Posted on 08/21/2009 5:39:44 AM PDT by VU4G10
There's been a big fuss this week because Michelle Obama wore shorts. She's worn shorts before - to walk the dog, do stuff around the White House. But the photos of her wearing them in that iconic descending-from-Air-Force-One-onto-the-tarmac setting proved too much for the media. Obamas? Check. Summer news doldrums? Check. Controversy? Close enough. It was a story.
And people reacted. The Today Show's poll on whether she should have shown that much thigh got one of the show's biggest responses ever, with 83% pro-shorts. Local papers found "experts" to discuss the implications of the shorts for the Obama White House, international papers analyzed what it said about American culture, the blogosphere took up every angle from what this said about the objectification of women to the taxonomy of the shorts: Hot pants? Cutoffs? Booty Shorts? (See pictures of Michelle Obama's style evolution.)
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The real issue is that while on vacation she looked like an unmade bed in a Motel 6, like somebody's cleaning lady waiting for a bus after a long day, like the third lead in a high school "Les Miserables" production.....hardly like the First Lady of a noble country.
We have to get used to it because it's all by design. Her garb is her way of identifying herself publicly with the proletariat, the downtrodden and the unwashed masses for whom all good socialists bleed.
Nor will her Islamic-trained husband consistently allow her to take the spotlight from his cooly-understated, impeccably co-ordinated, perfectly-tailored apparel when they appear together in public....a la Jackie Kennedy.
Who ever looked at Jack when they were out together?
Leni
No one would care if the media hadn’t made such a stink over how “fashionable” and “beautiful” MO looks. She is a fashion disaster. I don’t recall any article saying she was wearing short shorts. The left is just pi**ed that she is being criticized for looking like crap.
I agree! I think she typically dresses in a clasless manner, and is disrespectful of the office her husband holds; but his complete, and total disrespect for the Constitution is far more galling, to me.
And I have never EVER seen a picture of her showing respect or gratefulness to ANY of the men who hold open the car doors for her, open doors for her, stand at attention when she aims her ugly body for the AF1 stairway, coming or going. These men PROTECT her and her little girls and yet SHE cannot summon the grace to be grateful and kind and acknowledge their efforts. What a pig.
Her arrogance, her 'let them eat cake' attitude is as repulsive as her mind. ("for the first time in my adult life I am proud to be an American. " what bullshit.
BTW-has BARACK communist Uhbama EVER shown gratitude or saluted the military that watch his arrogant, creepy back at all times, standing at attention when he aims his arrogant countenance for the AF1 stairs, coming or going?
I'm telling ya, this picture just breaks my heart.
Given the class of this administration, they will probably paint the photo of her bending over at the Grand Canyon (and creating one of her own) on black velvet and use that...
I think you meant genteel, not Gentile.
Once a tramp always a tramp.
You nailed it! I think she really meant it when she said that she was not proud of this country. I think she still thinks that way. Nothing is good enough for her. She thinks she deserves better, whatever that is.
ping
The Grand Canyon?
Kind of like being smart in school is so WHITE.
Linebacker legs.
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