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 ...
oops...sorry.
I guess "freedom of speech" blah...blah...blah. Seriously, why make fun of her physical features. How about just hating their policies and/or communist/socialist/idiotic environmental belief system?
It just seems petty to make fun of someone's appearance, especially the guys wife. She looks like Amarosa from Trump's TV show. Seems to be full of anger and I'm just sure that she feels a sense of entitlement now that she's first Lady. If a person has class, it reveals itself on how she treats others. Laura Bush and Barbara Bush were class acts.... Hillary....not so much.
Hey, wait a minute. Hillary does have cankles and that come hither bowling pin figure... nevermind the first part of this rant. She does look funny... Hillary that is. AND, I hate her policies.
she is Obamarosa!
Is her butt bigger ‘n Hitlery’s?
And are you talking about her face or fanny?
I hear Sir MixALot is going to play at the inaugural balls.
“Thank you for not posting pictures.”
The author decided to sit on them...
What a strange article!
Calling Seemore............Seemore Butts
“What a strange article!”
No ifs ands or...
Aww... man, let’s not go here!!
This ban went into effect when the Clintons and Gores came into power. One famous photo showed all four from behind and they did indeed blot out the sun in several ZIP Codes ... immediately afterwards, the Butt-Shot was verboten.
Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.
It is so big. *scoff* She looks like,
one of those rap guys’ girlfriends.
But, you know, who understands those rap guys? *scoff*
They only talk to her, because,
she looks like a total prostitute, ‘kay?
I mean, her butt, is just so big.
I can’t believe it’s just so round, it’s like,
out there, I mean - gross. Look!
She’s just so ... black!
Never thought I'd see an article which originated on the Salon blogs regurgitated on FR...
tasteless wherever it's posted!
It is quite misleading to post that as an excerpt from TWS when in fact it is a quote within an excerpt.
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