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She's got game. And First Lady Michelle Obama, leaving tonight for Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid, is cranking it up, promising to "take no prisoners" in her quest to beat Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Madrid. Mrs. Obama offered up some good-natured G-rated trash talk about Chicago's rivals when she met with a group of reporters on Monday to discuss Friday's vote by the International Olympic Committee to pick the 2016 host city. "It's a battle. We're going to win," she boasted Monday with bravado -- and good humor. "Take no prisoners."

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Michelle Obama vowed Monday to "take no prisoners" as she and her husband launch an unprecedented bid for Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. First lady's attitude about the effort to secure Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics: "Take no prisoners." "It's a battle -- we're going to win -- take no prisoners," the first lady said with a smile at a roundtable discussion with reporters in the White House State Dining Room. She compared the intense lobbying effort to the 2008 presidential campaign, noting that in the election campaign, a lot of voters made their decision...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is to kick off the 40th anniversary season of the children's TV show "Sesame Street" with a segment encouraging kids to plant gardens and eat healthy food. Obama, who is planting a fruit and vegetable garden on the grounds of the White House, will appear in the November10 season debut of "Sesame Street" -- the educational show for kids that is broadcast in more than 120 countries around the world. Producers said on Tuesday that Obama will teach the furry "residents" of Sesame Street about the benefits of growing a garden...

WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama says women should do what makes them happy, a lesson she says she learned after realizing her two children, her husband and her physical health feed off of her good moods. In an interview appearing in the November issue of Prevention magazine, Mrs. Obama discusses the meaning of good health, aging and her exercise, diet and beauty routines. She sat for the interview at the White House in late July.

U.S. First lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech during the visit with the other first ladies to CAPA high school of art on September 25, 2009 during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama waves at an event for the spouses of the G20 world leaders at CAPA school during the G20 Pittsburgh Summit in Pittsburgh, September 25, 2009.

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<p>MICHELLE Obama gave her husband the silent treatment at one point in his campaign for president because so many women "pushed their bodies up against his, slipped phone numbers into his pockets" and whispered lewd suggestions in his ear, a new book out today claims.</p>

Yay For Vegetables AND Yay For Food Policy: First Lady Michelle Obama Gives A Stunning Speech At Opening of Farmers Market In addition to purchasing local foods, Mrs. Obama was "Tea Kettle Whistling" a heavy duty food policy agenda. And a look at the White House/USDA partnership... It was drizzling and cold, but that didn't stop hundreds of people from showing up yesterday for the opening of the new farmers market by the White House, which is on a street about a block from the Executive Mansion. The market's debut was the special event for the fourth day of USDA's...

You might think a posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony would be a somber occasion, but not everyone would agree with you. Either this is an especially skillful photo shop effort or Michelle Obama has no clue whatsoever about the nature of this event. U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti’s parents received the award for him. I hope they didn’t notice the first lady’s stunningly inappropriate dress, but that’s unlikely.

Yes, First Lady Michelle Obama is now aggressively crusading for her husband’s health care takeover under the guise of championing woman who have been “crushed” by the system. One woman Mrs. Obama won’t be spotlighting? The mother of Dontae Adams.

Here is video of Rush Limbaugh today blasting President Obama and Michelle for trashing American Health Care. He was reacting to Michelle Obama's comments today that the U.S. Health Care System is "unacceptable." Limbaugh points out that instead of being grateful for America's great quality of Health Care, they constantly trash America. . . . (VIDEO)

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama hugs U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius following her remarks on health care legislation at the White House complex September 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama amplified the President's message on the need for health insurance reform and its impact on women and families during the event.

FIRST Lady Michelle Obama is to enter the bitter debate over American healthcare reforms. She is to use her considerable popularity to push her husband's health policies which have struggled to win widespread support. White House officials said she will not make any political speeches but will instead focus on the implications of the planned reforms for families. Aides said she will have a "dedicated focus" on health insurance care reforms - one of the most controversial issues in President Obama's $1trillion overhaul of the system. Having Mrs Obama enter the debate is seen as a winning move as her...

Here is video of First Lady Michelle Obama decreeing today that current U.S. Health Care is "unacceptable." She was speaking to a group of women at the White House. She was speaking in grave tones, as if women in America are in some kind of 3rd world Banana Republic. I guess Michelle believes it is time for her to weigh in with her view to help push ObamaCare across the goal line. Something tells me she won't change a lot of minds -- in Obama's favor. NOTE: Has Michelle ever found anything about the United States "acceptable?" . . ....

For this year's 10 best-dressed women, People magazine pulled out yearbook-style superlatives, choosing Kim Kardashian for "best bikinis, Nicole Richie for "best maternity" and Michelle Obama for "best accessible glamour." "We decided to shake it up," said style editor Clarissa Cruz. "When you hear best dressed, you typically thinking glamorous red carpet. We wanted to open it up more." Leading the pack of 10, in the area of typical glamorous fashion, was Kate Winslet, chosen for Best Red Carpet. "She had a big year," said Cruz. "She was all over the award-show circuit. It's hard to get it right every...

First Lady Michelle Obama made the case Friday morning that health care reform is a women's issue and called on female activists to support President Obama's reform plan. "Health insurance reform and what it means for our families is very much a women's issue," Obama said, speaking to a group of female advocacy leaders at the White House. "If we want to ensure women have opportunities that they deserve, if we want women to be able to care for their families and pursue things they could never imagine, then we have to reform the system." Women play a unique and...

Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon: The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with...

Does anyone know why Michelle Obama had her law license revoked in 1993?

In an earlier post, we wrote a bit about the differences between modern politics and the approach taken by our pre-agricultural ancestors. When thinking about these issues (modern vs. pre-ag), it's important to understand that while our experience of the modern is (obviously) more immediate, the experience of those who lived in that long dawn before agriculture was far more lasting, and thus is more likely to find reflection in our deepest patterns of thought and feeling. If we agree that our species, modern Homo sapiens came into being around 200,000 years ago, and the earliest evidence of agriculture is...

Alleged comedian Bill Maher followed in the footsteps of shock jock Don Imus with a "ho" joke, this one targeting Michelle Obama. It came in the context of Maher accusing DRUDGE of "subliminal racism" by posting a headline that read "Poll Hell: Obama Negs Rise." After trying to stretch "Negs" to represent the "n" word, provoking laughter from only a few among his audience, Maher showed several ficticious DRUDGE headlines. One fine one displayed Michelle Obama working with a garden tool in what may have been a ceremonial tree planting. The made-up caption read "Hoein' The Garden." That provoked groans...

The Olympic bid will be decided on October 2nd in Copenhagen., Denmark. The four finalists Rio, Tokyo, Madrid, and Chicago are all sending in their heavy hitters to make the final pitch. Madrid will be represented by King Carlos. The President of Brazil will represent Rio. Tokyo will be represented by the new Premier, Yukio Hatoyama. Chicago will send in First Lady Michelle Obama?

ABC News has learned that First Lady Michelle Obama is heading to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month to help seal the deal with the International Olympic Committee for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid. From October 1 through October 9, the 121st IOC Session & XIII Olympic Congress meets. The King of Spain and the President of Brazil are going as well to try to help bids made by Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, respectively. There has been pressure on the administration to send the president to help close, though sending a world leader to such a thing is not without some risk,...

WASHINGTON--President Obama just phoned Mayor Daley to tell him he may not be able to travel to Copenhagen next month to help make the final pitch for Chicago to win the 2016 Olympic summer games because of his pending fight to pass health care legislation. First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. delegation, the Sun-Times has learned. I'm told the President told the mayor he is very committed, he will continue to press the case and Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. Olympic Committee delegation's bid for the Chicago 2016 games. Obama can't, at this moment, commit to going...

President Barack Obama is sending his wife Michelle to Copenhagen next month to urge Olympics organisers to select Chicago to host the 2016 Games. The White House said Obama informed International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge on Friday he had to stay in the United States to push his campaign for health reform. But Obama, an enthusiastic supporter of his home town's campaign to stage the Games, promised to keep working to support the bid with his wife and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett. Mrs Obama and Jarrett will join U.S. organisers at the IOC meeting in Copenhagen on...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KU -- Conspiracy theorists have tried to prove the possibility of aliens, sea monsters, and even shape shifters, now there is a mystery in Jefferson County. Kenny Mahoney, born and raised in Fairdale, snapped a picture of what some people are calling Big Foot. His hunting camera, which is operated by a motion detector, normally picks up rabbits, deer and turkeys, but on September 1st around 2:15 p.m. it picked up a strange image that looks like some sort of large black creature, one Mahoney estimates taller than he. "It looked like it had the outline of a...

Michelle Obama's longtime trainer is breaking his silence, spilling the workout secrets that keep the First Lady fit for her favorite sleeveless outfits. "She's truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness," Cornell McClellan tells Women's Health magazine. McClellan, who began training Obama in 1997, said her sculpted arms are mostly the result of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. The trainer, who owns the Naturally Fit fitness center in Chicago, reveals the First Lady usually does an intense calorie-burning cardio workout. Once she gets the blood flowing and the muscles pumping, she tops it off with "arm-shaping supersets"...

WASHINGTON — At last, the secret to first lady Michelle Obama's sculpted arms? Tricep pushdowns and hammer curls.

"Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."

Michelle Obama, exhausted from her Martha's Vineyard vacation, can't keep her eyes open during the Homily at the funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy. Don't give her too much grief, though. It's really not her fault. Reverend Mark Hession isn't half the public speaker that Reverend Jeremiah Wright was. VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZNc2imBgU&feature=player_embedded The first lady was boarding a jet that is the smaller version of Air Force One.

Here is video of of First Lady Michelle Obama appearing to hit her head as she boarded Air Force One Friday night to leave Martha's Vineyard and head to Boston where President Obama will speak at a service for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy today. . . . . (Watch Video)

First Lady Michelle Obama hits her head while boarding a smaller version of Air Force One.

How much public privacy do presidential families deserve? Not as much as Barack Obama wants. Earlier this month, according to the New York Post, Secret Service agents demanded that customers temporarily hand over cell phones in D.C.’s “Good Stuff Eatery,” where Michelle, Malia and Sasha were eating cheeseburgers, onion rings and fries. Why? To prevent diners from snapping cell phone pictures of the first daughters. Now on Martha’s Vineyard, Obama has issued strong media directives about photographing the girls when he’s not with them. No word on whether regular Joes and Janes will again have to hand over cell phones...

High School junior Lindsay Hull said she was amazed and honored to receive a signed letter from First Lady Michelle Obama recently, congratulating her on an award-winning essay about Martin Luther King Jr. Hull wrote the essay last spring, and won $50 for it, but she said she never thought it would get even more attention. Since then, St. David resident Naomi Comeau said she found the essay to be moving, and being a former member of the NAACP, she sent the essay and photo of Hull that was printed in the April 8 edition of the San Pedro Valley...

There's been a big fuss this week because Michelle Obama wore shorts. She's worn shorts before — to walk the dog, do stuff around the White House. But the photos of her wearing them in that iconic descending-from-Air-Force-One-onto-the-tarmac setting proved too much for the media. Obamas? Check. Summer news doldrums? Check. Controversy? Close enough. It was a story. * * * But the truth is there was a conflict. It is within each of us. While nobody would make Mrs. O wear couture in Arizona in August, the truth is, she just didn't look particularly good in shorts. Her arms...

So here we are again. The biggest scandal to hit the White House: How much skin is really in? Hours upon hours have been spent talking about what a first lady should or should not wear. First, it was whether or not she had the right to “bare arms,” and now, pictures of Michelle wearing “short” shorts while on holiday with her family during yesterday’s trip to the Grand Canyon are sparking a similar debate. While most women would agree that shorts (at any length) are often tough to pull off, I think we should line up with hands raised...

The first lady with a right to bear arms is now exercising her right to bear her legs. That's what the chatty-o-sphere's saying about Michelle Obama's so-called "short shorts", which she was wearing when she strolled around the Grand Canyon on a family trip yesterday. But those aren't short shorts. They're shorts, period. What wizened, saggy chinned, fanny pack-wearing news anchor called them short shorts to begin with? What jealous, Dockers-clad, khaki-panted right wing zealot believed them? Who out there's really scandalized? For serious. Those aren't short shorts. They're mommy bloomers. Even webby bastion of liberalism The Huffington Post asked...

Seems some people are actually outraged, outraged that First Lady Michelle Obama dared to bare so much leg by wearing shorts on a recent trip to the sweltering Grand Canyon. OMG. First she wears a sleeveless dress, now this? But think about this for a minute. What should she have worn to the Grand Canyon? A tweed pantsuit? A ballgown? What do you wear on your summer vacation?

For weeks, Michelle Obama had been telling her staff and closest confidantes that she wasn't having the impact she wanted. She is a woman of substance, with a background in law, public policy and management, who found herself relegated to role model in chief. The West Wing of the White House -- the fulcrum of power and policy -- had not fully integrated her into its agenda. She wanted more. So, earlier this month, she changed her chief of staff, and now she's changing her role.

How many staffers does it take? Back in the 1950s, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower had one secretary and President Eisenhower had to pay her salary. In the 1960s Jackie Kennedy had one secretary. Hillary Clinton had three and Laura Bush one. Today, Michelle Obama has 22 on her staff and no one knows how high the number will grow. Salaries start in the $30,000 range and go to $172,000 for her chief of staff. So far the total comes to $1,216,000 a year and it's not coming out of President Obama's salary because he doesn't make that much. There are...

How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public: 1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff) 2.. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects...

"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much",she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service". --Michelle Obama-- ...No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln...

"Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken."

Along with other educational cable stations such as the Military Channel, Nat Geo, and Discovery, I love watching the History Channel. Recently the History Channel has aired a number of programs on the legendary hairly man-like ape often called Bigfoot on a special series called Monster Quest. Some creatures thought to be myth actually do exist such as the Giant Squid. The Gorilla was only discovered and confirmed in the 1800s. The evidence for the existence of a large primate living in the North American wilderness rests largely with a large number of eyewitness sightings and encounters as well as...

First Lady requires more than twenty attendants By Dr. Paul L. Williams Tuesday, July 7, 2009 By the staff of thelastcrusade.org “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” --Albert Einstein “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “ Michelle Obama No, Michele Obama...

A scheme hatched and endorsed by the new First Lady called the “Urban Health Initiative” will not be examined by the MSM because of the shady connections by the present officials in the Obama Administration.

You've probably already heard about the little mini-drama kicked off by President Obama's daughter Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace symbol recently. But the wingnuts at Free Republic went absolutely apesh*t over it in a thread that has since been removed, then restored, then removed again. The racist idiots came out of the woodwork to say things like this: "A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion." And as the Vancouver Sun notes: The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that...

Just minutes after President Obama’s disastrous prime-time press conference touting his “health care” plan, FOX News host Sean Hannity aired a special segment about a so-called “patient-dumping” scandal in Obama’s hometown, Chicago. And the scandal may very well involve First Lady Michelle Obama herself.

First lady Michelle Obama's mother summed up her life at the White House in one word: wonderful. Marian Robinson says the mansion is "much bigger than anything I've ever been accustomed to" and has "lots of people to take care of you." But the people she moved here to care for — granddaughters Malia and Sasha — are growing up so fast she's beginning to feel "left out." --snip-- Barack Obama has always been very hardworking, she said, and "he still is the hardest working person I know. I sometimes wonder how he does it, and Michelle, but then that's...