Yawn… if she’d worn cheap shoes you’d be whining that she doesn’t have any class.

benny shakar on May 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM

Actually no one would have mentioned it at all.

She is the type that would never consider the stupidity, arrogance and the tackyness of wearing expensive, designer clothes to a food bank. Why, because it is all about her and her and her and look at me I’m doing a good deed! It is all about her don’t you know!

I have a friend that way. She showed up to a moving party for a mutual friend dressed in a skin tight, short, black party dress wearing high heels so she would get noticed (her boyfriend at the time was none too happy!). She relishes the title of “Drama Queen” bestowed on her as it has the word “Queen” in it.

It is Clinton holding up traffic at LAX for hours while he got haircut on board Air Force One by some high-priced barber-to-the-stars.

It is Obama using his nomination as the Democratic presidential nominee to define that moment as the time “…our planet begins to heal.”

It is being full of yourself, plain and simple.

1) money cannot buy a sense of fashion or style.

2) liberalism is awash in hypocrisy.

These sneakers – suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps – are made by French design house Lanvin, one of fashion’s hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions,

They sound absolutely hideous. I can’t be bothered to look.

seejanemom, I will miss you, I have liked your posts in past, I can also sympathize with the 0bama Derrangement Syndrome, my husband of late has been looking at me as if I’ve grown a second head.
So where will you go? I mean this question honestly. Hot Air is my bubble of choice. I should branch out more, but I don’t really have the time to read all of HA, much less a bunch of other sites.

The PMS rager will pass in a few hours.

;)

And truthfully, HA is becoming a bit passive for me, anyway, what with all the pissing and moaning about CAPS over content. What a bunch of wussies.

This board was REAL fun a few years back. For the most part (with SOME company excepted) all that come here anymore are the soft serve, mealy mouthed RINOS.

The REAL firebrands have moved on to different sites that we find a better fit. AND WE HAVE REAL FUN OVER THERE!

I should listen to those who have permanently moved on and never be tempted to return here to suffer the pathetic seminar thread trolls that have slipped in under WHAT USED TO BE A VERY TIGHT VELVET ROPE.

I am CERTAIN I won’t be missed. Flame on, lame-tards.

If she wears one more harlequin-patterned sweater, I’m going to scream and AP will be able to hear all the way to NYC!
She must have bought every color of harlequin sweater J.Crew had–and they are hideous.

Jenfidel on May 1, 2009 at 6:04 PM

Sounds like she might be thinking of moonlighting as some Marvel or DC comics villain.

Is this named after MO?

thevastlane on May 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM

Ugly sweater!

And I really hate some of the nasty comments about her looks. Looks you’re born with, but those shoes never had to see the light of day, yuck!

thevastlane on May 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM

Generally, in the past, those of us on the political right have kept our comments about the physical traits of politicians and their wives to ourselves, then Obama and his queen came along. Now we have all gotten so sick of hearing how gorgeous and “Jackie O” that Michelle is, when it just is not true. She is okay looking, but certainly not what the media has hyped her to be. I guess what makes us just want to put her down is her snooty, high and mighty attitude.

If I could give her some fashion advice, (and I, as a fairly stylish business woman, pride myself on my frugal, good fashion sense), I would say “Michelle, buy yourself a classy suit”, it sure would be better use of that $540.00!!!

Buy Danish on May 1, 2009 at 9:08 PM

Sorry, I disappeared, the band my son is in played tonight. No I didn’t get the neocon thing either. Must be some inner-vibe she’s getting. Which I am going to say pretty much accounts for her whole attitude. I’m just putting down as comic relief.

$540 dollar shoes at a food bank is like wearing a tube top to church a sweater to greet the Queen, anyway. Just plain wrong.

Moesart on May 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM

FIFY

And LASTLY, your NEOCON roots are showing by dismissing the screaming fact that her shoes DON’T SPEAK VOLUMES ABOUT WHO SHE THINKS SHE IS and who she thinks WE ARE.

***PMS RAGE OVER***

seejanemom on May 1, 2009 at 7:01 PM

Buy Danish is right, seejane: being a NeoCon has doing to do with the subject at hand (Neo-Conservatism is the advocacy of muscular American foreign policy.)
The only thing these expensive Lanvin bling shoes speaks volumes to is MO’s feeling of inferiority and her overcompensation because of it to “lord it over” the rest of us.
Also, as I keep stressing, she’s not even trying to buy American–Sketchers, Keds, Sperry Topsiders or even Crocs would have been much better.
(She was dressed too casually for a weekday, even for food bank work!
She is the FLOTUS, after all–as much as I hate it.)

For others its golf clubs (me). Let’s get faked outraged about stuff that matters.
dakine on May 1, 2009 at 9:52 PM

I can totally relate to the golf clubs thingy.

Meanwhile, I just realized I misread a comment earlier:

And LASTLY, your NEOCON roots are showing by dismissing the screaming fact that her shoes DON’T SPEAK VOLUMES ABOUT WHO SHE THINKS SHE IS and who she thinks WE ARE.

If her shoes do not speak volumes…, then I have no clue what the point of that comment is, or previous ones by the same commenter – with or without the neocon part.

I request, nay demand, a bit of politically calculated fake outrage in response.

A subtle, Olbermannesque rewrite of the Daily News clip…

While her fascist minions brutally herded those recently dispossessed of their wealth, lands, and dignity by the confiscatory dictates of her husband and his cabal of sycophants for yet another of her grotesque propagandist spectacles, the First Lady, patronizing as only she can, sported her usual ensemble whenever she attempts to “reach out” to those deigned beneath her station, a J.Crew cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a betrayal of her contemptible, diseased, übermensch mindset : trainers that go for $540.

That’s right: These sneakers – with suede made of the living flesh stripped from as yet born calves, partially ripped from the wombs of their mothers so as the material many retain its maximum suppleness, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps – are manufactured by child slave labor under the control of the fashion division of ruthless French mega corporation d Lanvin, one of Fascism’s hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions, to suit the unique fashion sense of those who derive sadistic pleasure from crushing the hopes and dreams of others under foot, and have been a brisk seller all spring…

“They’re shoes,” the First Lady’s goon squad leeringly replied to a suddenly meek, apologetic reporter that inquired about the fancy footwear. There were no further questions as the reporter was summarily escorted away, her muffled screams no longer heard, undoubtedly to join the ranks of the disappeared…

emphasizing the contrast between McCain and the heroically modest Democratic candidate who owns but four pairs of shoes.

Lemme see…if each of Chicago Jesus’ four pair of shoes cost $500, that makes $2000. Just for shoes. I don’t know that I’ve spent $2000 on all the shoes I’ve owned in my whole life.

Look, I don’t really care how much Michelle Obama paid for her shoes. I’m not a big “shoe” person, but I know that some women are. The thing is, when you’re volunteering at a food bank, it’s just a tad insensitive to go there wearing more on your feet than some of the people you’re serving will have to spend on food and shelter for an entire month. This just points up how clueless and superficial these people are. It’s sad, really.

Who cares how much anybody spends on anything. C’mon, really. All of us have certain items we spend goofy money on. For some it’s shoes. For others its golf clubs (me). Let’s get faked outraged about stuff that matters. More evidence that the far left = the far right.

The Obamas exhibit an attitude of entitlement that simply rubs me the wrong way. Their behavior is as tacky as that of the nouvea riche.

Double standards of the media? You betcha!

Cindy Munford on May 1, 2009 at 8:52 PM

Overwrought is a good description.

Did you understand the charge that I am a neocon? I am still struggling to understand what being a neocon (or not!) has to do with Michelle’s shoes.

sneaky splurge

Indeed. Where is the sacrifice?

$540 dollar shoes at a food bank is like wearing a tube top to church, anyway. Just plain wrong.

Buy Danish on May 1, 2009 at 8:23 PM

I had missed the original post until I saw your reply, which was very good. Seems a tad overwrought about the sneakers. I’m just saying.