"Miss Negativity" was educated
at Princeton and Harvard Law, held a very high paying, figurehead job,
was married
to a U. S. Senator who was a leading candidate
for the presidency and still, she hated America.
The items on this page are in chronological
order or in order of discovery, starting in January, 2009.
Michelle Misleads
Michelle Obama set out Monday on a listening tour through the federal
bureaucracy, stopping first at the US Department of Education (DOE) to
thank employees for their service and rally them for the tough work
ahead.
"There's a lot of work to do and we're going to need you,"
Mrs. Obama said. "The children of this country are counting on all of
us."
In thanking the workers, she
told the DOE staff members, "I am a product of your work."
Michelle conveniently overlooked the
fact that the DOE was created by the Department of Education
Organization Act (Public Law 96-88), and was signed into law by
President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979. The DOE began
operating on May 4, 1980, when Michelle was entering her senior year of
high school.
Her hypocritical speech, espousing the importance of
the public schools system, also brought focus to the fact that her own
children have NEVER attended a public school. They recently
started attending the exclusive Sidwell Friends private school in the
capital that costs almost $30,000 each a year, and before that the girls
both attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools,
where their mother was on the board.
Glamour?
CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell introduced a fawning
news brief on Michelle Obama’s first 50 days as First Lady: "In the
seven weeks since the new President was inaugurated, the new glamorous
First Lady has found her place in a glamorous world. Thalia
Assuras has a look at Michelle Obama's successful new life."
Assuras began her report: "Everyone wants an invitation to her parties.
She's graced several magazine covers. Even Oprah is giving up a
slice for the first time. She's the focus of fashionistas, those
buff arms igniting commentary, and websites produce constant chatter."
Assuras went on to describe how Michellle Obama had surpassed other
First Ladies: "Michelle Obama has created a stir like no other First
Lady...Style watchers caution that all new First Ladies cause
excitement, but Mrs. Obama is a celebrity who embodies a new
generation...That thing, that polls show, produces more positives than
recent First Ladies at the outset of past administrations."
Assuras spoke with Washington Post gossip columnist Amy Argetsinger, who
exclaimed: "People are sort of reacting to her the way they would to a
movie star...She's the youngest First Lady we've had in a while, but
she's also got a charisma about her. She's got the height of a
fashion model, she looks great in clothes. And, you know, there's
kind of that Jackie O thing going on."
The White House Garden
Michelle Obama is
scheduled to
break ground today on a new garden near the fountain on the South Lawn
that will supply the White House kitchen.
Princeton!
Harvard Law! And Barack has me growing collard greens.
She will be joined by
students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia. The children will stay involved with the project, including planting the
fruits, vegetables and herbs in the coming weeks and harvesting the
crops later in the year.
Mrs. Obama spent time earlier this week
at an exhibit on rooftop gardening.
"We're going to get a big one
in our back yard, the South Lawn," she promised the volunteers.
Such a White House garden has been a dream of noted California chef
Alice Waters, considered a leader in the movement to encourage
consumption of locally grown, organic food. She has been appealing for
change through the taste buds since the 1960s.
She organized a
series of fundraising dinners in Washington before President Barack
Obama's inauguration in January that served foods purchased from local
producers at an area farmer's market to show how it can be done.
Reached Thursday at her Berkeley, Calif., restaurant, Chez Panisse,
Waters said she was thrilled by the news.
"It just tells you that
this country cares about people's good health and about the care of the
land," she said. "To have this sort of 'victory' garden, this message
goes out that everyone can grow a garden and have free food."
Victory gardens were vegetable gardens planted during the world wars
with encouragement from the government to make sure there was enough
food for civilians and the troops. Waters says her family had such a
garden.
Turns out the White
House "Dream" Garden was sown on top of lead-polluted soil, and was
abandoned.
Michelle's Fashion Sense
If you Google -- G-20 "Michelle Obama" fashion
-- Google returns hundreds of fawning articles praising the latest
American fashion icon, Michelle Obama.
The BBC
leads its
coverage thusly: "Michelle Obama fever hits the UK -- In the US she is
already a cover girl, gracing the front of glossy magazines like Vogue
and Hello."
You would think that one of the 500 retainers
accompanying the Obamas to the G-20 would have helped the "cover girl"
dress. It's obvious from this formal photograph, with Sarah Brown,
the wife of the UK's Prime Minister, that she has trouble
dressing herself -- look at how she has her sweater buttoned.
Michelle Steps Out In $540 Sneakers
Michelle
Obama has taken casual to a haute new level.
While
volunteering
Wednesday at a D.C. food bank, the First Lady sported her usual J.Crew
cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a sneaky
splurge: trainers that go for $540.
That's right: These sneakers
-- suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps
-- are
made by French design house Lanvin, one of fashion's hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions, and have been a brisk seller all
spring.
"They're shoes," the First Lady's reps sniffed when
curious reporters inquired about the fancy footwear.
Michelle Announces New Fund To Aid Nonprofits
Michelle Obama, ventured publicly into the policy realm on Tuesday,
announcing that the Obama administration planned to create a $50 million
"social innovation fund" to help finance and expand promising nonprofit
agencies.
The fund would offer financial support to nonprofit and
community groups that focus on education, health care and economic
mobility, among other issues, officials say. The administration plans to
encourage foundations, philanthropists and corporations to help raise
additional money for the program.
"The idea of the fund is
simple: find the most effective programs out there and then provide the
capital needed to replicate their success in communities around the
country."
Sounds good, doesn't it? What Michelle Obama is really
doing is sending your tax dollars to support her own Alinsky-style
community organizing group, Public Allies.
Not With My Wife
I was
told today that 0bama has not
traveled with his wife to any Muslim country, and that no official
Muslim leader ever travels with his wife.
Interesting. I didn't
notice it at the time, but indeed, you are correct: Mrs. Obama did skip
Turkey last month when the Obamas were on their European tour.
The headlines cried, "Disappointment," as Michelle Obama
skips trip to Turkey:
Suna Erdem, writing from Istanbul,
reported that Michelle Obama may have been the star
of the US President’s European show, but Turks were deprived of the
chance to see her when she chose to return to her children instead of
accompanying her husband to Ankara and Istanbul.
The US
president began his visit yesterday by laying a wreath at the tomb of
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkish state, before
travelling to the presidential palace for talks with President Abdullah
Gul.
Michelle Obama, however, returned to the US on Sunday.
Don't know if this is a fact. It will be interesting to see if
Michelle accompanies Obama to Egypt for his big speech to the Muslim
world.
The Queen Of Arts
Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her
bow as "minister of culture" in her husband’s administration.
The heads of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions are in no
doubt that she intends to play an active policy-making role in the arts
world after they were summoned to meet her last week.
"She was
speaking in a way the minister of culture would speak, even though such
a position doesn’t exist in America," said Peter Gelb, the manager of
the Metropolitan Opera in New York. "It was as if she was almost
an arts policy-maker on behalf of the White House and the president.
It was highly unusual."
Obama dazzled arts leaders when she attended
the opening of the renovated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York last Monday in a purple V-neck dress designed by Isaac
Mizrahi.
Flopping Aces
thought we
had a serious financial crisis that required everyone to sacrifice?
Yes friends, Obama and Michelle had another of their famous "date
nights" Saturday. Instead of clogging traffic in Washington, D.C. to
visit a restaurant, they hopped on the Marine One helicopter to Andrews
Air Force Base, jumped on Air Force One (a Gulfstream 500, not the 747)
then flew up to New York City followed by TWO OTHER PLANES for staff and
press (the 747 would have been cheaper).
Upon landing in New York
several more helicopters, limos, vans, police, military and other staff
were waiting to escort them to Blue Hill restaurant on Washington Place
and later a Broadway play: "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone" at the Belasco
Theater.
Imagine for a moment the "news" media reaction if
President Bush had taken Laura out for a night in New York with half the
Secret Service, the U.S. Military, New York’s finest and the news media
tagging along at taxpayer expense?
As it is, the only criticism
one could find predictably comes from the Republican National Committee
whose spokesperson, Gail Gitcho commented on the hard times facing
Americans and the prospect of General Motors entering bankruptcy while
the Obama’s party it up. She added: "If President Obama wants to go to
the theater, isn’t the Presidential box at the Kennedy Center good
enough?"
It’s bad enough that the taxpayers were left with a bill
for hundreds of thousands of dollars for staff, security, military and
police time. It’s also the fact that all these people had to give up
their Saturday night with their families to spend it so the Obamas could
cause massive traffic jams all over New York inconveniencing thousands
more.
But as we have all come to expect from Obama, what happens
to the little people is of no consequence to him. After all, it’s all
about him isn’t it?
Michelle's Conspicuous Absence
The White House
confirmed yesterday that Michelle, the two daughters, and his
mother-in-law will fly today to the City of Lights to join Obama, who
has scheduled meetings with French officials and will appear at a
ceremony today in Normandy marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
So, Michelle didn't accompany Obama to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Why?
Back
in April, Michelle
didn't accompany Obama to Turkey either. Why? She went
with him to London on the same trip.
Why doesn't Obama take the
wife to Muslim countries?
The excuse in April was that Michelle
Obama had always planned to go home to see her children. "She wanted to
be back home on Sunday night ahead of the kids' school," said a White
House spokesman.
Did
Michelle decide not to accompany Obama because she didn’t want to be
involved with the head scarf crowd? If she wore a head scarf she
would offend Americans, if she didn't she would offend Muslims.
Or did Michelle decide not to accompany Obama because she didn’t want to
go to a country where she would have been treated as a third-class
person?
Obama should tell us why Michelle never accompanies him
to a Muslim country. After all, he seems to really enjoy visiting
his brothers in Islam.
Obama Marriage On Brink Of Collapse
It was
not always wedded bliss for the First Couple. A new book, "Renegade,"
about Mr. Obama's unlikely run for the presidency, recounts a tense
period in 2000 when the Obamas' marriage was on the brink of collapse
because of his restless political hunger and the family's shattered
finances.
"There was little conversation and even less romance,"
wrote the Birmingham-born Mr. Wolffe, who covered Obama's campaign for
Newsweek magazine. "She was angry at his selfishness and careerism; he
thought she was cold and ungrateful."
At the time, Mr. Obama was
stuck on the lowest step of the political ladder. As a mere state
senator in Illinois, he had challenged a popular incumbent in a
Democratic primary by running against Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther
from Chicago. Mr. Obama was trounced by a dismal 2-1 margin.
His
wife was new to motherhood, at home with their first daughter Malia,
just two years old at the time. "She hated the failed race for Congress
in 2000, and their marriage was strained by the time their younger
daughter, Sasha, was born. Politics seemed like a waste of time to
Michelle," the book says.
Mr. Obama's troubles were compounded
when he discovered that he was not on the guest list for the 2000
Democratic National Convention that year, because he had annoyed party
officials. With maxed out credit cards he took the cheapest flight to
Los Angeles where he found himself excluded from the convention floor. That was a mere eight years ago.
Flopping Aces
reports that it took a Boeing 757 and a fleet of
armored cars for Michelle’s taxpayer-paid sight seeing tour!
Michelle One
On Sunday, Obama flew back to the
United States on Air Force One. His wife, two daughters and her mother
did a bit of shopping in Paris before taking their own Boeing 757 (C-32)
over to London to do some sight seeing.
We all remember Obama’s
admonishment to corporate CEO’s in February:
"You can’t get
corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the
Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime."
Apparently that doesn’t apply
to his wife.
The London Times opened it’s description of
Michelle’s visit this way:
Motorcycle outriders, armored
Chevrolets and bullet-headed men in raincoats criss-crossed London
yesterday as Michelle Obama and her daughters spent a second day on an
unofficial visit to the capital.
Michelle’s motorcade shut down
London streets as the First Lady of the World and her children
go for Fish and Chips at a pub in Mayfair. The entourage inside the
restaurant was 15 people while dozens more wait outside. Include the
dozens of Air Force personnel to fly and service the plane, embassy
personnel and other staff and we are talking about a serious expenditure
of tax payer dollars.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans have lost
their jobs and won’t be able to take their family on a summer holiday.
Despite their circumstances they’ll still be expected to fork over the
tax dollars to pay for Michelle’s trip.
Michelle Obama’s European Vacation
America
may be in the midst of a deep recession, and the nation may be facing
unprecedented deficit spending and debt, but the White House will not
reveal the cost to taxpayers of the European vacation that first lady
Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, took last month.
Travel by an American first lady typically includes the military
passenger jet that carries her and the children, Secret Service
personnel to provide security, and a separate cargo plane to haul
official vehicles.
Michelle Obama’s tour of Paris with her
children included a convoy of 20 vehicles, according to news reports.
She also moved by "motorcade" through London. The full cost of
such a trip would also include the expense of meals and lodging for
Secret Service agents and possibly other staff.
In response to
inquiries from CNSNews.com last week about the cost to taxpayers of the
first lady’s European vacation, the White House did not provide a
figure.
"Like previous administrations, the first lady will
follow all the rules and regulations that are related to reimbursement
for personal travel," Michelle Obama’s press secretary Katie McCormick
Lelyveld told CNSNews.com in a written response.
CNSNews.com
inquiries to the White House on the cost of the trip were made by both
phone and e-mail on June 30, July 1, July 2 and July 3.
Though
White House rules for vacations, or unofficial travel, requires
reimbursing the government the equivalent to the cost of what a
commercial flight would have been, such a reimbursement would amount to
only a fraction of the total cost of the first lady’s European trip.
Barack Obama joined the Chicago law
firm, Sidley Austin, as a summer intern in 1989. That's where
he
met his future wife, Michelle Robinson, who
was his adviser.
Michelle obtained her Juris Doctor
degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama began Harvard
Law School in in the fall of the same year. They were never at
law school at the same time. This is just another senseless
Obama lie to add to the ever-growing list.
A separate issue is, why does
Obama tell so many needless lies? Further down the page is an
item about Obama's birthplace. Obama has personally claimed to
be born in two separate hospitals.
What is wrong with him?
First Lady Requires 26 Servants
Michelle Obama is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair
dresser and make-up artist.
The annual cost to taxpayers for
such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000, without
taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages
afforded to every attendant.
Little did American voters
realize the call for "change" would result in the establishment of
an Obama oligarchy.
The discovery of the additional
attendants was made by D’Angelo Gore of factcheck.org and by calls
to Katie McCormick Lelyyeld, Michelle Obama’s press secretary.
Mr. Gore launched his investigation of the First Lady’s staff in
the wake of an article that appeared on thelastcrusade.org and
Canada Free Press on July 7.
The article, which became a
chain letter viewed by millions of Americans, reported that Michelle
Obama requires more than twenty attendants -- more than any First
Lady in U.S. History. It provided the following list of White
House staff members assigned to the First Lady:
In a modern day version straight out of Marie Antoinette, Michelle
Obama went
shopping for organic salad ingredients -- with several hundred
people who came to watch -- shouting to the came-out-of-nowhere throngs,
"Let’s shop"!
Let’s shop, Michelle Obama style -- was conducted
among wailing sirens and ringing cowbells!
"The Secret Service
and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H.
Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the
McPherson Square Metro station. (The Washington Post, Sept. 18,
2009). "They swept the area, in front of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in
the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and
took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce
stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped
into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of
sirens."
"I’ve learned that when my family eats fresh food,
healthy food, that it really affects how we feel, how we get through the
day…whether there’s a Cabinet meeting or whether we’re just walking the
dog," said Mrs. Obama.
No Sacrifice Too Great For Michelle Obama
Thomas Lifson
says that Michelle Obama has once again uttered words that reveal
her self-absorbed interior life. Speaking in Copenhagen, she
referred to her trip as a "sacrifice." Byron York
caught it yesterday:
"As much of a sacrifice as people say this is
for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the
first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project,
"so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring
this bid home."
"People say"? Who on earth has been telling
Michelle that she is sacrificing something for the American people?
Since when is one sacrificing herself by carrying out the duties of
First Lady?
There is a victim mentality at work here. Life
is unfair. This is a woman who sees herself put-upon by life, the
victim of forces beyond her control. And she lives in the White
House!
Aside from the obvious fact that this is a glamorous,
luxurious trip on a private jet, a staying in the fanciest
accommodations type of excursion, anyone who looks at her job as a
sacrifice has what most employers call a "bad attitude." She
fought hard for this job, and has used its perks to the max, including a
fabulous family shopping trip to Paris. Face it: Michelle loves
living large.
Copenhagen is a wonderful place to visit, and the
shopping is fabulous, particularly if money is not an issue.
Danish design and quality are legendary in a wide range of home
furnishings.
What kind of person pities herself over jetting off
with her home town pal Oprah, with Hubby flying in later to join the
girls?
I'd answer that
question but hubby would have the Secret Service at my doorstep in a
heartbeat.
Be The First On Your Block...
...to own the Michelle
Obama action figure -- only $12.99
The company that created the Barack Obama action figure
announced it's releasing a miniature plastic version of the
usurper-in-chief's better half, according to the New York Daily
News.
Jailbreak Toys designed the Michelle Obama action
figure to show off her toned arms -- and features the first lady in
three different sleeveless dresses. The Michelle figurines retail
for $12.99 apiece and are due to hit stores on Nov. 20.
"Batman has nothing on Michelle Obama," Manhattan mom Eileen Ramos
told the paper. "I bought the Barack figure last year but I think
Michelle is the one with the real superpowers in the family."
Interesting -- Jailbreak
Toys -- could be an omen of things to come, Barry?
Fashion's Star?
Audacity of Hypocrisy blog reports that Glamour magazine says U.S.
first lady Michelle Obama is fashion’s star, but that’s not why
she’s one of Glamour’s December cover models.
Mrs. Obama’s
work in mentoring earned her the spot, which will be rotated with
four other covers. She’ll receive a special recognition in the
annual Women of the Year issue that goes on newsstands Nov. 10.
In an interview with new Glamour columnist and CBS anchor Katie
Couric, Mrs. Obama said being a role model is one of the most
potentially powerful things she can do at the White House.
"I
see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really
change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around
the country and the world," she said.
What are the chances that
Michelle Obama would be on the cover of Glamour magazine if she were
still steering
patients with non-urgent complaints away from the University of
Chicago Medical Center's emergency room to local clinics.
The
artist that did the airbrush work on that cover deserves an
invitation to the white house.
Guiliani Ousted For Michelle
Usually it's considered common courtesy to give up your seat to a
woman -- but Rudy Giualiani was reportedly none too pleased when he had
to
vacate his prized spot at Yankee Stadium ... to the First Lady.
The former mayor of New York City always sits near the Yankee
dugout, but according to Page Six he was relegated to behind the
photographers' box for Game 1 of the World Series because Michelle Obama
was given the seats instead.
The paper says it was the White
House that didn't want Giuliani near Michelle, but get this: she didn't
even sit in the seats because of the weather and they remained
unoccupied for the whole game.
Giuliani got his seat back for
Game 2, which the Yankees won.
Just symptomatic of the Obama's general sense of entitlement.
Gag!
Who writes this crap?
Michelle Obama has become the
mistress to American fashion. "The first lady the world's been
waiting for," blazes the March cover of Vogue (slide
show), where Mrs. Obama appears
in a fuchsia dress by Jason Wu, the young talent she helped turn into an
overnight star. No first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy has had a
more instantaneous impact on fashion. Whatever Mrs. Obama wears,
people notice and very often buy.
Despite the close study that
people have made of Mrs. Obama's style, it is not known that her
wardrobe is being managed largely by a boutique owner in Chicago. Ikram
Goldman, whose store is called Ikram, has played an unprecedented role
since the election, serving as gatekeeper between the fashion industry
and the first lady.
You've
all been wondering who dresses Michelle -- well, here she/he/it is:
Explains a lot . . .
Obama’s Bitter Half
Herb Denenberg says, I never thought I’d find as big a fraud, phony,
faker, fibber and hypocrite in high places as Barack Hussein Obama.
But I found one. Obama is married to her.
Of course, I know
that if you criticize the First Lady, the Obamas immediately go into
their standard mode, claiming victimhood and racism. Recall when
Mrs. Obama made her infamous remark about being proud of America but did
so only after her husband was running for president. After getting
hit with criticism, the Obamas went on ABC’s "Good Morning America" to
denounce "low class" and "detestable" criticism. Obama declared
his wife to be a "civilian" and exempt from such criticism, as she
"didn’t sign up for this." Of course, those that closely follow
the Obamas, get the feeling that they think they are above criticism,
and any criticism is illegitimate and quickly branded as part of the
"old politics" or "playing games."
Here’s the way Michelle Malkin
put it in her masterpiece on team Obama, entitled Culture of Corruption:
Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies: "Mrs. Obama most
certainly signed up for heightened public scrutiny of her public words
and deeds. She signed for it the minute she voluntarily stepped on
the campaign trail to sell her husband as America’s soul-fixer.
She signed up for it when she made herself a public spokesman for
working mothers and chief public surrogate for her husband’s legislative
agenda. She signed up for it when she consciously and continuously
milked liberal bitterness on the campaign trail to drum up votes for her
husband. If she couldn’t stand what little heat she was exposed to
during the presidential election season, she should have refrained from
grabbing the closest microphone to complain repeatedly about America’s
health care, lack of compassion and the evil lure of corporate America."
And, I might add, she also signed up for criticism when she speaks
to her husband about personnel decisions and White House management and
when she is her "husband’s chief interpreter of public sentiment" -- as
reported in the Obama campaign organ and lapdog also known as the New
York Times, now noted for its biased, dishonest and fraudulent
journalism.
Another standard Obama maneuver is to claim racism.
There is an example of this as far back as Mrs. Obama’s days as a
student at Princeton. As brilliantly documented by Ms. Malkin,
Mrs. Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton, titled Princeton-Educated
Blacks and the Black Community, showed her bemoaning "her racial
otherness." The aggrieved Ivy Leaguer accused her university of
pushing her down the dreaded path toward "further integration and/or
assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only
allow me to remain on the periphery of society, never becoming a full
participant."
She was offered every advantage America can offer,
but she still endlessly complained about her victimhood. Of
course, she was wrong about the white culture and social structure,
which almost immediately after her graduation from Princeton and then
Harvard Law School, gave her every insider advantage possible, and a
veritable flood of high-level opportunity. Even after she and her
husband had become millionaires, she was still complaining about her old
student loans and budgetary limitations.
A distraught Oprah Winfreyis
telling pals her "thank you" for
helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back.
A jealous first lady has frozen
the talk queen out of the White
House inner circle, say insiders.
"Oprah is devastated," revealed a friend.
"She had no idea that Michelle
was so jealous about the influence she had on Barack. She hated
the way her husband would huddle with Oprah over strategy and jump when
she called.
"The jealousy and anger was eating up Michelle.
During the campaign, she vowed Oprah would not be a part of the new
administration.
"Oprah had visions of being a close adviser to the
president and a regular visitor to the White House. She was
actually planning to redecorate the famous Lincoln bedroom, which is
reserved for special guests of the first family.
"But in the
first 10 months of the Obama administration, Oprah has visited the White
House only twice, and one visit was for a business meeting to do an
interview with Michelle for O
magazine.
"And that was a disaster.
Oprah arrived with her friend Gayle King, but was shocked to find
Michelle cold and distant. Worse, she all but ignored Oprah and
directed her attention to Gayle. It was as though Oprah wasn't
even there."
The meeting got off to a bad start when Oprah, 55,
greeted Michelle. The TV
host
leaned to kiss her cheek, but the first lady stepped back and extended
her hand instead.
Then Michelle, 45, seemed to ignore a question
Oprah asked about the Obama children, instead taking a question from an
aide and then returning only to chat with Gayle again - ignoring or
forgetting Oprah's question.
By the end of the day, Oprah
felt roundly snubbed.
"Since then, Oprah has tried again and again to
mend the rift," said the friend. "But she's had no luck.
Michelle has made it clear she is no longer interested in being friends
with Oprah and is going to block her from access to the President."
Pahhhhh-Tee!
While many Americans are facing a bleak holiday season, Chicago's
Lynn Sweet
gushes over the fact that the Obamas have 28 White House parties
planned over the few weeks with more than 50,000 people expected to
attend.
When asked for details about the upcoming party season,
Camille Johnston, communications chief for Michelle Obama, said, "This
holiday season, more than 50,000 people will visit the White House's 17
holiday parties and 11 open houses."
Michelle is thrilled,
she'll get 28 new designer dresses, accessorized by a variety of gaudy
belts.
The Obamas love a
good party -- and why not? It's not their money they're spending.
It's ours. And every one of the 50,000 guests will owe Obama a favor.
Poor
Barack, he'll be so worn out from his hectic, one-a-day get-downs, that
he'll have to take January off to recover -- although he'd do less
damage to the country if he did.
Woman Arrested After Michelle Threat
Breitbart is
reporting that authorities say a woman accused of telling the Secret
Service she would "blow away" Michelle Obama was in
federal custody Tuesday as the Obama family planned to travel to
Hawaii.
The Secret Service says Kristy Lee Roshia called its
Boston office last month and told a receptionist, "I will kill Michelle
Obama" and "I will kill Marines." Roshia also is suspected of
mailing photographs of herself, poems and love letters to the Secret
Service.
Agents arrested Roshia on Saturday after she told them
she knew where Barack Obama and his wife will be staying during a visit
to the islands later this week.
Kristy Lee Roshia, 35, was charged with threatening a family member
of the president and assaulting a federal agent after being arrested
Saturday less than two miles from the Kailua home where the Obama
family planned to stay during a holiday visit later this week.
Roshia called the Secret Service's Boston office last month and told
a receptionist, "I will kill Michelle Obama" and "I will kill
Marines," according to a Secret Service affidavit. During the
same call, she said she would "blow away" Michelle Obama, the
document states.
Roshia has a history of leaving rambling messages and sending poems,
love letters and photographs of herself to the Secret Service,
according to the affidavit. As early as 2004, she told the
agency that "although her mission is to assassinate the president,
she has no desire to hurt him," the document states.
The affidavit said Roshia acknowledged to Secret Service agents
before her arrest that she had threatened Michelle Obama. It
also says Roshia said she knew where Obama would be staying in
Hawaii, and the reason she had traveled to Hawaii in September was
"to protect Obama."
Roshia was also charged with lunging at a Secret Service agent,
striking him in the arms and face during her arrest.
She was being held without bail pending a Wednesday detention
hearing.
Let Them Eat Cake
It may have been a surprise to her, but Saturday night's birthday
dinner celebration for Michelle Obama at the high-end Restaurant Nora in
Washington was in the works for two weeks.
Chief Benjamin Lambert
tells The Washington Post he had plenty of time to prepare for the
first couple's first visit to the posh organic eatery in Dupont Circle.
And he claims he wasn't nervous, not for a minute, even as two Secret
Service agents stood guard in the kitchen while he prepared their meal:
a special lamb dish for her, and pan-seared Maine lobster and saffron
risotto for him.
They drank Spottswood sauvignon blanc. And
after nearly four hours of partying in an upstairs private room at Nora,
Obama took photos with the wait staff and waded through the kitchen,
shaking hands with the cooks and waiters and thanking them for their
efforts to fete his wife, who turns 46 on Sunday.
The party
guests included the first lady's mother, Marian Robinson, Attorney
General Eric Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone, White House adviser
Valerie Jarrett, Susan Sher, the first lady's chief of staff, and the
Obamas' good friends from Chicago, Eric and Cheryl Whitaker.
Also
on the scene, as always, was Obama's all-purpose body man, the towering
Reggie Love.
It wasn't hard for unsuspecting patrons -- including
this reporter -- to figure out who, too, was dining at Nora on Saturday.
All at the restaurant were mildly interrogated, wanded and frisked upon
entering by Secret Service agents. A bevy of black SUVs, a police
car and agents with ear pieces hovered outside. And by the time
the Obamas left, just after 10 pm, a crowd of bystanders gathered on the
corner and sang "Happy Birthday" to Mrs. Obama.
Just about the
only person around who didn't seem fazed was Chef Lambert, who
previously worked at New York's famed Le Cirque. "I've cooked for
every president since Gerald Ford," he said. All of them, save for
Bill Clinton and now Obama, were former presidents by the time they
feasted on Lambert's delicacies.
It's good to be the Obamas --
another day, another party. The U. S. economy in shambles.
Up to 50,000 dead in Haiti. And these two just party on -- at the
expense of the American taxpayer.
Related:
YouPolls.com is asking, "Is Obama out of touch?" -- at 7 AM, Sunday
morning, the results were: "Yes" = 92% and "No" = 7.8%.
Michelle Obama Stocked White House Library With Books On
Socialism
Gateway Pundit
says Rob Port visited the White House today and took this picture in the
library -- "The American Socialist Movement," "The Socialist Party of
America," and ""The Social Basis Of American Communism" -- it figures. Michelle Obama stocked the White House Library with
books on socialism and communism.
The Obama's Aren't Profligate, You Say?
Cornell McClellan can
boast that he's got about the biggest-assed celebrities you can as clients
-- the first couple.
McClellan, a personal trainer who owns a
gym called Naturally Fit in Barack and Michelle Obama's hometown of
Chicago, is still helping them keep in shape -- he flies to Washington
about once a week, mostly to work with the first lady, but sometimes
Obama, as well.
Michelle Obama was referred to McClellan by one
of his clients 13 years ago. He began working with Mr. Obama about
nine years ago. McClellan laughingly admits he's the one
responsible for Mrs. Obama's famous arms.
He says Obama is an
all-around athlete. "He likes to mix it up," McClellan told CBS
News. "He loves to run, work out with weights, basketball, golf."
McClellan says he's shown both Obamas boxing moves he
demonstrated on The Early Show Saturday Edition." Such moves, he
says, help keep the whole body in shape, from triceps to abs and
obliques to upper thighs.
Triceps, abs and obliques, maybe? But I noticed that McClellan
isn't taking credit for the glutes. Maybe the pizza guy that flies
in the Obama's pizza from Missouri, 850 miles away, is responsible for
those.
You know McClellan isn't flying coach on his weekly
visits, and the round-trip business class on Delta is $1,985.80.
Once you factor in the guy's fee and travel expenses, the Obama's are
spending $5,000 per week, or $250,000 per year, on a personal trainer.
That's your money.
Is This The White House, Or Big Mamma's House?
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
believes
Michelle Obama's "Let's Move"
campaign to control childhood obesity is an attempt by the White
House and the federal government to shackle the food industry and limit
the choices of Americans.
This ambitious campaign which includes
$1 billion in federal money to improve school breakfast and lunches is
another example of the Obama nanny state. First, we had Obama
trying to force his socialist government-run health care plan on the
American public -- now we have the first lady trying to control the
nation's diet -- is this the White House, or big mamma's house?
Yes, parents should feed their kids healthy diets and the public schools
should raise their standards and offer healthy alternatives -- but we
don't need to dump more tax-payer dollars into failing government
programs. Furthermore, the federal government has no business
attempting to control what American parents feed their kids. They
also don't have the right to dictate to private companies what types of
foods and beverages they can sell to consumers and vendors.
The
First Lady wants to pave her legacy on the backs of American children,
but this attempt to control the American diet and an entire industry is
destined to fail like ObamaCare. The road to hell is paved with
good intentions and that's exactly where the "Let's Move" campaign and
the Obama's socialist agenda would take this nation. Mrs. Obama,
keep your hands off our children!
Never heard of a first lady that
had a billion dollar budget before. That billion is going to come
from you and your kids, so the Obama's can feed someone else's kids.
This is simply more black nationalist reparations and socialist
redistribution -- remember what Michelle
said during
the campaign, ""The truth is, in
order to get things ..., someone is going to have to give up a piece of
their pie so that someone else can have more."
The Obama's
proved they couldn't handle their own personal finances during the
nineties, so Barack gives the bride a billion to keep her busy.
These profligates are destroying the nation's finances.
Michelle Continues To Live Large
The Daily News is
reporting that Michelle Obama and her daughters flew to New York to
catch a Broadway show while her husband stayed in Washington dismantling
the health care system.
Michelle, Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11,
and about a dozen other people in tow, took in the matinee performance
of "Memphis" Sunday.
Security blocked off 44th Street outside the
Shubert Theatre when their motorcade arrived after disrupting Sunday
traffic in from the airport. Obama, the girls and their friends
were hustled in through a side door to seats reserved in the first four
rows of the theater.
"They didn't make an announcement but when
they came in, everybody noticed and started taking pictures. Then
people started clapping too and there was a standing ovation for them,"
said Terri Mertz, one surprised audience member. "I knew she was
tall but I didn't realize she was that tall!," said Mertz, referring to
the hulking First Lady, who was wearing a
black dress.
Secret Service members, alarmed by the rash of
audience members who reached for cellphones and digital cameras to
photograph the First Gals, warned at intermission that they would
confiscate anyone who tried to take anymore pictures.
Shortly
before the end of the song that signaled the intermission, the Obamas
and their entourage were escorted out, interrupting the performance and
returned after the other audience members were seated. Once again
disrupting the show.
After the show, the audience remained seated
as the royals again walked up the aisle, and the girls smiled and waved
to the hoi poloi.
The musical tells the story of a white DJ, Huey
Calhoun, in 1950s segregated Tennesse; his love for a black singer,
Felicia Powell, and the then underground sound that gave birth to rock
and roll.
I am all little
puzzled at the reporter's account of the Secret Service warning.
Did the Secret Service really threaten to confiscate people who took
pictures of Michelle? Is being confiscated a new kind of political
arrest? Can you only be confiscated for offending members of the
Obama family, or can you be confiscated for other reasons? There
should be no confiscation without representation.
Now, Here's A Surprise
Breitbart
is reporting that Michelle Obama said she favored diversity on the
nation's top court, wading into risky political waters as her husband
weighs his second pick to the bench.
Asked in an interview with
MSNBC television her preference for the upcoming nomination to the
Supreme Court, Michelle Obama said of her husband: "I think he knows
what he's doing in this instance."
"Diversity in this country is
a good thing whether it's gender or race or socio-economic background or
religion. You know, that's the world I come from," she said.
"The more views and experiences at the table make for better
outcomes."
Obamas' Do As I Say, Not As I Do File
Thomas Lifson says
here's another one for the Obamas' "Do as I say, not as I do" file.
America's First Couple loves to hector us about our failings.
We are racist, our police act stupidly, and (most annoyingly), we eat
the wrong stuff and we're too fat.
But when the rubber hits the
road in the Obamas' own life, well then the rules don't apply. The
latest example: The Commander in Chief helped himself to a plateful of
10 deep fried Buffalo wings at Duff's Famous Wings in Buffalo.
Buffalo wings are indeed tasty, and if I were to return to Buffalo, I
would surely have a plateful of them myself, along with the traditional
blue cheese dressing.
But I would also gain some weight, and I do
not have the East African tall and slender build enjoyed by Obama (but
not his wife, who has rather more of a struggle to attain a fashionably
svelte bodily habitus). But notably, I am not in the business of
telling other people what they should eat and how fat they are.
When Michelle Obama eagerly took on the role of National Food Scold, I
thought there was trouble ahead. It's bad enough that a first
couple enamored of gassing up Air Force One for a "date night" on
Broadway tells us to curb our energy use and learn to get along with
less. But telling overweight people to stop stuffing their faces
while simultaneously indulging in fatty foods is an even more personal
level of chutzpah.
Hypocrisy is a hard sell.
Nouveau Riche Obamas Pour It On
Hot Air blog
says, don’t look to the current residents of the White House for
dignity, or a sense of the gravitas of the presidency. In their
world, classy = expensive, and more is more. And don’t look for
any acknowledgment from the Obamas' behavior (words don’t count) that
many Americans are hurting financially. Byron York
reports:
At a time when the unemployment rate stands
at 9.9 percent, when jobs are still being lost, when worries about
the global economy are causing breathtaking volatility on Wall
Street, when millions of Americans who still have jobs are worrying
more than ever about the safety of their retirement savings -- at a
time when all that is going on, the Obama White House has turned
itself into a showcase of glitzy extravagance.
Instead of the
elaborate pavilion
constructed at unknown expense for the first state dinner, we have an
enormous "marquee" tricked
out at unknown expense into the Obamas' idea of a
real classy nightclub, for
the after-dinner partay:
R&B diva Beyonce topped the entertainment
bill for the dinner, taking place in the East Room of the White
House, with the action later moving to a luxury marquee on the South
Lawn of the presidential mansion. The marquee, the size of
two-thirds of a football field, decked out in elaborate black decor
and nightclub-style lighting, featured a stage and baskets of
flowers and models of Monarch butterflies dangling from the ceiling.
Commoners can get a
glimpse of the
glitz from the White House flicker feed. Here’s one of Barack
and Michelle gettin' down:
All that’s missing is the fiddle.
Queen Michelle Still Has Problems With
America
Michelle Obama to NAACP: "America Is Still Unequal" for blacks
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