Echoes of TV’s First Lady-Michelle Obama’s last true cultural antecedent is ‘Cosby’s’ Clair Huxtable

washingtonpost.com via MSNBC ^ | June 19, 2009 | Robin Givhan

[John W]

WASHINGTON - So far, the first lady has chosen to be a food bank volunteer with an outsize entourage and an education activist with the largest soapbox imaginable. But Michelle Obama also fills a role that is not of her choosing but that may, in fact, be the most influential: She serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success and individual style.

And she has done all this on the world stage . . . while being black.

Time and again, observers grasp for adjectives to describe Obama's combination of professional accomplishment and soccer-mom maternalism. It's no wonder so many eye her with awe and disbelief. Or why a minority still view her with suspicion. There have been few broad cultural precedents for what she represents.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Funny why can’t we all be just Americans without the hyphenation? I have to presume they still have a chip on their shoulders and angry at America.

Molon Labe,
NSNR

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Plus the free medical care, food stamps, section 8 housing and special rights & permanent (Victim Status)

This is meant for those whom the tennis shoe fits.

Molon Labe

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Mychelle had the assistance of (HASOP)”help a sistah out program.” Whitey need not apply, you already born with a platinum spoon in your mouth.

Reality At It’s Best,
NSNR

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Since the link at post 14 doesn't work I'll have to go from memory. She kept demanding more responsibility from her firm so they finally gave in and put her on her firms representation of the owners of Barney the Dinosaur. I don't remember all of the story but the results were less than stellar.

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and she was pulled over for driving while black. I was stopped the other day for DDW “driving while white”, because of my extreme paleness, the officer thought my car was being self driven. (Satire)

Gotta Love It,
NSNR

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Sarah is one lovely and distinquished woman in life. I voted for Sarah, not the addled old fool alleged Maverick of Nothing.

Your picture post says a thousand words about character, class, integrity, compassion, beauty, and America’s Hope.

Respectfully,
NSNR

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This isn’t the full original article on this subject but it has most of the info;

http://patriotroom.com/article/michelle-obama-s-law-firm-boss-she-was-an-insufferable-complainer

[trisham]

Thank you. I voted for Sarah, too. It's my hope that she will run for the presidency in 2012.

[BelegStrongbow]

Interestingly, a white woman married to a Democrat governor can get a meaningless job in Academia here in NC. Just ask Mary Easley. Whoops, not now, but there she was, for a while, knocking down $180K for wearing designer suits to NCSU staff meetings.

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[Fast Ed97]

This WP woman was the one who made the horrible comments about Katherine Harris and the John Roberts family.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Amen!! Molon Labe!!!!

Respectfully,
NSNR