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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I don't. I think it was Arab Mullahs taking a victory lap. Same thing as the Flight 93 Memorial being in the shape of the crescent moon. It wasn't to honor the victims, but the hijackers.
yep media she sure is elegant and stylish.
I can just see all that class there.
To think that the sheep actually think she has style because the state run media says so.
I bet the media won’t be showing this picture much but I know I have just sent it off to everyone I know and it will do the rounds.
Its interesting their one Crumb Cruncher is named after a Famous Russian Communist Poet! OBOZO pointed that out in one more of his AMERICA Bashing Interviews yesterday.That fits with him having William Ayers, the Communist Unrepentant Terrorist and MadBomber of the Pentagon as his Hero, Mentor, Political GODFather and Ghost writer of his QUOTE “MEMOIRS!” This story just gets more disgusting by thr second. And why does AMERICA accept this Fraud hiding of all things, his stinkin Birth Certificate???????????
One must assume OBOZO is hiding something VERY SERIOUSthat is part of that BC!
*snicker* they saw that ugly flowered little number with the yellow sweater and shrugged....for good reason.
Got I hate lefties. They still try to force people to believe their garbage. This woman is anything but a fashion plate. Not to mention she always plods around with a scowl on her face. IN OVER her head.
She is a fashion disaster.
Dayvare.....Eveningvare! The MOST GLAMOUROUS First Lady EVER! Jackie O...eat your cheating heart out!!
“trademark flamboyance”?
She floats in like a hippo and bounces out like a bad dream.
Ole shelf ass as we call her.
I agree. I think it’d be more advanced for us to focus just on the political leaders, not on their wives (or husbands) as public helpmates.
and leaders that have this
consider this "flair"....bwahahahahaha....
yeah... she' a real beauty... she's our own American Princess Di.... our "own" Jackie "O".... wow I really, really, really, really believe the media. Cause who am I gonna believe? The MSM or my lying eyes... hahahahahahaha...
"Day Vear.....Very Nice!"
I’ve heard the same thing. Mrs. O gets a double whammy because sexism is also involved.
LOL
the media in this country have to be the dumbest arse in the world.
They embarrass themselves all the time when they lie about bozo and his big umpa wife .
I have mailed those pictures which were on here and let others know that bozo’s wife is one big ugly classless woman
How did they refer to her up at the Vineyard, “Ghetto Trash”
She scowls with the best of them.
I agree with that.
When she talks you can hear the ghetto accent coming out, maybe that is why the campaign shoved her back in the closet along with her massive mouth.
Now she lives in that white house with her ghetto mother.
I despair I really do
I agree: So what that the woman has a big ass? Except for the fact that a fawning liberal media is suddenly cramming another woman they agree with politically as the standard of feminine beauty. In the last few years they have also gone down this road with Caroline Kennedy and Chelsea Clinton (the first two to pop into my head). As a conservative, I’ve generally learned to seperate the two: For instance, I recognize Megan Fox for the bain-dead liberal that she is, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t enjoy looking at her.
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