Vogue Profiles Biden Women, Declares Victory For Democrats

Vogue takes a bold political step with its November cover, headlining a feature on the Biden Women "All The Vice President's Women."

The feature, which includes a beautiful spread of four generations of the women in Joe Biden's life (seen below), describes Jill Biden as "remarkable" and is based on the premise that, "If Senator Biden is elected, he'll bring along a close-knit family of strong, independent women."

But while the article includes the conditional "if," the headline, and cover line, treat the Bidens as if the election is a done-deal and Jill has already started picking out the curtains for Number One Observatory Circle (the official Vice Presidential mansion).

A representative for Vogue said of the cover line, "Win or lose, we thought it was a clever coverline that would serve to get people's attention."

The magazine's editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, also used her November editor's letter to talk about the growing presence of women in politics, and to highlight the magazine's previous coverage of political women (including its prescient profile of Sarah Palin in the February issue).

Wintour, who made headlines when she used her February editor's letter to chide Hillary Clinton for refusing to appear in the fashion magazine's pages, praised the New York Senator, calling her a "transcendent figure" and saying "she has made an important intervention in the lives of all American women, not simply with her drive and catalyzing energy but by keeping issues of special concern to us — health care, reproductive rights, education — at the forefront of political thinking."

Wintour further said that she was "frankly stunned" by the Biden women's "loveliness and poise" and described Jill Biden as "beautiful and largely private."

The article can be read online at style.com, or in the November issue, which features Reese Witherspoon on the cover and hits newsstands nationwide on October 21 (New York and LA newsstands October 15).

Below, an image from the Biden spread:

from left: Senator Biden's niece, Missy Owens; her mother, Valerie Biden Owens; Hunter Biden's wife, Kathleen; her daughters Maisy, eight, and Finnegan, ten; Jill Biden and daughter Ashley; Senator Biden's mother, Catherine ("Jean") Finnegan Biden; Kathleen's eldest daughter, Naomi, fourteen; Beau Biden's wife, Hallie; and her daughter, Natalie, four. On Jill Biden: Ralph Lauren Black Label cardigan. Anne Fontaine shirt. Michael Kors trousers. Details, see In This Issue.
Photographed by Arthur Elgort.
Sittings Editor: Tonne Goodman.

And the November cover:

Comments

[ploverinn]

What beautiful, classy families the Obamas and Bidens are. Can be be so lucky to have leadership like this? It's what we deserve after 16 years of dogpatch.

[KarenJW]

Beautiful, classy women.....­.........t­he polar opposite (no pun intended) to the Palins and McCains!

[SUNIISMOM]

What a beautiful family. I guess that's another reason why Joe looks so happy. He is surely blessed. God bless America!!!

[luvronpaul]

Jill is a classy chica

[PaulL2]

The Biden family and the Obama family will bring Camelot back to the White House. Let's hope it lasts for 8 years this time.

[Clairvoyance]

I'm co-signing this! They look wonderfully elegant and confidently poised.

[littlepuffycloud]

Wow...those are some beautiful women! Not that beauty is anything anybody earns, but still..we're talking some very appealing dna there.

[DefeatedAnOfficer]

There is an expression that "You're born with the face you have at 20, but you EARN the face you have at 40." I really believe that an ugly character will eventually corrode even the most beautiful face - just look at how bad Cindy McCain looks at three years YOUNGER than Jill Biden.

The Biden women, all the way up to Mama Biden, have clearly been living right.

[Pupadup4oBama]

I like that expression.
Cindy was very beautiful in her younger years. Her wedding picture she was stunning. It's sad that she feels she has to get nipped and tucked to still be as beautiful and her beautiful blue eyes are cold and vacant.

That Joe Biden is a VERY lucky man to have such women support him.

[ebanks84]

The same way her marriage looks, cold and vacant! Good observations, both of you.

[ebanks84]

That is so nice and true. He is blessed to have such love around him.

[lovelybeautiful]

They look like a nice crowd of people. I'm sure they're much wealthier than me, but I get the vibe that they would be the kinds of people who would smile and be very polite to you at the grocery store, no matter how dirty your clothes were or how unkempt/sw­eaty/tired­/ruffled you looked, or if you're still in your fast food workers' uniform after a long day.

Not like alot of the fussy, uppity, types (most of the south Mississippians who call themselves Republicans) who turn their noses up at those of us who rent our homes and live paycheck to paycheck while working fulltime and going to school fulltime, just glad to make the bills.

I could be completely wrong, who knows? They may be the fussy and uppity type who completely ignore people like me in public, after all...but to me, they look like smart, kind, and caring souls. Happy Irish Catholics! :)

I agree with PaulL2 above, the Obama/Biden families will definitely bring the classy Camelot look back to the White House.

[mom2sons]

Classy and pretty, all of them! VOTE OBAMA-BIDEN 08! Today is payday. Have to donate another $25.

[Gardinia]

Now that what I call traditional American family. Educated, down to earth , close net and one can look up to. Move over joe six pack and unwed teen.

[gadfly55]

A very pleasant family portrait of middle-class, reasonable and sensible women with whom mainstream Americans can identify without a second glance. Palin versus Biden, no brainer for the registered women voters.

[zanbama]

Now that is what I call a "breath of FRESH air". Beautiful women fron the inside and out!

[kewps]

If you stood Sarah Palin and Jill Biden in front of me and asked me to pick one-Jill would be the run away choice for me!

[lee4]

And what's the beautiful dog's name?

[DavidK08]

Does a mug shot of Levi count? Because you can't just dismiss Palin. She is the negative to this photo.

[love5pets]

Ain't that the honest truth.

Compare that to Palin's family of commoners - a knocked up teen, who is elevated by the fundies to a high stature, great example and role model for American teens, as if it's mainstream to be 17 and get pregnant, supposedly marrying the father of her child, a roughneck and a high-school drop-out who openly admitted he didn't want kids, but oh look, he is now lookiing forward to having a son, then you have Palin's son, who gets carted off into the militray because he can't do anything else constructive in his life but break the law.

Let's not forget Sarah - the serial winker and empty vessel.

And, of course, there is Tod Palin, the "first dude" "the first gentlemen" - barf!

Kinda makes you proud to be an American.

[ebanks84]

Ain't that the truth. The glow of her children doesn't even come out because of their mother's meanness and nasty aura.

[DavidK08]

That answers the question of what to put above the fire place.