Posted on 02/22/2009 8:17:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's Friday in the East Wing of the Obama White House, the realm of first lady Michelle Obama.
Many of the cream-colored walls are still bare. The Obama administration, after all, is just one month old.
But there is a growing photo collection in the hallways that charts the increasing activity of the first lady in the last two weeks as she settles in to her new role and starts expanding her portfolio of issues. The newest item on her non-controversial agenda is healthy living. That's in addition to assisting military families, pushing work-family balance, national service, women's concerns and opening up the White House to the community.
The pictures tell a story of the first weeks of the administration and the first lady ramping up her public appearances. There's the nation's first couple in formal wear at the Alfalfa Dinner. And Mrs. Obama receiving an American Indian shawl at the Interior Department. The first lady greeting White House staff in the East Room and hugging a little girl at a school in the city. An empty frame waits to be filled.
The first lady on this morning is in her office.
Some days, she works from the White House residence. Her schedule isn't rigid. A few hours from now, Mrs. Obama will head to the Transportation Department.
Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, is outside the first lady's office door with her two deputies, Ebs Burnough and Joe Reinstein. The East Wing is producing its first big dinner tonight, a black-tie affair for the National Governors Association, and the operative word, Rogers is saying, is that the event should be "fun." The governors wanted to dance, so Earth, Wind and Fire was booked for the gig. Mrs. Obama was involved in planning the evening.
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She should be nominated for What Not to Wear.
A friend was reading the new book out on China under Mao, written by a woman who lived through it as a child. When she started telling me about Mrs Mao, and how she was responsible for most of the outright terror that was instituted under Mao; I swear to God ( totally unasked for) the name of our first lady popped into my mind.
It was scary.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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did she not get the color coding attire memo?
Better late than never?
You have FReepmail
Maybe this keyword search was the result of the same kind of dogged pursuit of the Malaysian Airline jet. It only took 5 years for the Keyword authoring investigation to reach a conclusion. Perhaps in the winter of 2019, we’ll finally find that dang plane.
LOL
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