Posted on 03/30/2009 10:15:59 AM PDT by Dallas59
President John F. Kennedy once quipped that he was merely “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.”
This week, Barack Obama might find out how he felt.
The first couple’s trip to Europe Tuesday takes Michelle Obama to a land that likes her husband but seems positively fascinated by her.
The British press in particular has followed Michelle Obama’s every move breathlessly, from her dresses to the “kitchen garden” behind the White House. One London paper tracked down her high-school prom date. Another asked plaintively, “Why Doesn’t the UK Have a Michelle Obama?”
So while the president has to juggle the politics, Michelle Obama's job is in some ways more subtle and just as complicated. France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was judged recently on her curtsy before the Queen, and back in the day, Jackie O.’s outfits and her command of the French language were closely scrutinized.
“Her every ensemble will be front page news and endlessly interpreted and decoded,” said Patricia McDonald, a London-based editor for the Michelle Obama fashion blog, www.Mrs- O.org. “Will she break out a new wardrobe, or in deference to the economy, recycle her greatest hits?”
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“Why Doesn’t the UK Have a Michelle Obama?”
They can have ours!! I’ll gladly let them keep her and her husband.
and the nice thing about Mrs. Obama is that she doesn’t have to fly overseas..she merely walks on water..
Because you wouldn't trade us Margaret Thatcher.
It’s a land that seems to like The One less and less all the time.
“...a land that likes her husband”
Really?
Nah. She hitches a ride on her broom.
Nia-Malika Henderson, former Newsday ‘reporter’.
“A Newsday source tells us that she jumped at the Politico offer after her editors at Newsday were ready to hand her a prize once she came back to (the pet nickname for some at the paper) Hellville: the cushy job as Hempstead’s beat reporter!”
“And that’s apparently one of the better jobs. “It’s a decent town when it comes to beats,” our source said. The national desk is pretty much history now. Glenn Thrush, the paper’s other star political reporter, also left for Politico back in July.”
LMAO
Obama’s words about Poland and the Czech Republic have caught attention of Taras of Ukrainiana:
[…] I also remember Obama referring to the Poles and the Czechs as “fledgling democracies.”
But this quote knocked me off my feet:
Russia needs to understand our unflagging commitment to the independence and security of countries like a Poland or a Czech Republic. On the other hand, we have areas of common concern.
[…]
Because I’m a smalltime Ukrainian who lives in a smalltime country that gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal for chicken feed, I view Obama’s remarks as a Bittergate. […]
Obama’s mention of Hungary has also ruffled some feathers.
FROM MANIA TO MISTRUST
Europe’s Obama Euphoria Wanes
By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington
Europe was ecstatic when Barack Obama got elected, but the enthusiasm has dampened since he took office in January. On the eve of his first visit to Europe as president, some here are wondering how seriously he takes the Continent.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, the new director of policy planning at the US State Department, was sitting on the stage at a conference on trans-Atlantic relations in Brussels. “Europe has a phone number,” she said, and there was a satisfied murmuring of approval among her mainly European audience.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,616279,00.html
Czech PM attacks Obama spending
The Czech prime minister has condemned US President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plans as “a way to hell”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7963359.stm
I hope Europe decides to keep the both of them. 0 is a British born citizen. The UK should make him their ruler.
Obama stirs anxiety in Europe before visit
BERLIN (Reuters) - The enthusiasm that greeted Barack Obama’s election last year has begun to fade in some of Europe’s major capitals, replaced by concerns about the new U.S. president’s economic policies and softer stance toward Russia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2930744120090330
Nia-Malika Henderson
Since they are so crazy about her, I will give her to them to keep.
Michelle Obama speaking to students in SC, prior to the election:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ac1K6QQl08
I don’t care. About Michelle, that is.
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