Posted on 04/03/2015 10:44:41 PM PDT by PROCON
To get a brief reprieve from the pressures of working in the White House, Kristina Schake, a former aide to the first lady, Michelle Obama, took a class about her favorite painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
She noticed that the Italian painter often showed Christ with bare feet, portraying his subject as a common man.
It was a lesson that informed Ms. Schake’s job in the East Wing when, as Mrs. Obama’s communications chief, she encouraged the first lady to take an undercover shopping trip to a Target in suburban Alexandria, Va., to showcase her dance moves on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and to make a cameo at the Oscars.
Positioning a public figure is not exactly the work of a Baroque master, and a trip to Target does not a work of-art make. Nevertheless, the lesson from Caravaggio was clear in Ms. Schake’s approach.
Having helped shape Mrs. Obama’s public image into that of an accessible everywoman, Ms. Schake is about to face what may be her toughest challenge yet: working to get another first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, elected president.
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“She noticed that the Italian painter often showed Christ with bare feet, portraying his subject as a common man.”
Any chance we’ll see Hillary barefoot?
I hope not.
Lipstick on a PIAPS. Bwahahahaha.
If you really are the person you seem to be you don’t need an “image.” Your image is a reflection of the real you. But if you are hiding something horrible under an “image” you need somebody to continually shape the wet clay into an acceptable image. Hillary’s problem is that she really is something horrible. She can never be “herself” or spontaneous because people would shy away in disgust. You can see that she is continually on guard not to let the mask slip. It must be exhausting.
Michele has a reputation of screwing up school children’s lunches, and taking incredible expensive vacations around the world at the taxpayer's expense. How does this match with the “average black woman” next door scenario?
Given what we know now about the Clinton Foundation raking in big bucks
while Hillary was privvy to US ntl security secrets, her well-rehearsed post-Benghazi
performance before Congress is straight out of a Shakespearean playbook.
"Methinks she protesteth too much."
Hillary oughta get the Drama Award for that performance.
You hit it right on. You can just see the anger boiling below the surface of the bi**h.
It’s Hillary’s turn, and a reward for not divorcing Billy Jeff, when he treated her like dirt with his Oval Office sexcapades. If the image makers just stick to these facts, Democrats will go to the polls in droves to elect her.
Our nation may not survive another 8 years of Communists in charge.
This is how pathetic the Democrats have become. Does Scott Walker need an image consultant? Ted Cruz? Rand Paul? But these phonies, sure.
"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."
Well, some team came up with the plan for the last public conference she held. No wonder she’s looking for a new perspective.
“....Christ with bare feet, portraying his subject as a common man.”
So we are to be treated to Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, walking about barefoot?
Herself may no longer be ABLE to move about without stout walking shoes, considering all her other physical and neurological problems.
Herself is very ill, and may not be able to conceal the extent of her infirmities much longer.
There is no reset button for that.
Gonna take a whole lot of lipstick.
Good luck, Mrs. Sisyphus.
How about a Toga,some flowers in her hair and her announcement on the Streets of San Francisco!
...she encouraged the first lady to take an undercover shopping trip to a Target in suburban Alexandria, Va.
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Uh-huh, undercover, yet there were news cameras there. Hmmm....
LOL!
We all know how the First Lady gig worked out and as Senator from NY her major "accomplishment" was voting for the Iraq War. She topped it off by losing the first ambassador in 30 years as SoS. And now she wants to be President?
I pray you Yanks will not be that stupid but ...
Here’s an idea; Have her give a talk in front of a black church. She could cast herself as having gone through her own “civil rights” struggle. Give the whole speech in a fake black accent. She could say stuff like “Ah ain’t no ways taaard”. Then have fried chicken and watermelon for lunch.
“No, those are *not* snakes coming out of her head, she does *not* have cloven hooves, and that is *not* the smell of brimstone you are smelling.
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