Posted on 11/19/2008 7:24:49 AM PST by jessduntno
Michelle Obama's Gluteal Golpe (Or, the Tale of the Transcendental Tuchis)
She has coruscating intelligence, beauty, style and -- drumroll, please -- a butt. (Yes, you read that right: I'm going to talk about the first lady's butt.)
As I gradually relaxed, as Michelle strode onto more stages and people started focusing on her clothes and presence instead of her patriotism, it dawned on me -- good God, she has a butt! "Obama’s baby (mama) got back," wrote one feminist blogger. "OMG, her butt is humongous!" went a typical comment on one African-American online forum, and while it isn't humongous, per se, it is a solid, round, black, class-A boo-tay. Try as Michelle might to cover it with those Mamie Eisenhower skirts and sheath dresses meant to reassure mainstream voters, the butt would not be denied.
As America fretted about Obama's exoticism and he sought to calm the waters with speeches about unity and common experience, Michelle's body was sending a different message: To hell with biracialism! Compromise, bipartisanship? Don't think so. Here was one clear signifier of blackness that couldn't be tamed, muted or otherwise made invisible. It emerged right before our eyes, in the midst of our growing uncertainty about everything, and we were too bogged down in the daily campaign madness to notice. The one clear predictor of success that the pundits, despite all their fancy maps, charts and holograms, missed completely? Michelle's butt.
In this case, the phrase is used differently, as in, "Thank God Almighty, we are free from an oppressive history of First Ladies with insufficiently Sir-Mix-a-Lottian figures."
I only wish I could say the piece was tongue-in-cheek, but a) it's not very, and b) that phrase might be inappropriate given the subject matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
such heady material
The author is quoting a Slate article. It appears that Slate has made a complete a$$ of itself.
Obama and wife be known now as Big Ears and Big Butt.
she may have a butt but barack always talks out of his @$$
The Right Stuff! Geezz!! Really important stuff to ‘blog’ about allright.
Yes, those that voted for THEM, would be viewing Michele in this way. No substance.
Exceeded in size only by her mouth.
De clunibus magnis amandis oratio
Mixaloti equitis
mehercle!
Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!
amica esse videtur istorum hominum rhythmicorum.
sed, ut scis,
quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?
colloquuntur equidem cum ista eo tantum, quod scortum perfectum esse videtur.
clunes, aio, maiores esse!
nec possum credere quam rotondae sint.
en! quam exstant! nonne piget te earum?
ecce mulier Aethiops!
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur,
cum puella incedit minore medio corpore
sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos...
That’s where his pointed little head with horns is burried.
Thank you for not posting pictures.
“OMG, her butt is humongous!”
To quote W.C. Fields “How would you like one of THOSE full of nickels??”
Sounds more like National Geographic.
I always wondered who that was following her......
Sometimes, a butt is only a butt.
The sad thing is, she doesn’t look any better from the front.
So do all just call her “Becky”
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