Posted on 12/29/2009 1:16:36 PM PST by kristinn
First Lady Michelle Obama's obsession with very expensive designer shoes is starting to bring up the specter of Imelda Marcos, the shoe-hording former First Lady of the Philippines.
Marcos, who was the wife of Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos, became a global laughingstock when news spread of the more than one thousand pairs of shoes in her closets when the Marcos regime was overthrown by the People Power revolution led by Corazon Aquino in 1986.
The mainstream media has pretty much ignored Michell Obama's designer shoe collection, save for when she visited a soup kitchen wearing garish $540 silver colored sneakers.
A few bloggers have paid attention in recent months to Obama's flaunting of her growing collection designer shoes. Maggief at Free Republic and Jersey Nut have been among the few to keep up with Obama's royal indulgences.
Both posters highlighted Obama's recent extravagant purchase of custom-made French designer thigh-high boots by Robert Clergerie that retail for $850 off the shelf. The story was only reported by foreign news outlets ANI and AFP right before Thanksgiving. According to the articles, Obama also ordered a pair of Clergerie calf-length buckskin boots that retail for about $750.
Obama was photographed wearing the $850 boots as she and her family departed the White House for their $4000 per night Hawaii vacation on Christmas Eve.
While in Hawaii, Obama was photographed wearing $635 designer shoes from Maison Martin Margiela.
Maison Martin Margiela appears to be one of Obama's favorite shoe designers as she was photographed earlier this year wearing a pair of their $725 sandals.
That's about $3500 for five pairs of footwear, or an average of $700 per pair. And those are the ones that are easily found doing quick research. Who knows what's piling up in the White House residence closets.
When Barack and Michelle Obama campaigned for the White House last year, they lectured the American people on how they need to sacrifice their standard of living for the common good.
Byron York reported on Michelle Obama's remarks in Zanesville, Ohio in February 2008 urging people to forego making money in 'corporate America', even though she warned them they would suffer financially:
"Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."
After becoming first lady and enjoying as much of a royal lifestyle as America allows, the wealth-obsessed Michelle Obama warned a schoolgirl who said she wanted be first lady when she grew up that "it doesn't pay much."
With the nation at war and still mired in the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression, the Obamas are living high on the hog with a sanctimonious 'do as I say, not as I do attitude' that is starting to wear thin.
First Lady Nancy Reagan was rippied by the media in the last deep recession for wearing American designers and for obtaining new china for the White House.
There has not been a similar outcry from the press over Michelle Obama's self-indulgent extravagance. We all know why, of course. Michelle Obama is a Democrat.
That goes without saying as she was a Republican and a lady. Republicans suffer attacks that the left never will.
Must reading for a lazy Tuesday afternoon.
I lived with an ex-gf that was a shoe horder.
Hundreds of pairs stacked up everwhere, Most with the price tags still on them.
A whole room full of outfits, most with the price tags still on them.
Don’t even get me going about the pocketbooks.
Of course she never bought me anything and i was paying for almost everything, And she made almost TWICE the $$ than i did!
Glad i’m out of that nightmare.
She’s wearing the boob belt wrong.
It’s not the shoes as much as it is the whole anti-capitalist mentality. “cut back on consumption. Drive around in a piece of crap tin can rollerskate. Turn the heat down and put on a sweater. Put your ambitions aside and work for nothing.” The real truth is, these people are the ultimate snobs and look down on anyone who follows their mandates while they’re out eating Kobe beef, drinking Dom every night and skipping around in $700 shoes.
I also believe that family should be off limits.
Does it bother you that the President said we all had to sacrifice? We all had to have some skin in the game? Does that exclude him and his family?
Petty bickering. Welfare queens have 1000’s of dollars worth of shoes these days...oh, wait... ;-)
No, really. Petty bickering. There are more deserving issues to criticise.
I’m wondering who is paying for those shoes?
No Michelle. Your butt looks big regardless of what you’re wearing.
Scum of the earth trailor trash. Pimping on the American dollar. Does a reporter have enough guts to go to black voters who voted for Obama and ask their thoughts?...I would love to see Michael Moore do that kind of documentary....in mt dreams.
Before she had our money at her disposal...
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Oh, and don’t forget her $100-$200 cashmere sweaters for CASUAL wear.
Oh, and I even saw a picture of hear wearing TWO together in London.
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