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Royal treatment for the First Lady: Obama claims working class roots, but her lifestyle is luxury
NYDailyNews ^ | August 12, 2010 | Andrea Tantaros

Posted on 08/12/2010 3:38:47 AM PDT by maggief

When images of Jean Paul Gaultier-clad First Lady Michelle Obama on a $75,000-a-day Spanish holiday hit the wires, controversy was bound to erupt back home. Her carefully crafted image as "everywoman" was blown.

In addition to the high cost, the evolving justifications for the trip offered by the White House's flack were just as dizzying.

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That's why the Marie Antoinette comparison is apt: The trip evokes a similar contempt for the plebeians.

We might expect such detachment from celebrities, but not public servants. A leader shouldn't be living like a monarch when the rest of the country feels like paupers. At least Antoinette was being candid about it. Now it's the First Lady's turn.

"I think that's what's special about Michelle - she maintains a normal life in an extraordinary time," Jill Biden once said.

More like an extraordinary lifestyle in abnormal times.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: imeldaobama; marieantoinette; michelle; michelleantoinette; michelleobama; queenofthedefault; queenofthedeficit
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To: maggief
"Controversy has erupted" only within that 2-3 percent of America which is the conservative blogosphere.

Trust me, anyone who gets their news from NBCCBSABCPBSCNNMSNBCWPNYTLAT knows Nothing about this.

Don't ever kid yourself that What Freepers Think=What America Thinks. A tempting but dangerous conceit.

21 posted on 08/12/2010 5:29:12 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.)
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To: maggief

The Obamas are passionate adherents to the concept of the Devine Rights of Kings.


22 posted on 08/12/2010 5:33:39 AM PDT by monocle
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To: maggief

She feels that you and I should pay for her vacation because there was slavery in this country at one time. They are entitled to get something free from the crackers who can’t find a job because of their marxist policies.


23 posted on 08/12/2010 5:44:10 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Siena Dreaming; Albion Wilde
She wears a high-fashion, off-the-shoulder number to walk the Spanish streets then dons a frumpy, wrinkled skirt to lunch with their royalty.

And she looked dreadful in both outfits.

24 posted on 08/12/2010 5:53:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

Perfer Rush’s MOOCH-shell.


25 posted on 08/12/2010 5:57:56 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: maggief
Some of my favorite quotes by Imelda Marcos. Anyone see a similarity between Michelle and Imelda?

"Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums."

"I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility."

"Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars."

sw

26 posted on 08/12/2010 6:13:01 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Venturer

Down south here it’s called being “Ni—er Rich”


27 posted on 08/12/2010 6:28:29 AM PDT by Married with Children
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To: spectre

28 posted on 08/12/2010 6:39:18 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Married with Children

Yes: I am familiar with the term. It is indeed appropriate, but of course ammunition for some liberal POS to shout we are biased.

Obama and Michelle ceratinly hit the Ghetto Lotto, and are taking full advantage of it.

They spend our money like Rotney King blew his.

(yes, I can spell Rodney)


29 posted on 08/12/2010 6:46:38 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: R. Scott

during the campaign,, she ordered lobster for room service....just one of the ordinary people/sarc


30 posted on 08/12/2010 10:28:59 AM PDT by berkley
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To: berkley

Yea, ain’t they such a sweet couple?


31 posted on 08/12/2010 2:03:14 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: maggief

Oh that’s funny! LOL Good shot!


32 posted on 08/12/2010 2:04:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: homegroan

“the “boob belt” is making a comeback”

Will that give me a waist? ;-)

I, too, am tired of seeing the Obamas stuffing their faces with ice cream at every opportunity. How does this jibe with Moochelle’s war on obesity? Obviously, what is good for the little people isn’t fit for the king and queen.


33 posted on 08/12/2010 2:12:45 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Tax-chick
And she looked dreadful in both outfits.

I couldn't agree more. What was she thinking? Disgusting display. She could at least have evened up her tan lines with makeup for that off-the-shoulder schmatta. The pink thing, and the hair -- just yuck!!

34 posted on 08/12/2010 7:37:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (" 'Bush did it' is not a foreign policy." -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Venturer

I’ve been meaning to ax him if his brother is Davit King. Maybe I’ll ax him on tomorrow.


35 posted on 08/12/2010 7:43:56 PM PDT by Married with Children
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To: maggief

Fifty-five percent of Chicago area residents said they won’t take a vacation this summer.

(Al Podgorski/Sun-Times)

Fifty-five percent of Chicago area residents said they won’t take a vacation this summer, compared with 51 percent who said so nationwide.


36 posted on 08/13/2010 8:24:50 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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