Class vs. Crass: A History of the First Ladies
H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated
Former First Lady Grace Coolidge used her fame and position to raise money for the sick, and decorated the White House at Christmas with ornaments that reflected American values and hope for the best in everyone.
Current First Lady Michelle Obama uses every opportunity afforded her to remark on what a “fashion icon” she is, while decorating the White House with iconic, Warholian depictions of Chairman Mao and other global tyrants who hated America.
Class vs. Crass.
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If they weren’t so dangerous, the Obamas would simply bore me. They are so damn, “too cool for school” predictable.
Other first ladies had 1 or 2 attendants. Michele Obama has over 20. Will the Obamas reimburse America for their extravagance?
If this is true, i.e. 20 attendants when the priors had 1 or two, can’t we somehow prove it and expose it? I should think very many would be outraged by this, especially in these times. How can we confirm and expose? Can’t you see FOX having a field day with this?
the woman has no fashion sense or innate style—i guess thats why she needs 20
For a while I’ve been seeing TV commercials of Michelle Obama pleading for help for the Hatians. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
I knew there was something weird about the way she looked and I finally realized that during the entire two or three minutes, Michelle doesn’t blink.
Not once!
Her eyes look almost frightening.
Anyone else notice that?
OMG, thought it was just me. It’s hypnotizing and those white eyes stare right thru the TV screen. It’s the momotone voice that get’s me every time and obvious failure to feel her message
Chrissy, you did a fantastic job on that graphic and makes one sadly remember our past “proud” first ladies and how our whole world changed on that fateful November 08 day. Christmas at the White House with Oprah is their anti-Christ mentality.
A long time ago someone told me to beware of people who look you straight on and you see the whites of their eyes under the iris. I remember being told that these people are angry…very angry and to stay away from them.
Ever since I’ve observed almost every time the criminals have that white space under their eyes. So does MO, and every time I see that commercial of her, I switch the channel. It really creeps me out.
Hi! This white underneath the iris is called ‘ sanpaku.’ Look it up on wikipedia. It is considered to be a sign of physical and spiritual imbalance.
Creepy, no?
I think I found a picture that shows what you are talking about with the whites under her eyes.
http://www.topnews.in/usa/files/Michelle_Obama.jpg
Interesting I googled sanpuka eyes and one of the first articels was about BO having them http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1216986/obamas_sanpaku_eyes.html?cat=25
it says,”While people who have Sanpaku eyes with whites showing along the time are considered to be violent, if the whites are showing along the bottom, as Obama’s are, they are seen to be so fatigued they are unable to function properly. Generally, no one should ever have moments of Sanpaku, but a few here and there can be understood, considering the hectic pace of our society. While Obama keeps his under control most of the time, apparently, he has a serious tendency to become unco-ordinated, accident prone, dependent on stimulants, and over-confident according to the Japanese face-reading considered to be a reliable, accurate way to diagnose a person’s heath and personality”
When they tried to say M.Obama had the fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy O…I knew the press was going down the tubes..Please..she wore my mom’s bedspread to the inaugural ball.
Those MSM talking heads don’t believe for one second that M0 is a fashion icon. If they did, they’d all be copying her by wearing their own Mamie Eisenhower frocks.
I am looking forward to having a First Dude in the White House. What would Todd Palin be putting on the Christmas tree? I should imagine there is more than one person on this website who wouldn’t mind seeing the First Dude dressed up as Santa, coming down their chimney on Christmas Eve. You know what I mean . . . hubba-hubba.
We want Todd to race around the White House lawn on his snow machine…right over that piece of dirt that’s the defunct “White House organic garden” now.
It was very nice of the Utopias, however, to put up that swing set.
Lil’ Trig will be swinging on that in 2013, pushed by his big sis Piper.
If we work hard enough the next two years, it can happen.
Yes Todd would have made a good First Guy. And lately I’m starting to believe Cindy McCain would have made a better president than her husband.
You know, I was less-than-thrilled about a potential President McCain, although I was certainly always voting for him regardless, but I do really think it’s a shame that Cindy McCain couldn’t have been First Lady. She has done so much good charity work around the globe for decades, and has done it under the radar, too. And she certainly always presents herself as a lady, unlike MEchelle.
I thought that was funny when Bill Clinton said he’d be the First Laddie
How about a spending freeze on the FLOTUS’s attendants, who obviously are doing a poor job!
Fire about 15 of them!
And btw, for the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of the FLOTUS.
Over 20 attendants, and look at what we get:
A crassy dud!
Anyone notice BO’s still campaigning ? Hitting “friendly” audiences in key 2012 states (FL,OH,NH..) to give his policy speeches?
Back on topic…I nominate Lady Bird Johnson for “Class” for her American Beautification program. Anyone who drives the interstates and sees wildflowers in the medians, that’s her doing!
Mrs. Obama, with the assistance of top horticulturists, plants a photo-op organic garden in toxic soil then blames the Clintons for the unhealthy dirt.
I love the wildflowers, people have learned to go native wherever they live, so much more interesting than a lawn. http://www.for-wild.org/landscap.htm
Saves on water bills, it is fun and cool.
I love the image of Todd Palin with an axe going out to personally chop down a Christmas tree and the entire Palin family decorating the tree in the East wing, with popcorn and cranberries and wonderful ornaments while listening to Christmas carols as opposed to the Obamas and their…well, never mind. I just hope the when the new conservative family moves into the White House in 2013, they sanitize it and get rid of all that bad energy. Ugh.
Burn some sage. Pour sea salt in every doorway ;]
Is anyone besides me surprised that they actually went through with a tree? I remember thinking “They’ll try and get around it, watch”, b/c I remember reading that they didn’t really celebrate Christmas. I’ll bet some WH advisor had to talk them into it.
Be careful, according to the Peoples Cube, Michelle likes salt:
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=4762
Here’s more info about her staff:
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Servant List and Pay Scale
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C . (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Dir ector of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000)FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE.
Copyright 2009 Canada FreePress.Com
I was going to post that list from Lynn Sweets article. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/06/what-michelle-obamas-staffers-earn/
Her article also mentions But “Congress ordered the annual disclosure, and since 1995 the White House has been required to report to Congress details of most of the West Wing payroll.”
So it should be easy to see how large Laura and Hillary staff was, altho beside numbers It would be interesting to see WHAT their staff does, like i’m sure since Hillary worked on healthcare ect,part of her staff would be for some things along those lines.I’ll see IF there is a list some where, or if you have to look for the salary list each year.
I was amzed at how big MO social /schedual staff is, and how many assistents to assistences are “needed” also you mentioned her make up artist, and just incase people think, well all FLOTUD probably had them, MO is the FIRST to have a fulltime make up artist http://sweetness-light.com/archive/michelle-obama-has-full-time-make-up-artist
(I might add, IF she would just smile and not glare at everyone, perhaps she would not need a FT MU artist..beauty comes from with in.
OH MY Bad…poor Michelle, of course she needs a fulltime MU artist according to sweets article, “She wears fake eyelashes that are beautiful. She can’t do those herself.”
Funny, I don’t wear thm, but I know fake eyelashes are pretty common, how do all those other laidies, manage to put them on their selves? WHO pays for this? US? If it is my taxes, perhaps someone from Sephora can offer to teach Meshill how to put on her own darn eyelashes and save thousands of dollars a year
I don’t think they have mirrors in the WH or they all have cracked.
ah so they coverred them up with the posters of this humble family.
Here is the link to the 2008 listhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2008stafflistsalary.html
I counted about 13 for laura, but might have missed some.
Great list SusFl. As noted by some other posters it would be great to see what the previous 2 first ladies (Laura and Hillary) had. I suspect that once a side by side comparison is done Mrs. Utopia will certainly stand out as doing her share at curing the unemplyment problem.
And of that list it’s numbers 21 and 22 who actually do any work.
The rest are just cronies who got a payoff for being loyal in some nefarious way.
Check this AP story and prepare to be repulsed by the ostentatious behavior of the Obamas!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FEA_FOOD_WHITE_HOUSE_GUEST_CHEFS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
I’m originally from Chicago-Michelle’s staff is either pay-offs, or hush money and/or a combination of both. This is what is referred to as “the Chicago way.” Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery-Al Capone.
You know, I just posted words to that effect, I hadn’t scrolled down to yours yet.
It must be a corrupt urban jungle thing. I lived in Philly for a long time, it’s pretty much SOP there as well.
Boys, The class vs. Crass segment should be a weekly one with a different first lady
each week for class. I honestly can not think of any crass first lady in our history prior to 2009.