Posted on 03/05/2009 4:40:15 AM PST by Zakeet
It’s 7:00 a.m., and the line is already forming outside the Environmental Protection Agency. The attraction? First lady Michelle Obama, who is due to appear before an audience of EPA employees late in the morning – a crowd that would swell to 1,100, the White House said.
One by one, Mrs. Obama is dropping by federal agencies around Washington to give a pep talk and dispense hugs, a gesture that has sent local Obamamania in only one direction: Up.
When asked, workers can barely articulate what it is about Michelle Obama that has drawn them out on a cold morning and away from their desks (with permission, of course) to see the new first lady.
“She’s a star, and I thought it would be fun to see her,” said EPA contract specialist Ross Mill as he waited for last Thursday’s show.
Would he have come over for a past first lady? “Probably not,” he says. “I don’t even know why.”
Despite all the nation’s pressing problems, one bright spot for the Obama administration is the running narrative about the family – Michelle, the girls, the grandma in residence, the soon-to-be adopted dog – Portuguese water dog or Labradoodle? Still no decision.
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Of recent first ladies, going back to Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama has the highest initial favorable ratings. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows her at 49 percent favorable, 5 percent unfavorable, and 44 percent undecided.
One aspect of Obama’s postelection rollout is clear: She is no Hillary Clinton.
(Excerpt) Read more at features.csmonitor.com ...
A week after the inauguration, NPR commentator Juan Williams, speaking on Fox News, called her a potential liability to her husband. “She’s got this Stokely-Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going,” he said, referring to a leader of the 1960s black power movement. Her instinct, he said, was to “blame America.”
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I have never understood the appeal of Michelle. She looks like a horse and when she talks, she does sound like a neo-Black Panther. Which was transformed into the modern day CRIPs.
Is this America’s self-loathing in action, again? Why do we hate ourselves so much?
I don’t include Freepers in the “we.” I don’t think many of us voted for Obama. I certainly did not.
They are kind of reminding me of Ferdand and Emelda Marcos.
For cry’in out loud.
BARF. What a bunch of numbnut sycophants. She’s a star? WTH? And having worked with the EPA, I am not surprised.
Has anyone noticed how before the election most of the headlines on MSN were doom and gloom and how bad Bush was and how nervous the world was.
Now, they literally have headlines about Oprah getting a new puppy.
The MSM needs to be taken down.
They ARE the enemy within.
She has all the grace and star quality of a lame plow horse.
If there is a big line at work, I’d suggest you to head to Dunkin Donuts for a while instead.
Airhead media members love “hip”. Laura Bush wasn’t hip.
This is the vacant pop culture at work.
More Hard-Hitting reporting of “The One” and his wife.
Expect the next impactful segment titled “The Obama’s- Why are they so lovable?” due out as soon as our reporters go change their underpants
That's because they're still keeping her out of sight, for the most part. Her popularity and containment won't last.
Michelle Obama has that angry former hospital administrator mojo working for her...
With the hips to match.
So far she’s been to the Education Dept., the Ag department and now the EPA. And I probably missed a couple.
It’s all a ploy to boost Bambam’s popularity that is sagging more every day.
Sign language for “I love you” {BARF}
How about I didn't feel like working this morning?
She’s such a clod.
some of the crowd bought it- but i thought it was really over the top in the way of pandering, as i knew she was going to a state dinner that evening and can only assume her demeanor and dress would morph accordingly."
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/e/2676/
#1 Definition of "Baby Daddy", from urbandictionary.com:
"Usually a broke ass black man; Who you met through a friend and had sex wit when you was upset and confused. Now you don had his baby and he dont pay child support and denies yo son ray ray. He just my baby daddy"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baby+daddy
CNN transcript:
WOLF BLITZER: We can take a look. Maybe he will and maybe he won't but she looks like she's about to introduce him. Let's listen in.
MICHELLE OBAMA: "My baby’s daddy Barack Obama. Yeah!"
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/02/se.06.html
#1 Definition of "Baby's Daddy", also from urbandictionary.com:
"A guy who is a lousy father, who gots one or more kids with one or more chicks and, thinks he's a pimp. And instead of takin care of the baby he goes out an finds another chick to ****. Until she too becomes just another baby's momma and he moves on. So on and so forth."
girl one: "Who is that?"
girl two: "That's my dumbass baby daddy and his dumb ho"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baby's+daddy
From ABC News...
Marry Your Baby Daddy Day!
One Woman Wants to Bring Marriage Back to the Black Community
"This was not the historical norm. Most black kids were born to married parents until the time when President Johnson promised to end poverty. Perhaps because poor people were offered more government aid, moms had less need for a husband. Some mothers could lose a welfare check if their husband made money. People respond to such incentives, and the out-of-wedlock birthrate has continued to grow across the board, but especially among blacks.
'There is no stigma anymore in the black community about having a child out of wedlock,' said Reid, which led to the creation of Marry Your Baby Daddy Day. For those who don't know, Reid explains that 'a Baby Daddy is simply...an unmarried father. But they've become caricatures in the ghetto.'
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2970103&page=1
YouTube Video: Who that is? That just my baby daddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_xaTbMYUM
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