There was some discussion on here yesterday about it and it looks like this article is more spin than fact.
Obama is mean-spirted
Any chance that the accompanying headline referenced her "weight battle?"
It's just MHO, but I really think we're grasping for reasons to be critical of the President. And that trivializes our disagreements with his policies.
You are right. It wasw really Lauer that caused the problem because he showed BO the magazine cover, and pointed out that only Michelle and the girls were on it. BO had been covered up by Jessica Simpson. BO read the caption out loud, which said “In a weight battle”. He didn’t say anything about Simpson one way or the other.
Lauer was just being his ignorant liberal self and focusing on pop culture instead of covering the topics of Gitmo prisoners being released, stimulus plans containing lots of wasted dollars, or Daschle’s tax evasion. I suppose he didn’t ask the serious questions because he didn’t want to embarrass BO by making him answer the tough questions.
I have a hunch the title of the article on the cover is about her having a “weight battle.”
I don’t like Obama, but come on. Obviously he was pointing out how she was addressed in the article, not calling her fat himself.
Still, he is acting very unpresidential here.