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I don’t like or even trust Michelle, but I would not want someone taking pictures of me eating, grinding and swallowing food.

I would normally agree with you, but Mrs. Obama falls intro a different category for two reasons.

1. The fashion industry and mass media decided to anoint her the New Jackie Kennedy, and she embraced the coverage. She allowed herself to be turned into an affirmative-action fashion icon.

2. She made food a centerpiece of her term as First Lady. On top of that, she didn't just go around the country saying "Just Say No" to whomever would listen like Mrs. Reagan did. No, she was influential in destroying the school lunch program. On top of that, many a sympathetic inner-city school (I use Rockford, IL as a real-life example) spent lots of scarce public school money on expensive urban gardens in response to her initiatives.

If she were Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, Lady Bird Johnson or Laura Bush, I would agree with you. She wanted to be a celebrity in her own right. She gets all that goes with it.