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• Tuesday, June 9, 2009 08:18 AM

  What a relief!

  I, for one, am happy with a perfect first family. Aside from all the obvious stuff, I was really sick of the dry drunk with the daddy problem, his enabling wife, and their sorority brats-turned-Stepford-Wives (also heading for a lush life, I'm sure).

  Sorry, I don't think the Obama girls, on the other hand, are going to come home with tattoos and piercings. They seem too well-adjusted. I know the area well where they were brought up and the kind of people who live there, and you know what? There are a lot of people there like the Obamas. When you live in a city, in a neighborhood where there's a major research university and a lot of Section 8 housing and everything in between, you have to be well-adjusted.

  And when I was about six, Amy Carter was my hero for bringing a book to a state dinner. (Maybe that's the problem the lipstick feminists have with her.) And in retrospect she really was a cute kid, and the Carters were, actually, nearly close to perfect themselves, as families go. Character is everything, and they had it in spades.

  I guess the dark undercurrent of all this is that, well, their public perfection has to be airtight...like Jackie Robinson's. Jesus, you should have seen the crazies crawl out from under a rock over at the Washington Post in response to a Robyn Givhan article on Michelle Obama's staffing changes. If there's no visible flaw, those people have to make s--t up.

  Oh, wait, they're here too. I'm not sure why Michelle would be jealous of any other world leader's wife. That would suppose that statesmanship was like high school. I suppose if you never got much farther than that, you might think it was.

  —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters
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