Uh oh, Tweety just ran a clip where Michelle O. calls herself a "single mother."

[CTyankee]

She corrected it quickly, tho.

Michelle DOES have a big burden of the childraising right now. As much help as she has, it is still a difficult job. Bless her for doing it...

[Tempest]

1. It's not far off

Considering how often her husband is working or out traveling, especially weeks long trips overseas.

[KittyWampus]

14. Not dissimilar to families with a spouse serving in combat.

[Sharpie]

19. Except with maids, nannies , personal chefs ...

WTF...

Sincerely a guy literally taking off to Afghanistan this very moment.

[cali]

22. +1 and good luck.

[cali]

23. I gotta wtf this too.

c'mon. It's nothing like it.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Between that and the Kamala Harris flub yesterday

We should be seeing speculative pieces in the Daily Mail any moment.

[LeftInTX]

3. Front page on the National Enquirer

[HipChick]

4. They have all but married off Kamala to Obama

already...

[Scuba]

5. Well then I get first dibs on Michelle!

[JI7]

6. according to Freepers the Harris comment was meant to cover up him being gay

[onpatrol98]

27. They are desperate to find anything.

[JI7]

7. the reason she probably made the mistake is because she has talked to many

who have talked about how it was tough being a single mother. so the term "single mother" came easily to her.

[CTyankee]

8. She talks to a lot of women whose husbands are away in the armed services...

maybe she sympathasizes with them more than we know...

[dsc]

9. with all due respect

she lives in a house with servants, she has her own mother there too, she isn't anything like the single mothers that I work with who teach all day and come home to take care of a child or children with no help at all. I am glad she corrected it.

[CTyankee]

11. well, I think it was a Freudian slip on her part. I think she feels a lot like a "single parent."

Hey, it is what it is and how can we deny what she feels herself? She wants him back co-parenting but knows it is not possible. She is a human being.

I will cut her some slack here...

[dsc]

12. she corrected the mistake so that is fine

[CTyankee]

15. I can forgive her feelings as a human being...

I think we should be kind towards her...

[onpatrol98]

28. I agree

If you have an ultra busy spouse, it can definitely feel like that. Although I have no doubt household help...helps, you really want to be all in with your mate.

[KittyWampus]

16. do you think she is in a similar situation as women w/spouses in active combat?

[dsc]

17. no

she has servants which i bet most active duty spouses don't have and she also has the ability to call him home immediately if something horrible happens which they also don't. There are some similarities but there are also alot of differences.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. I can anticipate the creative nuttery from the conservative conspiracy psychopaths

who will now demand to see the birth certificates of Obama's kids or other even crazier notions.

[Matariki]

13. Oh no. This is PROOF that a person elected President is replaced with a biological robot.

Which explains *everything*.

[FourScore]

18. Oh geez...C'mon. I'm a married woman with 3 kids...

My friends and I always say things like, "I'm a single mother this week." Or "I'm basically a single Mom." It's also usually followed up with, "I don't know how real single Moms do it."

My mother was a single, working Mom with 5 kids ranging in ages 1-12 when she became single. She knows EXACTLY what I mean when I say that and never takes offense.

This is a non-issue. It makes her sound like all the other Moms who carry the primary burden of raising the kids. In case no one noticed, Michelle O's husband is a little busy right now. Just as mine is. That doesn't mean he's not a great Dad. He's contributing in a different way. I'm the taxi, he makes the money.

[CTyankee]

20. Oh, I agree completely with you! I just think she was feeling the lack of having him

around and it slipped out. She did correct it quickly, tho.

I wish that my problem with my children's dad had been that "he makes the money." He didn't and I had to do that and everything else...which is why I usually get a bit grouchy with moms who say that their hubbies are away "making money" and not being home.

I had a hubby who was home, not working and NOT making money, while I was out grubbing away. I would have preferred the former to the latter.

[FourScore]

29. I don't know how women like you do it.

I'm not worthy!!! Seriously. (DU needs a bowing-down-to "I'm not worthy" emoticon!)

[CTyankee]

30. I'm jealous of you! You obviously had better luck than I did choosing that particular mate.

But I was young when I married him and besides, who knows what's going tohappen in the future. I put up with it for as long as I could for the sake of the kids but finally just decided to get a lawyer, figure out a strategy to get him to pay his fair share of the child support and back it up in the divorce agreement and go on with my life. I had a career at that point and was sadder but wiser. He married later (as did I) and has made her life miserable and she wound up supporting him. Some people never change.

That's life, I guess

[Ikonoklast]

24. Ann Romney Haas had that her entire life, and her husband was never a president.

Bet that didn't bother you one bit.

[Ikonoklast]

26. Really.

Enjoy your stay.