Why Michelle Obama is allergic to sleeves
Dear HillBuzz,
About ten years ago, I lucked into a dream job managing a punk rock band that, for a while, rode a crest of some fame in Cleveland, Ohio of all places. I was in my early 20s, making more money than I knew what to do with at the time, and booked an out of town gig for the band in New Orleans for Halloween. It was a fancy affair, so when we arrived in Louisiana, I realized I didn’t have anything nice enough to wear for what shaped up to be a phenomenal night, so I splurged at Saks Fifth Avenue for a whole new outfit.
I spared no expense that day, and bought a Donna Karan velvetine shirt that felt so soft, so warm, so luxurious, I must have run the material through my fingers a thousand times, fascinated, in complete awe that something so wonderful could actually be mine. It was definitely a step up from the closet full of Gap, Banana Republic, and J. Crew back home.
I paired the shirt with a pair of size 28 Dolce & Gabanna jeans that I could never dream of squeezing into again today, if my life depended on it, but back then I rocked like nobody’s business.
The last splurge was a pair of Gucci boots that cost more than I’ve spent on shoes, total, in the decade since (averaging about one new pair a year, when the old one wears out, I’m not a big shopper, especially when it comes to shoes).
In that outfit, I really did feel triumphant and magical. It felt like all eyes were on me, in a good way, in a great way, actually. I went to our concert that night, did all the press I needed to do, and rocked the after party in my fantastic new threads. Looking back, it was really one of the most spectacular nights of my life — an extravagance I’ll never repeat, but one I can’t say I’ve ever regretted, because it was my very own personal “Pretty Woman, they finally let Julia Roberts shop” sort of scene.
And the fat, pimply-faced, awkwkard kid that’s always still inside me, no matter how old I get or what I do with my life, got to put aside all of that awkwardness for a night, and rock out like the rock stars he managed. He got to feel as cool as the guys in the band. And he truly, deeply, loved those expensive new clothes.
Loved them a little too, much, to be honest.
Because long after I stopped managing the band, I kept that outfit in my closet, in plastic bags, for special nights out. Whenever I needed that extra boost of confidence, whenever I needed to feel sexy, I put that Donna Karan shirt on, and squeezed (with ever greater difficulty), into those incredible jeans, slipping into those boots (which, for the fortune they cost, sure fell apart quickly).
After a while, people started to politely notice I “was always wearing the same shirt”, after one too many times of telling me how much they liked it, and the seemingly unalienable luster of that velvetine began to fade away. Probably three years had gone by since that Julia Roberts moment in New Orleans, and I had no idea how ridiculous I started to look, always sporting my now signature, dated, absurd “style”.
And then, one night in grad school, I rocked my “favorite outfit” for the very last time, the night before a class I couldn’t miss, at a party I really shouldn’t have gone to (for my own good). As parties are apt to do, especially the good ones, what was supposed to be a 2am night lasted well past dawn and far into breakfast. Two trains and a cab later, I slinked onto campus bleary-eyed, in the clothes I’d worn the night before, reeking of cigarettes from the days when bars still filled with smoke all night long. I was an absolute mess, dead tired, walking around a sunny college campus as absolutely out of place as a person could be, where everyone else looked like they stepped out of an Abercrombie catalog, while I seemed to have tumbled out of a relatively sedate Cher video.
People stared, and not in a good way.
Some people even giggled, because I was so totally out of place, and what I was wearing was so ridiculously inappropriate.
The class I had that morning was once a week, and the sort that I wasn’t allowed to miss without failing. That day, the professor, of course, had be give a presentation to the entire 100 person class…when I became painfully aware of how ridiculous everyone thought I looked. It was a nightmare.
An absolute nightmare.
And after the class, I headed back to my apartment, where I stood in front of the full length mirror, in the scalding light of day, and realized how truly stupid I looked in velvetine at 11am in Cleveland.
No matter how great my “favorite outfit” looked once upon a time, or out at a night club, it was ridiculous and inappropriate for walking around in the daytime, or for going to class or work in. As much as I loved wearing those wonderful, expensive, enchanting clothes — and as much fun as I always had in them — I realized it was time to put them away, at least for a little while, and start wearing things that were more appropriate.
So, when I see Michelle Obama wearing sleeveless dresses to Obama’s speech before Congress or in her official White House portraits, or watch her don inappropriate cocktail attire to the Inauguration, with a hideously unflattering gown for the balls, I actually feel empathy for her, because I’ve been where she is now.
And I’ve seen pictures of Michelle from high school, and know she was never number one on anyone’s dance list, and realize a lot of the skowls she makes or attitude she projects stems from growing up awkward and lanky, with unflattering, unglamorous clothes.
So, now that she has the opportunity to revel in attention, wear expensive things, and grace the covers of magazines, Michelle heads for the sleeveless dresses that are her personal velvetine Donna Karan shirt and tight Dolce and Gabanna jeans.
She doesn’t seem to have anyone to tell her how ridiculous she looks in sleeveless dresses in winter, anymore than I had someone to call me out for wearing that Donna Karan everywhere. Sure, people laughed at me and made comments, some of which I heard, while others were shared behind my back. But, being human, I generally only listened to people who complimented me, just as it seems Michelle’s only paying attention to those who call her a fashion icon, ignoring those who called her Inaugural gown a Flintstones-inspired Yabba Dabba Don’t.
Michelle Obama’s allergic to sleeves because inside she’s an awkward, challenged girl, still, wanting to dazzle the way she always imagined she could, without regard for the appropriateness of that dazzling in February, at events that are not cocktail parties or balls.
She wears sleeveless cocktail dresses the way I wore nightclub clothes to class on campus, in broad daylight.
And she looks as ridiculous as I did back then.
Will she realize this one day and start dressing appropriately?
Yes, of course she will.
Just like I did.
Who knows when it will happen, but maybe she’ll begin to compare the photo album her staff’s building of her time in the White House with the First Ladies who’ve come before her, and she’ll start to see how inappropriate evening wear is during broad daylight.
The antidote to her sleeve allergy is historic perspective, and the realization that the four years she’ll spend in America’s house are something that will live on long after she’s gone, and could either be the butt of retrospective fashion jokes, or could be timeless and memorable in all the right ways.
It’s up to her how she’ll be ultimately remembered and represented in all the history books. But, she hasn’t been in this role long enough to realize that yet.
The sleeveless dresses will be put away in time, I’m sure.
But, they’ll never be thrown out, of course. Because I still have that Donna Karan shirt in my closet, wrapped in plastic, as it’s the only designer shirt I’ve ever owned, and still enjoy pulling it out every once in a awhile to see if it still fits, and to feel that marvelous velveteen and remember how clueless and excited I was a lifetime ago when I first bought it.
So I think I understand why Michelle’s doing what she’s doing, and also know she’ll evolve out of her sleeveless phase in time.
It won’t be soon enough, frankly, but like with me and my own “favorite outfit”, it will be better than never.
Sebastian Gray
Chicago, IL
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I dont’ spend a lot of time looking at pictures of MO (or of anyone) but I did see MO’s “official White House portrait” which has her standing very awkwardly with both arms dangling. Her shoulders look hunched. If that’s habitual, then if she wore most normal clothes they would be dangling loose in front, the shoulders would push them too far forward. She needs sleeveless cut way in toward the neck to make room for those jutting shoulders.
It’s odd, because photos of her campaigning look very graceful and healthy.
When you have wide shoulders like she
does you should not wear cut-in dresses
or tops, it only makes your shoulders
look wider and more masculine. I was
in the fashion industry for 28 years and
that was always a no-no.
I dont’ spend a lot of time looking at pictures of MO (or of anyone) but I did see MO’s “official White House portrait” which has her standing very awkwardly with both arms dangling. Her shoulders look hunched. If that’s habitual, then if she wore most normal clothes they would be dangling loose in front, the shoulders would push them too far forward. She needs sleeveless cut way in toward the neck to make room for those jutting shoulders.
It’s odd, because photos of her campaigning look very graceful and healthy.
I can’t stand the Angry, (obviously, controlling) Bitch, but I think she looks “nice”. *shrugs*
“Nice,” yes, but wholly inappropriate. For pete’s sake, this is her OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PORTRAIT, not some candid shot of a summer’s eve on her way to a night on the town with BO.
Sebastian has MO’s M.O. pegged right, and it’s sad to see this play out in front of the entire nation (and the world). It’s friggin February in D.C.!
And she’s the First Lady now, not some suburban middle-aged mom who needs to show us that her (gangly) arms are toned (I have gangly arms, too, and I’m only 5’6″, Goddess help me!).
Won’t someone in the world of fashion please level with this woman? I hope someone cares enough about MO to send her Sebastian’s letter!
Speaking of, I can think of no better way to be set back on course than by a compassionate, empathic letter by Sebastian. Correct me, chastise me–please!!
Who is that guy in that picture? He’s is the prettiest drag queen ever.
Ooooh, snap! ROTFLMAO!
I’m so happy someone else is noticing the wildly inappropriate sleeveless-in-February thing. I thought it was frankly very odd. But no one is allowed to critique her look. Someone wrote in to the WaPo style section and asked why she was sleeveless at the not-SOTUS, and the answer was, ‘because with her great-looking arms, she can.’ No comment from them on how out of place she looked, as if she were attending a party instead of a state event. Must we all pretend that she’s the new fashion icon? She was never a beauty queen. With the aids that wealth and professional help allow she can often look nice, but let’s not pretend she’s beautiful.
Oops, and Sarah Palin was a beauty queen. Beauty and brains. The media hated her for that.
There…that picture made me fell better. Didn’t it?
With the thermostat turned up to 80 degrees, it’s always summertime in the White House!
LOL! “Do as I say, not as I do!”
“So, now that she has the opportunity to… wear expensive things…”
She’s had that opportunity for years now. No one ever had the guts to tell her she needs a makeover professional to help her dress. Maybe we can get her a spot on “Extreme Makeover.”
Maybe we should start with “What NOT to Wear”!
It’s a beautiful dress. Really gorgeous with the pearls. But what is up with her eye? Does she have a glass eye, or something?
Maybe it’s the absence of warmth behind them?
like her husband, flat shark eyes.
As he had when he greeted Hillary this week and kissed her on the cheek for the cameras. The cold look in his eyes and that fed-up smirk of his said it all.
Drag queen? Glass eye? That’s why I come here—you pack of jackals are tremendous! I have a friend who swears MO is a Klingon, or at least part Klingon.
Every time I see MO, especially in those sleeveless dresses, I think she looks like the celebrity spokesman for the WNBA.
“Michelle dresses like Obama’s taxing sleeves.”
And Hillbuzz, great story—another fine piece of writing that at times put me a little–just a little–in mind of David Sedaris. And that’s a *good* thing.
Sebastian,
You are entirely too kind to MO.
IMHO, she knows exactly what she’s doing, which is a deliberate FLAUNTING of any historical precedent for first ladies.
It’s like the ghetto boys in-your-face hostile rap lyrics – it’s the visual rejection of EVERYTHING the US stands for.
It’s her f**k-you-honky-bytches way of saying she’s black, she’s proud, she WON and screw all those who GAVE her an undeserved stint at Princeton, a 300G+ salary at a Chicago hospital, a 1 mill+ home.
She’s the modern day equivalent of angela davis minus the big hair and machine gun.
It’s her way of sticking it to the ‘man.’
With every passing day i despise her more and more.
basil,
You just articulated what’s been in my sub-conscious. While I will not join in bashing elements of her physical appearance she can’t change, I absolutely take exception with the decisions she makes regarding how to dress.
She’s definitely giving established dress codes the finger and I worry about the effect, like cleavage on news anchors and droopy gangsta drawers on hip-hop artists, have on our culture.
Citizen70, I agree about not bashing physical characteristics for anybody–that’s just mean and not what beauty is about. There is SO MUCH she could change in terms of her attitude that would totally transform her expression and demeanor. She should have compassion for others and respect for the country and the office her husbandem holds. It’s a lot to ask–I don’t think she’ll ever “get” it. She’s an embarrassment.
I love that dress, too, and the pearls are perfect. The dress works for her, and her shoulders look great.
But the gushing about her elegance, fashion sense, and fashion-model beauty is over the top.
It’s NOT an appropriate dress for an official WH portrait.
Perhaps she chooses to displaly her too long arms (pretty close to the floors, aren’t they??) in order to take attention away from her dashboard butt.
She epitomizes the expression: gangly.
I agree that she has no fashion sense, regardless of what the media say (they’re going to have a hard time brainwashing the public into believing she’s beautiful, a fashion icon, or even nice) and further agree that she’s again showing her disdain (hatred??) of whites by flaunting her obnoxiousness in the public’s face.
Basically she’s a pitiful little girl stomping her foot at the world. The world is going to get pretty tired of it rather quickly, as it did with Princess Caroline’s tantrums.
It should be from the waist up, below that the picture really looks odd. I don’t know how she is standing, but the one side goes straight down, normal curves and the other side is a huge bump starting at about her elbow.
She has her hip hitched like a freakin’ teenaged girl! I hadn’t even noticed that.
That’s it. I bet it is because she is tall so couldn’t reach the low table she is leaning on. Maybe they should have had it in a different spot then because it is not flattering.
And what’s with the blue thing coming out of her head? I learned about 9:15 on the first day of Photojournalism 201 class: “Don’t take pictures of people where it looks like stuff is growing out of their head.” Violations of this rule provide regular fodder for Jay Leno’s Monday night “Headlines” comedy bit.
The more I look at this picture, the creepier it gets. The photographer just didn’t do a very good job at all (not that he had much to work with, I’ll admit).
Shall we pull out all the stops and mention the pronounced underbite?
or the squint.
Her “make-over” is complete. They successfully transitioned her from, “out-spoken irritating spouse” to “quiet speak only when spoken too show-piece spouse”.
Ugh….!!!
The portrait doesn’t bother me. However, the purple little ## from the other night; went too far. She looked like she was going to “Brunch” with the girls or something like that.
That portrait will appear in classroom history books and, IMHO, sends a terrible message to girls.
There’s a reason official formal events (not PARTIES) require a modest dress code.
it’s the same reason judges in the court room still wear long black robes.
It’s an expression of respect for the office one holds.
By the way she dresses MO shows she despises the US and is “still NOT proud of her country.”
Dres, appearance, wardrobe are crucial to public perception. it
s why even some public schools are embracing the uniform standards for their students.
I can’t tell you the number of school functions i went to as an urban teacher where the parents were even more risque than their kids. it was revolting and you could tell the kids were mortified.
There is aspect of the sleeveless MOO that you guys cannot relate to—
Hot flashes!
Moo is going through the change. She does not want to be embarassed when suddenly, her face turns beet red and she starts to sweat, so she is trying to keep her cool. People make fun of this, but it is very real, and for many women, very upsetting. Moo does not want anyone to know she is perimenopausal, so she is trying to hide it by baring it all. Someone needs to tell her to go to a doctor before her hormonal imbalance ends up in cancer. But we all know that no one tells MOO what to DOO, not even her scary hubby BOO!
girlpower- outstanding post.
Very mooving.
Definite + 2. Well done.
Yup….that is what I thought too.
Some hot flashes combined with Obama growing orchids might be the reason for her ignoring the seasons.
Of course, in CA people still wear flip flops in Dec. Saw lots of shorts on kids this ‘winter’. It would be nice to have reason for wearing one of Hillary’s amazing jackets, but there really isn’t much opportunity.
Anyway, I have no right to talk about ignoring seasons….lol
You just can’t make grossly ugly from the inside beautiful on the outside, no matter how hard one tries.
So true. If she came across as a genuinely nice, likable, caring, patriotic person, do you think anyone here would be critical of what she wore?
great insight from the writer, thanks for sharing.
I will say, she has terrific arms. Why are the arms one of the first thing to go for women? Back in the day I wore clothing like that and I might say, loved my long thin arms. Now there dimpled and fat in some areas and thin in others, and when you get older your damn elbows wrinkle, whats up with that? I say “you go girl”, take advantage of your strong points regardless of the season. Of course, she had better not wear white after labor day or before memorial day… That would definitely be an issue..
….and watch that patent leather.. hee hee
Get a personal trainer. I did and now I can wear sleeveless dresses (in summer, mind you, not winter) as well as being fit as a fiddle!
Of the several news shows I’ve glanced at this morning, every single has oohed and aahed over Michelle’s fabulous arms. To be sure they’re well-toned and shapely – wish I had ‘em, instead of the batwings and yes, Sharon, Sharpei elbows, I do possess. But don’t you find it telling that the woman’s arms are the only positive attribute on which the press can find to comment? Character and personality – or lack thereof – are too topical to broach, I suppose.
Granny, I’d rather be YOU any day of the week!
Granny, I do agree !
And is it just me, or does MO remind anyone else of Omarossa just a little in that picture?
Not me. Omarossa is bytch-confident. MO might be defiant, but she’s not self-assured. imo
Here, see what I mean:
http://media.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/g/2004/09/43822.jpeg
Went to the link. Isn’t that a contestant from “RuPaul’s Drag Race”?
But seriously, I do see a little bit of the facial resemblance, but if you’ll forgive me, I think Omarossa’s stance in the photo kinda proves my point (but I would think that
).
I think both of them have a “I know it all, can’t tell me nothin’” attitude. Omarossa is a bit ruder about it.
On the other hand, Omarossa, being a money-hungry one, is probably a more patriotic American in the final analysis than MO.
I’m not wild about either of them, or did you guess that already? LOL
I see what you are getting at. It is the same thing in them both that has no probelm taking cheap shots at people. But when talking policy and the uhs and ums come out.
On a side note…it is interesting that you picked a pic of Omorossa that resembled the same dress HillBuzz suggested for Michelle. Different color those…but very similiar dress.
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/two-dresses-from-last-nights-oscars-michelle-obama-should-have-worn-to-the-inaugural-balls/oscars/
oops…typos…oh well
Fox news is covering and talking about the tea parties, and how people feel about the taxing. 11:30 eastern on “cashin in”.
Thanks, MichL! Just switched from the Western channel.
After a while, the pushback from the people will be too much for even the MSM to ignore.
maybe she’s always sleeveless cuz the thermostat’s set at 78 degrees to accomodate barack’s love of wasting energy while pretending to give a damn about the environment.
I don’t care what she wears – class tells.
She’s a cross between Aunt Esther and James Brown with the attitude of Spike Lee … no matter what she wears …
Sorry, but she’s all Spike Lee to me.
Nah, Mrs. Obama is much taller than Lee.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
That’s absolutly perfect! Oh wait, throw in a little Klingon and you’ve got it.
Klingon ? As in assteroids ? … Let’s not bring Rahm Emanuel into this … I was talking about Meeshell …
Dunno from assteroids or Rahm. This is what I was talking about (courtesy google-image search):
http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Michelle_Obama_Klingon_250.jpg
Dang, y’all are vicious.
Which is great.
Yay, Hillbuzz posters!
Great image !
BUT … while that blow-hole may be a functional evolutionary anomaly for Meeshell to blow off all that anti-American hate, it is not fair to trash our whale and dolphin friends with the comparison …
I’m old enough to remember Jackie Kennedy in her White House days. Tho she had the sense not to wear sleeveless in winter day attire(she wore skirted suits with little jackets; there were no pantsuits in those days), she was photographed a lot in sleeveless “little black dress” type things. It frequently looks to me as if MO is somehow trying to channel Jackie O-style. Absolutely pathetic.
Yes, Barbara, but Jackie O wore those little black dresses for evening wear.
I will say Mrs. Obama has fabulous arms, but this does seem inappropriate for the formal White House portrait.
Oh my goodness Barbara, I had forgotten. We are of the age when ladies did not wear pants.. Wow things have changed. It really was not that long ago when you think of it in terms of years.
Sharon, Barbara, Did you HAVE to remind me? LOL I remember my junior year in highschool; we were so excited because the school announced that we could wear pants on Fridays! LOL
nope, not that long ago.
then I see young women out in public with the tops of thong underwear proudly displayed above their low-rise jeans. Well, nothing shocks me (except all this darn gov’t spending!!)
TXMom …. Yep, but only coordinated pant SUITS made of the same fabric. No jeans. *LOL* Wow … that has been a while.
Or those god-awful stretch knit pants with stirrups? I am proud to say I refused to wear those even when they were popular. ha ha We were allowed to wear those ugly, dorky jeans made for guys.
Exactly, it has always looked to me like she was trying to channel Jackie.
It is sad if someone is pushing her in this direction rather than letting her discover her own style.
It is so contrived….and I don’t think she shines playing Jackie dress-up.
Again, it’s the whole Marie Antoinette thing. It’s winter! Regular working folk in a sizable portion of the country are struggling to pay heating bills, while also trying to conserve energy by keeping the thermostat down.
I see her flaunting her position of privilege. She can keep the thermostat up as high a she likes and go sleeveless.
For once in his miserable live couldn’t Al Gore do something useful, give her inappropriately-bare shoulders a good shake, look into that angry face and tell her it is time to lead by example?
If he truly believes what he says about global warming, doubtful, I know, he needs to make her official portrait a symbol of excess.
Fabulous analysis. You deserve your own show on FOX! (Someone else to get higher ratings than Keith Overbite.)
Or she is sleeveless to support Gore’s insistence than global warming exists. See? See? Even the first lady had to dress so that she wouldn’t swelter in the global warming heat!
Yes, but Marie Antoinette only SAID “Let them eat cake”…
Judging by her ample backside, Mo has performed more than a few demonstrations of the concept.
Al Gore? WTF? WHAT has he done? Oh yeah,I know….rattle on about global warming while running up a $3000 p/m electric bill. WTG Al.
^^^^^^ Now that was funny.
I was taught if you cannot say anything good about a person Say Nothing, so No comment on Michelle.
I do not want God to punish me, And you know it’s harrrrrrd to not critize Michelle.
Any way back to the tea parties, are there going to be any in NJ?
I live in a mostly Obama loving city, So I cannot organize one there, but I will gladly come out and support anyone who will.
“Ladynite 54″
I’m not sure about a “NJ” Tea Party”; but there is a NYC one forming.
Go to http://www.freeusnow.com & see details.
Also, there is a NJ (& possible NYC) “viewing” of the:
“How Obama Got Elected” documentary being scheduled.
When it happens it will be posted on
http://www.howobamagotelected.com
sleeveless all the time and lots of ugly dresses. She is just as cnarcistic as her husband. He wants to be compared to Lincoln and she wants to be compared to Jackie O. Of course people kissing their ass doesn’t make it so. No designer is going to dare admit the clothes she wears are ugly. They would be comitting career suicide. So let her continue wearing crap and have people laugh behind her back. She wouldn’t listen if anyone told her the truth anyway
Lincoln worked to deserve the historic praise he still receives. Obama has done nothing so far, and I doubt that he will. To compare him to Lincoln is an insult to Lincoln.
Jackie O was a lady, knew how to act like a lady, had a sense of understated elegance. What exactly is undestated about Michelle? Does she understand what the word demure even means? Does she truly think she can be a representative of this country in the staterooms of the leaders of the world? She has no understanding of the world of diplomacy and she certainly can’t keep her big mouth shut. She is so filled with anger at the unfairness that Whites exist that she just can’t keep her disdain from showing.
Re hot flashes:
Speaking as one who knows, what every hot-flashing woman needs above all else is layers. Hot flashes are commonly followed (and often preceded) by chills. A jacket would be indispensable to her, and look appropriate.
Agreed, from a woman who isn’t always sure if she’s having hot flashes or a heat stroke in the 90-degree Florida humidity. Either way, I wouldn’t be a bit more comfortable sleeveless.
From Salon, post-election:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/
Even though she blended with the background for her speech.
I liked this dress on her. It didn’t look like she was trying to copy Jackie…finally.
It was a great color and had sleeves. Which was nice to see her in during the summer no less.
Skating: Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake”. That phrase was made up before she was even born. It is only attributed to her because during the French Revolution, political cartoons depicted her saying “Let them eat cake” in response to the bread shortages in Paris.
Michelle’s pose is horrid. She looks like they caught her off-guard with the camera. It’s going to be a looooong 4 years with the inappropriate Jackie O. comparisons.
Leigh, you said, “It is only attributed to her because during the French Revolution, political cartoons depicted her saying “Let them eat cake” in response to the bread shortages in Paris.”
Kind of like how the media, and half of America, now insists that Governor Palin actually said, “I can see Russia from my house,” when it was actually Tina Fey who said that.
Leigh, thank you for the knowledge drop.
Ten, thank you for the witty commentary.
Dang, the posters here are good.
Ten: EXACTLY!!! Great modern analogy!!!
good piece. SEBASTION.you are a gentelman and a scholar.i always enjoy your writings.
Just for comparison sake, here is Jackie’s official portraitl. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1098/3165035041_2c5ea23da9_o.jpg
“Now That’s a portrait!!
Can you find Hillary’s??
http://www.getreligion.org/wp-content/photos/Hillary_Clinton_first_lady_portraitHRC.jpg
It’s a painting…
And the photo, which is a head shot…
http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc114.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/firstladiesus/ig/First-Ladies-Picture-Gallery/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton.htm
I think Hillary got beautiful with age.
I agree. She’s the phoenix rising, indeed.
She looks lovely at any age, she smiles and loves what she is doing, putting her heart into it.
Go Hill Go!
Thanks!!
NO friggin comparison!
RuPaul – Supermodel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0ILbj31Ww&feature=related
……..
Mischa is just trying to work her best assets…she has lovely arms and it makes her look slender to emphasize them. Come on, we want her smiling and working it!
And thankfully she is looking smart and not doing one of those come hither poses….she is a First Lady not a Lady looking for a date. SO, thank you for standing upright with a straight back (clap, clap, clap)…keep it up and smile, smile, smile…work it!
She is NOT standing straight.! She’s slouching and sticking one hip out like in the hokey pokey.
And Sleeveless in an official portrait is disgusting.
Does anyone remember how Bush could do no wrong during his first term? Well, how the worm has turned!
Just keep this in mind during this “Obama can do no wrong” period. There will come a time when the tide will turn and then every negative story you’ve ever heard about the Obamas will be published with a vengeance. I, for one, can’t wait to see how Michelle reacts when the mainstream media start interviewing Larry Sinclair about his tete-a-tete with Barry in the limo!
There is plenty wrong:
1. Leaving 1/3 of the troops in Iraq.
2. Increasing Afghanistan troop build up by 17,000?!? Mr. NO MORE WAR! HA!
3. Talking about privatizing Social Security.
4. Reducing Medicare to pay for some other program, ala take from Peter to pay Paul.
…etc.,
As to Larry, I thought he was asking people to ask stores to carry his book??? I haven’t caught ‘My 2 Cents’ in a while, so I don’t know the latest.
I’d never heard of Larry Sinclair before your post. Did some googling and turned up some interesting stuff. That is, unless he’s a complete liar/nut.
This was interesting, too. No details of course—they want you to buy the rag. I go to the newstand on Sundays to buy my car, gun, and airplane magazines—I’ll have to see if it’s there in the rack between all the Britney/Jennifer/Angelina/Jessica rags.
http://www.globemagazine.com/
If there’s anything to the Sinclair story, how/why is he still alive?
Been following the Sinclair story since 01/08. He has no reason to lie. Try to get his book or really research his story on line. It really is Sex, Drugs, and Murder.
JD:
If you find anything interesting please, please let us know.
You seem like a level headed sort to this point- as such your opinion is definitely worth hearing.
Well, at this point you can google “Larry Sinclair” and find out everything I know on the subject.
I wonder if this is the “big sex scandal” that Bob Woodward hinted is coming a few weeks ago.
I have no idea how credible The Globe is, I don’t follow the tabloids. But remember that one of them (I forget which one) broke the John Edwards affair/baby daddy story last year. Initially laughed at, it turned out to be true.
And if Obama did drugs and had one or more gay experiences, the majority of the country is likely to say “So what?”
Oh, BTW, take another look at the photo of Michelle on the left in the link posted. More evidence for the theory that she’s a Klingon?
“JackDaddy”
Sadly, “The Globe” is the only news source willing to “break” the tough stories”.
Larry S. is still alive b/c he made himself “visible”.
Look up about his “arrest” in 2008 at the National Press Club in DC. You’ll see whose son ordered it.
Just got back from the newsstand. NO tabloids displayed this week!
So I went to the drugstore next door. They had the Globe, but not this issue. The one they had was dated March 2 and the cover story was “Bush Suicidal” and Michael Jackson has the flesh-eating bacteria (which shouldn’t be too much trouble for him; now if it were plastic-eatic bacteria, he’d be in real trouble). You know how magazine cover dates are, some are months in advance, so I have no idea if the March 2 issue is this week’s, next week’s, or last week’s.
It WAS interesting that Biden’s son had him arrested at his press conference, and shortly after Joe was picked VP the charges were dropped
“Bingo Lyn”
I did not realize the “charges” were dropped after
Joe was named VP.
BTW:
What was the AG from DE doing in DC anyway??
Ugh….!!!!
This still stinks!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076095/posts
dropped the beginning of Sept. Read the post it’s interesting
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I like it. Now that Michelle doesn’t say much and isn’t preaching, telling us how President Platitude is the great and wonderful Oz, she doesn’t make my stomach turn. As long as she’s quiet, I can look at her and ‘kind of get’ the feeling of pride that I wish I could have with the election of a black president. I can’t get any of that looking at President Platitude, but as Michelle remains silent and just becomes a portrait….I can enjoy some of it.
A silent Michelle will make these next four years just a little less horrific…just a little.
Silent Michelle? Yeah, good luck with *that*….
I know – but just had to admit what I’m feeling right now.
Barry on the other hand is free game.
Thanks for saying what no one else will say! Not only is the sleeveless thing inappropriate in winter and unbecoming, it is really tacky to be advertising just how warm it is (heat must be cranked up) wherever she is wearing her latest sleeveless attire when so many Americans cannot even afford to pay for their heat this winter.
That is so true. I heard on a local radio news program that here in NYS the G&E Company shut off the power to over 300,000 homes in ’08. That’s three hundred thousand families w/o power, just in one state, and he has the audacity to crank his heat to 80 degrees. Sickening.
I just spent my first winter in the Catskills and the cost of heating my teeny cottage with propane at $4 per gallon was almost $600 for one month!
And I had to run the electric heaters as well coz it was frigid here.
I may haveta move south.
I think she just does not have any kind of natural style and everyone is probably too scared of her to tell her what she should be wearing.
Can you imagine going up to her and saying, “Mich, you looked horrible in almost everything you have been wearing the past year. Maybe you should ask people who have some common sense for advice on what to wear”
She would probably pick you up and toss you out a window. She makes the White Witch of Narnia look like a wuss. No one is going to tell her what to wear unless she begs them and that isn’t happening soon.
If I were a designer and got an “audience” with her, I wouldn’t say a word the entire time. I’d just give her a few outfits to try on, back to back with her usual rags. She’d either get it, or she wouldn’t.
That said, LOL at your last para!!!!!
They are now trying to compare Jackie Kennedy’s official photograph (not the oil painting that was hung in the WH after she left) because Jackie had on a seemingly sleeveless dress – at least to those who don;t know better. What they are missing is why Michelle’s black dress looks inappropriate – it’s not so much that it is sleeveless, it is how high the arms are cut. That’s what makes it a cocktail dress. Jackie’s red dress in her official photograph has cap sleeves which cover her shoulders and doesn’t subject us to flesh hanging out of the arm holes. Michelle also seems to wear clothes that don’t fit. That purple dress she wore on a tour of the kitchen had her fleshy underarms poking out. That’s just unappetizing especially in a kitchen.
That pose is awful. What’s with the cocked hip? I have always felt that Michelle was quite superficial and eager to be considered glamorous. Actually as superficial and overly concerned with appearances as her husband. Both she and her husband will end up in Hollywood in some entertainment industry position after they leave the WH.
In any event, Michelle and her supporters are cluesless as to the subtleties of what is and is not appropriate. How else to account for that hideous bejeweled spangly cocktail outfit at the Inauguration. Now that was embarrassing.
That photo does her no favors. She looks like a party planner posing for a women’s magazine outside of the reception hall, not the FL. And the sleeveless dress sends the message that she’s rich and powerful and can turn her thermostat up in the dead of winter while the rest of us are told to sacrifice in the name of the environment and our hard-earned money is frittered away by the feds.
JD is right about the blue thing coming out of her head. The composition is odd. There’s no law against photographing a woman with her hip hitched and her hand partially obscured by a tulip while a blue thing grows out of her head, but it is weird for an official photo.
I should have added that it looks like the kind of composition you’d expect from your Aunt Suzy.
Ugh.
This post is too caddy even for ME.
Who cares about her arms? Or her butt?
I only care about the fact that the President is going to drive this country so deep into debt that America will be broke.
But then again, Tarzana Michellemay lift us out of the depression with her big Strong arms.
Oops. I got caddy.
My bad
Ugh.
This post is too caddy even for ME.
Who cares about her arms? Or her butt?
I only care about the fact that the President is going to drive this country so deep into debt that America will be broke.
AMEN!!!
Poor Michelle. Clearly no one ever made her walk with a book on her head. The reason most of her clothes look as if they don’t fit or hang well is because her posture is so bad. I bet she was taller than any other girl in high school and slumping was her way of making herself shorter. And now she probably doesn’t even realize she’s doing it. I think she’s still finding her way with fashion and will grow out of this awkward stage…she has worn some great things like the swingy, long black (with sleeves) Isobel Toledo she wore during the campaign. Let’s give her some time and cut her some slack.
Give her slack…just the way she gave slack to Hillary and Sarah…right?
It is a little mean but her “job” is to be First Lady. It is an odd role and it requires that you conform to expectations. She is expected to be well dressed and dignified.
Evidently no one cares enough about her to get her up to par. I kind of wonder why her husband lets her dress like such an idiot-he seems to always be extremely well dressed-is it deliberate? It would be easy to almost feel sorry for her.
He’s pretty; she’s a piece of work.
He’s pretty. She’s a piece of work.
The latest GOP bumper sticker, that all anti Obama Democrats will love.
http://www.tngop.org/contribute/incentive/
Now, let me speak about President Obama for just a second. President Obama is one of the most gifted politicians, one of the most gifted men that I have ever witnessed. He has extraordinary talents. He has communication skills that hardly anyone can surpass. No, seriously. No, no, I’m being very serious about this. It just breaks my heart that he does not use these extraordinary talents and gifts to motivate and inspire the American people to be the best they can be. He’s doing just the opposite. And it’s a shame. [Applause]
President Obama has the ability — he has the ability to inspire excellence in people’s pursuits. He has the ability to do all this, yet he pursues a path, seeks a path that punishes achievement, that punishes earners and punishes — and he speaks negatively of the country. Ronald Reagan used to speak of a shining city on a hill. Barack Obama portrays America as a soup kitchen in some dark night in a corner of America that’s very obscure. He’s constantly telling the American people that bad times are ahead, worst times are ahead. And it’s troubling, because this is the United States of America. Anybody ever ask — I’m in awe of our country and I ask this question a lot as I’ve gotten older. We’re less than 300 years old. We are younger than nations that have been on this planet for thousands of years. We, nevertheless, in less than 300 years — by the way, we’re no different than any other human beings around the world. Our DNA is no different. We’re not better just because we’re born in America. There’s nothing that sets us apart. How did this happen? How did the United States of America become the world’s lone super power, the world’s economic engine, the most prosperous opportunity for an advanced lifestyle that humanity has ever known? How did this happen? And why pray tell does the President of the United States want to destroy it? It saddens me. The freedom we spoke of earlier is the freedom, it’s the ambition, it’s the desire, the wherewithal, the passions that people have that gave us the great entrepreneurial advances, the great inventions, the greatest food production, the human lifestyle advances in this country. Why shouldn’t that be rewarded? Why is that now the focus of punishment? Why is that now the focus of blame? Why doesn’t — Mayor Bloomberg the other day, ladies and gentlemen, resisting his Governor’s call for an increased tax on the rich in New York had some astounding numbers. Eight million people live in New York. 40,000 of those eight million pay roughly 60 to 70% of New York’s operating budget. He was afraid that if he raised taxes on those people some of them might leave. Mayor, one already has, by the way. [Applause]
An excerpt from Rush’s inspiring speech yesterday. For the entire transcript, go to;
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/01/transcript-rush-limbaughs-address-cpac/
This is freakin’ brilliant! The speech syntax is exactly like Obama’s, the references done exactly as he does them. Is this your commentary or part of Rush’s speech (that I haven’t looked at yet).
It is truly sad that this man who had so much public support can only use his skill as an orator to do evil instead of good, to cause fear instead of confidence, and to impose on the people of America instead of free them.
Oh, oops, I see …. Rush’s speech. Quite good. Quite good. Of course the media, and our new (extraordinarily insecure) President is urging people NOT to listen to Rush, openly criticizing him.
Great Speech. He did pretty good for it to be his first National Address. ha ha
And with no teleprompter!!!
I listened to Rush’s entire speech. Pretty good. It irks me the way his comment about wanting Obobo to fail has been taken out of context. He doesn’t believe in socialism, so of course he wants anything that smacks of it to fail. That said…
Here’s what worries me about getting PUMAs to vote for Republicans: Conservatives must STFU about the Clintons. Many of us disenfranchised Dems and newly former Dems, like myself, love the Clintons. Are they perfect? Are you? Is anyone?
It grates on our singular and collective nerves to hear the invective against them, and speaking for myself, it can push me to vote for Indy or Green or Libertarian candidates in 2010, which won’t help the cause of the Repubs regaining control of Congress.
Do you hear us going on about Republicans in that manner? No. Think about the gracious and eminently fair and touching piece HillBuzz wrote as a farewell to Dubya.
Think about how we love and defend Sarah Palin.
If Dems can do that, why can’t Conservatives at least just STFU about the Clintons?
I’m telling you, if they keep it up, I’m not voting Republican in 2010. I’m personally not asking for any kind of glowing, fawning review of Hill or Bill…just STFU if you can’t say something nice.
Really, is that too much to ask? Do any other PUMAs feel this way?
THANK.YOU.
I agree 100%. The Hillary haters on the conservative side have always been relentless towards her. I stumbled across this article via Hireheels.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/02/fear_and_loathing_and_buttons.html
Seriously, still selling anti-Hillary gear at c-pac in 2009. Get over it people. You got what you wanted getting Hillary out, and now we’re all suffering the consequences. Thanks for that. If the Rep. party hadn’t hated her so much, it seems unlikely the Dems would have worked so hard to slay her as well. Wait until Sarah runs in 2012, the libs will bring on the hate twofold of what the Cons did to Hillary. Leave the Clintons alone, and get over it already, or you won’t get my vote either.
If we go back to cpac 2008 it is repulsive to see how much they hate her. If we could go back in time I think many of the Cons would rather see Hillary as Pres. right now as opposed to this America hater and destroyer.
One of the big “selling points” to Dems for voting for Obama was Hillary is so “devisive” she will never win the GE. Republican crossed over and voted in OUR primaries against Hillary. Hillary won the majority of Dem votes, Obama the Republican votes in OUR Primaries and caucuses. I blame the Rep Hillary Hate just as much as I blame Pelosi and the thug DNC stealing votes for bringing us this disaster as POTUS.
I hope they learn as you say to at least keep their mouth shut, if they can’t say anything nice about the Clintons. Not only will it push voters to the Green or Ind canidates, it will keep others home.IF I (or other PUMAs)don’t want to vote for the Dem, don’t make it easier for me to just stay home instead of drivng to the polling place and standing in a line.
Right On Lyn!
BRAVO, LYN!!! Dems alone would have chosen Hillary, and whether she or McCain won, we’d have been FAR better off!
One more thing. I ticks me off that so many supposed Dem women hated her as well and fawned over the O. Even after the primary beating she took, they flocked to him like the popular boy in 6th grade, and all these girls had a crush on him. YUCK!
Yep, a la Pisslosi. The Hill hatred, especially by other women, is irrational. And that FACT is made clear even to people like Ann Coulter, I’m sure, when we compare side by side a Hillary and a Nancy.
Who REALLY deserves an American’s wrath? (If you say, Hillary, I contend that you are mentally ill.)
These are insecure women who look to men to validate them instead of finding a sense of security and self-esteem from inside.
DIS-GUS-TING!
MichL: I’m sending a big hug across the miles! Thanks for reminding us of how Repubs helped to bring us to the eve of destruction! Their anti-Hill hate votes, along with ACORN’s cheating, got us BO and MO in the White House.
correction: I meant *LYN* and MichL
xox to you both!!
But GNH, don’t forget that Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” where he asked Republicans to vote FOR HILLARY in open primary states, probably kept Hillary’s campaign alive for several weeks or months after it looked like Obama was about to finish her off.
THAT was much later tho and not that many voted for Hillary. In the beginning when it really mattered Obama had all his Dem for a Day and Hillary STILL won all the big states. Right to the end he was sending emails and youtubes for Repubs to sign up as Dems in the closed primaries and since Mccain won, many Repubs signed up and voted for Obama to stop Hillary, not because they wanted Obama. Most of them didn’t even bother doing any of their own research on Obama just went by what the MSM said.
There were charts online that showed how much more the Democrats voted for Hillary and how high the percentage of Republican voting in Dem primaries went for Obama …it wasn’t even close. I will always believe even with the cheating, not counting Mi and Fla until it was too late, ect, IF just Dems voted in our primaries Obama would have been out shortly after super Tues. Most of the DNC used ever trick possible to make Obama “win” right up to the convention and no true roll call, but with out the help from Republicans and their “anybody but Hillary”, Obama would still be living in Chi.
Lyn, I can relate. The Dems did the same thing to the Republican ticket, that’s how we ended up with McLame, who had exactly *no* enthusiasm among the real Republican base until he picked Palin, a true conservative, as his running mate.
It’s time *all* the states went to closed primaries and let *only* party members pick the nominees of each party. We’d have much cleaner elections that way. And do away with the caucus system, too, which is too easily gamed, rigged, and tampered with.
This election was stolen right out from under us, and sadly, it was for the most part done in “legal” ways.
Thanks Ho,
Your hug just arrived. As to Lyn’s post, absolutely correct. It was much later in the game when Rush sent his minions out to vote for Hillary. Too bad it wasn’t sooner.
Ho … I think over the next few months you will find more conservatives willing to talk about the Clintons in a more positive light and welcome discussion of them. I know I, for one, am reformed from my dislike and distrust of them.
I’ll never be a fan of former President Clinton. Let’s face it, he has a problem keeping his fly up, chronically lies about it, and his knowledge of the necessity of our military… the President’s primary purpose… is non-existent. However, Secretary Clinton has been too easily lumped into his wake. She is an individual with integrity and an obvious great love for her country.
Seeing what we have in the Oval Office (and White House) now, I think most conservatives are wondering how this hack ever overshadowed the obvious integrity of Hillary Clinton in the primary.
How could our country elect a man who so obviously dislikes our country over the five or more candidates who so obviously love it? (Sec. Clinton, Senator McCain, Gov. Huckabee, Gov. Romney, Senator Paul …. etc)
I repeat: this PUMA, for one, is not asking Conservatives to be Clinton fans. I’m just asking if the haters would consider kindly stuffing the anti-Clinton rhetoric. We can go on about plenty of Repubs, conservs, etc.
I realize it must be a knee-jerk reaction by now, but you couldn’t resist mentioning Bill’s Don Juan complex (he needs therapy; so do many men with his problem). It’s like y’all just can’t resist. Showing restraint would be a preferable tack to PUMAs is what I’m saying.
Do we lambaste Rush for having been an Rx pill addict and having had a drug dealer? Do we menntion O’Reilly and felafels in the same sentence? Did I sue Hannity for stealing “the death of journalism” from one of my many e-mails to him? No. Have you heard me say Ronnie Raygun? Have I equated Rove with the devil or said that Dubya is on an intellectual par with my Down syndrome brother? No.
How’s that feelin’ for ya? And OMG, think of the Repubs who endorsed Obama, including Regan’s speechwriter Peggy Noonan. Egads!
One last time, I have to make clear that the continual Clinton pounding is wearing on me, and if it keeps up, my vote in 2010 will go to an Indy or a Green, or I’ll write my own name in. I won’t even vote for Sarah in 2012. And I’ll definitely be blogging on PUMA sites, encouraging them to do the same if we have to continue to endure the nasty anti-Clinton invective.
You have Pisslosi, Reid, Schumer, Teddy, Obobo, McCrookskill, etc., to lambaste, not to mention your very own traitors: Snowe, Collins, Specter, and Gov. Crist.
If Conservatives need to spew that irrational venom against the Clintons, I wish they’d do it in private, well out of earshot of PUMAs
–for the good of the Republic.
Now I’m sending a big ‘ol hug your way. Nicely put as usual!
Ho, Lyn, and Michl
I am a fierce independent. I have voted for George McGovern, Gerald Ford, John Anderson, Ross Perot, Bill Clinton, the older Bush, and it seems schizophrenic when I start to list them, but I guess I have never been a joiner and have tried to select the person who I think will do the best job handling the country’s needs at the time. I have the most diverse group of friends and associates that you can imagine, and I bet that each one thinks that I am right in there with them politically. So I hear the bashing from all sides about all candidates. It is unfortunate, but I think it is just an unattractive part of human nature. But it is not as widespread as you might think. While I know a few ultra-conservative Republicans, most of my Republican acquaintances are quite moderate. They do not listen to Rush that I am aware of, though some are starting to like Glenn Beck. I think they are really libertarians, but they don’t realize it. It would never occur to them to go to something like C-PAC; in fact they would find that embarrassing. They have always been socially liberal but fiscally conservative and I think they are fiscally conservative because most own small businesses and hire people and they know what makes the economy work for them. They have bemoaned the fact for as long as I have known them that there is such a vocal, socially conservative faction who seems to control everything in their party and they have been searching for a leader to rise to the top that can drown out the ultra-conservatives, or a viable party that is fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Most do not own guns, and have no interest in that sort of thing, though some of the men do hunt (to get away from their wives, I think, for a bit!) They are for the most part good, decent, kind people, and do not react in a knee-jerk way, do not call in to radio shows, are too busy to go to tea parties, though they probably think it’s great. You just don’t hear about these people when you hear political analysis, but they are, I believe, the larger part of the Republican party when it comes to sheer numbers. They are not enthusiastic Republicans, but sort of practical Republicans. They are pretty non-judgmental and forgiving.
Oddly enough, they did not care for McCain, and in our open primary they did not try to influence the Dems, but tended to go for Mike Huckabee because they like the fair tax. His religion concerned them but they hoped he wouldn’t try to force it on the country. They felt the same way about Sarah Palin, liking her pragmatic approach, but worrying a bit that she would go too far socially. Some did the research and concluded there was no evidence that she let her religion influence her decisions in Alaska so they were happy with her and supported McCain. But you see, things are not always as the experts suggest. Over and over I heard that Palin appealed to the conservative base. And I know that she did, but the bigger base, I am sure, is the libertarian-leaning Republicans and they were quite happy with her as well, and I think the support from that corner was huge. The Republicans that I know who supported Obama did so based on green jobs. I admit, that was a surprise to me, I never saw that green jobs thing coming as a pivotal issue for this group.
So don’t be too discouraged by the ridiculous stuff you hear from rabid Republicans because in my experience they are just the ones making the most noise, but not the majority. They are the Republican version of MoveOn, I think.
Don’t listen to the fringes on either side – that is my advice. You’ll go crazy!
Pie: Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. Much appreciated.
I’m socially liberal (though shocked that abortion is still rampant, after three decades and all the preventative measures now so easily available), but I also like Sarah AND Mike Huckabee. I don’t think either of them would impose their personal views and/or try to legislate them.
Anyway, reading your post made me feel better. Thanks again!
Ho,
Glad you feel a bit better. Your words have done that for me on occasion, too.
Oh well. She’s actually a reasonably attractive woman and she looks very healthy. When she’s wearing a smile she even looks vaguely warm and human. I’m inclined to let her slide on this one. At least the dress is neat, paid for (we hope), and not revealing in tasteless way. At the moment, I’m far more worried about what deeply naive, socialist policies her husband is trying to inflict on the nation.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this. I confess I stopped reading all the comments. But go here to see a similar photo of Hillary, from a bookcover.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/03/rs-portrait2.html
Interesting; thx.
The differences are that Hillary’s photo is appropriate (for a book jacket, not an official WH portrait) and Hill’s photographer did a better job of it. No obstructions or protrusions in the photo.
I agree. The fact that it’s for a book jacket makes all the difference. And she’s wearing a jacket, too.
Latest gush about her arms:
http://www.punditandpundette.com/2009/03/jack-cafferty-confesses-his-love-for.html
“Well Done Jill”!!
Hillary looks very classy, professional, friendly, at home. Michelle looks out of place, uncomfortable, fake.
Whats with Michelle Obamas eyes, does she have a glass eye in her left eye? Its strange looking in every photo of her?
The bottom teeth are hysterical. Why doesn’t she get adult braces? She certainly can afford them NOW as it appears that her parents could not afford them all those years ago. Brilliant lead article and I am sure that Mrs. Obama is “sticking to the man” to quote Basil. It is okay to break a traditional look but not the point of risking integrity…all of her looks are horribly matched, especially those dog-eared cardigan sweaters with hip-enhancing wide non-matching belts that gird her. My word!