Posted on 11/09/2009 9:06:22 PM PST by Saije
When Michelle Obama moved into the White House, she instantly became one of the most famous first ladies in history, a symbol of racial pride, a victor in the battle of the sexes and the picture of a modern woman, mother and wife.
But from her days on the campaign trail to her residency in the White House, Obamas favorability rating has been in flux, from a low of 48 percent in June 2008 to a peak of 72 percent last March to a slide to 61 percent in a recent Gallup Poll.
That 11-point stumble some might call it a tumble seems at odds with the focus of a White House publicity team that is carefully crafting her image and building a decidedly current, wholesome, upbeat brand. But while Obama has broadened the reach of her office, White House observers say that the role and projects she has embraced so far are seen by some as disappointingly traditional.
If you asked most people, they would say she defines her job as first lady as taking care of her family, and maybe thats what the White House wants what she wants, said first lady historian Betty Boyd Caroli. A lot of people appreciate that, but some people wanted more, and maybe thats why the numbers are dipping.
Like her husband, Obama moved into the White House with outsize expectations from different and sometimes competing constituencies: fashionistas, black women, working women, working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, feminists, post-feminists all identify with her.
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“When Michelle Obama moved into the White House, she instantly became one of the most famous first ladies in history”
—stopped right there. No one I know gives a flying monkey crap about her or her hubby.
Kinda like somebody else I know.
It could also be those dresses she wears that resemble the towels I have hanging in my kitchen, or drapes in the den. I really believe there’s something to that cliché about dressing the part, and she goes around looking like Ma Kettle’s baggage.
Of course those rumors about her being nastier than an old banshee doesn’t help her much either.
Nobody needs to ‘craft’ Sarah Palin’s image, and that’s why she’s naturally loved. She is what she is. But they’re still going to do their damndest to tear apart that image.
Michelle O., “The First Bee-yotch”, is every bit as synthetic as her hubby, The Hologram President.
Nobody needs to ‘craft’ Sarah Palin’s image, and that’s why she’s naturally loved. She is what she is. But they’re still going to do their damndest to tear apart that image.
Michelle O., “The First Bee-yotch”, is every bit as synthetic as her hubby, The Hologram President.
It's already a zero, as far as I'm concerned! They are both too lazy to get anything significant done..
Partying - date nights - Wednesday night parties - traveling - staying in every luxurious place on the planet is what they are all about.
The jobless in this country really appreciate hearing all about it, too.
Lies work only for a short time.
And constantly staring at me from every damn magazine cover imaginable while I wait in the supermarket checkout line, week after week, month after month.
You just cannot get away from the Obamas...
And she has 20 or more peope to assist her image of being a woman who takes care of her family?
Now just a darn pickin' minute! What did my baggage ever do to you?
I think Obama’s family should be off limits.
Remember how we felt when Bush’s daughters were being attacked by those Hollywwod pinheads in the bar?
Save the rhetoric for Obama. There is more than enough there,
Huh? Is she the first female First Lady?
The Obamas are the ones shoving themselves out there in our face.. It's getting sickening to see them plastered all over the place!!
Didn't you read this??? "Obama has broadened the reach of her office"
She's fair game. She's not one of the kids!!
Apparently they haven't figured out that if you need to have a big team of people assigned to carefully craft a fake "wholesome and upbeat" public image for you because you absolutely lack these qualities naturally, then eventually people will still catch on to who you really are, and then there goes the poll numbers.
The most famous would have to be Jackie O...
Followed by Elenore Roosevelt for her exposure during WWII...
with Nancy Reagan in there somewhere...
and not forgeting Hilary just because she has been around so much...
Jackie O would win though...
And Michelle Who ???
ROFLMBO
Kids, absolutely. Michelle? No friggin' way.
Yeah, and word is that she is weighing in on some of those “big” decisions, or lack of them, that Hussein is trying to make(or not). So if that be true, no way is she exempt from radar.
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