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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You can take a woman out of the 'hood but you can't take the 'hood out of the woman. She is an "in your face" radical racist flaunting her "power" in the face of whitey and their traditions of good taste and decorum.
Ugh...at least Zero had the sense to dress appropriately.
A sundress or capri pants would have been SO much more appropriate. Sasquatch just looks like she’s heading out to pull weeds in the White House garden!
But did we expect anything else? LOL!
Typical tourist look.
and that just about sets the tone for what the Obamas think of protocol. Its like they think they are running some third world craphole as their personal kingdom.
You do not get off AF1 dressed like you are going to aunt esthers jambalaya bbq. Its just not done.
Spellchecker broke ?? LOL....
Well some people here have been obsessed with this picture instead of health care also. I say, "Leave the wife and kids alone, concentrate on the President's policies".
Michelle can wear a nightgown on the beach and I don't care. Obama wants me to have end-of-life counseling starting in 3 years, I care.
This is our country’s “representative”. I care what her appearance looks like. Mrs. Obama - you’re no Laura Bush!
I think when they take the office of “choke-I can’t say it- White House, they need to take classes on what it means AND how they are expected to act. Some people are born into grace and others have to be taught Manners, Etiquette and Grace.
She probably has no problem wearing this to church also.
Tower, GHETTO ONE has landed.
Camel Toe.
I keep hearing rumors that NFL coaches are thinking about drafting her to try out as middle line backers.
They could have found something attractive and cool for her to wear. Something is not right in their marriage, or her.
its the “i won” so i dont give a shit now mentality.
In the words of Rudy from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: “She’s like a school in the summertime. No class!”
I intensely dislike the Obamas but you what is even more amazing?
They don’t care. They don’t care what people think about them. They don’t care about public perception and opinion.
Machete Machelle could give a hoot about making a nice impression as First Lady. She isn’t known for her graciousness or kindness because she’s been silenced by her husbands people due to her big mouth and even bigger ego;especially thinking being FL as “job” and wanting a salary. She doesn’t care about being gracious,dressing with taste or style or even trying to act with decorum (lets her emotions show on her face all the time—— can’t smile to smile)Setting a table with mis-matched WH china for an important WH dinner is her idea of a statement and that statement is: I’m here, I’m in your face, I’m going to do what I want , when I want and I don’t give a rats a$$ what you or anyone else thinks.
.......and people criticized the Oakbluff community when those black elitists called machelle “ghetto”!
Oakbluffs was right
amazing the double standard, the dems harped on about Sarah wearing fancy clothes for her VP campaign and now here they have their first lady looking like she’s off to collect her welfare cheque.
Daddy, who dug that big hole?
Well, honey, I don’t think anyone dug it. I think Allah...
Momma jumps in:
Honey, the white man made the black slaves do that so they could take a vacation to look at it. That’s what Revrun Wright told me.
I am with you. Makes us look like teenage girls in the bathroom. Petty children looking for anything to boost their egos.
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