Obamarama

  • Columnist Bonnie Erbe of “why isn’t the First Lady kicking ass and taking names already” fame is still complaining. Most recently she shot down professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s argument that Michelle Obama’s domestic and ceremonial role as First Lady was already a revolution for black women considering how we’ve been treated and portrayed historically — which…

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  • Caroline Kennedy and Michelle Obama greet each other on stage as part of the opening of the American Ballet Theatre in New York.Michelle continues to dabble in the “fun stuff” as First Lady, hitting up museums and the ballet in New York City while Capitol File Magazine put up their piece on Senior White House…

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  • Rep. John Conyers (center) with now President Barack Obama and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus. (NYT) Rep. John Conyers is wondering this in light of the fact that we’re at war and we’re losing valuable soldiers (namely Arabic interpreters) due to this Clinton-era law. I’m wondering as well, considering there is public support…

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  • Try not to OD on nearly 300 pictures. (From White House Flickr photostream)

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  • She came. She saw. She charmed the pants off everyone. Or at least that’s the story the San Francisco Gate is sticking to. They loved her, she loved them, and in the admiration-fest between Michelle Obama and the graduating class of UC Merced, the first lady of the United States exhorted them to go out…

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  • Fashion icon Iman has raised a few eyebrows in print and on the web (including my Hot Topics page) with her comments that First Lady Michelle Obama is “no great beauty.” But in her full quote about Michelle Obama to Parade Magazine, Iman says: “Mrs Obama is not a great beauty, but she is so…

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  • Yes. It is Michelle Obama hugging children (third graders to be exact) while looking flawless. And I know it is your drug of choice. Imagine yourself as that little girl who has buried her face into the First Lady’s stomach. Yes. Try not to cry at work, you softies! You know that kid needed that…

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