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A Law Professor Really Doesn’t See the Distinction?

The author of the popular (and — when it’s not political – often pithy and interesting) Instapundit website, Glenn Reynolds, is a law professor.  Shouldn’t he see the distinction here?

Reynolds notes:  ”MICHAEL BARONE: Is the Washington Post trying to ‘Macaca’ Bob McDonnell?”

And then asks: “But doesn’t this make Michelle Obama’s college thesis a proper subject for debate too? And weren’t we told that was silly?” 

Well,  maybe.  But not really.  Sure the spouse of someone running for public office is going to be considered in terms of the overall picture.  But it is not the spouse that is actually running for office. Big difference between the candidate themselves (aka Bob McDonnel, candidate) and the spouse of a candidate (aka, Michelle Obama.)

It just seems that things that the candidate him or herself wrote, is somehow a tad bit more relevant than things that the candidate’s spouse wrote.  True?

One other perhaps not so minor distinction that either Reynolds also doesn’t know about, or overlooks. Michelle Obama was like 21 years old  (give or take a year or so) and a senior in the end of teen years college experience, still shaping her beliefs, when she wrote her thesis.

Bob McDonnell was Thirty – Four.

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