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CAPITAL CULTURE: First lady's staff helps with job ('massive' staff)
Yahoo News/AP ^ | 10--6-09 | Darlene Superville

Posted on 10/06/2009 12:08:49 PM PDT by STARWISE

One by one, gleaming motorcades pulled up outside of a white-columned home on a farm just outside this city, each depositing the wife of a foreign leader here for an economic summit. Inside, Michelle Obama waited for her first turn as international hostess.

It was up to her to show a good time to counterparts from around the globe while President Barack Obama and the other world leaders debated the world's fiscal mess.

Guests were led to a patio of the home, owned by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the local philanthropist and wife of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the former Democratic presidential candidate.

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To accomplish all this, Mrs. Obama has a staff of 24 people, at a cost of more than $1.5 million, according to an annual White House report to Congress. This is roughly the size of the staffs of predecessors Laura Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The suite of offices is filled with campaign veterans, friends from her Chicago hometown and others from different mileposts in her life.

Overseeing the operation is Susan Sher, Mrs. Obama's longtime Chicago friend. Mrs. Obama reported to Sher when both held top posts at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Sher began at the White House as an associate counsel to the president, working on legal issues surrounding health care policy. She also led outreach to the Jewish community and was Mrs. Obama's legal adviser.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: entertaining; michelle; spendthrift; whitehousestaff
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Just last week, Mrs. Obama flew to Denmark ahead of her husband and spent several days lobbying — unsuccessfully, as it turned out — for their hometown's bid to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago.

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I'll be nice ... ;)

1 posted on 10/06/2009 12:08:49 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

BS. She and Oprah were shoe shopping. ;)

But, nothing is too good for Queen of America. *SPIT*


2 posted on 10/06/2009 12:11:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: STARWISE

3 posted on 10/06/2009 12:12:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: STARWISE
This is roughly the size of the staffs of predecessors Laura Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

At least Laura's staff had class and followed protocol.

4 posted on 10/06/2009 12:12:24 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: STARWISE

But all her staff can’t help her exhibit ANY taste in clothes or art? Are they ALL blind?


5 posted on 10/06/2009 12:12:36 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Baladas

hey
would YOU be brave enough to tell the bitch her booty is tooo BIG
or that her clothes look like crap?


6 posted on 10/06/2009 12:14:51 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: STARWISE
Is there job to distract from the size of her butt? because that is massive.
7 posted on 10/06/2009 12:15:24 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: STARWISE

“Massive Staff” for her MASSIVE .... O never mind!


8 posted on 10/06/2009 12:16:02 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: RWGinger

Hell no, that amazon could break me in half, I go for the subtle re-direction route and really flatter her when she tries on clothes that actually fit well.


9 posted on 10/06/2009 12:17:49 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: penelopesire; SE Mom; Bahbah; LUV W

This was the Yahoo front page news blurb when I posted:
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“Massive staff behind Michelle Obama’s hostessing efforts”

http://www.yahoo.com/


10 posted on 10/06/2009 12:18:07 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE

My guess is she has a a** wiper in there also.


11 posted on 10/06/2009 12:19:36 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Will America's worst Pre-sent in history be our last?)
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To: Baladas

You are wise
But that is assuming she ever tries on anything that flatters her


12 posted on 10/06/2009 12:20:42 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: STARWISE

The first first lady to have a posse.


13 posted on 10/06/2009 12:20:44 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: STARWISE

Out of a staff of 24 people isn’t there one person who can tell her she dresses like a clown?


14 posted on 10/06/2009 12:21:45 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Baladas

“go for the subtle re-direction route and really flatter her when she tries on clothes that actually fit well.”

You can’t polish a turd.


15 posted on 10/06/2009 12:23:50 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Ditter

Always remember Bozo the Clown is from Chicago


16 posted on 10/06/2009 12:26:03 PM PDT by sticker
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To: sticker
Ha! That explains it! I didn't know Bozo was from Chicago, I'll bet he has been advising Blackie O all along.
17 posted on 10/06/2009 12:32:09 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: RWGinger

Same thing about flying to Denmark on a huge jet and calling it a sacrifice.

Who’s gonna say, “Hey Saint Moosechelle, your #@% is as wide as a football field!”


18 posted on 10/06/2009 12:38:16 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: RWGinger

She should never wear the large prints or window pane plaids that she does - particularly on the bottom. There are ways of dressing that can minimize ones flaws - those ways are the exact opposite of what she does.

It’s so bad, I kind of feel sorry for her. She’s like the stepchild in hand me downs.


19 posted on 10/06/2009 12:44:48 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: Baladas
But all her staff can’t help her exhibit ANY taste in clothes or art? Are they ALL blind?

Not only that but they can't keep her from making as ass of herself by telling lie after lie vis-a-vis Copenhagen.

20 posted on 10/06/2009 12:47:27 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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