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Michelle Obama sparks fury after splashing out on $6,800 designer jacket for Palace reception
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 7/30/12 | Tamara Abraham

Posted on 07/30/2012 8:14:51 AM PDT by Justaham

Political commentators have expressed their fury over the fact that Michelle Obama wore a jacket worth $6,800 to the pre-Olympics Opening Ceremony reception at Buckingham Palace on Friday.

Though the dazzling J Mendel jacket and skirt won critical acclaim from the style set, some pundits are furious that she elected to spend so much money on a garment while so many in the U.S. are suffering financially.

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KEYWORDS: buckinghampalace; designerjacket; michelleobama; moochelle
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To: Justaham
She wore a $68,000 jacket!

(Just doing my Bill O'Reily imitation!)

21 posted on 07/30/2012 8:35:10 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did she use her own money, or tax payer money?

There is a third part to that question, did someone else pay all or part of what the jacket is worth?

22 posted on 07/30/2012 8:35:28 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: SeekAndFind
First question we ought to ask — WHO PAID FOR THE JACKET?

Politicians get to write off their clothing as a business expense. They come free with the house.
OR, they can except "gifts" from political "friends."
(I'm surprised Moochell didn't demand the queen give her - as a gift, of course - the royal crown. Does the queen not realize who she is???)

23 posted on 07/30/2012 8:38:09 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Justaham

I realize that this is going to be disliked by most of our readers.

As much as I dislike the current administration and the way they are destroying this great country I would still prefer that our leaders (yes, unfortunately she is considered a leader by some people in the world) are at least well dressed.

In fact it is an even bet that the designer either loaned her the jacket or gave it to her.

Anyway I would prefer her to look at least like she is trying to look nice than see her representing this country dressed in sack cloth.


24 posted on 07/30/2012 8:40:17 AM PDT by jdietz (God is great, beer is good and people are crazy, (which is why guns are necessary))
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To: Justaham

“The jacket, which was almost armour-like in style”

Heh, the first thing I thought of when I saw it was “that looks like a medieval tabard.”

As for the cost of the garment...if someone wanted to spend their own money on it, tough beans to anyone who didn’t. like it. Of course, it was probably not paid for with personal money, but the taxpayer-funded 1st Lady Budget (or whatever you call it). So, yeah, more of the same from this administration.


25 posted on 07/30/2012 8:42:16 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ever notice we never see Mayor Bloomberg and Louis XIV at the same time?)
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To: qman
hypocritical.

You bet. Liberals are just fine with limiting, controlling, and spending everyone elses money, but by golly don't you even dare think about touching their stash!
Hands off my stack, Jack! Rules are for thee - not for me!

26 posted on 07/30/2012 8:44:26 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Justaham
and she STILL looked like a silly fat cow...
27 posted on 07/30/2012 8:45:05 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Justaham
"...are furious that she elected to spend so much money..."

Ok, everyone who believes that Moochie actually spent her own money on this, raise your hand...

(sound of crickets chirping...)
28 posted on 07/30/2012 8:45:16 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (will do graphics for food...)
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To: Girlene

no matter how they dress her she is still a galomphing cow with zero poise and zero elegance. There is simply no class to her.


29 posted on 07/30/2012 8:48:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Girlene
She looks nice, but paying almost 7 grand for the jacket....wow. I think the skirt is the prettiest part of the outfit.

I thought big bustles like that went out of style around 1889 or so.

30 posted on 07/30/2012 8:54:17 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: catnipman

“A Badger wrapped in a curtain.” ...

Good one! LMAO!


31 posted on 07/30/2012 8:57:43 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s how I feel too. As long as it wasn’t my money I could give a fidge less what her clothes cost.

Of course it is a bit hypocritical for the Obama campaign to try to tell Romney where to put his money while they spend $6800 on a blouse.


32 posted on 07/30/2012 9:05:26 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Justaham

I remember when the Left Wing MSM went bonkers because Nanct Reagan bought new china for the WH even though it was paid for by private funds


33 posted on 07/30/2012 9:07:45 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Girlene

It looks almost as if she’s wearing a bustle.


34 posted on 07/30/2012 9:08:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: qman
Attacking someone on something so superficial as how they dress or what it costs invites our enemys to judge us as we judge them!

I take it you don't remember the LEFT WING MSM attacks on Nancy Reagan
35 posted on 07/30/2012 9:11:19 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: SandRat

From the mind of Michele Obama, “Let them wear Gap.”


36 posted on 07/30/2012 9:12:00 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Justaham

You can wrap a ______ in foil, but it doesn’t make it a Hershey bar.


37 posted on 07/30/2012 9:15:35 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

valid point.
but, what about the money she “earned”
because of her raise after her husband became senator?
...in an “important” job,
the hospital didn’t even bother to fill,
after she left ?
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or the money that Barack “earned”,
for an autobiography, that was an untrue “composite”,
and wasn’t even “auto-” ?
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there is a difference, between spending money you earn,
and spending money you got by fraud and corruption...


38 posted on 07/30/2012 9:18:11 AM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
That skirt looks like a surplus WWII Parachute
39 posted on 07/30/2012 9:19:27 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Justaham

Again we have to look for Non-US media to actually report on this stuff.


40 posted on 07/30/2012 9:31:51 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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