Posted on 10/02/2015 4:46:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
First Lady Michelle Obama has got a tough life. On Stephen Colbert Tuesday, she purported to long for the simple things in life--and vowed to enjoy them--as soon as her husband’s Presidential term expires. These things included such pedestrian activities like shopping and driving with the windows down. To wit:
“I also wanna do little things like, you know, open a window. I wanna go to Target. I wanna drive. I can’t open my windows. I really can’t [...] One day as a treat my lead agent let me have the windows open on the way open to Camp David, it was like five minutes out and he was like ‘the window’s open, enjoy it.’”
Isn’t that sweet? The wife of the leader of the free world wants to just open the windows, feel the breeze blow through her hair, and appreciate the little blessings in life. Isn’t it tragic that her position as FLOTUS prevents her from such travesties? I mean, on the way to Camp David, a fortified bastille--it’s purpose among other things, to keep the President’s family safe; our country’s Secret Service agents protecting her--she’s still just longs to open the windows. Queen Elsa’s frozen fate is nothing compared to Mrs. Obama’s, but like Elsa she too is quarantined, protected, and the cold (air) doesn’t bother her anyway.
Living a Fantasy, Selling Reality
It’s fun playing dress-up--who doesn’t love a fairytale? In this case, Mrs. Obama has lived a darn- close narrative of a Disney movie, complete with enemies and whining, a dashing prince, and warm fuzzies at the finish. The problem is Mrs. Obama likes to pretend like she’s not living a fairytale. She likes to go out in the real world (television), pretend to be a “woman of the people” and want the same things they want, when she’s lived a narrative that couldn’t be more different.
Sure, she’s one-half of a dynamic duo whose job is to steer the greatest country ever through economic recessions, complicated foreign policies. and terrorist threats, foreign and domestic. As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t want her job--or her husband’s--in a million years, for any amount of money. But she has had a few legs up, ones many people would call fortunate.
After attending Princeton, she attended Harvard law school and she proceeded to work at one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, Sidley Austin, where she met Barack Obama. Her children attend Sidwell Friends, a prestigious, expensive private school. As is customary and expected of the First Lady’s position, she attends many events, ceremonies and parties on our country’s behalf. She does so with style--opting for custom-made Vera Wang and Jason Wu.
That’s all well and good--though some might say excessive--but does that sound like a woman who longs to shop at Target above all else?
Playing the Victim, Being the Hero
Despite living the high-life, pressures notwithstanding, Mrs. Obama continues to use her public speaking opportunities--whether at colleges or on television--to pretend some kind of a victim, as if that will make her more relatable. As she said while speaking to graduates at Tuskegee University in Alabama, “[O]ver the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited ‘a little bit of uppity-ism.’ Another noted that I was one of my husband’s ‘cronies of color.’ Cable news once charmingly referred to me as ‘Obama’s Baby Mama.’”
Really? She has a collegiate audience captive to her thoughts for half an hour and she tells them a story of victimhood? I’m so sorry you poor, sad, educated world traveler. How was your summer vacation in Italy that cost taxpayers upwards of $600,000? I hoped you packed Kleenex and wiped them from your cheeks before they dripped into the Gelato you ate while journaling the sob stories you collected there.
Colbert asked Obama another interesting question, referencing the letter Mrs. Bush left President Obama when the Bushes exited the White House: "Without naming names, if we have a female president next, would you leave a letter for her husband? What would you say? What's the thing he needs to know more than anything else about the job?" Mrs. Obama replied, "I would say, follow your passion, just be you."
Can you handle the precious, mushy goodness? Just be you. Of course. But wait: Is Mrs. Obama the person who wants to shop at Target? Or the person who currently has, at her disposal, a personal chef, Vera Wang dresses made for her, $11,000 date nights in New York City and Secret Service agents surrounding her 24/7? Not to mention, to critics who will claim this is just her current job, she’s not actually all that highfalutin, the J.D., and the private schools, and the career at Sidley Austin to fall back on when her White House years are over.
Something tells me driving with the windows down to shop the $1 at Target is far from the life she claims to want to live, but a tale spun to help constituents like her more. What’s worse than Queen Elsa’s happy ending with Elsa happy and kingdom safe? A Queen who continues to suffuse a facade that she’s trapped in an ice castle and only longs to be free. Mrs. Obama needs to get over herself and she needs to let it go.
Marie Antoinette established a small fake farm
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Old blurry eyes thought that was a “small snake farm”
on the grounds of Versailles ...
...Washington has been more than good to her...
shes kind of a tall gal for that ??
And we want you to leave .... please leave the silver and furnishings when you leave!
There is certainly some reason for suspicion as to gender:
She actually looks ok in the picture posted, but I can’t imagine how much money and effort was spent in trying to get her just to that level!
She is a dumpy, grumpy, arrogant, entitled witch, and no amount of makeup can hide that.
:) Thanks for a moment of relief amongst all the present turmoil!
Oh puleeeeeze, stuff it Kobe beef Michelle
Thanks for the way back machine to when FR was still fun and not run by PC mods that love Apple spam but delete anything making fun of the Wookie.
From Catholicbook: Truth or fiction?:
Michael Robinson number 44 above was a football tackle in 1982 at Oregon State. Obama and Michael in 2000-01 went to Rabat, Morocco American Embassy & adopted two girls. In January 1983 he went to John Hopkins to get treatments to become a female Michelle Obama. He then transferred to Princeton University to avoid confronting his former teammates at Oregon State. Adopted Natasha (Russian name) & Malia. Nickname of Natasha is Sasha which is also a Russian name. Obama educated in Moscow USSR as a communist.
Russia succeeded in getting a Russian plant into the White House. A member of the Russian Academy of Sciences stated in 1992. “America will fall in love with Barack Obama and he will make easier the triumph of communism.”
While I do not have a lot of doubt about the Wookie sex change and the adoptions, there is a slight problem with what I quoted in that communism was becoming defunct as a world player in Russia at the time. So the statement they supposedly "made" would be curious, at the least.
But then, I am not a historian.
She’s too stupid to put her bags in the damned cart!
That picture, sans the Katrina guy (please delete him), is a REAL picture when they went to the girl’s school!!! LOOK at her....OMG!
Please add the dog walking pic of her in madras shorts....HYSTERICAL!
Please add the dog walking pic of her in madras shorts....HYSTERICAL!
She’s too stupid to put her bags in the damned cart!
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