EAT YOUR PEAS!!!...while I eat my bacon-wrapped pork and butter.
Posted on 12/29/2011 9:43:17 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Michelle Obama’s Pricey Vacation Wardrobe
The Obamas have been drawing heat for their 17-day Hawaiian holiday, estimated by some media outlets to cost taxpayers $4 million.
But the criticism doesn’t stop there. Now first lady Michelle Obama is under scrutiny for her high-end fashion choices.
For the Christmas Day church service at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Base, Mrs. Obama was photographed in a seemingly simple white sundress with red and yellow stripes. The dress, however, was by French-born, U.S.-based designer Sophie Theallet, and would have cost the first lady almost $2,000 when she bought it in 2009. More recent designs by Theallet sell for even more.
For the meet-and-greet with service members and their families in a nearby mess hall later in the day, Mrs. Obama dressed down — in a printed green $950 Comme des Garcons skirt with bag waist.
Some see the first lady’s penchant for expensive labels at odds with her reputation as a bargain shopper who frequents J. Crew and Target.
One comment on the Naked DC website read: “She claims to be a champion of the poor and a fellow bargain shopper, but yet, here she is, sporting a dress that no unemployed American can afford.”
President Barack Obama’s dinner last night with the first lady and friends was similarly out of range for many Americans. The group dined at Alan Wong’s Restaurant, an upscale eatery that specializes in Hawaiian Regional Cuisine and is a favorite of the first couple.
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Its nice that ABC puts this on their website, but I bet it never makes the evening news.
Stereotypes.
“In your face America...”
This wouldn’t be an issue if 0dumbo and moochelle didn’t try to pretend they understood what is going on in our country.
But as yet another ‘ optic” that she thinks she is queen this should reveal to some of her supporters how bitter she still is and if she can stick it to us she will( stick it to us by using taxpayer money to fly her separately time after time)
The other reality is spending thousands and she still looks fuguly
As long as she is paying for it, who cares! Of course, there is that whole ill-gotten gains thing...
EAT YOUR PEAS!!!...while I eat my bacon-wrapped pork and butter.
I bet me You & I footed the bill.
We paid the $4M for the vacation.
That unimaginative sack is worth $2000? Is it hand woven from hand spun cotton?
Moochelle, horizontal stripes are a no no. Always.
She has no idea how to dress or get value for her dollar.
Poor poor Michelle. Reduced to wearing two year old designer sundresses.
bacon-wrapped pork loin,
The woman still has no fashion sense. See article for pictures.
If it was any republican first lady the media hacks would be screaming from the rooftops, but we know that already. My natural dislike for this administration has evolved into utter disgust.
Pictures .....NOOOOOO NOT pictures!
Is Michelle Obama's spending 'spiralling out of control'? First Lady 'insisted on $4m trip to Hawaii
Those two came into the White House dirt poor. They are ghetto and we pay for everything always have and will until we kick them out of our house.
Brings to mind her husbands ‘Lipstick on a pig comment’.
Actually, she’s probably not paying for it, and nobody else is, either. The designer is actually the one paying.
Designers routinely “give” things (theoretically on loan) to the rich and famous so that they can be seen in public wearing them, thus providing free publicity.
Some of the rich and famous give these things back, and some don’t.
nouveau riche!! (newly wealthy, who flaunts her wealth)
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