Male-Bashing Michelle Obama Says Women Are Smarter

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Mark Melin
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First Lady Michelle Obama played Capitan Obvious today as she weighed in on the battle of the sexes, making a quip that typically might land a male in hot water. “Women are smarter than men,” Obama said as she, former First Lady Laura Bush and moderator Cokie Roberts laughed along with the audience during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. “And the men can’t complain because they are outnumbered today,” she said to an audience of primarily first ladies from across Africa. Michelle Obama draws a sharp distinction between herself and Bush “My name is Michelle Obama and I am an African-American Woman,”…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.