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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:39 AM Nov 2020

Jill Biden, Joe's chief protector, stepping up as first lady

By LAURIE KELLMAN
38 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — She’s fended off protesters who made a run at her husband. She’s moved him farther from reporters during the coronavirus pandemic. She’s supported his presidential ambitions again and again — except in 2004, when she deployed a novel messaging technique to keep Joe Biden from running.

“No,” Jill Biden, then clad in a bikini, wrote in Sharpie across her stomach and then marched through a strategy session in which advisers were trying to talk her husband into challenging Republican President George W. Bush.

Protecting Joe stands out among Jill Biden’s many roles over their 43-year marriage, as her husband’s career moved him from the Senate to the presidential campaign trail and the White House as President Barack Obama’s vice president. She’s a wife, mother, grandmother and educator with a doctoral degree — as well as a noted prankster.

Now, with her husband on the brink of becoming the 46th president, Jill Biden is about to become first lady and put her own stamp on a position that traditionally is viewed as a model of American womanhood — whether that means hewing to old ways or finding new, activist ones, in the manner of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, for example.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-coronavirus-pandemic-campaigns-george-w-bush-d99158c327066f8a14aa8d2489435507

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Jill Biden, Joe's chief protector, stepping up as first lady (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2020 OP
Back to CLASS versus CRASS. ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2020 #1
Yepper spot on................ turbinetree Nov 2020 #2
A well-educated woman vlyons Nov 2020 #3
I am really looking forward to FLOTUS Jill Biden pandr32 Nov 2020 #4
"viewed as a model of American womanhood" That is a harsh grouping of words to swallow even in the LizBeth Nov 2020 #5

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,468 posts)
1. Back to CLASS versus CRASS.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:43 AM
Nov 2020

Jill Biden will bring back the focus of being the FLOTUS. Not hiding in the shadows.

First on the list. .Restore COLOR back to Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
3. A well-educated woman
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:06 PM
Nov 2020

What a great role model for young girls and women to strive for higher education and to have a meaningful and rewarding career.

LizBeth

(9,946 posts)
5. "viewed as a model of American womanhood" That is a harsh grouping of words to swallow even in the
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:31 PM
Nov 2020

best of ways.

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