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Michelle Obama on Outrage Over Her Bare Arms After Jackie Kennedy's Were Admired: 'It Wasn't the Clothes'
People ^ | 10/31/2025 | Janine Rubenstein

Posted on 11/01/2025 7:35:36 PM PDT by simpson96

Michelle Obama exercised her right to bare arms in the White House, but she wasn't the first to do so.

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Asked how she coped with the high level of criticism about her appearance back then, she tells PEOPLE, "I took it for what it was, pure hypocrisy." In the book she details the time when she was railed against in the media for wearing sleeveless dresses to events as first lady.

The dual standard, she says, was obvious. "I could pull up pictures of Jackie O in a second and see this fashion icon in sleeveless dresses as First Lady. So at a point you’re like, 'Oh, this is politics.'"

She continues, "'If you can’t beat them, make everybody scared of them.' That was the motto. If it wasn’t the clothes, it was 'that terrorist fist bump.' It was every word that we said. It was my husband’s tan suit."

The former first lady reveals she had a hand in helping pick the infamous tan suit that was deemed "unpresidential" when the former President wore it while on official business back in 2014.

"I loved that tan suit! When he had it on, I was like, 'Oh my God, you look so cute'," she says. "[Then] I was like, 'Oh, you got clocked for that one. Welcome to my world.' That was toward the end of his presidency, so we were used to all the crazy issues that people would take with us."

And she says she knows what their critics intended to do.

(Excerpt) Read more at nz.news.yahoo.com ...


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To: SharpRightTurn

That’s right.


41 posted on 11/01/2025 9:09:25 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: anton

42 posted on 11/01/2025 9:23:28 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Big Mike was good in that Sci-Fi movie with Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall.

Laser Blast?

43 posted on 11/01/2025 9:36:40 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: simpson96

MO is whatever she is...a fairly naturally unattractive big person who occasionally could look decent....but Melania is naturally extraordinarily beautiful and the media ignores that. Talk about hypocrisy!

Mo complains and complains...to what end? She’s stuck with whoever she/he/it is.
She ought to just STFU!


44 posted on 11/01/2025 9:45:02 PM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: simpson96
It was because you chose to showcase your patently unfeminine linebacker shoulders and arms

She has the kind of arms where she could pull your head off if she wanted to... and she probably does. She'd probably tell you what she was going to do before she did it, just to see the terror in your eyes.

45 posted on 11/01/2025 9:53:13 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: simpson96

Liberal women will never overcome one simple contradiction that holds them all back:

One cannot be both a strong woman and a victim at the same time.


46 posted on 11/01/2025 10:00:39 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: simpson96

On another note; Jackie was the epitome of feminine and she didn’t have a visible package when her skirt was a tight fit.


47 posted on 11/01/2025 10:04:20 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: anton

The picture of the two replaced the 1930 Grant Wood painting American Gothic.

America was downhill from there on.


48 posted on 11/01/2025 10:21:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: struggle

Photo....

More than one of the magazine and TV comments from women reporters called them “her toned arms.”
No mentions of shaving her sideburns twice a day.


49 posted on 11/01/2025 10:23:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TigersEye

Great scene of Robert Frost chatting with Jacqueline Kennedy....She was gracious and genuinely impressed to talk with the 86 year old poet. Because of the sun glare outside he had to recite The Gift Outright from memory. Decades later his son said he was ashamed of the poem which glorified the US and the military sacrifices of soldiers to keep America great.

Jackie with the poet.
https://www.google.com/search?q=images+robert+frost+with+jacqueline+kennedy&sca_esv=1569f64a49d9fc78&udm=2&biw=1198&bih=608&ei=DusGab3YLt2yptQPqZyd6AI&ved=0ahUKEwi9l8iB3dKQAxVdmYkEHSlOBy0Q4dUDCBI&oq=images+robert+frost+with+jacqueline+kennedy&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyIraW1hZ2VzIHJvYmVydCBmcm9zdCB3aXRoIGphY3F1ZWxpbmUga2VubmVkeUgAUABYAHAAeACQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQzIAQCYAgCgAgCYAwCSBwCgBwCyBw


50 posted on 11/01/2025 10:31:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: gundog

And all those Motel 6 rooms sacrificed their shower curtains for Jill Biden’s fashion needs.


51 posted on 11/01/2025 10:33:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: simpson96

Big Mike - still whining.


52 posted on 11/01/2025 10:39:30 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: JerseyDvl
One cannot be both a strong woman and a victim at the same time.

Feminists reject the term "victim."

The preferred term is "survivor."

53 posted on 11/01/2025 11:14:56 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: simpson96

Jackie Kennedy looked like a beautiful, feminine woman. Big mike looked like a linebacker in a woman’s dress.


54 posted on 11/01/2025 11:15:44 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: simpson96

Jackie was refined, graceful, feminine, classy, and elegant. Michelle is none of those.


55 posted on 11/01/2025 11:46:02 PM PDT by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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To: peggybac

I wonder if Michele could be a super star in the WNBA?


56 posted on 11/02/2025 12:08:23 AM PDT by kawhill ("And we'll do what we must, and we'll cry without making a sound". Corbin, John)
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To: simpson96

Shouldn’t there be a warning to have eye bleach handy when we add pix of The Wook-— I mean, Big Mike?


57 posted on 11/02/2025 1:38:52 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: simpson96

It wants no straps.


58 posted on 11/02/2025 1:42:19 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: simpson96
All this tells me is that Big Mike has really low self-esteem. I guarantee she melts down whenever she sees Melania.
59 posted on 11/02/2025 1:45:03 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: anton

That female is no lady.


60 posted on 11/02/2025 1:21:06 AM PST by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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