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Michelle on The View
I think there’s a difference between being evasive and being disingenuous. All politicians are evasive, but the bad ones are also disingenuous. On The View when Michelle Obama said, regarding her first time being proud of America comment, that she was referring to the political process, not America, she was being evasive for sure, in that she wasn’t answering the real question, but I don’t think she was being disingenuous. In that speech it seems like she was indeed referring to the political process. She was being evasive because an honest answer to the real question could potentially reveal an attitude that would baselessly hurt her husband’s candidacy if not handled well. For sure, a superstar would be neither evasive nor disingenuous and still win the people over, but such is our political process that makes such a person rare.
