Posted on 10/15/2009 9:16:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Michelle Obama spoke of dancing and volunteering at the Freedom Tower today
Michelle Obama confirmed Thursday what many in Miami already knew.
The Chicago two-step has nothing on the Miami salsa. First Lady Obama, who spoke today at the Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala held in the Freedom Tower, revealed to the world that she might be in the market for a new dance partner not named Barack.
"I want to thank someone I got to party with on Tuesday," said Obama as she gave a shout out to Miami-Dade president Eduardo Padron. "I think you exaggerate when you said we could win any salsa competition. I might be able to, but I don't know about the president."
The comment made Padron chuckle (and do we detect a hint of blush), but he had to be thinking about the presidential shout out possibly leading to a cameo on Dancing With the Stars.
Still, Padron was smart enough not to toss his name in the hat as Barack's salsa successor and gave the president some props.
"I was truly amazed how well President Obama and Mrs. Obama can dance salsa," Padron told the Miami Herald. "They do it so well they could win any salsa contest here in Miami.''
Padron attended a Hispanic Heritage Month event in DC with the first couple and got to see the famous Obama boogie first hand, and like any White House guest, had to say he was impressed. The salsa veteran even dropped a couple of pointers.
After debating dance skills, Michelle Obama spent the rest of her 20-minute speech talking about inspiring young people to volunteer for something more than the tanning bed.
"How do we harness all that energy and excitement'," she said, challenging the students in the room to make volunteering a career and not just a one-time thing. And if that doesn't work, you could always take up salsa.
How many nights have they spent in the White House ?
The fewer the better.
I got to party with??? She sure desecrates the English language. What a street urchin she really is. Nothing to do with her skin color...she is just plain "common" and happened to have a chance at a good education. For which, by the way, she hates America. But somehow she must have missed learning English. I have read some of her recent speeches. They are full of grammatical errors.
Anyway, I hope that dance floor was well built. And if Michelle ever appears on Dancing with the Stars...oh my, what a sight that would be. She would be better suited for that program for the hefty ones who try to dance off their weight.
“Make volunteering a career!”
How does one do that? Let me guess - it has to do with ME holding a real job, and social justice?!
After holding a $300K do-nothing job because of her name, it’s about as easy for Moosechelle to tell others to volunteer as it is for multimillionaire NFL players to claim they would turn down a paycheck from Rush. “We got ours, suckaahs!”
well we know Wednesday is party night.
Is this a reference to white girls? Sounds like a racist comment to me.
It is very hard to get liberal out of shag.
We need a white kid yelling “that’s racist” like that one of the black kid..
Not an image I want in my mind........
Barf
The tanning bed comment puzzled me as well....odd.
How does one do that?
Networking!
The first career move would be to Chicago. Then, work yourself into community organizing and onto various hand-out boards.
It would help if your grandfather had been friends for decades with a mutual friend with the corrupt Chicago crowd running local government.
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