Why do you consider my post to be repulsive and freepish? Michelle Obama regularly discusses the difficulties dealing with Barack's extended absences from the family. He talks about it in his books. In the recent Vanity Fair article I mentioned:

That equanimity has been hard-won, however. Earlier in their 15-year marriage, she was often furious with her husband. “I have chosen a life with a ridiculous schedule, a life that requires me to be gone from Michelle and the girls for long stretches of time and that exposes Michelle to all sorts of stress,” Barack wrote in his best-seller The Audacity of Hope. By the time their second child was born, he reported, “my wife’s anger toward me seemed barely contained. ‘You only think of yourself,’ she would tell me. ‘I never thought I’d have to raise a family alone.’ ”

Mrs. Obama finally got tired of being enraged and miserable. “One day I woke up and said, ‘I can’t live my life mad. This is just no fun,’ ” she reports. “For a period in my life, I thought the help I needed had to come from Barack. It wasn’t that he didn’t care, but he wasn’t there. So I enlisted moms and babysitters and got help with the housecleaning, and I built that community myself.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...

Barack is proud of his poker abilities. The article on the poker nights in Springfield was from the AP and ran in USA Today among other places. The last sentence of my post was my opinion that he might not have been as good a player as he thought is based on my own experiences around poker games and in how the other players described his play. I can't see how questioning his poker abilities would make my post repulsive. There obviously must be something I am missing in all this.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007...