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Michelle Obama signals she may tackle tough issues in second term as first lady
The Washington Post / The Associated Press ^ | March 31, 2013 | Krissah Thompson

Posted on 03/31/2013 6:00:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In the first three months of her husband’s second term, Michelle Obama has made a splash as fashion icon, entertainer, cover girl. Her “The Evolution of Mom Dancing” video with Jimmy Fallon has racked up 15.3 million views on YouTube, and she’s back on the cover of the sartorial mag Vogue. But if this makes people think she’s settling for “soft power,” avoiding the tough issues — recent moves have shown this isn’t so.

To the first lady’s conventional issues — healthy food, exercise and military families — add violence against youth. On April 10, she will attend a youth violence event in Chicago, moving close to the gun-control debate, one of the year’s most contentious political issues. Obama will urge business and civil leaders in her home town “to invest in expanded opportunities for youth across Chicago’s neighborhoods,” members of her staff said.....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; flotusmichelle; guncontrol; michelleobama; obama; secondamendment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess it’s tough to watch your husband destroy western civilization while all you get to do is hang out with fat kids.


41 posted on 03/31/2013 6:58:54 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only tough issues she’s tackling is where to spend her next vacay.

On OUR dime of course.

F U M O! and your wife!


42 posted on 03/31/2013 6:59:43 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lighten up on her. She has to do something, her husband igonres her except for when he wants a photo-op. She isn’t getting any because Obama is busy with Reggie. She has to do something.


43 posted on 03/31/2013 7:00:03 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, just imagine how many Millions that we will spend on her vacations when she “starts tackling tough issues”, She takes two or three a month now with easy things!

Its a pretty posh ride the first few years of communism for the exalted leaders, till the starvation and blood baths “for the people” kicks in.


44 posted on 03/31/2013 7:00:52 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Michelle Obama has made a splash as fashion icon, entertainer, cover girl. National Geographic cover girl?
45 posted on 03/31/2013 7:04:05 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Heck, she makes me miss Hillary Clinton...

Trailer trash does trump the marxist Ghetto gang.

Just seems that the Presidency has become a Giant EBT card to our Undocumented Presidente.

46 posted on 03/31/2013 7:07:12 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Quickgun

Animal Planet Magazine =)


47 posted on 03/31/2013 7:25:01 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’ll tackle that pesky “peasants have too much freedom” problem that the elite left is so worried about.


48 posted on 03/31/2013 7:27:09 PM PDT by Washi (PUSH BACK! Encourage your legislators to introduce pro-second amendment legislation.)
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To: mikrofon

Any day now, I expect to see her sporting an “Insanity” T-shirt.


49 posted on 03/31/2013 7:28:34 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
really, nobody elected her fat azz to anything... she should stick to something she knows about, like eating fried food!!!


50 posted on 03/31/2013 7:30:14 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Barack and his Mooshy:
Twin Turbo-charged Furnaces most effective at burning
Taxpayer’s Money.
With nothing to show for it except the glory of the burning.


51 posted on 03/31/2013 7:34:50 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As opposed to trolling around on one lavish vacation after another?


52 posted on 03/31/2013 7:47:55 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trying to find the perfect vacation spot is tough.


53 posted on 03/31/2013 7:49:13 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I have read before that when she is on a cover of a mag sales are down. I wonder how the Vogue sales were with her airbrushed fat did.


54 posted on 03/31/2013 8:00:33 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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55 posted on 03/31/2013 8:34:34 PM PDT by baddog 219
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56 posted on 03/31/2013 8:59:18 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would be an act of God if someone in the media asked her why she didn’t give a crap about these kids when she LIVED in Chicago. Damn I detest this fat lard, wig wearer, evil sneering, arrogant pos.


57 posted on 03/31/2013 9:18:30 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (Fluck this adminstration of misfits.)
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To: Chode

She should tackle one BIG ISSUE, not the tough issues.


58 posted on 03/31/2013 10:27:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nascarnation

So true. You have to clothes shop, hair shop; etc., and eat everything in sight in order to keep up your strength in order to vacation and spend other people’s money.


59 posted on 03/31/2013 11:08:32 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tough issues and tough decisions....

Paris or the Riviera? Monaco or Rome? Where oh where to vacation on the peasants’ dime?


60 posted on 04/01/2013 2:22:35 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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