the First, Empress of America, Goddess of Utter Taste and Perfection.
    Rosebird Johnson: Tough-talking Texas momma, able to ram-rod through the Highway Beautification Act. As tough as her husband, if not tougher.
    Pat Nixon: “Cloth coat Pat,” always said with a sneer.
    Betty Ford: Much more glamorous than Pat. Her alcoholism was successfully covered up until she outed herself. (and bless her for making it acceptable to deal with addiction issues)
    Rosalynn Carter: Initially – Steel Magnolia, husband’s closest adviser. As negative press began to build on President Carter, she began to be portrayed as a meddler and “un-elected and un-appointed” member of the Administration.
    Nancy Reagan: The Imperial First Lady. Astrologers and new china. Ice queen.
    Barbara Bush: Everybody’s favorite grandmother. (An exception to a trend, IMHO)
    Hillary Clinton: “The Co-President,” the “smartest person in the room,” “the loyalest spouse in America,” “the person who should really be the President.”
    Laura Bush: Just a librarian, not worth our time paying any attention to.

  • BADLucas
    January 8, 2012 at 10:55 am

    A little off the path on this one, but that was a nicely done photo. B&W is one of the more forgiving media when one is working photos. And the results can be impressive when done right. The photo says a whole lot on its own.

  • xformed
    January 8, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Mike;

    Flit so kindly weighed in….he labeled us all, in his single worded, pithly, completely observant manner. Oh, sometimes I’m not just cynical, I’m also multifaceted as a satirist.

  • Snake Eater
    January 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    …hey I strongly suggest that we first class crew members of this first class blog cut Michelle some major slack…

    …the poor dear does have monumental glutes after all…not that there’s anything wrong with that… Best

    • Advokaat
      January 9, 2012 at 4:45 am

      Is that a nice way to say “fatass”?

      • Snake Eater
        January 9, 2012 at 7:09 am

        … Indeed…my first thought was to write “fat ass” but I decided to soften it a bit to ” monumental glutes”…(I’m a nice new age kind of guy that way )…

        … because I was afeared that my new best friend filterman would get his knickers all in a twist and wet himself. Best

        • fliterman
          January 9, 2012 at 9:13 am

          SnakeE – At least you were not afflicted with a regrettable, poverty of expression.
          Otherwise I might have.

  • Liz
    January 8, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Could be worse. At least he hasn’t appointed her Healthcare Czar like the first lady in 1993. Who gave us tricare for a legacy.

  • Michael Haltman
    January 8, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    Ironically I had written an article on yesterday at The Political Commentator in which I had invoked the name Macbeth to describe Barack Obama!

    “…The U.S. system of government was designed by the Founding Fathers to include a series of checks and balances designed to prevent any one man from exerting undo power or influence on policy or laws.

    It should also prevent presidents from making unilateral proclamations such as those made in societies run by dictators or by monarchs who have assumed the unlimited power to do so.

    Following is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth which describes how the lust for power and the willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve that power has consequences for all of the subjects.

    In the case of Barack Obama, it is the American people who face those consequences…”

    The full article is here: http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2012/01/one-picture-metaphor-for-obama-regime.html

    Mike
    The Political Commentator

  • Bou
    January 8, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    I read this article yesterday and spoke to my husband about it. They’re supposed to be smart, educated, worldly, right?

    What part of taking on this role as 1st Lady was difficult for her to grasp, other than the whole dang thing? Seriously. They thought they were just going to fly back to Chicago and resume their regular life whenever they wanted? Really? How frickin’ DUMB is that? I was completely astonished at the absolute absurdity of their thought processes and how it would effect their lives.

    My husband and I were at a luncheon yesterday when I brought this up. We all agreed… she also has no clue how her life has been PERMANENTLY changed. She things when this gig is up, she’ll just go back to how it was. I think she really does believe that. Boggles the mind, it does.

  • Hogday
    January 9, 2012 at 5:04 am

    Yes, a lady Macbeth for sure, forsooth. (Definition of a Scotsman? A Yorkshireman, who’s had all the generousity wrung out of him) Works for women too, I expect.

    • Comjam
      January 9, 2012 at 7:18 am

      Hogday,
      Yes, but I can understand a Yorkshireman. I can only really understand a Scot when I’m as drunk as he is. Uh, not that Scots ever are drunk, for that would be stereotyping a maligned minority group and anti-diversity and all that, y’know? :)

      • Hogday
        January 10, 2012 at 11:50 am

        Comjam: Get yoself on a darversities cowse dude or, as they say in Scotland, “Hey, Jimmy, d`ye know the way ta th`infirmary” followed by a butt tae the heed an` a knee in the bollocks, aye laddie.(PS Mine’s a wee heavy)

      • Justthisguy
        January 14, 2012 at 6:31 pm

        Oh, c’mon, Comjam, I invoke “no true Scotsman” fallacy on you, in the form of “no true Jew.” Surely no true Jew would deign to get _that_ drunk.

  • Liz
    January 9, 2012 at 6:04 am

    Okay, I have to ask…has the first lady actually done something contemptuous or is this projection? The article doesn’t even offer a quote from her, even one out of context. Only quotes from unnamed “aides” here and there. Seriously, I don’t watch the news much, but I try to read an article critically and there isn’t much here. Complete with photo it could have been written in the Star next to a Kardashian plug. Just sayin. I’m all for hateriation if it’s warranted, in Hillary’s case the president gave her a position of power and she used it and harmed people (long term). What power has Mrs. Obama been directly granted outside of speculation rumor?

  • mojo
    January 9, 2012 at 8:02 am

    “Why hast thou brought this dagger from the place?”

  • Blackeagle603
    January 9, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Sadly her ‘tudes reflect widely on the views of the demographic she comes from.
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