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From the right to bare arms to the right to bare legs: Michelle Obama caught short over her shorts
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 08/20/2009 10:07:27 AM PDT by traumer

There's a lot of important issues facing America at the moment.

The biggest issue, judging by the amount of noise, is the fact the First Lady made the un-president-ed step of wearing shorts on vacations.

However, no-one seems to be making practical suggestions for what Michelle Obama should have worn on a hike through the hot, dusty Grand Canyon. Short trip: Michelle steps off the plane, protected by some formally-clad, and presumably baking, guards

In an outcry which (almost) overshadows the the debate over the U.S. healthcare system, critics came out en masse to condemn Michelle's choice of clothing.

A search for 'Michelle Obama shorts' became one of Google New's hot topics, with various headlines proclaiming the shorts to be 'hideous'.

However, there were many voices ready to defend the First Lady.

One commentator for the LA Times wrote: 'Think about this for a minute. What should she have worn to the Grand Canyon? A tweed pantsuit? A ballgown? What do you wear on your summer vacation?

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhovacation; cash4clunker; classlessbaglady; fashion; flotusmichelle; ugly
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1 posted on 08/20/2009 10:07:27 AM PDT by traumer
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2 posted on 08/20/2009 10:08:21 AM PDT by traumer
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not bad...expected far worse.


3 posted on 08/20/2009 10:09:39 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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To: traumer; GOP_Lady

What, no cardigan?


4 posted on 08/20/2009 10:10:01 AM PDT by green pastures
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Rules do not apply this time.

No pictures.

Subject is guilty.

5 posted on 08/20/2009 10:10:32 AM PDT by ryan71 (We out number them so lets act like it)
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We may not shop at Wal-Mart, but we look like we could.....


6 posted on 08/20/2009 10:11:10 AM PDT by nascarnation
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She looks fine. It’s summer.


7 posted on 08/20/2009 10:11:11 AM PDT by Poser (Three Weeks to Washington DC!)
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More change you won’t believe. You would never see Hillary dressing like this, or Laura Bush, or Barbara Bush, or Nancy Reagan, or Roslyn Carter. These people are the trashiest people to ever inhabit the White House.


8 posted on 08/20/2009 10:11:19 AM PDT by cblue55
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I agree. I’ve seen her in hideous. So hideous it makes you wish you could scrub your eyes out with a brillo pad.

There’s nothing wrong with this outfit. It’s just everyday clothes and she should stick to this type of thing and quit trying to be high-fashion.


9 posted on 08/20/2009 10:11:42 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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Laura Bush came to Oregon to go rafting, no shorts


10 posted on 08/20/2009 10:11:56 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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How hard is this?

She should have worn long pants. Just simple slacks. Perhaps a top that doesn’t look as wrinkled and ratty as the one she has on, but the top is not that important.

As First Lady, Michelle Obama owes it to the rest of us to represent some class.

Instead, she got off that plane looking like she’d just come in from working in the garden.

There’s a place for tacky, and it isn’t in front of the cameras.

I think she’s just ignorant.


11 posted on 08/20/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT by Jedidah ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana)
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:)


12 posted on 08/20/2009 10:12:14 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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The Ghetto-ization of America proceeds apace.


13 posted on 08/20/2009 10:12:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro (America's awkward stage: too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards)
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Next she’ll show up in a thong at the beach.

She is no “lady” so expect more common “bro looks” for garb. Michele has no class or style. Now we see her for what she is - very common and unsophisticated. She needs to look in a mirror.


14 posted on 08/20/2009 10:12:29 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: ryan71; tx_eggman

bah... you just KNOW these British tabloids are going to be snippy, since they feel their PM was dissed... /s


15 posted on 08/20/2009 10:12:58 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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She needs to look in a mirror.

She's not the only one................

16 posted on 08/20/2009 10:13:32 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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It boils down to one thing. “NO CLASS” There’s a limit that is acceptable. Can you imagine the Queen of England in a bikini? It’s hard to put into words but this is unacceptable.


17 posted on 08/20/2009 10:14:49 AM PDT by RC2
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There’s shorts, and then there’s shorts. Those are kinda ugly and a little short. She looks sloppy.


18 posted on 08/20/2009 10:15:21 AM PDT by visualops (this tagline has been reported to -redacted-)
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To: traumer

Twenty Seven people to look like that?


19 posted on 08/20/2009 10:15:56 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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I can't get excited about this. I wear shorts in my personal time just about all summer. I can't imagine doing the Grand Canyon in something more formal.

That said, these are photo ops. If Zero weren't a naif he would understand that. Get off the plane in dressy casual wear and have a place to change into the shorts before hiking. This is politics/P.R. 101 for crisakes.

20 posted on 08/20/2009 10:17:15 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Watch out, I'm a member of the Mob)
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