In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.
Not defending her at all, but I think it’s important to keep our facts and histories straight.
Nancy and Michelle were first ladies. Second ladies are the wives of VPs. And I’ll be honest, I couldn’t tell the names of any second ladies through my life, mostly because they usually don’t make the news.
Last one wasn’t even a lady - I don’t remember Doug being in the news until the 2024 campaign, although Wikipedia lists plenty of things he did in the role.
In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.
Not defending her at all, but I think it’s important to keep our facts and histories straight.
Those were first ladies…
Well fuck me you’re right. Ok fair enough
Nancy and Michelle were first ladies. Second ladies are the wives of VPs. And I’ll be honest, I couldn’t tell the names of any second ladies through my life, mostly because they usually don’t make the news.
Tipper Gore did some pretty stupid stuff… Thanks for the Parental Advisory labels on all those albums, Heckuva Job Tipper.
Guaranteed to make every album cover go harder AND signal to every kid which albums to look into.
So that’s where those came from. Though to be fair, she and the PMRC did that before Gore’s first term.
Yeah I was thinking about that this morning and realized it was before she was second-lady
Yeah, I goofed. You’re right.
Last one wasn’t even a lady - I don’t remember Doug being in the news until the 2024 campaign, although Wikipedia lists plenty of things he did in the role.