Posted on 08/08/2010 7:53:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Her critics used to paint her as a scary Marxist. Now they cast her as a spoiled princess.
During the campaign, she was caricatured on the cover of The New Yorker as a fist-bumping, gun-toting Black Panther. Now she’s mocked by a New York Daily News blogger as a jet-setting, free-spending Marie Antoinette.
Michelle Obama is the most popular figure in the administration, but last week she had her first brush with getting brushed back in the press.
In politics and pop culture, optics are all. And Michelle’s optics sent a message that likely made some in the White House and the Democratic Party wince.
She seemed to be gigging her husband a bit: I’m going to do what I want to do. I can’t worry about whether it gives the Tea Partiers ammo or makes Democrats (including you) campaigning against the excesses of the rich look hypocritical. Even if the country is sliding into a double-dip recession, I’m going abroad to a five-star hotel on Air Force Two and give a boost to another country’s economy.
But as Michelle and friends frolicked in the land of flamenco, the birthday boy got few gifts from the news.
More Democratic candidates shied away from appearing with him. And a CNN poll showed that a quarter of Americans still doubt the president was even born here.
The inimitable columnist Mary McGrory once said that if a first lady simply made her husband toast, that was enough, given how hard his job was.
And because his predecessor mucked things up so royally, President Obama’s job is ridiculously hard. But at moments when you think Michelle might make her husband toast, or better yet a martini, she’s often off on a girls’ trip.
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What Whoreen Dowd fails to realize is that history is full of marxists leaders who have lived lavish lifestyles. Their goal is to live off the backs of others. And that is what Democrats like Obama and his wife are doing.
Hope and Change, eh?
That Daily News column hit a nerve. I bet the author won’t be invited to the next round of cocktail parties and events.
The Kenyan and the Wookie will be vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard from August 19th - August 29th. I’m sure the media will be given their marching orders in advance of the next vacation.
Had she taken the kids to a National Park, despite the cost of protecting the first family, nobody would have said anything. For somebody who is supposed to be sssooooo much smarter than all of us, it was a pretty stupid move.
As if the two are mutually exclusive.
Yea, 4.5 percent employment really sucked. I miss RR.
Yea, 4.5 percent employment really sucked. I miss RR.
I wish just once somebody would ask a Democrat who blames Bush for (fill in the blank), just what part in general, and Barry specifically, did the Democrats not vote for.
These Marxists know that this is their chance to exploit the country.They also know that their time is short.
Just another fawning article about a pushy, liberal, angry black woman by a pushy,liberal, angry white woman.
Nam Vet
Ah, the irony! Now liberal feminist MoDo is telling Michelle O to be a stay-at-home wife.
This Dowdy dimwit is about as sharp as we can expect any hardcore liberal to get. She seems to think someone cannot simultaneously be a spoiled princess AND a scary Marxist at the same time.
Because liberals are not overly concerned with consistency, in practice those two characterizations can and do occupy the same space. It is why communists have their own ruling classes that act every bit as entitled as Marie Antoinette, but also don't have any problem with garroting people in front of their families or sending them off to gulags.
As Ann Coulter says, never concede falsehoods to liberals, as they will build huge edifices of lies on top of that foundation.
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