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The Meaning of Michelle Obama (Mega-BARF!)
Time Magazine ^ | Thursday, May. 21, 2009 | Nancy Gibbs and Michael Scherer

Posted on 05/21/2009 5:44:41 AM PDT by Neverforget01

"This is my team that came with me from Chicago," Michelle said, pointing to her communications staff and policy people. "This is my team who works here already," she went on, indicating the ring of veterans around the room. Many of the household staff had served for decades; some had postponed retirement because they wanted to serve an African-American President.

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Three generations, two adorable girls and a dog — no First Family has lived with the weight of hope and hype that has landed on the Obamas. Clothes they wear fly off the shelves. Dog breeders from Germany to Australia couldn't keep up with the demand for Portuguese water dogs after Bo debuted. Michelle is the first First Lady to make Maxim's hottest-women-in-the-world list. (She's No. 93; it probably wouldn't be proper for a First Lady to come in any higher.)

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Few First Ladies have embedded themselves so quickly in the world's imagination. And none have traveled so far, not just from Chicago's South Side to the East Wing, but from the caricatured Angry Black Woman of last spring to her exalted status as a New American Icon, as if her arrival will magically reverse eight years of anti-American spitballing, elevate the black middle class, promote family values, give voice to the voiceless and inspire us all to live healthier, more generous lives.

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The great-great-granddaughter of slaves now occupies a house built by them, one of the most professionally accomplished First Ladies ever cheerfully chooses to call herself Mom in Chief, and the South Side girl whose motivation often came from defying people who tried to stop her now gets to write her own set of rules.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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To: Neverforget01
Apparently people are postponing retirement just to serve the “First Belt”

Maybe it's because their retirement funds are in the toilet.

21 posted on 05/21/2009 6:54:26 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Neverforget01

I am quite sure there are african American White House staff who wanted to be there to serve the first african American family.


22 posted on 05/21/2009 6:55:12 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: ETL

Hoped for destruction of Israel rally.


23 posted on 05/21/2009 6:56:31 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Neverforget01; GOP_Lady; Tax-chick

There’s something extra in the Kool-Aid alright. A lot extra. Way past the point of gagging a maggot.


24 posted on 05/21/2009 7:20:22 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Neverforget01

The attempted canonization continues.


25 posted on 05/21/2009 7:23:35 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ezekiel

“Time” has absolutely nothing to offer. It’s not even useful to put in the snake’s cage.


26 posted on 05/21/2009 7:32:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The eviscerations will continue until morale improves.)
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To: Carley
I am quite sure there are african American White House staff who wanted to be there to serve the first african American family

No one puts off retirement because of the color of their employer's skin. If staff put off retirement it was because the individuals needed the money. I'm sure no one would suggest they volunteered their time because the residents were African American?

27 posted on 05/21/2009 7:40:40 AM PDT by Neverforget01 (Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.)
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To: Neverforget01

PLEASSEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 05/21/2009 7:49:23 AM PDT by peace with honor
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To: jetson

Michelle Zero was disbarred in 1993. She cannot practice law in the state of Illinois.

obamacrimes.com


29 posted on 05/21/2009 7:50:28 AM PDT by television is just wrong (one bad ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: jetson

Is this a pic of Michelle? It’s so propagandized, I’m not sure. I’d like to see this side-by-side with her familiar high school photo just to see how much plastic surgery was done.


30 posted on 05/21/2009 8:17:36 AM PDT by okimhere
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To: Bertha Fanation

“(2) Michelle Obama is a beautiful woman”

Correction: Michelle Obama is an OK-looking transvestite.


31 posted on 05/21/2009 8:21:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Piper Palin has more business experience than Obama; she has a lemonade stand.)
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To: Neverforget01

Oh, GAG!

Ping me when TIME figures out the meaning of LIFE. ;-)


32 posted on 05/21/2009 9:16:35 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Neverforget01

Thanks so much, my dear.

I’ve added my.name to the list. :-)


33 posted on 05/21/2009 9:41:45 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Neverforget01

It won’t wash. You can’t turn this pig or sow’s ear into a silk purse. The fabric; etc aren’t there. Her heart is filled with evil and hate showing in her arrogance. They can PR her all they want. It won’t stick because she is not genuine. She is not a lady.


34 posted on 05/21/2009 11:03:01 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: dead

“OMG. This really brings home why Time magazine is dying.
This reads like a high school girl wrote an article about the Jonas Brothers for Tiger Beat. I’ll bet she would scream and faint if Michelle Obama walked in the room. “

You owe me a new keyboard. Wow you hitit on the head, well that “tingly feeling” too!


35 posted on 05/21/2009 11:18:03 AM PDT by DieNarrin (Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity!)
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To: DieNarrin

Same here—that comment really hit it on the head...


36 posted on 05/21/2009 11:56:18 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: Neverforget01
"This is my team that came with me from Chicago," Michelle said, pointing to her communications staff and policy people.

And now we know why Michelle dresses like in too tight clothing, with wrinkled, mis-matched, getto-fabulous outfits mostly. And also why the Obamas are so lousy at gift-giving and ptotocal with dignataries. Their staff is from Chicago she said and better could have said "the hood" and has no idea of, or training, or experience with protocol, diplomacy, dignity, appropriate clothing, etiquette, etc. for a head of state. But, for a party in a firehall somewhere of community organizers they might do okay.

37 posted on 05/21/2009 12:29:15 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: television is just wrong

I didn’t know that..what were the circumstances?


38 posted on 05/21/2009 12:57:10 PM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: CitizenM
You are so right! She has no more idea of what she is doing than her husband does. As painful as it was, reading the whole article explained a lot. More from the article:

"After Barack Obama was elected to the Senate, people asked Michelle if she'd be moving to Washington. "I was like, no," she says. "All my support is the support you build up over the years. It is my mom, girlfriends — you move away from everything." But when he won the White House, Michelle effectively moved her support system with her, not just her mother but old friends who are scattered throughout both the East and West wings.

39 posted on 05/21/2009 1:41:39 PM PDT by Neverforget01 (Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.)
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To: Neverforget01

I imagine her staff was delighted to move with her, since they probably got big raises and will retire on gubmint pensions.


40 posted on 05/21/2009 5:37:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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