Video: Is Michelle Obama the coolest First Lady evah?
posted at 10:44 am on February 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
Deep thoughts from CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight,” keying off Mrs. O’s new fashionplate status. Which gives me the perfect excuse to link Byron York’s piece in today’s Examiner wondering what the White House social secretary’s doing attending Donna Karan shows while The One assures us the economy’s disintegrating.
I asked [a White House aide] whether the first lady considered Rogers’ hitting the fashion shows a little frivolous, given the seriousness of our times. “I think you’re assigning a value judgment to the fashion industry,” I was told. “She doesn’t think it is frivolous at all.”
I talked to two former White House social secretaries, one Democrat and one Republican. “I don’t really understand where fashion ties in with the social secretary’s job,” the Republican told me, “because the only fashion she needs to worry about is her own, and she has to make sure she does not eclipse the first lady…
As millions of Americans worry about losing their jobs, the first lady is celebrated on the cover of Wintour’s magazine, Vogue, where it is suggested that her “ardent championing of new names in American design” has caused some to call her the “new Jackie Kennedy.”
Why not Nancy Reagan? Mrs. Reagan’s husband also took office amid an inherited economic crisis, and she quickly became the subject of sometimes bitter criticism for her fondness for high fashion — for “exercising her opulent tastes in an economy that is inflicting hardship on so many,” in the words of a 1981 New York Times article.
Exit question: If First Lady Cindy McCain’s secretary was seen scouting out Vera Wang haute couture while Maverick announced a $3 trillion budget, that’d all be part of her “cool” too, no?
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Wow, and to think that the stereotype of the GOP of the 21st century is that you’re all a bunch of angry, racist losers that live in trailers. Good job dispelling that one!
Actually, I sold the trailer for a kickin’ clapboard cabin, complete with rusted appliances littering the yard and a hog pen.
There is a two level outhouse, the bottom level is for the guests. Visit anytime.
Bishop on February 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM
You have no issuess when Liberals call for Bush’s death while he’s PotUS, you have no issues with calling Laura a idiot dolting school teacher… No issues calling Palin horrible things, but then you come here and try to forget all that and claim the moral high ground about as woman who hates America, never been proud and not real fond of white folks…
Take it elsewhere…
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Dude, I just got nitrous installed in my Z28. Let’s cruise to some REO Speedwagon.
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM
No.
Lawrence on February 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I’d say she’s the most elite first lady we’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t expect her to go around in raggedy jeans and crocs, but she could be a little more sensitive to the state of our economy. If she wanted to be a class act she could still wear the haughty clothes, but do it in a factory discussing lost jobs, not gracing the cover of an elite magazine that most middle class Americans can’t even afford to buy, not to mention the products they advertise in it.
scalleywag on February 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Conservative, actually. Just happens that, on most issues, I side with the Republicans. =)
Course, even after the Feds beat the crap out of the Cardies, they still took the initiative to help them rebuild. Remarkable how that’s a theme, even in a series about the 24th (and a half!) century.
ScaryBiscuits on February 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM
My only direct post about the First Lady… I see no profanity, not racial slur… I was defending others, not my own remarks… But I just slapped you back into place, you got schooled and beaten by facts… Might want to read what I wrote…
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Seriously nauseated now.
Blech.
paustin110 on February 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Ive heard libs insulting Barbara Bush. That is classless too.
The point is…the MSM is fawning all over her, it is sickening and it is sickening that the first lady’s secretary is there and on our dime!
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Are we allowed to say The Empress has no clothes?
Ok, that was a really bad mistake to make this early in the day.
wccawa on February 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM
And who’s on a conservative website calling Iraqis nothing and stereotyping people who aren’t in perfect lockstep with your own beliefs as “angry, racist losers”? Which one of us has a problem with projection, I wonder?
FYI – which one of us speaks Hebrew and smatterings of Arabic, dances the tango and the salsa, goes to the opera and symphony, and watches foreign films? yeah, I suspect the one you just called a “angry racist loser that lives in a trailer.” (by the by, it’s who, unless of course, you’re saying conservatives aren’t human beings)
mjk on February 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM
^^^^^ Above answer to your idiot remark… I made no such slur or racial comment about the First Lady.
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Sorry…she is no Jackie Kennedy. Jackie-o was classy and she loved her country. Michelle, my belle..not so much.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Try again.
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM
oops..I misunderstood your post. my bad.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a commenter quote himself! I had a feeling there was somethin’ special about this one.
califcon on February 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Why, yes, yes, I believe he did. They are darker complexioned, you know, so it may be classic lib bigotry that popped out in a rare moment of truth.
a capella on February 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Oh, look, I was right.
Um, can we keep it to complaining about her politics and corruption, and not make up things about her looks.
Count to 10 on February 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Given that the slobberers in the MSM get all leg-tingly for anything Obambi, you’d expect them to rave about Michelle. She’s a classeless, bitter crone, and it’s got nothing to do with the way she dresses, although she doesn’t seem to me to have much taste in clothes, either.
TeeDee on February 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
So cool that she has the same effect on me as jumping into the ocean off Maine.
dmann on February 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Spending too much money on rags and accouterments is what’s so not fashionable and tacky in this picture. One word for Michelle and her personal shopper: Ebay.
RepubChica on February 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Michelle Obama is ..well… not very pretty. As far as “cool” well, I think old Barbara Bush was much cooler. I don’t consider out-spoken elitest Harvard educated lawyers as cool no matter who they are.
ObamatheMessiah on February 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Count me in as one of the 5%. I definitely have an unfavorable opinion of our first lady. I guess you could say that “I have never really been proud of Michelle Obama.”
libertylady on February 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM
No, because they did it for 8 years and we want our turn.
/ODS
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM
The truth is that you don’t listen to your political opponents. Instead you prefer to like to think of Palin as trailer trash for the simple reason that her political views differ from your own. If she were a democrat soccer mom, you’d love her.
And what do you have against people living in trailers? I thought liberals were concerned about the little guy. Truth is their not. Your all elitists.
Anger is never justified? I’m sure you never got angry when Booosh spoke on TV. Yeah, never.
Please demonstrate a racist comment that was spoken on this thread. You can’t but that doesn’t matter. It’s way easier to throw accusations and confirm in your mind what you already believe.
As far as dispelling the myth? It’s impossible to convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced otherwise.
shick on February 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM
You probably hate Romulans, too.
wccawa on February 27, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Not as much as I hate Cardassians.
ScaryBiscuits on February 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Bigot! you must be a Republican.
neuquenguy on February 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Naww the Alliance are the real baddies
Opps wrong universe but somehow more Appropo
LincolntheHun on February 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Wow, foreign films! Both the folks at Netflix and I are VERY impressed! Oh and yawn on speaking an effectively dead language. I took 4 years of Latin in high school and hardly count that as some kind of great accomplishment.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM
And what word did you fill in?
“lover” fits…
:)
Look back friend, that post was addressed to Allah for again adiding and comforting the enemy of America… Somehow he feels, as do you I guess, that we must fight fire with spitballs… While on another post you want ot go to a rally and talking about oiling your guns. (unless that was some sick thing) Ok, now see… that was wrong of me, but funny…
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I think there could be a positive ripple effect on the economy if the WH Social Secretary is hitting the fashion circuit, and clearly Mrs. Obama is smart enough to realize this as well.
Think of the boon for the textile industry — so much more fabric needed to be produced and processed and seamed together to cover the First Lady’s fat ass…
D2Boston on February 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Strong in the bitter, is this one.
wccawa on February 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Bishop on February 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Dude, I just got nitrous installed in my Z28. Let’s cruise to some REO Speedwagon.
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM
And I got the deer rifle for the rack!
LincolntheHun on February 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
What? Is the directed at my statement about making derogatory remarks about the First Lady’s backside? You’re just ranting now. Go back & read. I said just as criticisms of Cindy McCain’s appearance were classless so are many of the comments in this thread. shouldn’t be a debate.
TruUSA on February 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
WTH does that have to do with the price of tea in China? You are expecting me to say Bush was perfect in everything he did? I am not a hopeless partisan and I am not going to try to defend him. However, I will respond to your empty accusations as best as I can. Unlike you I will back up my rhetoric with actual facts and figures.
1. The Iraq war has so far cost $600,512,916,012. The figure comes from a partisan website, but the website is anti-war so they will tend to balloon the figure to support their view. You will notice that it is about 1/2 of what the recent stimulus bill cost. You can certainly blame Bush for the cost of the war, but you cannot blame him for the cost of the stimulus package. That was created by a Democratic run congress with no Republican input.
2. You are right that no WMD were found. I assume you are claiming that Bush lied to the people to gain oil for his corporate buddies or some such nonsense. How could the US have EVER thought that Saddam was in possession of them? Perhaps by looking at history? Since we didn’t find any should the US just pack-up and tell the Iraqi people “Our bad, see ya”. We made the best out of a terrible situation. Hindsight is always 20/20 so blaming Bush for bad intelligence is kind of like blaming your stock broker for losing your money in the stock market. The information we had at the time led us to believe he had them. Do I think we should have invaded him to force him to give them up? Nope, but since I am not the commander the only thing I can do is vote someone else in and complain about it. Which I most assuredly did.
3. the “Where is Osama” argument I am not sure what you are going for. Bush knew, just like Obama knows, generally where Osama is. We can’t go and take him out because he is in Pakistan. Are you suggesting we invade a nuclear armed country whose population is not on great terms with the US and whose central government is not in firm control of the military?
Please respond when you have actual facts to back up your claims, otherwise go away. Sheesh, I feel like I am trying to field questions from naive high school students.
txaggie on February 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
You know what you meant. Trying to dodge just makes it worse.
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:41 AM
If it makes you feel better, I thought Theresa Kerry was a moron too.
Speedwagon82 on February 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM
I’m reacting to the implementation of a bill that would disarm America, that would be passed by congressman and the president.
You’re insulting and taking cheap shots at the president’s wife, who doesn’t have any power over these bills.
It’s the equivalent of getting at a bully by picking on his sister. It’s low, and it’s what the left does. I will not be them.
MadisonConservative on February 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM
heh, I was wondering about that. Jackie will be remembered for her style but I don’t know about substance. Time will tell if Michelle has any of that, I haven’t really seen anything yet that didn’t smack of elitism.
scalleywag on February 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
BRAVO to Byron York for the compare/contrast from The New York Times. Nothing is more a weapon that throwing someone’s works directly back at them.
Marcus on February 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I refuse to talk to you if you refuse to see that my comments were directed to Allah, for his desire to be bigger the HuffPo or the MSM in general. End of story.
I do not want to fight with one hand tied/ If you do, cool, you have your right to your opinion, as does Allah. I was simply stating mine. I refuse to be silenced by PC’ism…
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I had the same attitude when I took Latin. Now I wish I had paid attention.
Don’t you remember the reason for studying the dead language? It was being it’s the foundation for English, Spanish, French, Portuguese. Know Latin and you can get by with the others.
Perhaps your modern world is better than the ancient one. But were standing on the shoulders of giants.
You’re a naricistic fool.
shick on February 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM
txaggie…….when you hit close to home, people like capitulus immediately change the topic. They have a memorized mantra they immediately begin spewing out. It often has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Sometimes it kinda makes ya want to “bitch slap ‘em” in the hope that it will jar the needle to another track of the record….but then I date myself. :o)
Their other tactic, when you’re spot on in criticism, is to reply that “you don’t understand the NUANCE”.
GarandFan on February 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM
you went to high school ???
runner on February 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM
And I got the deer rifle for the rack!
LincolntheHun on February 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Very cool.
Just yesterday I tied a deer skull to the hood of my rusty truck and painted it green to match the camo paint job.
Bishop on February 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Your lack of character is remarkable. Democrat perhaps?
libertylady on February 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Capitulus, what offends us the the Hollywoodization of the White House. All these magazine covers and sucking up pieces about both Obamas sounds like someone talking about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The President and his wife are supposed to be above this kind of crap.
Speedwagon82 on February 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM
They are both elitists. I cant stand that.
btw..Obama is going to speak soon. Let’s watch the DOw plummet.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM
And I’m a misspelling fool.
shick on February 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Wow, now the edukated wing of the GOP is getting testy! Good job showing that you’re different from the crowd that likes to spend weekends watching garishly painted vehicles make left turns.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Capitulus – When I run into Condescending Liberals such as yourself and truUSA, I remember the plaque that was on my High School Latin Teacher’s wall:
By the way, Tru, Cindy MicCain, through her charitable work, has helped a lot of people worldwide, including adpoting a baby with a cleft palatte. Classless? You do not have a clue.
kingsjester on February 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Bishop on February 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Sweet! Bet all the girlies are dying for a ride.
LincolntheHun on February 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM
forget about that… now tell me , what do you think of the first lady’s ugly mug ?
runner on February 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM
If hes so worried about cars running over people…why isnt he mentioning ole Ted Kennedy’s “accident”? He drove drunk(which Mrs. Bush wasnt) and he left that woman to drown to save his fat ass.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
The thing that annoys me the most about Michelle Obama is her damn underbite! Whenever she smiles (closed mouth) it looks like her bottom lip is trying to devour her nose.
Abby Adams on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Are you referring to the charity that she stole from?
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I kinda wonder where or what discussion Allah expected when he posted this thread? What possible political motive, what did he want us to comment on? Just asking… Does anyone really, really think that he didn’t know someone, heck a whole lot of someones, would make comments about her appearence? Maybe we could get a clarification on how this would be precieved by Conservative bloggers… Allah?
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
MicCain = McCain
oops.
kingsjester on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I’m not really into fashion – they don’t make fashionable clothes for fatties like me – but I do have an interest in how public figures present themselves to the world. And Mrs. Obama has a bit to learn about presentation. Also, just because it’s made be a famous designer, does not mean that it’s flattering (both Inaugaration outfits).
It is not the place of the First Lady to be “cool.” I think she’d be much more influential and likable if she dressed less expensively (but not cheaply), and spent some time in a soup kitchen. But that’s totally my opinion of her (and I’m really trying to be nice).
Anna on February 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I know we’re all supposed to think she’s gorgeous and everything, but liberals are saying to themselves what everyone else is…Michelle O is just not that attractive.
Grafted on February 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Hey,
If I had been drinking all week ~non stop~ I’d hit it.
Old Hippie Vet on February 27, 2009 at 11:54 AM
She is rich so why steal from that charity? Where is the link proving such a thing?
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Any other commoners you’d like express your prejudice about your highness?
shick on February 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Well said and exactly why we should be allowed to cut loose a bit as long as it’s not… wait for it… wait for it…
RACIST!!!!
Mark Garnett on February 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Why is it that she reminds me of Eva Peron?
MarkTheGreat on February 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM
I guess they never mentioned it on Fox ‘News’. Rest assured, it’s true.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Is this going to happen every few decades when a young-ish liberal gets elected POTUS and his young-ish wife isn’t wearing grandma clothes yet?
Is she ‘trendier’ than a lot of the other first ladies? Yes – in as much as trends are usually ‘what the young folks are wearing’. I’m sure we can all agree that it’s a good thing when first ladies in their 70′s don’t wear sleeveless dresses and leg-baring skirts. Does this mean that they don’t have a clue about fashion or does it mean that they dress age appropriately?
JadeNYU on February 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM
According to this, she is just high profile shill for these fashion houses. But she forgot to pay the taxes on the freebies.
http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2009/02/has-michelle-obama-been-stiffing-irs.html
History Chaser on February 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Capitulus – I am glad you know how to read Salon, Daily Kos, and HuffingtonPost. I am also glad you’re sinless. So, tell me about this disfigured foreign baby you adopted?
kingsjester on February 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM
forget about Fox news…what do you think of michelle on the cover of Vogue ?
runner on February 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM
fwiw, my wife and kids couldn’t get over that she had no sleeves on in February while we’re wearing sweatshirts and sitting under a blanket watching.
JiangxiDad on February 27, 2009 at 12:01 PM
They should stick to putting models and young pouty-looking actors on the cover of Vogue.
Anna on February 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM
I saw a story on 60 minutes about her. THAT show is on CBS. NOthing mentioned there. Like I said…where is your proof?
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM
that is so BO (before Obama)
runner on February 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Think you’re right. They overplay their hand in everything. Very Orwellian.
RepubChica on February 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM
I have a 30 and a 21 yr old daughter and they arent wearing that. Her clothes are not trendy, nor do they look good.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM
I guess you want me to use The Google for you.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3295472.ece
Happy reading.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 12:06 PM
A capitulus, another insecure young hipster who makes minimum wage because no one is intelligent enough to realize how brilliant he is.
I’m sorry you are lazy and poor, but us unedumacated hicks seem to pay all the taxes for your parasites so we must be doing something right?
Too bad they don’t pay for being a psuedo-intellectual? Let me guess…still in college?
ClassicCon on February 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM
“I aim to misbehave.”
Now, if only I could make the Tea Party this afternoon!
There is enough variation in the new cuts and materials that I think it’s entirely possible to dress “age appropriate” without wearing a waistband at the armpits and SAS shoes.
::sigh::
I sound so shallow. =)
ScaryBiscuits on February 27, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Are big butts back “in” now? I must’ve missed that…
Wyznowski on February 27, 2009 at 12:09 PM
DeathToMediaHacks on February 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Okay…even if we give her “cool” status, remind me again why the hell that even matters?
What is this? The Junior High?
If the only humanitarian work she ever does is helping her own children, who cares how “cool” she ranks in comparison to the more noble First Ladies who have gone before her.
IMHO (which isn’t worth much, I know, I know…), she’s just self-important…sort of like her husband (and later on, her children…who one day we’ll have to deal with in the fawning media and tabloids too…like the Kennedy kids).
bluelightbrigade on February 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM
While it is true, he worded it in such a way to leave the impression that she had stolen money from a charity (akin to Air America and the Boys & Girls Club of NY) which is not the case.
Cindy McCain, like many other people, developed an addiction to prescription pain killers after being on them legitimately for a knee surgery. Through one of her own charities (which would not have existed at all had it not been for her money), she had access to pain killers (it was a medical charity) and she stole the pain killers from the charity. It’s certainly not a good thing, though, it’s a common thing (many doctors with pain killer addictions do the same thing because they are around the drugs and have access and they aren’t strong-willed enough to resist). This is definitely not to say that it’s o.k. for her to steal the pills, but, the implication that the charity was somehow worse off from her being a part of it when it wouldn’t have existed at all without her is stupid. Pill-stealing and all, the world had a net gain from her charitable work which is something that our troll friend would rather ignore.
You probably haven’t heard about it because it was something that happened a long time ago and was a ‘breaking’ story in 1994 when Cindy did a series of interviews about what happened. That’s why most legitimate news agencies didn’t feel it was worth more than a passing mention 14 years later when her husband was the GOP nominee for president.
JadeNYU on February 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Yeah? Clearly you were too busy working to support us libruls to take a look at the electoral map. It’s the blue states that have the education. To continue with your generalization, the red states are the poor welfare states.
Nice try though. Now run along and eat your freedom fries.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM
What? No old cars up on blocks in the front yard?
Blake on February 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM
JadeNYU on February 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Precisely. Excellent post.
Capitulus – Seriously, citing the NY Times? Why don’t you find an objective news source for your story?
kingsjester on February 27, 2009 at 12:13 PM
I like that. We just learned that Obama replaced Jesus at the top of the list of American’s heros, so it is fitting that he would replace him as the person who split history in two.
neuquenguy on February 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM
True (not about the shallow part!). I’m not claiming Barbara Bush should have been a fashion icon. Still, even had she worn trendy old-lady clothes, she still wouldn’t have been a trendy person. She could perhaps have pulled off stylish, but only in that, “Hey! Grandma’s not wearing a shirt with her little dog’s picture on it. That’s pretty stylish…” kind of way.
I think that beyond a certain age, unless you were considered a ‘style icon’ when you were younger, no one will ever consider you a style icon. Even with Jackie O, people continued to talk about how fashionable she was as she got older, but, most of what they referred to were things she did when she was younger and then they’d throw in a pic or two of an older Jackie O that was always reminiscent of something they considered fashionable in a younger JO.
JadeNYU on February 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Mamabama only matters politically in that she holds Ogabe’s gonads in a vice-like grip and tells him what to do. Until she runs for office or does something of real national interest I will happily ignore her as I have ignored those who came before.
SKYFOX on February 27, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Um, it’s the Times of London. Not to be confused with the NY Times or the one run by the Moonies in Washington.
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
forget about freedom fries.. what do you think about mrs. obama buying Vera Wang couture ?
runner on February 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I do believe you that you do not think Latin is a worthy achievement. How could we possibly believe that the works of Cicero are of any use to us today? Cicero was a common man who rose to become Consul and oppose the tyrant Julius Caesar. Whose treatises on friendship and government are still being used today. How could we even think the writing of Erasmus are worth looking at? He only wrote about abuses of power in the institutions of his time, and became one of the primary sources of change for The Enlightenment. And we should completely ignore Thomas Aquinas. He was merely a philosopher who championed truth through reason. These men are certainly not worth knowing since they wrote in Latin.
txaggie on February 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Why would anyone be suprised that the same media who think Obama walks on water decide that his wife is “cool?” IMO this is just a misguided effort to overcome the impression many people have of her – that she’s shrewish.
Normally I don’t care what a First Lady wears as long as she’s not tarting it up or embarrassing the nation. However IMO her style leaves a lot to be desired and those who think she’s “cool” are just trying to pretend she has more taste than it appears she does.
I can understand that it may be difficult for a woman of her height and size to appear stylish but it might be better if they didn’t try so hard.
katiejane on February 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Yes,I thought he meant stealing money. People who have addiction issues do steal pills when they can. No it isnt right, but she got treatment.
Thank you for the post.
becki51758 on February 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM
The Times of London is a shill for the Left.
RepubChica on February 27, 2009 at 12:20 PM
not sure what Michelle’s clothes have to do with WMD and the like, but that butt ugly Klingon Warrior Battle Dress she wore at the
InaugurationI mean Coronation was about the worst thing i a had seen in awhile.UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Really? So all those parade of losers begging for your cult leader to “get themz a home” were really mensa democrats that simply research particle physics as a hobby? To be so brilliant and poor is odd.
Nice try though. Now run along and finish cooking my freedom fries, I have a job that your side wants to tax so I can pay off your student loan that you will surely default on. Sit down kid.
ClassicCon on February 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
So it makes the story about Cindy McCain stealing from her charity to support her drug habit untrue?
It’s kind of like me putting on Fox News and not believing that it is supposed to rain tomorrow because Fox is a shill for the right.
Sheesh….
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Fred Thompson’s wife was only a little younger than Michelle and somehow I don’t remember liberals gushing about her beauty. In fact, all they did was call her a gold digging ho.
Speedwagon82 on February 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Your ‘conservative’ superiority fantasy is quite sad. It’s nice to see that you found a forum where you can sound ‘important’. It can’t be fun logging off and going back to being a zero.
And for the record, I had a scholarship to undergrad and paid off business school 10 years ago.
Also, there’s no shame in working in working at McDonalds or Taco Bell etc. But saying so makes you feel like a real ‘classic’ ‘con’, right?
capitulus on February 27, 2009 at 12:28 PM
I agree with the posters who say that Barbara Bush was the coolest first lady. There is nothing about Michelle that’s attractive, but that’s not the important thing. It’s the inner beauty that seems to be lacking. But cool doesn’t relate to beauty either. So I would say they are two different things. To the young, maybe Michelle is cool.
Rose on February 27, 2009 at 12:28 PM
You don’t understand how it works. Liberals can do that (and what they did to Palin) because they have proven that they are compassionate; free of all prejudice; and fair. Conservatives, on the other hand, are known for their hatred, bigotry and ignorance. You need to consider these facts when judging what is said. It’s not a double standard, it’s just a question of moral authority.
neuquenguy on February 27, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Yeah, it is sad, nothing like fantasizing about raping your own children like you filth on the left. Say hi to Bernie for me in your next correspondence. Crazy thing about my fantasy is that tax receipts prove it to be actual reality.
It is cute how you on the left equate education with spending years at a leftist indoctrination center. Also, considering your love affair with taxes it would appear you did not learn much at “business school”.
ClassicCon on February 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM
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