First Lady Michelle Obama takes a toboggan ride after visiting the Great Wall of China with Malia and Sasha. March 23, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
Posted on 03/23/2014 3:36:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Just one day after taking issue with China’s “Great Firewall” of media restrictions, Michelle Obama on Sunday pulled a fast one on photographers hoping to capture something more than the predictable shot of her strolling with daughters along the Great Wall of China.
With daughters Malia and Sasha in tow, Obama and her handlers managed to distract U.S. and Chinese journalists while she and her daughters exited the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall via the touristy toboggan that races visitors from the wall’s heights. No news photographers memorialized the moment.
It was a brilliant fake-out by a publicity-weary presidential spouse, who seems to yearn for fun moments that won’t be accompanied by hundreds of camera clicks. Reporters thought she would descend on a gondola from the Great Wall, the same way she’d gone up and the journalists had gone down.
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First Lady Michelle Obama takes a toboggan ride after visiting the Great Wall of China with Malia and Sasha. March 23, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
Stay classy, Moochelle.
I’m glad you had fun, Wookie. Not many of the oppressed Chinese people get to have a lot of it.
Geez, thanks, I just can’t get enough news about the lovely First Lady!/ Barf
Lord, who writes this tripe?
Of course they all went down, so they could
manage to take her pic at the bottom. Feh.
Chewchelle has been sliding by on her race & sex for a lifetime, so why not?
They seem to have a version of these in Japan at public parks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3V3NMpcBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT60Rtrw4fA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwxXPFGh7W4
I guess that rather large black man behind her is a Local
There 20 more just around the corner behind him.
No news photographers memorialized the moment.
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Looks like someone “memorialized” this auspicious occasion with a photograph.
Ummm, I didn't realize she was wearing blue too! LOL
Ah gosh, she’s so spunky and crafty..!
And yeah, that BOTHERSOME press, huh? So HOSTILE to the Obamas, right?
FINALLY a little rest from the CRITICISM by the US press, whew...!
Is that her Secret Service boyfriend behind her?
Mooch has a boyfriend? Shut up! LOL!
Too bad someone didn’t throw them off the wall.
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