White House ex-aide: First Lady Michelle Obama has turned East Wing into 'worst wing'
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lady-slammed-superficial-rigid-article-1.1734034Playing the role of First Lady has squelched Michelle Obama’s spirit, and she’s turned the East Wing into the “worst wing,†a former White House aide claims.
The First Lady’s office has become a “confining, frustrating, even miserable place to work,†according to Reid Cherlin, a former West Wing assistant press secretary, who provided a rare account of the inner workings of the East Wing department in an essay for The New Republic.
Cherlin, who worked for the Obamas from 2007 to 2011 but has since become a writer, dished about the First Lady’s high expectations and staffers’ sense that everything has to be just right.
Talk about a toxic environment.
