The five living first ladies were on hand for the dedication of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, all lined up on stage looking like the Spice Girls. Viva forever!

Yesterday, Family Circle announced that First Lady and Princeton-educated attorney Michelle Obama's white and dark chip cookie recipe roundly defeated challenger and stay-at-home mom Ann Romney's M&M's cookie recipe. And while it's tempting to joke about the metrics of stay-at-home mom success versus lawyer success,…

After Hilary Rosen called Ann Romney — and I'm paraphrasing here — a shiftless layabout who luxuriates on a pallet of silk pillows and divides her days between torpid contemplation of her life of leisure and QVC, people got upset. Some people (stay-at-home moms) were legitimately annoyed that Rosen seemed so dismissive …

Amid the paroxysm of gasping that gripped the nation this week when Michelle Obama told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King that she's not "some angry black woman," political pundits may have lost some historical perspective. Exhibit A: their breathless discussion of the ‘salacious' details in Jodi Kantor's recently…

There's more to the newly released tapes of Jacqueline Kennedy than her disdain for Martin Luther King Jr. The young widow of the tapes also voices some unfavorable opinions towards several women in public life, many of whom had a different view of a woman's role than she did at the time.

Few in their right minds truly want to be first lady, or go through the increasingly circus-like process of trying to become one. Politico, and the breed of horse-race, minutiae-driven reporting it represents, hasn't make this any easier, and now here it is recognizing the newly frank reluctance of some prospective…

At first we looked at Callista Gingrich, profiled in Politico today, and saw Cindy McCain. Monochrome-blonde wives of Republican presidential hopefuls who ditched their previous spouse(s)? Sure! But upon further inspection, Gingrich's countenance really resembles someone — something? — else.

[Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, January 8: A man gives advice to French first lady Carla Bruni, who's in town with her husband Nicky. The couple are en route to Washington D.C. to meet with President Barack Obama. Image via AP.]

According to Carla Bruni, when she asked Michelle Obama what it was like being first lady, she responded, "Don't ask! It's hell. I can't stand it!" Alert Fox News: swap anti-Mobama meme from "Marie Antoinette" to the already-familiar "insufficiently grateful."

Good news: Germans no longer have to hide their heads in shame, for now they have their very own scandalous, gorgeous political wife. Carla Bruni - and Michelle Obama - best watch out.