Melania Trump: From Small-Town Slovenia to Doorstep of White House

[elleng]

SEVNICA, Slovenia — On days when Melanija Knavs could not play outside or grew tired of knitting her navy blue sweaters, she and her friends would exchange notes along the lines of yarn they strung between their apartment block balconies.

In clear handwriting, Melanija mused about the boys of her dreams.

She could not have seen what was coming. Melanija Knavs is now Melania Trump, and she is one election away from being the first foreign-born first lady since Louisa Adams. She is to address millions of Americans on Monday night in a televised speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

But interviews with her former classmates, friends of her family and others who knew them during her youth in Slovenia suggest that her transformation owes less to chance than to the Knavs family’s determination to seize openings and avoid getting stuck.'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/melania-trump-slovenia.html?

[MFM008]

1. She will never

Pass this threshold .

[elleng]

2. Likely not, I hope,

but I found the story interesting, a 'window' onto a part of Europe. AND daughter/father relations.

[840high]

3. Thanks. Interesting.

[elleng]

4. You're welcome, 840high.

I thought so too.

[MichiganVote]

5. Uh huh, with a bare ass and a rug in between. Sorry, won't fly-ever.

[840high]

6. Why pick on husbands/wives?

[MichiganVote]

7. Running for public office entitles the public to weigh in on all records and choices.

Melania Trump's choices were fully visible and have been for years. THAT'S the standard of decorum we now need in a country full of strife?? Given the distinguished history of 1st ladies and the body of work they have the power to do for the benefit of Americans-she will never meet that bar. Ever.

[840high]

8. Then I guess you won't mind

when they go after Bill?

[MichiganVote]

9. I think that's been done friend. And guess what?

The only people who give a shit have had an axe to grind with the Clinton's forever. Your axe is pretty dull if you surmise I or others have been living under a rock somewhere unaware that Bill Clinton had sex with a young woman who surely should have known better than to bag her boss.

Despite his wrong headed choices, which I also found disappointing and beneath the office of the presidency-Bill Clinton has been involved in public life forever. He and Hillary Clinton have supported a myriad of bills and other interventions to support Americans in multiple public roles. Unlike the Trump charlatans, Bill and Hilary Clinton have done much to support women and children in the US. The Trumpsters have done nothing. Ever.

Sorry you can't see the difference.

Its a waste of my time to continue a dialogue with someone who can't. Bye.

[Aristus]

10. On the tour, maybe...

n/t