Odd Couple

There's something going on:

Here’s what she said, according to a transcript:

But I feel like it's time for me to make some big-girl decisions about my life and to own it fully, right? Because if not now, when? What am I waiting for? What am I going to spend the next twenty years, you know, because, look, the, you know, the summers are—we're in summer countdown at sixty one, right? It's not so tragic, you know, if something happens to you and you're eighty, right? […] And that's the thing that we, as women, I think, we struggle with, like disappointing people. Yeah, you know, I mean, so much so that this year people were, you know, they couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself. That they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing, you know? That this couldn't be a grown woman just making a set of decisions herself, right? Right. But that's what, that's what society does to us. We start actually finally, like, going, what am I? What am I doing? You know, what am I doing this for? And if it doesn't fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.

Instead of a simple "Barack and I are not getting divorced" statement, we got philosophical musings about being a "grown woman making decisions," and she turned the issue into some female empowerment nonsense. She talked about asking herself "hard questions" about "who do I truly want to be every day?" These aren't exactly the words of someone shooting down separation rumors—she sounds more like Hillary Clinton talking about her marriage with Bill.

All is not well in the house of Barack...