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White House denies manufacturer's boast that First Lady carried their $5,950 bag
Daily News ^ | 7/9/2009 | DAILY NEWS STAFF

Posted on 07/09/2009 7:49:28 AM PDT by NMEwithin

Is First Lady Michelle Obama sporting a taste for ultra-expensive fashion pieces, or is she cementing her status as a savvy shopper? Back in April she wore a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers at a Washington food bank. Earlier this week (while strolling the wooded landscape outside of Moscow), she carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950. The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875. The First Lady, who has impressed with her chic, affordable style sense, embracing Everywoman brands like Gap and J.Crew, flashed the shiny handheld while walking with her husband, President Barack Obama, during their Monday meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana. Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours."



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: auntesther; bigbargainatonly875; clowns; michelle; michelleantoinette; nwordrich; obama; purse; trailertrash; wheremycake
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To: NMEwithin
Michelle, the “Knock-off” queen, nothing is legitimate,
41 posted on 07/09/2009 8:05:35 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: NMEwithin

What sort of fool would pay $875 for patent leather?


42 posted on 07/09/2009 8:06:10 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: Notwithstanding
from http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/hcwt_ohnevermind/

[In Moscow, MrsO] carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950.

The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875.

[The key phrase being “denies she bought”...]

An $875 knockoff?  Oh… well.... that’s all right, then.

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The bag in question.

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The VBH $5,950 shiny black manila alligator clutch.

We report; you deride.

43 posted on 07/09/2009 8:07:41 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Retail Sales Miss the Mark as Consumers Curb Spending

Earth to the O's....

44 posted on 07/09/2009 8:08:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Maybe they gave her one. That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?

It’s the allergy they have to the truth...


45 posted on 07/09/2009 8:08:37 AM PDT by jessduntno (NEVER say Cap and Trade Bill. It's the Electricity, Heating Oil and Gasoline Tax Bill....)
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To: Notwithstanding

That’s a nicely Nixonian non-denial denial...


46 posted on 07/09/2009 8:08:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: NMEwithin

ping


47 posted on 07/09/2009 8:08:55 AM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: jessduntno
That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?

Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....

48 posted on 07/09/2009 8:09:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: NMEwithin
"What does being FLOTUS mean to you, Michelle?"
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...


49 posted on 07/09/2009 8:10:59 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
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To: mewzilla

Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....

In other words, the allergy to the truth serves a greater purpose? Hahahahahaha...you are probably right...it’s not a simple allergy...it’s a reaction.


50 posted on 07/09/2009 8:11:39 AM PDT by jessduntno (NEVER say Cap and Trade Bill. It's the Electricity, Heating Oil and Gasoline Tax Bill....)
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To: NMEwithin

“says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875”

She can’t carry one for less than $100 like the “little people,” can she? Friggin’ diva.


51 posted on 07/09/2009 8:12:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: NMEwithin
and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875

If that's the case, what is the brand name, Michelle?
52 posted on 07/09/2009 8:12:59 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Sloth
What sort of fool would pay $875 for patent leather?

Fish Eyed Fool!


53 posted on 07/09/2009 8:13:06 AM PDT by maggief
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To: HIDEK6
I do miss the days when important men wore neckties.

I read somewhere that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eschews wearing a tie to show his disdain of western values.

Maybe Zero is of like mind.

54 posted on 07/09/2009 8:13:44 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: jessduntno

You’re probably right. He can’t get straight where he met his wife nor what hospital he was born in so I guess where a purse came from is definitely beyond them.


55 posted on 07/09/2009 8:15:01 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: NMEwithin
The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875.

Oh...if that's all.

If you added up all of the clothes in my closet, suits, ties, shoes, the works.... You'd be hard pressed to find $875 worth.

Mrs WBill dropped 60 bucks on a purse recently and I winced. But, she really liked it, did her shopping and homework, and she's far from a clothes horse, so I went along with it.

56 posted on 07/09/2009 8:15:50 AM PDT by wbill
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To: nymomx2

I get my bags from WalMart and use them for years. There are levels of frugal but she’s never heard the word.


57 posted on 07/09/2009 8:16:31 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: NMEwithin

Maybe it’s a knockoff like her husband’s “birth certificate.”


58 posted on 07/09/2009 8:16:49 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: NMEwithin

It’s a knock-off?


59 posted on 07/09/2009 8:17:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
IYAS9YAS wrote: A $6,000 purse damn well better come with $5,950 worth of cash in it.

I like the way you think!

60 posted on 07/09/2009 8:17:39 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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