Although I am a huge fan of Obama’s style of leadership, respect and open-mindedness, I have to admit something. The one I’m secretly obsessed with is his wife. I mean, c’mon folks… look at her! And look at them. Are they not the cutest couple in the world? Watch the way they interact and talk about each other and compare that to John and Cindy McCain. Ms. McCain looks like she just stepped off the store front of Ann Taylor and is using her arms for the first time when waving to a crowd. She seems lifeless and devoid of personality and opinion; that is when she’s not calling this campaign the dirtiest campaign ever. 

Hey Cindy- don’t you remember when your husband tried running for President in 2000 and George Bush’s team spread rumors that your adopted child was actually half-black and born out of an affair? Please tell me how this campaign is dirtier than that. 

Anyway, Cindy McCain is the antithesis of who Obama is trying to represent: the working person and middle class. She’s had a business and millions handed to her, she has more houses and cars than she knows what to do with, and she slings around words without understanding what she’s saying. She recently said that Obama voting against funding our troops put a shiver down her spine and with her having two kids in the military, she would love for Obama to walk in her shoes and then see about his decision. 

(Good thing it wasn’t her husband who voted to put them there in the first place… oh wait…). When reading an article about this, people were making comments like “I’d love to walk in her shoes too! I can’t even imagine how many she owns.” And didn’t she start fooling around with McCain while he was still married, leaving his other wife for her? I’m just saying. 

Now compare her with Michelle Obama. A woman who also came from little means and worked as hard as she could to get in the best schools possible. A woman who is extremely intelligent, who repeatedly says she’s Barack’s biggest critic and tells him when he needs to get in shape, who puts her role as a mother as top priority, and has the best fashion sense of a first lady since Jackie O. She really is the second-coming of Jackie O. But to be honest, and this may be a generational difference, I think she’s way hotter. Not only is she physically beautiful, but her ability to speak her mind, her balance of fairness and kindness, and her perseverance to make the most of her life is so attractive.

When I see Barack and Michelle interact, I truly believe they love each other. Not in a “this is my trophy wife” kind of way, but as a true partnership… exactly what marriage should be. They are each other’s central support system and their fist pounds are adorable.

My only criticism of my secret lover is that I know she’s biting her tongue at times and I wish she would let the guard down every now and then. But if you asked me if I preferred my fiancee taking the high road and talking about how she respects the McCains versus making lines about John McCain not caring about her daughters because he voted against alternative energy spending? 

I think Sarah Palin would join me in saying “you betcha.”