Another attack

[Spexvet]

From here.

In the past it's been almost a tradition for America's first ladies to catch flack from their husbands' political opponents over the size of their staffs, and Michelle Obama certainly hasn't been exempt from that. Criticism of her "massive" staff has popped up on email chains, blogs, and chat rooms.
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there are 16 White House staffers with the term "first lady" in their job title, along with eight additional staffers who also provide support to Michelle Obama, bringing the total number of paid first lady aides to 24
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the Bush White House also had 16 people on staff whose official titles included the term "first lady" working for Laura Bush, and a recent AP story placed her total number of staffers at between 24 and 26

And Nancy Reagan had 32.

Meanwhile

If you're having trouble keeping track of the Republican sex scandals these days, you're not alone.

More about that.

[braheem24]

By DAVID WRIGHT and SUSAN RUCCI

July 10, 2009—

If you're having trouble keeping track of the Republican sex scandals these days, you're not alone.
There's the one that sounds like a seedy romance novel, complete with trips to Argentina. And there's the gritty Las Vegas scandal in which a U.S. senator now admits his parents gave cash gifts to his mistress's entire family.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8049751

2 reporters, numerous editors and they still can't spell "mistress's" properly?