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 ...
It’s called Steatopygia.
butt-mark...uh..I mean bookmark...oh never mind...lol!
So glad to hear this wasn’t a conservative that wrote this garbage.
I don’t like the Obamas but this article is beneath any standard of common decency.
Disgusting.
instead of rutt-roh!
butt-roh!!! (new white house expression)
example....Obama makes a gaffe while talking to
the press regarding his wifey....that is a huge
BUTT-ROH!!! HE’S IN TROUBLE.
“It is quite misleading to post that as an excerpt from TWS when in fact it is a quote within an excerpt.”
The excerpt was from Mary Katherine Hamm’s very funny take on what the Dims deem relevant. It was satire. If readers took the time to read the article and find the rediculous piece to which it referred, it would have been clear. Geez.......it was a Weely Standard piece that was quoting the dementia of the left and skewering it...
Careful.
There is a large contingent of Freepers who live and die by snide and petty insults. They must think it passes for political analysis or something.
They may start calling you names.
I find her appearance “mannish”, thereby precluding any examination of her butt
Killjoy. :-)
To erman....
don’t mind my butting in, butt I think you are
right!
My nickname for her is “crisco”, ya know, fat in the can...
I’ll bet she has to have a maid to dust the shelf on that huge thing.
“It just seems petty to make fun of someone’s appearance...”
“Careful. There is a large contingent of Freepers who live and die by snide and petty insults. They must think it passes for political analysis or something. They may start calling you names.”
Funny, I was thinking that because they all are such deep thinkers and intellectuals they would appreciate the excruciating blast of the leftist’s insanity while having a little fun. Which, is, of course, political analysis (maybe not Swiftian enough) at its best.
Do you always have to announce when you are publishing something a little off beat? Doesn’t that take the fun out of it?
anyone who clicks on this post should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes...
it IS.
Big girl, no matter how you photoshop it.
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