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The Magic of Michelle [2-bag barfer!]
New York Times ^ | October 23, 2009 | CHARLES M. BLOW

Posted on 10/24/2009 8:11:16 PM PDT by ETL


Charles Blow

Forgive me in advance for fawning, but Michelle Obama is the coolest first lady ever. She clinched it for me this week by jumping double Dutch on the South Lawn as part of a “healthy kids fair.”

The scene underscored my impression of the first lady as utterly unencumbered by convention. She seems to feel free — free enough to loosen up and laugh a little, free enough to let her inner child peek through the veil of parenthood, free enough to be herself. ..."

I could pile on platitudes here about her professional accomplishments, or explore to what degree she is redefining the role of women, or predict how she will be viewed by historians in the pantheon of her predecessors. I could, but I won’t. That’s not my bailiwick.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: flotusmichelle; michellemybelle; michelleobama; twobagger
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1 posted on 10/24/2009 8:11:16 PM PDT by ETL
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"I could pile on platitudes here about her professional accomplishments, or explore to what degree she is redefining the role of women, or predict how she will be viewed by historians in the pantheon of her predecessors."

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2 posted on 10/24/2009 8:12:27 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

agggh.....can you even imagine Laura Bush in such an outfit...such a pose...EVEN ON A VACA???


3 posted on 10/24/2009 8:14:48 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin - Supports a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens. "path to citizenship" IS AMNESTY)
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To: ETL

Charles Blow?
What an unfortunate name.
Wonder if he has a brother named Joseph.


4 posted on 10/24/2009 8:15:15 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Obama= Slavery)
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Thank you!


5 posted on 10/24/2009 8:16:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: Kimberly GG

These folks have absolutely NO respect for the position they hold. None.


6 posted on 10/24/2009 8:16:12 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin - Supports a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens. "path to citizenship" IS AMNESTY)
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To: ETL

7 posted on 10/24/2009 8:16:29 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Kimberly GG

And what’s with the cardigans, anyway?
Ick.
I dunno which is worse-the boob belts or the sweaters.


8 posted on 10/24/2009 8:16:50 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Obama= Slavery)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Yes, he does.


9 posted on 10/24/2009 8:17:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Hear us, O Bama: Mmm, mmm, mmm.)
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To: Roscoe Karns

"Brrrraaappp!"



10 posted on 10/24/2009 8:19:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Hear us, O Bama: Mmm, mmm, mmm.)
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To: ETL






"I could pile on platypuses here about her professional accomplishments"
11 posted on 10/24/2009 8:20:01 PM PDT by 4buttons
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To: ETL
Michelle's response:


12 posted on 10/24/2009 8:20:29 PM PDT by Palladin (The Obama Administration: "A Czar Too Far")
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To: ETL

They charge up to $7.50 for their rag, readers have been bailing out on it in DROVES, and THIS is the garbage they print. It’s trash before it’s even delivered.


13 posted on 10/24/2009 8:21:34 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Jeff Chandler

Is she doing The Hokey Pokey in that pic?


14 posted on 10/24/2009 8:22:30 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Obama= Slavery)
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To: ETL

15 posted on 10/24/2009 8:26:04 PM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: ozark hilljilly
Is she doing The Hokey Pokey in that pic?

Karate. Horse stance. On the other hand, any stance she takes is a horse stance.

16 posted on 10/24/2009 8:28:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Hear us, O Bama: Mmm, mmm, mmm.)
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To: ETL
Still more proof that the NY Times needs to be printed on soft two-ply.
17 posted on 10/24/2009 8:28:40 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: 4buttons

18 posted on 10/24/2009 8:29:15 PM PDT by 4buttons
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To: ETL

Didn’t she sacrifice for the children and fly to Europe to push for the Olympics in Chicago?


19 posted on 10/24/2009 8:29:15 PM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

And it’s a rather wide stance if I say so myself.
; )


20 posted on 10/24/2009 8:30:17 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Obama= Slavery)
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To: ozark hilljilly

It’s a big horse.


21 posted on 10/24/2009 8:32:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Hear us, O Bama: Mmm, mmm, mmm.)
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To: ETL

22 posted on 10/24/2009 8:32:41 PM PDT by 4buttons
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To: ETL

TRANSLATION:

“unencumbered by convention” = no manners, no sense of decorum, no sense of style, no respect for tradition

“free enough to let her inner child peek through” = immature and accustomed to not having to shoulder responsibility

“free enough to be herself.” = still a racist and not proud of America but having fun on the taxpayers dime


23 posted on 10/24/2009 8:38:51 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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To: ETL

That’s gotta be a dude on the end. Do we now have First Wookiee stunt-doubles?


24 posted on 10/24/2009 8:40:28 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Roscoe Karns

Lol! A “puddle” would have been good too.


25 posted on 10/24/2009 8:41:10 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

I remember this baldheaded dude! He was the fartknocker on Big Brother a few years ago.


26 posted on 10/24/2009 8:43:21 PM PDT by tumblindice (They Live! The Worst Family: Alien monsters!)
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To: ETL

from Grambling State University (all black) in Louisiana, and has worked as a graphics and art director for the Times and National Geographic respectively


27 posted on 10/24/2009 8:45:52 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: 4buttons
Unfair. She was not overpaid at the U. of Chicago. $300,000 a year is cheap to buy a U.S. Senator's good graces.

Don't mean to pick solely on Michelle here. If you want to dig at payoffs to Members of Congress, one of the places you have to look is the family. Michelle's arrangement was perfectly legal, and rather common in our higher political circles. You can't put a Member of Congress on retainer any more, and it's increasingly difficult to slip big bucks under the table. But you can hire or throw business to the spouse.

28 posted on 10/24/2009 8:46:14 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Roscoe Karns; Jeff Chandler

ROFL


29 posted on 10/24/2009 8:47:08 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

WTH was she doing with that stance??? “Daa-hm...don’t tell me that beeatch be wearin’ the same shoes!?”


30 posted on 10/24/2009 8:48:14 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Mr.Chuck Blow has decreed it, let it be so...

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31 posted on 10/24/2009 8:48:35 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly ((My tagline has gone to bed.))
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To: ETL

Blow has obviously been sucked into this cult of insanity that is bringing the destruction of the constitutional republic. May God have mercy on their souls as I sure won’t.


32 posted on 10/24/2009 8:52:49 PM PDT by Wolfhound77
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To: ETL
Michelicopter
33 posted on 10/24/2009 8:54:15 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: ETL


"She has a lovely smile"

34 posted on 10/24/2009 8:54:42 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: ETL; All
"...I could pile on platitudes here about her professional accomplishments..."

Really? What would those accomplishments be, Mr. Blow? Having her salary double because her husband is elected to the Senate? Having her employer rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in earmarks as a result of legislation by her husband?

But I'm thinking that her biggest accomplishment was in saving her employer so much money by codifying and instituting procedures to turf poor, non-paying patients to the nearby community hospitals and clinics.

There was one story of a kid who nearly had his lips ripped off by a pit bull, and instituting HER policies, gave the kid tylenol, a shot of morphine and told his mother to follow up at Cook County hospital in a week. They took an hour bus ride across town to another hospital, arriving at 0500 and the kid was admitted and taken directly into surgery. (Read it here at the Chicago Tribune)

These people in power (including this sorry excuse for a First Lady) are hideous examples of corrupt socialist Marxist hypocrites who will turn the USA into Zimbabwe if we let them.

With, of course, the willing aid of slobbering turds at the NYT like this All World Knee Pad candidate of a "journalist".

35 posted on 10/24/2009 8:58:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: 4buttons


36 posted on 10/24/2009 9:02:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: ETL

Damn but this womans a$$ is almost as big as the Grand Canyon!


37 posted on 10/24/2009 9:03:18 PM PDT by JoeMac ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!'' Popeye The SailorMan)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Nah, that isn’t a horse-stance. I took karate and its a stance with both knees bent, center of gravity lower than she’s standing. She’s just letting off a fart. No class b!tch that she is.


38 posted on 10/24/2009 9:05:50 PM PDT by JoeMac ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!'' Popeye The SailorMan)
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To: ETL

The only magic I want from Shelly is for her to disappear.


39 posted on 10/24/2009 9:13:58 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: NautiNurse

Just simply not enough Photo Shop available to fix that.


40 posted on 10/24/2009 9:14:53 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: JoeMac
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41 posted on 10/24/2009 9:15:32 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: WVNan
Just simply not enough Photo Shop available to fix that.

Giggle...snort...!

42 posted on 10/24/2009 9:18:44 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: ETL

Wow, a NYTimes “journalist” is infatuated with Michelle Obama.

And he’s black... does this make him a racist for not fawning over Laura Bush?


43 posted on 10/24/2009 9:23:07 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Up Chuck and Blow chunks were the first two things to come to my mind.


44 posted on 10/24/2009 9:36:15 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
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To: ETL

Why does every journalist named Blow suck? See: Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News


45 posted on 10/24/2009 9:38:50 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: NautiNurse

This looks like her appearance on Jay Leno last night when Jay did his 10 at 10 segment with her (10 questions at 10pm). It was amazing to see how many questions she didn’t answer directly- just like hubby.


46 posted on 10/24/2009 9:40:24 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
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To: Rastus

Steve Blow ... yeah, it’s just too easy.


47 posted on 10/24/2009 9:53:12 PM PDT by altura
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To: ETL

that hoola hoop could rest on those ‘ips without moving.


48 posted on 10/24/2009 9:56:33 PM PDT by olliecollie
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To: ETL

that hoola hoop could rest on those ‘ips without moving.


49 posted on 10/24/2009 9:56:37 PM PDT by olliecollie
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To: ETL

Charles Blow - From one black man to another, you’re a nitwit. “Redefining the role of women”??? WTF? Michelle has been doing NOTHING but acting like some perfect caricature of an ideal house wife. She’s supposed to be a Harvard educated lawyer. Does she (or Barack for that matter) have a single individual innovative idea of her own? I have’nt seen it.


50 posted on 10/24/2009 10:37:21 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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