{"id":2511178,"date":"2025-11-16T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-obama-says-us-not-ready-for-a-woman-to-be-president\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:54:20","slug":"michelle-obama-says-us-not-ready-for-a-woman-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-obama-says-us-not-ready-for-a-woman-to-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama says US &#8216;not ready for a woman&#8217; to be president"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichelle-obama-says-us-not-ready-for-a-woman-to-be-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2511178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former First Lady Michelle obama stated that the united States is not yet ready to elect a woman president,citing sexism as a major factor. Referring to the 2024 presidential election, where Vice President Kamala harris lost to Donald Trump, Obama said the outcome showed the country&#8217;s lack of readiness.Even though there has been speculation about her running for president, she firmly rejected the idea, emphasizing that society still has a long way to go in accepting female leadership. Obama pointed out that many men are uncomfortable being led by women and highlighted ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-democrats-are-not-happy-with-joe-biden-after-his-messy-appearance-on-the-view\/\" title=\"Many Democrats Are Not Happy with Joe Biden After His Messy Appearance on &#039;The View&#039;\">systemic sexism<\/a> in the country. She also spoke about her personal journey toward self-confidence as a woman and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >criticized male politicians<\/a> for not understanding or prioritizing women&#8217;s issues.Additionally, Obama recently launched the Girls Prospect Alliance through the Obama Foundation, aiming to support girls in overcoming educational barriers and fostering future leaders.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Michelle Obama says country &lsquo;not ready for a woman&rsquo; to be president<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2402018\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former&nbsp;first lady&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michelle-obama\/\">Michelle Obama<\/a>&nbsp;said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrities-put-on-a-parade-of-wokeness-at-grammys-proving-they-didnt-learn-their-lesson-in-2024\/\" title=\"Celebrities Put on a Parade of Wokeness at Grammys, Proving They Didn\u2019t Learn Their Lesson in 2024\">country isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t ready to vote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">female president<\/a> into the<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\">&nbsp;Oval Office<\/a>&nbsp;due to sexism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She argued the results of the 2024 presidential election, which former Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump, proved that &ldquo;we ain&rsquo;t ready.&rdquo;&nbsp;And while her name has been floated as a possibility for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnells-betrayal-hurts-the-nation-goodwin\/\" title=\"Mitch McConnell\u2019s betrayal hurts the nation\">future presidential run<\/a>, Obama said, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t even look at me about running.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3882768\/media-shy-melania-trump-spotlight-champion-child-advocacy\/\">Media-shy Melania Trump steps into spotlight to champion child advocacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3888390\/trump-pardons-jan-6-rioter-second-time\/\">Trump pardons Jan 6 rioter for a second time to erase gun charges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3888127\/maga-knives-out-susie-wiles\/\">MAGA goes knives out on White House chief of staff Susie Wiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain&rsquo;t ready,&rdquo; the former first lady&nbsp;said&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qnVS1MlDb8Y\">over the weekend&nbsp;<\/a>during an event&nbsp;at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m like, don&rsquo;t even look at me about running because you all are lying. You&rsquo;re not ready for a woman. You are not,&rdquo; Obama added.&nbsp;&ldquo;You know, we&rsquo;ve got a lot of growing up to do, and there&rsquo;s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not the first time Obama, 60, has waxed about systemic sexism she believes remains threaded into society in the United States.&nbsp;In July, the former first lady said she only recently reached a point in her life where she feels fully secure as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is really the first time in my life where I feel completely me and I can absolutely embrace my wisdom,&rdquo; Obama&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3467339\/michelle-obama-confidence-gender-gap-men-have-it-havent-earned-it\/\">said on the <em>IMO<\/em> podcast&nbsp;<\/a>she co-hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson. &ldquo;We, as women, spend most of our lives saying, &lsquo;Well, maybe I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m talking about.&rsquo; We qualify everything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re always hedging &hellip; because in the back of our minds, we weren&rsquo;t raised with the certainty of maleness,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;That kind of confidence that young men in their 30s have, which they haven&rsquo;t earned. They just have it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As she stumped for Harris on the campaign trail last fall, Obama held further admonition for men, arguing a Trump win would place &ldquo;vulnerable&rdquo; women in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Please do not put our lives in the hands of politicians, mostly men, who have no clue or do not care about what we as women are going through,&rdquo; she said<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3400674\/democratic-party-gender-polarization-machine\/\">&nbsp;in October 2024<\/a>.&nbsp;&ldquo;The only people who have standing to make these decisions are women.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Obama recently<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3846941\/michelle-obama-girls-opportunity-alliance-2-5-million-grassroots-education\/\">&nbsp;launched a coalition&nbsp;<\/a>branded as an effort to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in economically disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These groups are changing the way girls see themselves in their own communities and in our world, helping create the leaders we need for the brighter future we all deserve,&rdquo; she said in October of the new Obama Foundation&rsquo;s Girls Opportunity Alliance. &ldquo;Because when our girls succeed, we all do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3346735\/michelle-obamas-new-imo-podcast-off-to-rocky-start\/\"><strong>MICHELLE OBAMA&rsquo;S NEW IMO PODCAST OFF TO ROCKY START<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama had previously sought to squelch speculation she might run for the office her husband held from 2009 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When people ask me would I ever run, the answer is no,&rdquo; she&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3359332\/michelle-obama-presidential-run-never-gonna-happen\/\">said in March<\/a>. &ldquo;If you ask me that, then you have absolutely no idea the sacrifice that your kids make when your parents are in that role.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama: US &#8216;not ready&#8217; for a female president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2511179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317054035929.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[32618,67171,38767],"class_list":["post-2511178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-michelle-obama","tag-us-presidency","tag-women-in-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317054035929.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511182,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511178\/revisions\/2511182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}