That outfit was another creation of in the Reynolds designer series.
Posted on 05/28/2015 5:00:50 PM PDT by SJackson
Globetrotting, Ivy League-educated, Marchesa gown-wearing first lady Michelle Obama’s commencement address at Tuskegee University on Saturday described the trials and tribulations she believes she has faced as the first black first lady in American history.
The intense media scrutiny, occasional critical and disparaging remarks — it’s all too much and she said it has led to sleepless nights either in the White House or in posh, five-star hotels where she and her retinue stay, according to The Hill.
“You might remember the on-stage celebratory fist bump between me and my husband after a primary win that was referred to as a ‘terrorist fist jab,'” she told graduates of the private, historically black science- and engineering-heavy school in Alabama.
“And over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited ‘a little bit of uppity-ism,'” Obama said. “Another noted that I was one of my husband’s ‘cronies of color.’ Cable news once charmingly referred to me as ‘Obama’s Baby Mama.'”
The international jetsetter, a graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School, also complained that she feels she endured a set of expectations during her husband Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign that was different than the expectations for other would-be presidential wives. (RELATED: Remember When Obama Was The Messiah?)
Specifically, she believes the questions she faced as a potential first lady were overly invasive.
“As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?” Obama said, according to The Hill.
Obama said she and her husband, the president of the United States and arguably the most powerful man in the world, have faced “frustrating” racism, which is “a heavy burden to carry.”
“We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives,” she griped.
Obama additionally observed that the Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary regiment of black World War II pilots, faced degrading racial insults but overcame the racial mistreatment to achieve heroism.
The first lady urged Tuskegee University graduates never “to succumb to feelings of despair and anger.”
Along with President Obama and the couple’s two children (and occasionally her mother), Michelle Obama has made sure to spend plenty of taxpayer dollars on an impressive run of sweet luxury vacations.
In January, the president and first lady Michelle Obama traveled at taxpayer expense to beautiful, exotic India. The trip included a romantic visit to the Taj Mahal, perhaps the world’s most famous architectural testament of love — a gleaming, white marble mausoleum constructed under the orders of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. (RELATED: Obama To Show Michelle Taj Mahal)
Back in March 2014, the whole Obama clan faced the prospect of cutting a mini-vacation in sunny Key Largo, Fla. short because of Russia’s meddling in Ukraine. It was sad, too, because the first family wanted some rest and relaxation away from the cold, snowy doldrums of Washington, D.C. (RELATED: OH NO! Obama May Have To Cut Third Vacation THIS YEAR Short Because Of Ukraine)
That same month, Michelle Obama and the first daughters Malia and Sasha jetted off to China for over a week of much-needed sightseeing. (RELATED: Globetrotting Michelle Obama Announces Luxurious Vacation To China)
As of July 2014, the Obama family had already spent a whopping $44,351,777.12 in taxpayer funds on vacations. That dollar amount is obviously substantially higher now. (RELATED: The Obamas Have Spent Over $44 Million In Taxpayer Cash On Travel)
In 2008, then-candidate Obama promised gullible New York Times columnist Bob Herbert that he would not take vacations if he were elected president. (VIDEO FLASHBACK: Obama Promises No Vacations For Himself As President)
Nice picture of the bitch after she has flown on OUR airplane. She profanes the position of First Lady...she is the first BITCH! Nice clothes, you bitch!
They didn’t get Wagyu Beef or lobster in the mess hall either.
They got hot lead in the sky and cold shoulder on the ground.
But they had something to hold their heads high about
unlike the 0posers.
Booker T Washington would be pissed...these angry, commie WEBDuBois types staining his great campus.
Wah wah wah
Delicate, feminine, admirable...just a few that spring to mind.
Thrifty, frugal, modest, humble, grateful...just a few in keeping with the tone of the article.
Why apologize? I see nothing in your comment that needs contradicting. I have said the same and worse myself. None of which I can repeat here.
“Mary Lincoln, but she complained to her husband. Then again, I prefer not to know what Michelle says to her husband.”
Yes, not only Mary Todd Lincoln but her family were all complainers to the point that Abe said of them; “One d enough for God”
That said, Abe had some strange habits. Mary, like Michelle possibly had reason to complain about her husband.
Of course the difference is the Abe Lincoln was a great president Obama is not
Liberals’ psychotic obsession with race and gender has them as rats butting walls in a maze.
This is settled liberal science:
Bill Clinton was the first black gay male white woman lesbian hispanic latino undocumented questioning dreamer pre-op differently-abled victim of the glass ceiling and universal inequality.
Michelle cannot make that claim.
That is hilarious!!
Maybe her problem isn’t so much that she’s darker than most of us but that she, in her natural state, is an ugly mammoth.
Why do we have to suffer for that??? I say no more ugly first ladies...and that includes Bill Clinton.
Do you think I could be incarcerated if I sent the flotus a box of “Kitty Roca”?
I say, eat it wook!
Negro please! Use your Ivy League educatio and get some grammer then stop your bitching.
we need to attack Hillary.
Moochele is old news
Looking at her just confirms Joan Rivers comment. Especially when s/he stands next to sissy mary Obama. The workout video just supports any lingering doubts.
Say that again.
OTOH, this photo with Gown, is quite beautiful.
Is it for real? I’ve not seen it before.
Comparing to her previous ‘job’, get paid >$300,00 yearly for doing nothing, unfortunately Americans expect their first spouse to perform minimal tasks.
But, alas, it’s too much to ask for our delicate ‘first black’ flower.
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