First Lady's 'rock star' status fails to draw crowds

The London Independent | November 1, 2010 | Guy Adams in Las Vegas

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Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/first-ladys-rock-star-status-fails-to-draw-crowds-2122667.html

[2ndDivisionVet]

Tomorrow can't get here fast enough!

[Nervous Tick]

Rot Star Status

[JennysCool]

Just possibly because she isn't a rock star except to the media.

[SC_Pete]

Take the hill.

[cosmic_me]

That woman is no Rock Star.

[wku man]

Sasquatch/Chewbaca's magic is wearing off. Maybe she could draw a crowd in Spain.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Leo Carpathian]

[Leo Carpathian]

...uhm
Rock, like dumb as a rock?
Whata statuuusss!

[raybbr]

[max americana]

LOL! She’s just a piece of rock.

[mimi from mi]

The crowd went wild when Michelle Obama swept into a high-school gymnasium in Las Vegas yesterday morning, with little Harry Reid trailing in her wake and a local Mariachi band, in full dress uniform, entertaining the crowd. But behind the flag waving and anthem-singing, and the sunny optimism of a typical American election rally, there was a palpable sense of unease.

Two years ago, at the height of Obamania, the First Lady was a sort of rock-star; with a following wind, she could fill an outdoor stadium. Today, her stock has fallen. A few hundred people did turn out to hear her speech, but there were swathes of seats left empty at the back, and plenty of standing room around the stage. Ticker tape was conspicuous by its absence.

[TexasFreeper2009]

wrong marketing... if they had just said a wookie would be making an appearance... thousands of star wars fans would of showed up :P

[marron]

How many articles and how many magazine covers tried to convince the public that she is Jackie Onassis?

If you needed any proof, they proved over and over that the press will say and print whatever they are told to say and print.

[Gator113]

Obama’s First Beast is hardly a rock star. An oddity attraction for the traveling presidential circus, perhaps, but not a rock star.

[JPG]

Free paella and Slurpee's would have brought out more moochers for Moochelle.

[upstanding]

The real title should be “State Media Fails to Engineer Fat Bitch’s Rock Star Status.”

[RnMomof7]

Link

[MamaB]

Are those eyebrows real?

[kabar]

The Senator currently sits between two and four points in the Nevada polls behind Sharron Angle, a former schoolteacher with no national political experience who comes from the extreme right wing of the Republican movement. In a pattern being repeated across America, his centrist brand is being threatened by an unconventional candidate whose quirky – and some say bonkers – right-wingery has been roundly endorsed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.

British left wing slant on the election. Pro poor Harry who they seem to think will win by a few thousand votes.

[nascarnation]

I know the “fabulously toned arms” don’t pull in the crowds like they used to.

Maybe the folks in India will be excited to see MooseChelle?