Michelle Obama on 'World's Most Powerful Women' List. Why?

Publius Forum ^ | 10/07/10 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Forbes has published its world's most powerful women list and on that list, in the top slot no less, is Michelle Obama, the wife of the President of the United States of America. Along with Obama a few singers and entertainers made the list. It all goes to prove that apparently no one knows what "powerful" means anymore.

On the most powerful list – after Obama at number one -- Lady Gaga comes in at seventh place, in ninth singer Beyonce Knowles appears, and bringing up the rear is entertainer Ellen DeGeneres. Oprah Winfrey makes it in as number three.

There is no reason that any of these women (well, I'll give you Oprah) belong on a "most powerful women" list -- or a most powerful anybody list, for that matter.

Michelle Obama has no power at all. She was not elected by the people to anything, she holds no office, and has no real responsibilities past tradition. She is but the wife of an elected official. Sure she has the power, such as it is, to waste millions of the taxpayer's money on new decorations and lavish trips abroad, but that is not much to qualify for a "powerful" woman. She controls no corporation, guides no country, and has contributed nothing of great worth to mankind....

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Proof that western society is dumbed down to the point where it doesn't even know what the word "powerful" means!

[humblegunner]

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Why not just post it here?

[SMARTY]

Obviously, ‘powerful’ means big, ugly and loud!!

[SnakeDoctor]

She (presumably) knocks-boots with the most powerful man in the world. That’s a path to power if I’ve ever heard one.

SnakeDoc

[napscoordinator]

Powerful would be either Nancy, Sarah, Hillary if they are talking politics. Michelle is married to the most powerful man in the world (or it used to be that way).

[PghBaldy]

The have power in the entertainment world. Michelle has power if she can influence her husband, or the public’s views about him.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Wasn’t First Lady Hillary Clinton once considered “The Smartest Woman in the World” or some such claptrap?

[GQuagmire]

Wookies are powerful are they not? ;)

[Cheerio]

Probably because she sleeps with the undocumented Kenyan boy king, who is planning on ruling the globe through his One World Govt after he destroys America.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Michelle is Weezie to Obama’s George Jefferson......

[SnakeDoctor]

“Droids don’t rip peoples’ arms out-of-socket when they lose. Wookies are known to do that.”

(I haven’t seen Star Wars in probably 6 or 7 years, but can still quote it from when I was a kid. I knew every syllable of that movie even before I knew what they were actually saying.)

SnakeDoc

[Pan_Yans Wife]

That isn’t much of a claim to fame, if he is truly a Muslim. Muslim men treat their women as concubines, basically. I’m sure he considers that she failed him by not giving him a male heir. He would have named the boy “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.”, instead of having to name the family dog, BO.

[Don Corleone]

bringing up the rear is entertainer Ellen DeGeneres.

The jokes just write themselves

[Parley Baer]

Before you know it she will be up for a Nobel prize of some sort.

[ReneeLynn]

Don’t get too worked up about these lists. I mean, they’re not now deemed as the last word and come with a crown, paycheck or official position. Mo probably won’t even get a sash.

[Tupelo]

The article is about Powerful Women.
Not Accomplished Women.
While Michelle 0bama is very powerful, like her husband she has few accomplishments.

[Liz]

Michelle Obama number one, Oprah Winfrey number three, on 'World's Most Powerful Women' list.

Number one and three on the plane to Copenhagen Olympic Committee meeting but could not get the job done.

"Barack never breaks a sweat? Are you kidding?
Wait'll you see him in that Sedona sweat lodge."

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Obama made a personal appeal to the IOC, to benefit the personal interests of WH Chi/mob Jarett, Axelrod, and the rest.

OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES LINED-UP TO PROFIT FROM THE OLYMPICS This needs to be investigated (but don't hold your breath).

David Axelrod's Chicago PR firm did all the upfront work to prepare Chicago’s losing Olympic bid presentation to the IOC (Axelrod is a top WH aide).

Four of the five co-chairs of Obama’sinaugural committee continue to have unpaid leadership roles in Chicago Olympics 2016: Pat Ryan, the chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016; John Rodgers, treasurer and director of Chicago 2016 (once married to WH social secy Desiree Rodgers who was ousted over the Sahali incident); Bill Daley, former Clinton administration commerce secretary and brother of the Chicago mayor; and Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman and Hyatt hotel heiress who led Obama’s meteoric presidential campaign fundraising.

Pritzker’s family also owns or manages other hotels named by Chicago 2016 as the accommodations for Olympic workers, press and family members.

Ryan and Priztker each contributed $100,000 or more to Chicago Olympics 2016. As did WH Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, an Obama family friend, who also served on the Chicago committee. It still counts Obama confidant and vacation companion Eric Whitaker among its members.

The Obama insider in the WH, Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago slumlord, owns Chicago property she apparently planned to turn into Olympic Villages (she flew to Copenhagen for the losing effort). Jarrett was replaced as Chicago Olympics 2016 vice-chair by Martin Nesbitt, treasurer of Obama’s campaign, and another Obama family insider.

ASK Public Strategies, the Chicago-based corporate public relations company founded by Obama political guru David Axelrod and owned and run by some of Obama’s top presidential campaign consultants, was paid “in the tens of thousands” of dollars by Chicago Olympics 2016 to do “communication management [and] planning,” said former Axelrod partner Eric Sedler, who did not work for Obama's campaign, but was in Copenhagen, along with Pritzker and Jarrett.

“ASK Public Strategies worked on the bid for three years and for 2/3 of that time our work was pro bono,” said Sedler, who would not speculate on whether the company would be in line for more Olympic work if the IOC picked Chicago (duh).

Obama's cronies have too much influence over the office of the President of the United States. They can literally compel him to expend millions of tax-payer dollars on their care and confort. Speaks of a terrible, systemic corruption in the Obama WH.

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So who is holding all that worthless Chicago Olympic property? Slumlord Jarrett and the WH mobsters musta all loaded up on property. Oprah, too.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Maybe they were refering to her prowess in the bench press.

[cld51860]

Didn’t they say the same nonsense about Hillary?