Via Newsbusters

Here was the headline New York Magazine just ran, about the current First Lady at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony:

MICHELLE OBAMA WORE CLOTHES TO LIGHT THE CHRISTMAS TREE

Here’s a screen grab of the post because we’re sure they’ll scrub it:

We can only assume two things:

(1) The current First Lady intended to perform her duties at the ceremony nude, so wearing clothes was a news-worthy change.

(2) The bar has been set so low in terms of competence, decorum, and expectations that managing to wear clothes when going out in public is considered an accomplishment for her. 

In either event, this makes us realize something that’s escaped us to this point:  while the “outfits” Mrs. Utopia parades around in, from giant Playschool wrestling belts to furniture upholstery dresses, range from ridiculous to vulgar, at LEAST she’s wearing clothes.  Things could, thus, be much, much worse in terms of what she wears out in public. 

On this Saturday, please join us in thanks for small blessings.

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UPDATE:  And of course, as some of you have noted, this being a festive Christmas event the First Lady, naturally, wore a somber and dour all-black funereal attire — less joyous and celebratory than the giant bow, holiday present-inspired frock she wore to Ted Kennedy’s funeral this summer.  The same FLOTUS who revels in mixing orange and blue and purple and yellow in color wheel collisions apparently has a problem with red and green, worn completely appropriately, at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.  

Now, we do know the current FLOTUS doesn’t select her own clothes, and that an elaborate White House “outfit” selection process is in place that decides what dreadful thing she’ll leave the house in that day.  White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers leaves one of the gates open each morning and the first person to wander into the mansion and up to the FLOTUS’s wardrobe gets to pick the color scheme and spirit of the day’s ensemble.  The proximity of a school for the blind so close to the White House explains much of what the FLOTUS wears, as students get lost on their way to class and end up selecting Jason Wu and Narcisso Rodriguez for the FLOTUS at a greater rate than sighted people would.  There’s no explanation for why Mrs. Utopia wore funereal black to a holiday lighting, other than a group of raccoons might have gotten passed Rogers again, and raccoons, being somber by nature, would have evidently selected something like this for her to wear.