...into the White House conversation about policy. She says that would be her role. Bernie focuses on how to implement policy, steps 1, 2 & 3, and how to make policy workable for all; she is a people person and brings individual people's situations to his attention. She would go out into communities and seek out people whose voices are never heard and make sure that their voices ARE heard in a Sanders administration.
I want this woman as First Lady.
Her great charm, her natural beauty and her genuine sweet smile and smiling eyes aside, she has the heart and soul to make the White House the Peoples' house once again. We own it, after all--theoretically. Congress represents factions of the country. The President represents us all--theoretically--and lives in the home that we provide, the seat of OUR government.
Bring in the voices of the people who are never heard.
We would truly be getting two-for-one. This brilliant woman--full of interest and compassion for the unheard people--would keep the heady, policy wonk Bernie down to earth, with living human beings who are suffering from the thievery and callousness of the Corporate Age (so like the Gilded Age that preceded the Great Depression). His policy would need to satisfy her humanness.
Eleanor Roosevelt served in a similar way as First Lady to FDR. She was more of a leftist than FDR because she was closer to the people. She really did bring the unheard voices into policy discussions, and was quite active in opening up American culture as well--social and artistic. Eleanor was also more hated by the rightwing and the fatcats of that day than FDR was. This was likely partly because she was a lefty, and a vocal one, but might also have had to do with her personality. Hard to tell at this distance, but I wouldn't describe her as warm and charming. Jane won't have that problem. She has all of Eleanor Roosevelt's qualities, and something more--a quite unexpected (in a political wife) and disarming sweetness and sincerity. The rightwing noise machine will have a hard time working up dislike for her.
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