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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One possible explanation ... the Rooskies are known for great vodka ...
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.
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
you mean the mother who talks and acts like she is right from the ghetto.
Great movie! I watch it every time it comes on.
Dats her.
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.
Y’all are all pretty unfair to the flairless FLOTUS.
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?
the body that would fit into that would “make a few waves” in my thinking.
LOL.
I am sure she straps one on when she gets the 0 in bed.
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.
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!
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.
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;-)
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
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.
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