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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: auntesther; bho44; bhorussia; chewbacca; fashion; flotusmichelle; gildedwookie; sendintheclowns
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To: manc
I still believe that that mother and MO , with friends was on that fly over in NY city

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.

41 posted on 07/07/2009 1:23:37 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Jewbacca

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.


42 posted on 07/07/2009 1:25:34 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: presidio9

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!


43 posted on 07/07/2009 1:26:00 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: presidio9

*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.


44 posted on 07/07/2009 1:28:08 PM PDT by dforest (Anyone dumb enough to have voted for him deserves what they get.. No Pity!)
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To: presidio9

Dayvare.....Eveningvare! The MOST GLAMOUROUS First Lady EVER! Jackie O...eat your cheating heart out!!


45 posted on 07/07/2009 1:29:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: presidio9

“trademark flamboyance”?
She floats in like a hippo and bounces out like a bad dream.
Ole shelf ass as we call her.


46 posted on 07/07/2009 1:29:11 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: manc
Can't miss these:




47 posted on 07/07/2009 1:29:38 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Tamar1973

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.


48 posted on 07/07/2009 1:30:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: presidio9
yeah... sure MSM is going to get us to believe a country that has this

sharapova Pictures, Images and Photos

and leaders that have this

beautiful russian girls Pictures, Images and Photos

consider this "flair"....bwahahahahaha....

Michelle obama Pictures, Images and Photos

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...

49 posted on 07/07/2009 1:30:38 PM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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To: erman

"Day Vear.....Very Nice!"

50 posted on 07/07/2009 1:31:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: traumer
She's got a flare...


51 posted on 07/07/2009 1:32:51 PM PDT by bannie
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To: CaliforniaCon

I’ve heard the same thing. Mrs. O gets a double whammy because sexism is also involved.


52 posted on 07/07/2009 1:36:18 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Jewbacca
 
53 posted on 07/07/2009 1:45:57 PM PDT by bannie
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To: erman

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


54 posted on 07/07/2009 1:50:15 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: bannie







Very deep.
55 posted on 07/07/2009 1:51:40 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: manc

How did they refer to her up at the Vineyard, “Ghetto Trash”


56 posted on 07/07/2009 1:53:14 PM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: presidio9
She should be a big hit in Moscow.

She scowls with the best of them.

57 posted on 07/07/2009 1:56:01 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: freebird5850

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


58 posted on 07/07/2009 1:56:07 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: Clara Lou

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.


59 posted on 07/07/2009 2:03:11 PM PDT by presidio9 ("Don't shoot. Let 'em burn.")
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To: presidio9
Why do I get the feeling that I am watching a Saturday Night Live show skit when ever I see the Mr. Obama Administration ?
60 posted on 07/07/2009 2:05:46 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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