Posted on 10/25/2009 8:37:09 AM PDT by cartervt2k
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 couldn’t imagine recent first ladies jumping a puddle on the sidewalk, let alone two ropes swinging at the same time in opposite directions. So, on behalf of New York City, the so-called double Dutch capital of the world (so much so that this year it became a varsity sport in the city’s schools), allow me to say: Well played.
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.
But I will say that she seems particularly suited to these times. She provides a certain authenticity and clarity of self in a time of uncertainty, projecting a casual grace onto a world of amplified anxiety. She has become a powerful symbol of fearlessness, refinement, frugality and frivolity, managing to be both fun and serious simultaneously. She’s genuinely human.
Mrs. Obama is redefining my concept of a first lady, and I like it. Apparently, I’m not alone.
In April, at the peak of her popularity, a New York Times/CBS News poll measured her favorability at 67 percent. The same poll found that a stratospheric 84 percent approved...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Forgiven. Arguing about someone’s taste in women is lame anyway, even by a veiled invitation...
Read some of the comments! Then spew chunks!
Transcends a barf alert, double barf alert, or even barf a lung alert.
Mr Blow is positively DATO.
The “magic” is they sycophant “news” writers who are, in fact, myth writers..
What, not one mention of her toned arms; what the hell kind of fluff piece is this anyway?
Charles, your last name sux.
So darn fake it makes me sick. Have you forgotten who she is and what she has said about America.
PERFECT NAME FOR HIM.
This guy can get a job any time as Michelle’s as party coordinator. Matching the colors of paper napkins and forks is always a nice touch.
I really never expected to see the Völkischer Beobachter published in New York City. It’s very sad.
'Charles Blow' is smokin us here. Safe to say, he was blinded by Obama's light early on. But it does make for a good intro; when one is so desperately needed.
FRUGALITY???
Oh yes, the Wednesday blowout bashes are certainly a sign of THAT!
Maybe we should submit her for next year’s Peace Prize!
First Ladies should be CLASS (which she isn't either).
She’s not even the coolest First Lady in the last ten years.
Laura Bush had a much higher rating IIRC.
The problem for me is that it HAS ceased to amaze me. That’s scary.
Freed up enough to hate whitey with every fiber of her being.
The magic of Michelle Bachmann?
Cool!
I’m down wid’ it!!
Yes, frolick with the children on the WH lawn and grounds while her Prezzie plays golf, arranges ‘date nights’ and WH music galas, and our soldiers get killed in Iraq and now moreso in Afghanistan. Just peachy! So cool! Let’s go till the garden!.....buy some new clothes.....whoopee.....
Wait a darn tooting minute here...I thought the reason why the ‘hula hoop’ photo was used was because Michelle couldn’t ‘jump into’ the Double Dutch. I know I read it here (and elsewhere last week).
Do they have to emblellish even with the something as inconsequential as jumproping?
PaMom...off to search for the TRUE double dutch story...
I was wondering the same thing; I also recall reading that she was unable to jump in.
Found it!!!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1wS1ndrEngTu-0v7Dor0tF4XRsQD9BFMQ5G0?index=0
I feel all Buckheadesque!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Asl-1f9I&feature=player_embedded
Keepin It Tight Michelle Obama Gets Her Exercise On Hula Hooping!
Found it!!!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1wS1ndrEngTu-0v7Dor0tF4XRsQD9BFMQ5G0?index=0
I feel all Buckheadesque!
Found it!!!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1wS1ndrEngTu-0v7Dor0tF4XRsQD9BFMQ5G0?index=0
I feel all Buckheadesque!
Sorry, KJC1 for the duplicate post...FR hiccuped.
Anyhows...the Double Dutch ‘actual report’ is the next to the last paragraph.
Good find! Things have gotten so warped that you have to wonder if Michelle won’t be given an Olympic Gold Medal for jumping a rope she never jumped. It’s enough to make you lose your breakfast!
Holy crap, what’s up with that left eyebrow?
The author of the article is appropriately named!
Geez, that is scary!!!!!!! And to think these are our overlords! < :P
If only for being a piece of work. . .Michelle; despite best efforts of affirmative head bobbers; is not - nor was she ever - ready for 'prime time'.
You... you... RACIST!
She can DOUBLE DUTCH, don’t you know??? Did you ever see Laura Bush DOUBLE DUTCH? Hell no. How about the Queen of England or Margaret Thatcher?
Michelle Obama is everything we’ve ever dreamed of in a first lady. You will think this or we will find you and make you think it.
] Michelle Obama is everything we’ve ever dreamed of in a first lady. You will think this or we will find you and make you think it.[
'Double dutch' LOL. . .and no doubt, when they are ready to find us all, they will.
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