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I don't know about you, but when I paint fixtures with a sloppy broad brush, I make sure to wear my finest, most expensive designer shirts. Just like Michelle Obama.Below are photos of Michelle "Antoinette" Obama wearing a $207.90 t-shirt by Tom Binns and John Eshaya at a National Day of Service and Remembrance event at the Vinson Hall Retirement Community in McLean, Va. on Saturday.I suppose if she got paint on it she can claim it as a charitable deduction. The rich are just different from us.AP photosA woman lucky enough to have a job in the Obama economy...

Very Interesting Facts on Two Very Different Ladies by Donna Carret Ellwanger on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 9:51pm Democrat, Independent, or Republican....the second half of this email should make all of us very sick..... Sarah Palin By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin. The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not...

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — More drenching rain and wind gusts are in the forecast Tuesday for the vacationing President Barack Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfdaDVBDto Sorry not trying to pimp a Taiwanese video but this is interesting from a different Taiwanese viewpoint.

President Barack Obama – and first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha – will spend the weekend in Panama City, Fla., during their first trip together as a family to the Gulf Coast since the oil spill
 disaster, the White House announced Thursday. They are expected to arrive late morning Saturday and will be staying until early afternoon Sunday. While there, Obama Saturday will make a statement about the Gulf recovery effort after he and Michelle Obama will join area small business owners and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for a roundtable discussion on the matter. Obama in June tapped...

WASHINGTON--Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha returned from Spain on Sunday, a vacation at a lavish hotel on the Mediterranean coast that triggered her first controversy since becoming first lady. I'm told she made the trip because she promised one of her closest friends, a longtime Chicago pal who just lost her father, she would spend time with her. (snip) So why did Mrs. Obama go to Spain at this time? She's not tone-deaf politically. What was behind the "mother-daughter" vacation? A White House source told me that Blanchard's father passed away and Mrs. Obama was not able to make the...

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha are having lunch with Spain's king and queen at the royal family's holiday retreat on the resort island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean.

Michelle Obama followed in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles when she paid a visit to Spain's oldest bullring, the Plaza de Toros in Ronda, a picturesque town in the hills above the Costa del Sol. The First Lady, her youngest daughter Sasha, and their group of friends left the Spanish coast and travelled to Ronda for a day of sightseeing accompanied by their vast security escort in a 13 car motorcade. -snip- Meanwhile at the five-star luxury Villa Padierna, where the group have chosen to spend their mini-break, preparations were under way for Marbella's event of the...

It's a tourist destination usually associated with beer-swilling Brits, but U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama is set to holiday with daughter Sasha on Spain's Costa del Sol. Mother and daughter are due to travel to the resort of Marbella in southern Spain next week for a private trip with long-time family friends, the White House announced today. But Barack Obama, who turns 49 on 4 August, will celebrate his birthday home alone while elder daughter Malia, 12, attends summer camp back in the States. The Obamas tour Ghana in 2009 Despite the unusual choice of holiday destination, Mrs Obama, who...

First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement. The nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. In her speech, the first lady focused on the issue of childhood obesity and her "Let's Move" initiative, but outside of her remarks, anti-Tea Party activism has been a key focus of the gathering, which conservative...

"US First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks on the South Lawn of the White House June 4, 2010 in Washington, DC to over 1,000 chefs from across the US recruited to join her anti-obesity campaign and help schools serve healthier, tastier meals."

Have you ever had one of those days? On vacation. Taking care of the kids. Forgetting you will be photographed.

"First lady Michelle Obama (L) balances a rubber ball on her head while working out with local students on the South Lawn of the White House on May 25"

Michelle Obama's stylist hates her. What else explains her wearing this gown for tonight's state dinner for Mexico that accentuates her floppy armpit and other body flab?AFP photo by Paul J. RichardsAn even better (or worse) take on the floppy armpit stylings of our First Lady can be found at this Daily Mail article.

First lady’s plan targets ‘food deserts’posted by Landon Hall May 13th, 2010, 7:42 am No, not food “desserts.” That’s the way I first read it, too. Michelle Obama isn’t trying to take away our pie and ice cream. We’re talking “deserts,” places across America where people don’t have easy access to basic, healthy foods like fresh vegetables. The first lady’s Childhood Obesity Task Force report, released earlier this week, says 23 million people live in low-income urban or rural areas that are more than a mile from a supermarket. As a county somewhere in between urban and rural, O.C. doesn’t...