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Michelle Obama flair makes few waves in Moscow
AFP ^ | July 7, 2009

Posted on 07/07/2009 12:43:06 PM PDT by presidio9

She's wowed crowds in London and Paris but the trademark flamboyance of Michelle Obama, wife of the US president, was nowhere to be seen this week in Moscow, where leaders' spouses get little attention.

After descending from Air Force One on Monday behind her husband and with their two daughters, Michelle Obama virtually disappeared from the public eye as Barack Obama filled Russian television screens, websites and newspapers.

"Russian protocol apparently sought to contain news about Barack Obama's wife so as not to break with Russian political tradition," said Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a social and political commentator.

"In contrast with the West, where Michelle Obama draws practically the same media interest as her husband, Russia remains a patriarchal country, at least on a political level," Kryshtanovskaya said.

Shortly after her arrival on Monday, Michelle Obama was given a Kremlin museum tour by Svetlana Medvedeva, the wife of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The excursion received little media attention, although a brief blurb and small photograph of the two first ladies walking side by side was published by the popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.

On Tuesday, the US first lady visited a local school and orphanage before attending a music and folk-dancing concert, along with her daughters Sasha and Malia and over 500 Russian children.

Dressed in an ivory and black sheath dress, she also attended a speech that her husband gave for graduates of a Moscow economics school.

But her programme in Moscow was subdued and received scant media attention in Russia, by comparison with her high-profile shopping excursion in Paris and visit to a London pub earlier this spring.

The snippets of television news footage showing her on the first day of the US-Russia summit were confined mainly to her accompanying Barack Obama as

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To: presidio9
...Michelle Obama virtually disappeared from the public eye ...

One possible explanation ... the Rooskies are known for great vodka ...

21 posted on 07/07/2009 1:01:14 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
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To: presidio9

Maybe the Russian press just refuses to go along with the lie. They see that the Empress as she really is. A scowling woman who wears ugly clothes.


22 posted on 07/07/2009 1:02:22 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: JoanneSD

I noticed that too.

Very rare that the shots are from the side and this just goes to show just how far our pathetic media have become.

One only has to turn down the volume and then watch the big thug trample around the place and how she cannot wear even the most ugliest clothes with any poise or class


23 posted on 07/07/2009 1:02:40 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: VicVega

you mean the mother who talks and acts like she is right from the ghetto.


24 posted on 07/07/2009 1:03:17 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Great movie! I watch it every time it comes on.


25 posted on 07/07/2009 1:03:32 PM PDT by Walmartian
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To: manc

Dats her.


26 posted on 07/07/2009 1:05:04 PM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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To: VicVega

I swear I know a guy who knows a guy who was in the men’s room at the Palm in DC and saw Michelle peeing at a urinal.


27 posted on 07/07/2009 1:07:05 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: presidio9
Barry and Michelle stylin’


28 posted on 07/07/2009 1:07:58 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Walmartian

:) One of my favorites.

http://new.wavlist.com/movies/317/ofsp-missing.wav


29 posted on 07/07/2009 1:09:13 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: presidio9

Y’all are all pretty unfair to the flairless FLOTUS.


30 posted on 07/07/2009 1:09:29 PM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: manc

I believe they meant “flare”....like what a jumbo jet does during decent. They “flare” the wing, making the surface area larger (dropping flaps). This slows decent. Whadduya think of that?


31 posted on 07/07/2009 1:09:47 PM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: Fred

the body that would fit into that would “make a few waves” in my thinking.


32 posted on 07/07/2009 1:10:04 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: pburgh01

LOL.

I am sure she straps one on when she gets the 0 in bed.


33 posted on 07/07/2009 1:10:40 PM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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To: presidio9

ROTFL! The joke is on the media ‘cause we’re not swallowing & neither are the Russians the pure, unadulterated BS that mainstream media is shoveling about m’obozo the clowness.


34 posted on 07/07/2009 1:12:49 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: presidio9

Bull DUST! Why is this even given time? The media plays this crap up - We’re in the middle of a Marxist take over and this is reported?

God HELP US!


35 posted on 07/07/2009 1:15:34 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: McLynnan

Re: “Unbelievable that the Russians aren’t wowed by a big plastic belt with interchangeable buckles.”

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I’ve been to Russia a few times — frankly, most ‘white’ Russians (a near-majority in Moscow) are not that keen on what they perceive as being minorities == even their own citizens of darker persuasions are seen as inferior. Maybe they just don’t ‘get’ a thrill from Mrs. Zero.


36 posted on 07/07/2009 1:16:50 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: presidio9

Michelle OBOZO’S FLAIR is thelines leading from herabdomen to that Humongous Butt that never ends! Things like that were in style back in the 1800’s when Ladies wore huge wire frames back there, but this TUSH she has would make a Hippopottomas PROUD;-)


37 posted on 07/07/2009 1:17:57 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: presidio9


"Flair" is Russian for "small earthquake caused by giant ass."
38 posted on 07/07/2009 1:18:30 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: VicVega

I still believe that that mother and MO , with friends was on that fly over in NY city

To my knowledge the flight manifesto was never released but I bet dat mother was being served fine food and drink while looking at the skyline

Makes me sick


39 posted on 07/07/2009 1:20:36 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: freebird5850

I think you’re right.

Maube they shoved her in the back because they do not understand the way she talks English .

Youse going there and she gone here.


40 posted on 07/07/2009 1:22:56 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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