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Michelle paints herself as the queen of arts
The Times ^
| 5/24/2009
| Sarah Baxter
Posted on 05/24/2009 1:59:06 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
The US first lady is carving out a role as an unofficial culture secretary just months after her husband took office
AMERICAS first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as minister of culture in her husbands administration.
The heads of New Yorks most prestigious cultural institutions are in no doubt that she intends to play an active policy-making role in the arts world after they were summoned to meet her last week.
She was speaking in a way the minister of culture would speak, even though such a position doesnt exist in America, said Peter Gelb, the manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It was as if she was almost an arts policy-maker on behalf of the White House and the president. It was highly unusual.
Obama dazzled arts leaders when she attended the opening of the renovated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last Monday in a purple V-neck dress designed by Isaac Mizrahi.
In traditional first lady mode, she cut a giant ribbon and toured the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, which her predecessor Jacqueline Kennedy secured for the museum in the 1960s. Tom Campbell, the British director of the Met, Americas foremost art gallery, was not only reminded of Kennedy but also of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
She is so close to the centre of power, so smart and so striking that she could play an enormously influential role in directing attention to the arts, Campbell said. As with Diana, the combination of a reasoned message, delivered by someone of such grace and integrity, can achieve great things.
From fashion icon and mom-in-chief to walker of Bo the dog and grower of organic vegetables in the White House garden, Obama has stayed in the
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flotusmichelle; gildedwookie; michelleomama; mustcomedown; shesamanbaby; whatgoesup
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Perhaps The Obammuist can find some more taxpayer bucks in support of the arts.
To: bruinbirdman
headline is code for
To: bruinbirdman
Queen of Abstract
To: bruinbirdman
She is pretending to be Jackie Kennedy. Sorry Michelle; you are no Jackie Kennedy.
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:13:43 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: bruinbirdman; GOP_Lady
Obama dazzled arts leaders when she attended the opening of the renovated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last Monday in a purple V-neck dress designed by Isaac Mizrahi.
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:16:27 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
No, they meant “Queen of Hearts”.
She starred in that role in “Alice in Wonderland”.
Wonderful personality fit it was.
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:17:37 AM PDT
by
OldArmy52
(Mainstream Media cheered: Ascension of Castro, Chavez and now Obama.)
To: GOP_Lady; Tax-chick
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:18:13 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: bruinbirdman
Things never change. Another Yulia Mikhailovna for the progressives to fawn over.
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:19:50 AM PDT
by
LifeComesFirst
(Until the unborn are free, nobody is free)
To: Ezekiel
I'm laughing because, I WANT THEIR TIT'S SMALLER!
Make them point to the ground!
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:23:47 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
05/24/2009 2:43:52 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: bruinbirdman
Hmmm, you can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig. I seem to remember hearing that in the recent past. Fits here I think.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:00:44 AM PDT
by
RushLake
(Democrats & Maobama have never met a terrorist they didn't like.)
To: bruinbirdman
AMERICAS first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as minister of culture in her husbands administration.IF that's culture, we're going to need a bigger petri dish...
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:02:54 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: bruinbirdman
From fashion icon and mom-in-chief to walker of Bo the dogFashion icon?
Commie bitch dresses like a bag lady.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:05:20 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: bruinbirdman
Obama says there ain’t no mo money
she may as well, she can’t practice law any more. been disbarred.
To: Berlin_Freeper
Michelle paints herself as the queen of
farts.
Fixed.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:23:23 AM PDT
by
chainsaw
(If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
To: bruinbirdman
Culture minister? She is so unbelievably ghetto I wince everytime I see press coverage of her public appearances. A shoeless backwood hick from the bayou has more graces than this woman.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:23:24 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
To: Neverforget01
Scary purple monster ping.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:34:17 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: MaxMax
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:41:07 AM PDT
by
EBH
(What happened to my Country and how do I TAKE it back?)
To: bruinbirdman
"Hey lady...can I sleep in here tonight???"
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:42:53 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Free Vulcan
unbelievably commie sounding. minister of culture decides what you will and will not be permitted to see.
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posted on
05/24/2009 3:57:42 AM PDT
by
wiggen
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