Posted on 06/13/2012 5:06:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Michelle Obama has joined the social media photo-sharing website Pinterest. On Wednesday morning she pinned 12 images on the service, grouped in three categories: “Around the White House,” “Great Memories,” and “Father’s Day.” Or rather, she pinned eight of the images, and the Obama reelection campaign put up the rest. The Obama 2012 staff is going to run the site with Mrs. Obama’s input. Her personal pins will be signed with her initials, “mo.”
Some of the pictures are standard publicity fare. There is Mrs. Obama winning a tug-of-war with talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, while a portrait of George Washington looks on. There's Mrs. Obama digging up what appear to be peppers from the White House garden. There’s the Obama family’s official 2011 portrait.
But there is also some stuff that might come under the heading of pretty personal blasts-from-the-past. There’s a photo from 1992 of the future first lady hugging the future president, her eyes on the camera, his staring off... somewhere. So young, they look. In the Father’s Day category there’s a rare shot of the couple kissing, and a miniature-golf action shot.
What’s Mrs. Obama doing, joining Pinterest now? Keeping up with Ann Romney, for one thing. Mrs. Romney has been on the site for a while, and has a nice, homey pinboard that’s heavy on recipes (Meat loaf cake? What’s that?), flag shots, and family photos....
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I work with predominately women. Just about every one of them are on Pinterest during work. They post the stuff from there on to their Facebook pages.
Wildly popular site with women and it would behoove the Romney campaign to get on there.
I do Pinterest to escape politics. ;) I don’t want to see either Obama or Romney there.
Gees they don’t even know what they are talking about! Peppers are picked! Who but MO digs up peppers? One of the cooks probably told her where they had buried them for a joke and she actually went out in the WH garden and dug them up! LOL
The article makes it sound like Mrs. Romney is already there and Mrs. Obama is merely aping her.
It’s all scripted by Axlegrease and Pfluffy.
It worked great in 08.
This time, as the Baraqqi Depression grinds on, not so much.
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