"I finally get to feel proud of my country and they pick on me"...."did my lobsters arrive from Maine yet?"
Posted on 08/12/2010 3:38:47 AM PDT by maggief
When images of Jean Paul Gaultier-clad First Lady Michelle Obama on a $75,000-a-day Spanish holiday hit the wires, controversy was bound to erupt back home. Her carefully crafted image as "everywoman" was blown.
In addition to the high cost, the evolving justifications for the trip offered by the White House's flack were just as dizzying.
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That's why the Marie Antoinette comparison is apt: The trip evokes a similar contempt for the plebeians.
We might expect such detachment from celebrities, but not public servants. A leader shouldn't be living like a monarch when the rest of the country feels like paupers. At least Antoinette was being candid about it. Now it's the First Lady's turn.
"I think that's what's special about Michelle - she maintains a normal life in an extraordinary time," Jill Biden once said.
More like an extraordinary lifestyle in abnormal times.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
"Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums."
Their roots are in the Weather Underground.
Keep that in mind at all times.
Winnie Mandela comes to mind.
Does anyone that that both the O’s would ‘necklace’ their opponents if they could.
During the campaign she bragged about shopping at Target. That changed with their coronation.
“Don’t even let them eat cake.”
A monumental hypocrisy explains it all.
Ping
"I finally get to feel proud of my country and they pick on me"...."did my lobsters arrive from Maine yet?"
Michelle Obama Po No Mo
And what will everyone think (and say) when she and her husband head to Martha’s Vineyard for a costly 10 day VACATION next week?
imelda marcos.
LLS
Mantoinette
She should take a Mexican holiday and invite all the illegals to join her entourage. It would save paperwork & be less expensive than having ICE trying to round them up.
That it is part of his 49th birthday celebration as a “family”? We need to start of flowchart just for their vacations.
I am SOOOO tired of seeing Obama eating ice cream....
BTW-speaking of boobs-I have started getting my fall “fashion” catalogs and I am sorry to say, but the “boob belt” is making a comeback. Did they slip that into the healthcare bill somewhere and it’s now mandatory? Even the models didn’t look happy...
thanks for ping ma’am. Hope you are well!!!!
NO one with any sort of sense (fashion or otherwise) will wear that thing. ;-)
Ghetto Lotto winners.
Spending our money as fast as they can.
She's a strange woman.
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