Posted on 10/02/2015 4:46:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
First Lady Michelle Obama has got a tough life. On Stephen Colbert Tuesday, she purported to long for the simple things in life--and vowed to enjoy them--as soon as her husbands Presidential term expires. These things included such pedestrian activities like shopping and driving with the windows down. To wit:
I also wanna do little things like, you know, open a window. I wanna go to Target. I wanna drive. I cant open my windows. I really cant [...] One day as a treat my lead agent let me have the windows open on the way open to Camp David, it was like five minutes out and he was like the windows open, enjoy it.
Isnt that sweet? The wife of the leader of the free world wants to just open the windows, feel the breeze blow through her hair, and appreciate the little blessings in life. Isnt it tragic that her position as FLOTUS prevents her from such travesties? I mean, on the way to Camp David, a fortified bastille--its purpose among other things, to keep the Presidents family safe; our countrys Secret Service agents protecting her--shes still just longs to open the windows. Queen Elsas frozen fate is nothing compared to Mrs. Obamas, but like Elsa she too is quarantined, protected, and the cold (air) doesnt bother her anyway.
Living a Fantasy, Selling Reality
Its fun playing dress-up--who doesnt love a fairytale? In this case, Mrs. Obama has lived a darn- close narrative of a Disney movie, complete with enemies and whining, a dashing prince, and warm fuzzies at the finish. The problem is Mrs. Obama likes to pretend like shes not living a fairytale. She likes to go out in the real world (television), pretend to be a woman of the people and want the same things they want, when shes lived a narrative that couldnt be more different.
Sure, shes one-half of a dynamic duo whose job is to steer the greatest country ever through economic recessions, complicated foreign policies. and terrorist threats, foreign and domestic. As Ive said before, I wouldnt want her job--or her husbands--in a million years, for any amount of money. But she has had a few legs up, ones many people would call fortunate.
After attending Princeton, she attended Harvard law school and she proceeded to work at one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, Sidley Austin, where she met Barack Obama. Her children attend Sidwell Friends, a prestigious, expensive private school. As is customary and expected of the First Ladys position, she attends many events, ceremonies and parties on our countrys behalf. She does so with style--opting for custom-made Vera Wang and Jason Wu.
Thats all well and good--though some might say excessive--but does that sound like a woman who longs to shop at Target above all else?
Playing the Victim, Being the Hero
Despite living the high-life, pressures notwithstanding, Mrs. Obama continues to use her public speaking opportunities--whether at colleges or on television--to pretend some kind of a victim, as if that will make her more relatable. As she said while speaking to graduates at Tuskegee University in Alabama, [O]ver the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited a little bit of uppity-ism. Another noted that I was one of my husbands cronies of color. Cable news once charmingly referred to me as Obamas Baby Mama.
Really? She has a collegiate audience captive to her thoughts for half an hour and she tells them a story of victimhood? Im so sorry you poor, sad, educated world traveler. How was your summer vacation in Italy that cost taxpayers upwards of $600,000? I hoped you packed Kleenex and wiped them from your cheeks before they dripped into the Gelato you ate while journaling the sob stories you collected there.
Colbert asked Obama another interesting question, referencing the letter Mrs. Bush left President Obama when the Bushes exited the White House: "Without naming names, if we have a female president next, would you leave a letter for her husband? What would you say? What's the thing he needs to know more than anything else about the job?" Mrs. Obama replied, "I would say, follow your passion, just be you."
Can you handle the precious, mushy goodness? Just be you. Of course. But wait: Is Mrs. Obama the person who wants to shop at Target? Or the person who currently has, at her disposal, a personal chef, Vera Wang dresses made for her, $11,000 date nights in New York City and Secret Service agents surrounding her 24/7? Not to mention, to critics who will claim this is just her current job, shes not actually all that highfalutin, the J.D., and the private schools, and the career at Sidley Austin to fall back on when her White House years are over.
Something tells me driving with the windows down to shop the $1 at Target is far from the life she claims to want to live, but a tale spun to help constituents like her more. Whats worse than Queen Elsas happy ending with Elsa happy and kingdom safe? A Queen who continues to suffuse a facade that shes trapped in an ice castle and only longs to be free. Mrs. Obama needs to get over herself and she needs to let it go.
More like Walmart!
He couldn't stand the smell. He needed some fresh air. He was gagging. His eyes were watering.
"Barry, the garbage man's here."
"Good. Tell him to leave two cans!"
But her admiring public expect that of her so she soldiers on, doing her best to make America proud.
/s
Let’s establish a gunfree zone around the White House.
This will take of things pretty quickly.
Classy, isn’t she? /sarcasm>
The friends of the Mooch can play at being milk maids, and the Mooch can play the part of the cow. She is an “udder” disgrace. And being so flat chested, doesn’t she just wish she had “udders.” I despise this Marxist mooch.
Please give a warning in advance that graphic displays are following. I just got thru eating chili and now it may be coming back up.
First class oinker!
I just want to know if Joan Rivers was right.
I remember that. The audacity of that person, how could she?</s>
I remember that. The audacity of that person, how could she?</s>
You’ll still be treated like royalty at our expense, so STFU!
"I'm first lady of the United States of America -- that's pretty high up...But I've always felt like my life is ever-evolving.
I don't have the right to just sit on my talents or blessings, I've got to keep figuring out ways to have an impact -- whether as a mother or as a professional or as a mentor to other kids."~Michelle Obama
February, 2014
How would you like to bump into that specter stumbling around a Chicago back alley some cold, dark winter night?
LOL, "dashing prince?" You mean a shriveled-up up, scrawny, queer California raisin.
She is well qualified for a no show job.
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