Under the headline Obama Divorce
Bombshell!, the National Enquirer claims their 21-year marriage has
dissolved in a string of ugly fights that were prompted by the Mandela
memorial incident and — far more outrageously — Mrs Obama’s discovery
that Secret Service bodyguards had been covering up infidelity on her
husband’s part.
It’s an
allegation the White House has declined to comment on, though after Bill
Clinton’s trouser-dropping scandals, Americans would be rather less
sanguine about any extra-marital activity than the French appear to be
over President Francois Hollande’s behaviour.
Mrs
Obama, the Enquirer claims, intends to stand by her husband until his
presidency is over, at which time he will move back to Hawaii, where he
grew up, and she will stay in Washington with their children. Continue...
For the moment, they are allegedly
sleeping in separate bedrooms after Mr Obama’s attempt to ‘mend fences’
backfired so badly on a recent Christmas getaway to Hawaii that he
returned to Washington with their two daughters, leaving his wife
behind.
The
National Enquirer, it must be said, quoted only anonymous insiders in
support of these sensational claims, and is hardly the most reliable
source of hard news.
Obama advisers are certainly not talking as if there is any scandal in the offing.
The
couple are ‘role models for parents all across the country’, according
to old friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett. ‘She’s at the top of her
game. She’s fabulous at 50.’
Washington’s media has ignored the story.
But
everyone remembers how the Enquirer famously got it right when it
claimed the supposedly squeaky clean Democrat presidential contender
John Edwards had fathered a love child by a former campaign worker.
Thin
as its story may seem at the moment, might it be on to something again?
At least it was right on one point — Mrs
Obama did remain in Hawaii. The White House quickly offered an
explanation, saying the extended stay had been a birthday present from
her husband.
‘If you have
kids, you know that telling your spouse they can spend a week away from
home is actually a big present,’ said his spokesman.
Before
returning home on Wednesday, Mrs Obama holed up for more than a week at
TV star Oprah Winfrey’s spectacular 12-bedroom house on a mountainside
estate on Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian islands.
Their
girls-only get-together was joined by Oprah’s close friend, the TV
presenter Gayle King, White House aide Valerie Jarrett and Sharon
Malone, wife of the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Oprah
has described the estate as a place where she and guests sit on the
porch sipping guava cocktails, and ride horses to the top of the
mountain to watch the sun go down.
Why would anyone rush back to chilly Washington from such an idyll?
Culled from UK Daily Mail
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