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 ...
Maybe it's because their retirement funds are in the toilet.
I am quite sure there are african American White House staff who wanted to be there to serve the first african American family.
Hoped for destruction of Israel rally.
There’s something extra in the Kool-Aid alright. A lot extra. Way past the point of gagging a maggot.
The attempted canonization continues.
“Time” has absolutely nothing to offer. It’s not even useful to put in the snake’s cage.
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?
PLEASSEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michelle Zero was disbarred in 1993. She cannot practice law in the state of Illinois.
obamacrimes.com
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.
“(2) Michelle Obama is a beautiful woman”
Correction: Michelle Obama is an OK-looking transvestite.
Oh, GAG!
Ping me when TIME figures out the meaning of LIFE. ;-)
Thanks so much, my dear.
I’ve added my.name to the list. :-)
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.
“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!
Same here—that comment really hit it on the head...
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.
I didn’t know that..what were the circumstances?
"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.
I imagine her staff was delighted to move with her, since they probably got big raises and will retire on gubmint pensions.
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