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Echoes of TV’s First Lady-Michelle Obama’s last true cultural antecedent is ‘Cosby’s’ Clair Huxtable
washingtonpost.com via MSNBC ^
| June 19, 2009
| Robin Givhan
Posted on 06/19/2009 4:38:08 AM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON - So far, the first lady has chosen to be a food bank volunteer with an outsize entourage and an education activist with the largest soapbox imaginable. But Michelle Obama also fills a role that is not of her choosing but that may, in fact, be the most influential: She serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success and individual style.
And she has done all this on the world stage . . . while being black.
Time and again, observers grasp for adjectives to describe Obama's combination of professional accomplishment and soccer-mom maternalism. It's no wonder so many eye her with awe and disbelief. Or why a minority still view her with suspicion. There have been few broad cultural precedents for what she represents.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auntesther; gooniegoogoo; sendintheclowns
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To: John W
To: Leo Carpathian
My FRiend, do you really think that’s necessary?
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:05:46 AM PDT
by
csense
To: John W
MSDNC is Racist!@
Pray for America
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:08:13 AM PDT
by
bray
(Hows that Hope and Chains goin?)
To: John W
From Huxtables to hoaxables...
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:16:25 AM PDT
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: LRS
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:26:46 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: John W
I dont understand either why anyone would suspect a woman who took a profitable job with a hospital which was a political appointment because her husband , A Senator was sending over money. A woman who said she wasnt proud of her country, a woman who is a disbarred lawyer.
A woman who is as phony and racist as they come, playing at being a lady
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:31:44 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: John W
Where’s the picture of her in a football helmut and shoulder pads?
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:33:48 AM PDT
by
Blogatron
(Who do we shoot at and when does it start?)
To: John W
She serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success and individual style. And she has done all this on the world stage . . . while being black.This should have come with a barf alert!! I'm especially offended by the last part of the 2nd sentence which makes "being black" sound like some kind of affliction . . . . . . . and I'm NOT black!!!
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:48:39 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: John W
She serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success... Isn't this what she railed against in her senior paper.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:49:53 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(For the first time, in my life, I am not proud of my country. Thanks ZerO.)
To: John W
I got through the first paragraph, before blowing chunks.
That has to be a record of some sort.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:50:11 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Krankor
Didn’t the guy who played Barney the Dinosaur end up charged with murder?
To: Blogatron
I couldn't find it so you'll have to make do with the bow legged black widow pic:
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:12:52 AM PDT
by
Lizavetta
(Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:19:38 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: John W
She brings new hope to the millions of other beneficiaries of racist policies enabling them to attend the nations best schools where millions of dollars are wasted on futile attempts to educate them beyond their intelligence.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:26:08 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Obama as President is like hiring a mechanic who never saw a car before.)
To: trisham
To: John W
And she chewed her food today...while being black!
And she dialed a telephone...while being black!
She fell asleep last night....despite being black!
She is an AMAZING woman.
I’m gonna wash that white guilt right outta my hair...
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:29:18 AM PDT
by
lacrew
(The 274th trimester is a very late procedure)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Sorry. :) Here's a nice shot of Sarah and Piper to make up for it:
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:39:55 AM PDT
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trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: agere_contra
Her first job was at a very prestigious law firm where she was in charge of Barney the Dinosaur. And don't forget that she was compelled to surrender her law license or face prosecution.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:42:37 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: John W
Ladies and gentlemen, I remember Clair Huxtable. Clair Huxtable was a beautiful, gracious, graceful and classy lady. (As is, as far as I can tell, Phylicia Rashad, who played her.) Michelle Obama is no Clair Huxtable.
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06/19/2009 6:44:45 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: agere_contra
mychelle is a disgrace to America and the people who, believe in the US Constitution. She is so Fugly and mad at the whities.
The Truth,
NSNR
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