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Time for An Obama Laxative?

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Michelle Antoinette. Gauche. Nouveau riche. Yep, those are terms being applied by many pundits and wags to Michelle Obama and her jaunt to Spain. That’s the kind of press coverage you want during a slow August news cycle. But wait, there’s more. We’re also alerted to Michell’s BOWEL MOVEMENTs. Yikes! Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times informs us that Michelle wants more than the fiber of a daily bran muffin. She’s into “cleansing:”

Mrs. Obama occasionally goes on what she calls a “cleanse” to purge her body of certain foods, she told Ladies’ Home Journal. Don’t confuse a “cleanse” — to get certain foods out of your system — with other techniques to detox, such as colonic irrigation. . . .

Asked how it worked out, Mrs. Obama said, “The cleanses are good for a short period of time. I can’t live my life on a cleanse. But they help me clean out my palate. Because when you start adding things like sugars into your diet, you start craving them.

“And the more you eat, the more you crave. … So maybe I’ll do a cleanse for two days. It isn’t a way of life because I like food too much. But it is good to break your mind-set,” she said.

So, was Michelle’s trip to Spain a metaphorical “cleansing” of America?

With unemployment still hovering around 10%, with the economy struggling to find its sea legs and Americans along the Gulf Coast economically devastated by the BP oil disaster, what is Barack and Michelle’s prescription? Vacation overseas, stay the hell away from the Gulf. Why spend dollars in America? Why provide free publicity to resorts along the Gulf Coast? Why not just exhort the nation to sacrifice and fiscal discipline and then do whatever the hell you want. Michelle’s decision to jet off to Spain (leaving Barack behind) with a forty plus person entourage at an estimated cost of $75,000 a day does not exactly signal austerity.

White House is whining that she’s just a “mom” and that she’s entitled to a vacation. If she’s traveling on her own nickel, then yes. But that’s not what happened. Who in the hell goes on vacation with “forty friends?” And to Spain? It would be one thing if Michelle had gone to Mississippi, Louisiana or Florida with this kind of entourage. At least her gang of strap hangers would have been spending money in America. They would have put some cash in the hands of struggling restauranteurs or hoteliers. Nope. Off to Spain.

The opulence of the European trip also has drawn scrutiny. Michelle Obama is staying at the Hotel Villa Padierna, a Ritz-Carlton resort in the mountains outside Marbella. The resort has two golf courses, a posh spa with Turkish baths, views of the Mediterranean Sea and a high-end restaurant specializing in avant-garde fare. Room rates start at $400 and rise to $6,500 for a two-bedroom villa with a private pool and 24-hour butler service. . . .

While her friends arrived in Spain on their own, Michelle Obama flew in on a type of aircraft also used by Vice President Joseph Biden. It costs the government $11,555 an hour to operate the plane, according to the Air Force. Assuming a nearly eight-hour flight to nearby Málaga, the total round-trip cost of the flight is about $178,000.

For the 60 million Americans who are unemployed or under employed, a trip to Spain by Michelle is a big thing. It smacks of insensitivity and elitism. It is akin to John Kerry parking his yacht in a neighboring state in order to avoid taxes. Someone with good political instincts would know, a trip to Spain at tax payer expense for your own “private” enjoyment is callow and clueless.

There also is something extremely weird about Michelle seeking so much time away from Barack. Vacationing without Barack is becoming a theme. But that’s grist for another day.

  • Noogan

    This is the behavior of a woman who is angry at her husband; the speculation about something going on behind the scenes is spreading like wildfire, even MoDo has picked up on it: 

    She seemed to be gigging her husband a bit: I’m going to do what I want to do. I can’t worry about whether it gives the Tea Partiers ammo or makes Democrats (including you) campaigning against the excesses of the rich look hypocritical. Even if the country is sliding into a double-dip recession, I’m going abroad to a five-star hotel on Air Force Two and give a boost to another country’s economy.
    To defray possible criticism of their upcoming 10-day trip to Martha’s Vineyard, Michelle belatedly agreed to a weekend family vacation on Florida’s gulf coast. On Friday, Spanish police closed a public beach for the American entourage. If Michelle had wanted a closed beach, she could have headed to our gulf sooner. There are plenty of multi-star hotels there, and she and the girls could have cleaned a few pelicans.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08dowd.html?ref=maureendowd

  • TeakWoodKite

     But that’s grist for another day.?

    “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”  
    ???

  • SoCalDem

    Seems the only sacrificing will be done by the American citizens, not one of the elite even know we are having trouble. How bizarre!!

  • Kim

    Michelle is not just any mom…she’s the First Lady and with that title comes a great deal of responsibility.  The wives of Presidential candidates know this, and if they can’t handle or don’t want to deal with the responsibility, then they need to let hubby know before he runs. 

    Barack and Michelle are two most self centered, self absorbed people that have ever been in the White House.  They show us nothing but their contempt for us.  The two of them have shown us repeatedly that they are not going to let the duties of being POTUS and FLOTUS get in the way of their party and vacation time.

  • PortiaElizabeth

    If I were married to Barack Obama, I would want as many vacations away from him as possible. That said, I think MO could’ve picked many, many places in the US to get away on a mother-daughter-bonding trip or a consolation-for-a-grieving-friend trip or whatever-the-hell-her-excuse-is-today trip. Now they are saying it wasn’t 40 friends, but only 4. So my question is: then who stayed in those 60 rooms they reserved? Was it for Saudi royalty? Qatar officials?

    Even if the Obamas had paid for every dime of that trip themselves (haha, what a fantasy!), the exorbitant amount of money would have been better spent right here at home. Granted, it wouldn’t settle the national debt, but it would send a positive signal to our nation that its First Family cares. The fact that they didn’t do that is more proof that they don’t give a skinny rat’s ass about anyone but themselves.

  • sowsear

    They also said that the friends who came brought their children so Sasha would have others her own age there…However I haven’t seen pictures of any other children with Sasha. Has anyone?

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    America needs a high-colonic  plus a Constitutional antibiotic to rid ourselves of the parasitic tendencies of our two national giant tapeworms.

  • EWard

    Dowd has zero credibility.  Maureen did everything but a lap dance to get Obama elected.  I could care less if the Obamas have marital problems.

    Larry – that title is so funny  :-D

  • Dario

    The hypocrisy of the obamabots is also easy to see now.  When Chelsea had her wedding those with CDS went postal about how expensive the wedding was, despite the fact that nobody knew any details about the cost, while pricing Michelle’s jaunt is a slam dunk.

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    Didn’t she go to Spain to meet with the wealthy shieks who are also vacationing there to get $$ for her jerkoff husband, covertly off course. As posted on the other thread about this same subject?  Makes sense to me. 

  • Dario

    I think Michelle wanted an ocean between she and Barack.  I get the feeling they are fighting.

  • Dario

    Lots of kids have invisible friends, and those must be the ones that came to Spain.

  • Sassy

    The “cleansing” routine is probably a fad introduced by Opray’s Dr. Oz. It is supposed to be a weight loss ritual, especially for belly fat. Michelle may debunk his theory.
    As to the Obamas not spending time to together, since I cannot stand either of them, I may finally have one thing in common with both!

  • PortiaElizabeth

    I had to laugh when I saw this intro to a HuffPo-Taylor Marsh hit piece on the NY Daily News calling MO Marie Antoinette:

    “Implying that First Lady Michelle Obama should have her head cut off in a blaring headline? Well, that at least tells the reader they’re in for a right-wing ride.”

    Hyperbole much, Ms. Marsh?

  • Anthony

    Why didn’t she vacation in the Gulf where her (our) money could’ve done some good?

    She’s the same power-hungry ambitious militant we met during the campaign.

  • PortiaElizabeth

    HuffPo has a few pix with other children.

  • Breeze

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    You are right, Tex-Mex -
    here is FlFemDem’s post from the other thread:

    ————————————————————————————————–

    Here are a couple of comments from that same article that may help explain why Moo is in Marbella…setting up retirement funds.  
     
    First comment.. “An article in one of the British papers online mentioned that there seems to be the strange coincidence of a shindig of a bunch of Obama supporting celebrities occuring this weekend at the same hotel Michelle Obama happens to be staying at in Marbella. The article mentioned them, Eva Longoria and a few others,  selling 400 tickets to those who want to rub shoulders with Mrs. Obama, who is described as American royalty.”  
     
    This is the second comment..  
    “Don’t see the American media reporting what El Mundo is. Google translation:  
     
    “Several Arab royal families also spend their summers in Marbella for many years. Thus, there will be a meeting between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, while another meeting is shuffled from the first lady with the owner of Málaga CF, billionaire businessman, son of Qatar’s Interior Minister and member of the Qatari royal family, Abdullah Al Thani.”  
     
    To find the article, search for El Mundo at google. Click to translate. That brings your to the front page.  
     
    Click on “Andulasia” at the top, look at the left hand column of articles about Michelle and click on “Pleasure and Vacation Policy Michelle”.  
     
    The paper also reports Jesse Jackson Jr is staying at a private house in Marbella and she “could” meet with him.”
     
     
    This vacation is about getting the money. From Muslims and B-list celebs. Ick.

  • Linda Anselmi

    Way too funny Candymarl!

    I’d only add – repeat colonic and antibiotic as often as necessary!

  • AbigailAdams

    Colonics?  Cleanses?  Ugh.  Too much information.

  • helenk

    http://www.newser.com/story/97625/obamas-big-gun-in-november-michelle.html

    Is the democratic party really that hard up for people to bring out voters that they think this GIMMEE person will help?

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTSA AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Breeze

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    I am no prude, Sassy, but I think it’s very nasty for a FLOTUS to discuss

    the state of her inner ‘plumbing’.

    What next?

  • elizabethrc

    It also turns out that Chelsea’s wedding was far, far less than speculation suggested.
    Lynn Sweet went way overboard in trying to justify and explain away Michelle’s Spain jaunt.  It was the most disgusting piece of writing I’ve read in a long while, and if anyone believes her explanations, I still have that bridge I’ve been trying to sell.
    The Obamas have brought something into the White House that is unseemly, coarse, selfish and beneath the dignity of the people’s house.  They are street people dressed up as dignified, civilized representatives of the American people.
    Self-serving isn’t the half of it, and they are so stereotypically the ugly American that it should fill us all with shame that Obama was elected.
    As to Michelle’s popularity: what planet is Lynn on?  I guess she doesn’t read the papers, listen to cable or think!

  • Sassy

    Maybe how long it takes her to get into panty hose?
    Or how she closes those neck to hem zippers?
    Inquiring minds want to know, but I’m not curious George, thankfully!

  • Breeze
  • ces

    She just got tired of all those Waffle Houses…

  • Linda Anselmi

    Gee Larry – thanks for sharing way more than I wanted to know of Michelle’s inner workings! 

    In Michelle’s “Excellent Adventure”: Another sign Obama doesn’t really want to be president at Pajamamedia, Roger Simon suggests that

    “Maybe Michelle and Barack just assume the president is not going to be re-elected, so why bother to keep up pretenses?”

  • arabella trefoil

    You ignorant white people! You are all a bunch of r_acists. Skinny blond women like Gwineth Paltrow talk about high colonics and to you that is worth news. Because Gwinneth Paltrow is white.

    But let the First Lady of the USA talk about the healthful effects of cleansing and you mock her. Because she’s black. Black people are proud of their bodies, which were made by god, so who are you to disrepect Michelle Obama’s bowel movements?

    In black culture it is not shameful to talk about bowel movements. White people (who come from Ice Culture) are afraid and ashamed of bowel movements.

    People, don’t you have more important things to talk about than Michelle Obama’s bowel movements? Why not talk about something important like voter registration.

    Pathetic. just. pathetic.

    PS: Dear Mr. Axelrod,
    I have sent you my resume and writing samples but I haven’t heard back from you yet. I can work all shifts and have my own computer and ISP connection.
    AT

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Thank you, thank you! Just throw coins! :-P

  • I’m a Dr Kracker 3 Seeded Linda too

    Classless, Selfish and Embarrassing are other words that fit Mich.

    You’re spot on.

    And it is also became clear, this is about MEchelle, only.  Something crawled up inside her butt on her daily work out to lose some of her weight she gained, needing a boost to her ego and did this, also to tell Barry, “you can’t tell me what to do” .

    I do now think this was an ego trip.  And her parading herself in that classless binkini while observers watched as she closed their beach, that we had to also pay for, so all eyes would be on that.  uuhhhherrrr.  Even if she had a good body, a classy first lady would not have paraded herself like that….and in that binkin.

  • arabella trefoil

    Dear Mr. Axelrod,

    I will work for you at a much cheaper rate than Taylor Marsh! You have my resume already. Here is a writing sample that got stuck on a dead thread, but it’s a good representation of my work:

    * * *

    Why’d he wanna cut off my head?  
     
    I went on a vaction with my little girl so that she could play on the beach. Why’d he called me Marie Antoinette? I’m doin my job as a mother, as a helpmeet, visiting the royal family of Spain. Why’d he say I shouldn’t meet a king and queen. Because in this country people of color are not fit meet royalty. So why’d he call me Marie Antoinette. Because as a woman of color, it’s not my place to meet a king and queen.  
     
    And you know what they did to Marie Antoinette? Come on, gimme somethin –  
     
    Yes, that’s right, sisters. Marie Antoinette was the queen of France who got her head cut off. Why’d he want me put in a guillotine to have my head chopped off?  
     
    Make no mistake, they hate us. Why’d he want to cut off my head because I took my little girl to the beach?

    * * *

    Thanks a lot, Mr. Axelrod! Look forward to hearing from you soon!
    AT

  • cookbook

    She went on the vacay during his birthday out of spite. She increasingly looks like she is going on benders so O cannot bitch at her about it. She looks increasingly thrown together, bad hair, and sometimes very slovenly. Her posture is getting worse. The photos from the Brit papers are not pretty and she looks puffy. She also apparently will not listen to her husband’s PR people. This is symptomatic of a drinking problem in my humble opinion. Also the kids look ratty some of the time and that is in no way a criticism of these little girls but of their possiby troubled mother.

  • arabella trefoil

    I agree with your assessment. Michelle Obama was not prepared to handle the pressures of being First Lady.

  • arabella trefoil

    I’d be on Mars by now.

  • FrenchNail

    Two names: Vera Baker and Man’s Country. Google them.

    I was said that the marriage was on the brink of divorce in 2006 because of Vera Baker, just at the time when Harry Reid and Co, pinpointed O for their choice candidate. My guess is that now that the novelty of front page magazine appearances has worn out, the fighting is resurfacing big time.

  • Daisy Mae

    From the same Sun Times article:
    “Mrs. Obama, in an interview to promote her “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign, talked about the “cleanse” and the dislike, which she shares with the president, of beets.
    “Neither the president nor I have the beet gene,” Mrs. Obama said.” 

    My Dad always said “Beets are hard to beat.”
    Is she our First Lardy Beet Noir?  
    The vulgarity and trashiness of this dame are dazzling.
    Please, someone put the whipped cream on this trash sundae with a pic of Queen Me Antoinette in her bikini. 

  • I’m a Dr Kracker 3 Seeded Linda too

    married?  Just another piece of paper.  …  for show….not reality.

  • FrenchNail

    Yeh, the dignity of the White House and the Presidential Office. Unmeasurable commodity, yet quite perceivable. Especially in its absence!

  • MG

    I wonder if it was a pay off for destroying this country

  • Pat Racimora

    I think I will do a toon about George Bush going to his own ranch and cutting brush.  I never thought I would admire that greatly–but then again I never even imagined that there could be such a contrast.

  • Noogan

    Oh, for God’s sake, eward. It’s not about MoDo. I don’t like Maureen Dowd any more than you do. My comment was referring to the growing speculation--which included Maureen Dowd–on the back story behind this trip to Spain. And, whether or not you care about the marriage is irrelevant, isn’t it? 

    In point of fact, the truth about the backstory–whether the marriage is failing or it is something else–could have an impact on NOVEMBER, and therefore a wider impact on this nation, and inevitably your life, in one form or fashion. Personally, I don’t care about whether or not they are happy in the marriage, and in fact, I strongly believe they are not.

    But, if there is a story about El Presidente, and it comes out before the ELECTION, there may be a wider impact–which you may like for all I know.

  • FrenchNail

    I just read somewhere that an headline mentioning: The cocaine consumption skyrocketting at the White House.

    That made me cringed on several levels. I may not beleive it entirely, eventhough I have no illusions whatsoever on the cocaine habits (past or not) of O and many of the young guns around him, yet that we have a White House associated near or far with cocaine is more than disgusting.

    Booze and coke… Am I going to end up regretting the Bush boozing White House by the end of O’s term? I cannot stand this.

  • arabella trefoil

    Actually, the marriage has been rocky from the start. Michelle wanted money – lots of it. She did not want Obama to go into politics. At one point, he left her at home (after maxing out all their credit cards) with a toddler and a newborn to go a Democratic Convention.

    The Obamas lived well beyond their means for years, and the advance for Obama’s book was a godsend. But he could not write the book, and the publisher wanted the advance back. So the Obamas went off to, I think, Bali to see if it would help Obama’s writer’s block. (Go to Bali to cure writer’s block? hmm) In the end, as we all know, Ayers wrote the book and the Obamas got the money they needed.

    There is lots and lots more of this kind of thing in the Obamas marital history. A lot of their problems seem to come for Michelle’s desire for an opulent lifestyle and Obama’s laziness.

  • Helen

    There are many blacks with class – but not these two.

  • don

    Fits in well though; as Barack was not prepared to handle the duties and responsibilities of being POTUS!

  • Ladydawnelle

    oh man I never THOUGHT about the entourage and THEIR spending and how MUCH our own country could use the money.  WTF?  Where is the SERIOUS LOONY LEFT OUTRAGE?   Sean Penn is too busy in Haiti? no thats Wyclef?  wait!  I guess they are both over there trying to take over that country (wait no I mean) um HELP that country. ARGH I am really starting to despise my SAD SICK OLD DONKEY party.

  • Noogan

    “gauche” and “nouveau riche.”  :-D  


    I love those descriptions. They fit them both so well. 

  • EWard

    Breeze

    Grifters in the White House!

    Larry

    If Spain is all about collecting money from donors foreign or celebrities is it legal?

  • Noogan

    That is PRECISELY what I think, French Nail. 

    I think there’s a problem in this marriage, and I think the press KNOW and they’re not telling, just like the palace courtiers they are. They’re hinting though. You can read it all over the facial expressions on Joe Scarborough’s show this morning, and from other sources. 

  • jmm915

    That was HYSTERICAL!!!

  • helenk

    http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1008/she_makes_clinton_sparkle.html

    what a difference.
    We got stuck with kool-aid when we could of had a V8

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBA,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Noogan

    FUNNY!  :-D

  • Diana L. C. Hazelnut Nut Thin Cracker

    Are you actually saying that we DO have access to an official document for some aspect of the Dear Leader’s life?  Maybe she wants out of her contract to be part of the DNC’s Brand in Chief deal.  Maybe she is making it clear that the powers behind the scene of that Brand better give her whatever she wants whenever she wants it or she will finally reveal what she knows. 

    And what she wants is to get everything handed to her so she never has to whine again about how people like those at Princeton do enough to make up for her being born AA.

  • Noogan

    ROFL, Daisy Mae. 

    Brutal. Brutally Funny!  :-D

    Michelle: Our First Lardy Beet Noir….OMG.  :-D

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Are you sure about the lap dance, EWard? MoDo probably offered one but I think she misjudged Baby Doc’s interest in females. 

  • Noogan

    What Oprah has gotten rid of her belly fat?

    Heh. 

    Calling Dr. Oz, Calling Dr. Oz. Your prescriptions aren’t working! 

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Add, uncouth and crass.  Guttersnipes also fits.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    We are all so going to Gitmo. You people are insane! Insanely funny!

  • arabella trefoil

    “Let’s Move” has taken on a whole new meaning, now that we know about Michelle cleansing routines.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I’m sure it’s doubly satisfying to Mama Doc that she can live as if the sky’s the limit and charge it off to all the “mean” Americans she despises.  Let’s hope if the Republicans take back the majority, someone can look into the taxpayer rip-off by White House squatters.  Anytime she or Baby Doc go on vacation, they need to go to their own house or Camp David (transportation is on our dime of necessity).  However, they should be paying (with proof) for any of their other entertainment and vacations.  I want to know if she is paying for the designer clothes…or are they donated?  Even donated clothes are reportable on taxes.  What about the coat she ordered made for her with the London designer?  They are disgusting.

  • arabella trefoil

    Helen, that is one of the many things that makes me so sad.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Mama Doc’s popularity is another Democrap delusion.  They will have only audiences of supporters and zero challengers.  You can count on that.  Even so, that ole dog won’t hunt.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I, too, read about the posh party.  Why no reports?  Pictures?

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    She doesn’t wear hose…just greases up the legs and arms.  And, no, it isn’t prudish to feel repeled by discussions about bodily functions or procedures to correct said functions.  It is merely one more clueless, crass comment by The First Fat Ass.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Helenk Michelle will be the big gun all right. She’ll blow them Dems right out of the water!

    Go FLOTUS go!

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    She doesn’t wear hose…just greases up the legs and arms.  And, no, it isn’t prudish to feel revolted by discussions about bodily functions or procedures to correct said functions.  It is merely one more clueless, crass comment by The First Fat Ass.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    LLLAAADDDYYYY!

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    There’s a song from the 70′s “I Think I Know Too Much”…lyrics go “you’ve got a history I don’t wanna touch”.  Hahahaha.  Fits.

  • arabella trefoil

    Maybe Michelle was trying to raise money from wealthy shieks, but the way she looks and acts lately, I doubt she could go trick or treating for UNICEF and be successful.

    I think Michelle is having some kind of emotional breakdown. She can barely function. As for the rumors that she was in Spain to “set up back accounts” – ha ha ha! I wouldn’t trust her to handle an errand like that. She needs rest and rehab. I mean serious rest and rehab at a medical facility that can evaluate her needs and help her.

    It’s sad to see this. But she and her husband were in no way prepared for the intense media scrutiny of the White House. They are both emotionally frayed, even though the American press has been worshipful.

    They should never have let Michelle out of the country where the foriegn media could get their hands on her.

    Plus, don’t the sheiks live in alcohol-free settings?

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I don’t think there are any bikini pictures (thank God).  She hid in a tent on the beach with the kid frolicking the surf on her own…probably with a SS agent on the periferery.

    I don’t want FLINO to tell me what her food likes and dislikes are (we already are aware of the $100lb Kobi Beef, lobster, caviar and chanpagne) and I don’t want her telling me what to eat ether.  But she could stop making up stories about how healthy her diet is.  He body mass says otherwise.  Most of the pictures we see of them when they are out and about, are of them eating ice cream cones.  Fine, but stop the Food Nazi act.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I don’t think there are any bikini pictures (thank God).  She hid in a tent on the beach with the kid frolicking the surf on her own…probably with a SS agent on the periferery.  
     
    I don’t want FLINO to tell me what her food likes and dislikes are (we are, sadly, aware of the $100lb Kobi Beef, lobster, caviar and champagne) and I don’t want her telling me what to eat either.  But she could stop making up stories about how healthy her diet is.  He body mass says otherwise.  Most of the pictures we see of them when they are out and about, are of them eating ice cream cones.  Fine, but stop the Food Nazi act.

  • bamaLV

    i suspect it has something to do with oprah. meechele is jealous of her and doesnt like her relationship with barry. funny but he spent his birthday with oprah instead of MO.  somethings up and it couldnt happen to a more deserving couple.

  • EllenD

    Teak, that is funny!

    I remember overhearing a seasoned American traveller talking to newbie American Tourists at Heathrow. They asked him for a tip for first time London visitors.
    He said “Never eat at Wimpy’s”.
    Trust me, he was dead on.

  • Moright

    FrenchNail -just to set the record straight -GW had quit drinking. 

  • EllenD

    I want to know if she is paying for the designer clothes…or are they donated?  Even donated clothes are reportable on taxes.

    Was her resort hotel comped because the government paid for all the Secret Service to be near her? Plus they got a lot of free international publicity.

  • tango

    I could care less too. I expect it’s hard to be married to a narcissist for one thing, doubly hard when he’s quite possibly on the down low too. But when Obamabots such as Maureen Dowd notice how much time Michelle spends away from her husband on vacation and at what appears to be significant times, it does get gossip going. The last part of Mo Dowds column:

    “But at moments when you think Michelle might make her husband toast, or better yet a martini, she’s often off on a girls’ trip.
    When health care passed after a difficult year and the president celebrated with his staff on the Truman Balcony, the first lady was with her daughters on Broadway to see “Memphis.”
    When the BP oil spill stained the White House, making the president seem so impotent that he had to make his first national address from the Oval Office, the first lady was playing with her mother and daughters in Los Angeles, staying at the Beverly Wilshire. She was taking in a Lakers game the night of his address.”

    Vacation is one thing but to be on vacation during important times and speeches in her husbands Presidential career, is weird. And very telling.  

  • jwrjr

    “So, was Michelle’s trip to Spain a metaphorical “cleansing” of America?”  Only in the same way that Syrup of Ipecac is a cleansing agent.

  • cookbook

    This may be her way of dealing with “bloating” that comes from substance abuse.

  • EllenD

    :)

  • TeakWoodKite

    Spot on arabella trefoil! BO described that he had to borrow the money to get to the convention.

    I don’t believe Larry Sinclair ever mentioned this place…but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

  • EllenD

    “Maybe Michelle and Barack just assume the president is not going to be re-elected, so why bother to keep up pretenses?”

    Also known as “Take the money and run.”

  • AbigailAdams

    Breeze: I think it’s too big to post — but it’s perfect!  Did you get a load of the arms?  Maybe that’s why she needs a cleanse or whatever.  Looks like lots of build-up of steroids or something there, huh?

  • skeeter

    no it wasn’t a cleansing of America. cleansing America would require the obama’s to vacate the most important office in the land. it just means she is flaunting her “N” rich status and telling the world she is just as full of shit as her husband.

  • surfered

    Well, at least we’re making some progress.  Our last President wouldn’t give up vacation even after being told that “bin Laden was “determined to strike in America.” (Presidential Daily Brief August 6, 2001)

  • Anthony

    THat was the last POTUS.  He’s been gone for two fucking years already, so give it a rest.  This one is even worse.  His wife spends millions while our economy is in the toilet.

    And before you start parroting his favorite reminder that “he inherited this from Bush”, I need to tell you that 2 years into the game, he owns it.

    If he didn’t know what he was in for, he shouldn’t have run.  Not only that, his ignorance of his inheritance proves only one thing: what we all knew from the get-go:  He’s incompetent.

  • AbigailAdams

    What just happened to the thread on Honor Killings?  I hope it wasn’t viewed to be too controversial.

  • propertius

    I don’t blame her for being mad at her husband – I’m pretty mad at him, myself.

  • elizabethrc

    Today I saw footage of her walking into the water with some young girls.  She was wearing a bikini.  We aren’t so lucky as to be spared the specter of that humongous butt, those bony knees and those gorilla arms.
    The woman just has no taste and has no idea what is appropriate for a first lady.

  • sowsear

    Intelligent , lonely kids have imaginary friends….

  • sowsear

    Will you go and get them…. :-D

  • sowsear

    please… :)

  • Deapthrowt

    The National Enquirer had it right all along about John Edwards when few in America could believe it. Whatever happened to the Vera Baker – Obama story with the taxi driver, the Washington DC hotel and the video cameras the National Enquirer also ran.

    That also coincided wit the “private” Obama vacation in Asheville, NC and that “private” daughters soccer game visit where Obama ditched his Whitehouse press crew and went missing on the nation.

    All of those strange things happening right around the same time  with the Obama’s marital “happiness” under the spotlight.

    How often does the National Enquirer get things wrong when of such gravitas as the POTUS and FLOUTUS themselves when you think even they would respect the highest level of journalistic ethics.

    I for one could not believe it about John Edwards. Surely a man running for the president of the United States could not possibly be guilty as charged. But he was. And I got hoodwinked just like I couldn’t believe Richard Nixon up until the very end could look me in the eye and say “I am not a crook”, yet he was.

    So what is happening on the Obama homefront and who was Vera Baker and why did Obama disappear that day in Wash DC and what triggered that rapid Asheville vacation and why did they take separate vacations on his birthday.

    Or is this all just a ruse to keep the focus off the sleazy deals Obama is covering up in Chicago with everyone around him singing like jailbirds to keep the noose off their own necks while the cameras go clucking off in Spain.

  • sowsear

    There weren’t any sheiks or Hollywood stars there…could that be?

  • Tamara Cracker

    Rome burns, the economy tanks, and Michelle “cleanses”. 

    Here is how bad the economy REALLY is. 
    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/08/its-time-to-admit-it-obamanomics-are-a-complete-disaster/

  • cackicoo

    His wife spends millions while our economy is in the toilet.

    you meant to say…while his wife is on the toilet………right?

    visualeyes…………

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    So, was Michelle’s trip to Spain a metaphorical “cleansing” of America?
    ================
    No. It was another photo op for a useless bit of human genetic material. I just got back from Ft. Campbell where the Curahee unit is leaving for Afghanistan. I cannot stand that useless POS. She is part of the problem, along with Barky. I do wish she’d don a uniform and actually work for the first time in her worthless life. They wouldn’t have her, however as she can’t pull her own considerable weight.

  • Breeze

    -

    Well Arabella, we’ll just call her

    IMELDA Marie Antoinette

    RACE PROBLEM SOLVED!!! 

  • PortiaElizabeth

    I don’t know how to capture the images but here’s the link –

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/06/michelle-sashas-beach-day_n_673467.html#s123775

  • susiepuma-crazy cracker

    alcohol-free – are you kidding – they go thru the booze like it was gonna be taken away – that no alcohol shit is only for the peons -

  • Breeze

    -

    GOT A LINK, ELIZABETH?

  • Nellie

    So What?

    They – the two of them like to play they are like the Kennedy’s. No way in hell.

    Jackie Kennedy always, always kept her personal and private life separate, as did Ted’s wife Joan.

    Even Hillary got up and made a public speech about what a good president Bill was, at the height of the Monice Lewinsky scandel no less!

    When you are Potus and Flotus, you are representative of the American people 24/7 – at least publically.

    Having hissy fits, and the other wasy they throw tantrums does a disservice to Americans and our country.

    When Laura Bush was not happy, she took hiking trips, quietly by the way, to Americas National Parks. Even though I was not a Bush fan, Laura Bush represented Americ WELL at all times, and kept their private lives private.

    That’s how ADULTS behave. The Obama’s are two classless (vulgar, gauche, nouveau riche) college fraternity brats – not adults.

  • Breeze

    -

    ((((KATMOON, FERD, SON & FAMILY))))

  • WhatNow

    Eat yogurt with live acidophulus and get back to me in the morning

  • Nellie

    Only in public in their own country’s. Having taught foreign Arab and other students for 20 years,  they get soused just as much as anyone else. Ramadan was the only exception, or when their parents/relatives were visiting.

  • Anthony

    its killin’ me…….

  • Anthony

    On a more positive note, I’ve read that a pod of killer whales has been sighted off the coast of Spain.  Seems they’re doing their mating thing.

    Perfect time to tell Manzilla to don the Stella McCartney black/white one piece tank suit and take a dip

  • Helen

    If O is still smoking, he stinks and so does the White House – maybe that’s why she has to get away from him every chance she gets.  But she might have stayed in country for the sake of the economy.  Anyway, the excuse won’t fly – how much time is she really going to spend with a grieving friend under those circumstances – and with a child along as well who will need her attention, not to mention hollywood stars, royalty etc.  Gibbs is such a phony he wouldn’t understand.

  • Happy

    CNN Don Lemon said his mom said her going to Spain is ok since it shows that black people can make it? I could not belive my ears black people are hurting more under Obama

  • EWard

    Noogan

    The Obamas could hate each other, but my bet is this won’t come out.  Why?  So many politicians, reporters, foreigners invested heavily to get Barack elected.  MO can go to Spain but a failing marriage will not surface before November.  Just my humble opinion.  However, hope you are right because it would further sink the Democrats.

  • getfitnow

    Talk about ROFL, this are hysterical: :-D
    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/304431.php

  • getfitnow

    Remember this outfit and scowl she wore to meet the parents of a fallen Medal of Honor recipient?
    http://www.luoamerican.com/.a/6a00d8341e5b7353ef012875678568970c-pi

  • trixta

    Add parvenues and grifters ….

  • PssttCmere

    Only michevil can don designer clothes and make them look like thrift store rejects!

    As for her cleansings, when you are as full of crap as she is, I am sure they are required hourly!!!  =-O

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com

  • PssttCmere

    oprah does have a helluva lot more money than michevil, but I think obamadinejad may be more interested in Steadman!!

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • PssttCmere

    Maybe they were standing behind michevil and you couldn’t see them past her big ass!

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • creeper

    “Failing marriage”?  Oh, my…you don’t think they’re headed for a divorce, do you?

    Hah!  It’ll be a cold day in hell when MIA leaves the White House voluntarily.  Dream on.

  • trixta

    How long does it take her to yank off sleeves ?

  • trixta

    Okay, but in Michelle’s defense I absolutely hate wearing panty hose too!!!  (Also it’s a bit old fashioned to do so.)

  • creeper

    Hoo-ee!  You ARE on a roll today, Psstt.

  • trixta

    If this is true, then someone really needs to look into the WH Wednesday night” pizza” parties.  I guess more than just pizza is being delivered there.

  • Clara

    Larry, the visual that your title creates is harsh.  The mere thought of anything passing through Michelle’s colon is almost too much to bear.

    And on another item from the Spain trip, who is dressing Michelle and Sasha for their visits with the Spanish royalty?  She could not have looked dumpier if she’d been wearing a potato sack and to let Sasha wear her dress-up net tutu was a little over the top.

  • Clara

    I’ve always liked Don Lemon but his bias is quite overt recently. 

  • creeper

    How funny!  Great find, Breeze.  I hope someone can shrink it.  This is too good to miss.

  • sowsear

    My laptop is in quarantine; can’t go to Huffypoo….

  • sowsear

    Thye don’t need no stinkin laws…

  • sowsear

    Not necessary to wear pantyhose; they do make thigh,  knee, and ankle highs.
    Speaking of that; I’ve been looking for a pair of shoes recently and have been in 6 or 7 different stores…I must have seen at least 30 people trying on shoes, all in their bare feet, not one except me in sockies.
    In this state it is a health law that you must be wearing foot covering to try on shoes. Stores supply them, and salespersons are supposed to insiist that they be used.

  • sowsear

    If only they wouldn’t bug my computer….

  • Clara

    Annie SC, Looking at all the young girls in the Obama entourage as they were walking across the beach towards the water, it’s clear that not one of their parents is practicing what Michelle has been preaching to us all.  Those girls were slightly fluffy to chunky, including little Sasha.

  • confloyd

    You guys are missing the real story…which is why Obama’s oldest daughter is in camp while the rest of the girls tour SPAIN….that’s the real question….rumors have it that she messed up at school…with a boy…that’s what I heard!

  • sowsear

    Not at the end of his 2nd term. Haven’t you seen pictures of Bush at the Olympics, falling down drunk and pinching the girl athletes. (I saved them but on my crashed computer)

  • sowsear

    Very expensive pizza…

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Picture if you will Michelle and Obama semi-naked. There’s a look. It’s so romantic. They open their lips and exchange....Wait for it…. Giant worms with teeth that have large amounts of money wedged between those teeth.

    Enjoy your dinner!

  • Senneth

    I agree, this is hysterical, Arabella.  I am still laughing at your “letter to Mr. Axelrod.”

  • sowsear

    Whatever happened to the Vera Baker – Obama story with the taxi driver, the Washington DC hotel and the video cameras the National Enquirer also ran.  

    I missed that, I guess. What happened?

  • sowsear

    Why the blue shoes with that black, white, and red dress above? Why Sasha in a yellow tutu and pink blouse. Buy them a color wheel, someone.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I don’t know about the comp’d hotel.  There are limits on accepting gifts.

  • sowsear

    define “messed up”.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    In summertime for casual events, pantyhose don’t make sense and since she always wears her dresses too short, knee highs won’t work either…her shoes must be sprayed regularly.  But for formal, evening affairs, she should wear hose.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything but greasy legs.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Oprhrey is bigger than ever.  She has internal issues and tries to fill her emptiness with food.

  • jeannieandphil@aol.com

    Obama’s marriage is none of your business – so she takes a vacation with friends (which, by the way, was the reason for her taking it…a friend of hers recently lost a parent and ASKED Michelle to join her and others for a family vacation, with their kids – Michelle did not select the location, she went along).  Besides, we pay for the security of all past presidents and their families – such as Bill Clinton, who had an extra detail at the recent 6 figure wedding of his daughter – but then again, who cares what others spend, its only Obama that is slammed for everything.

    THis is a non-story and will be gone in a few days – a very trivial and bitter line of attack from all of you – but then again, your girl lost didn’t she???  and you just cannot get over it.  (by the way, Hillary and Chelsea strutted around the world, literally, to every Olympics plus something like 23 countries, while Bill was in the WH.  Did you complain then???  and it was NOT official business.

  • jeannieandphil@aol.com

    Arabella, every statement you make is a lie and you know it.  I cannot believe the level of human beings on larry’s site – you set a new standard for trash and lots of it.  what a cesspool and Larry, as the leader, is the worst of all. 

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Oh, dear.

  • MG

    Here is an article from the UK: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100050002/the-obama-presidency-increasingly-resembles-a-mo
    Even the world see thru the O.
    Now I hear that there is a cry to have Hilary on the Ballot to be the vice president.  It looks like the Obots are blaming Gaffe prone Biden for the O’s failures!  Even Chris tingles is advocating for Hilary on the Ballot as the vice President!  Bunch of hypocrites!!!  The AA community turned on the Clintons and now their stupid leaders are going to the Clintons for WHAT “HELP.”!!
    Honestly!!!  

  • sowsear

    I hope the Clintons are wearing earplugs…

  • MG

    And another thing…I can’t stand the notion “we have to support him or her because their Black or Brown!!  How about supporting a decent human being who is a proven leader!!  As I had a conversation with one of my AA friends “we have to support him because he is AA!  Honestly you’ll never have good leadership if you DO NOT support decent people.  I LOVE Allen Wes: Leader of men and women of all races in times of WAR.  He is the one that we should support becusehe loves this country and all of US…Idiots!!!
    Now I gotta go take an anti-acid.

  • jeannieandphil@aol.com

    Surely you are joking???  Clinton’s sparkle??  Bill looks like he just escaped from intensive care wearing suit that must be from Sears – doesn’t even fit!  And Chelsea with a $25000 dress embelished with fake diamonds??  Where were the braces when she needed (needs) them???  And Hillary’s MOB dress was an absolute disaster….cheap and totally vulgar looking and looked HORRIBLE on her body!  she looked like  a clown.  give me a break….clinton’s are great people, but looks are NOT on their side.  and the wedding most certainly did cost close to a million, don’t kid yourself.  My sister is a wedding planner, believe me, looking at all they had, that was a very expensive wedding for 400 people.

  • MG

    Excuse the spelling…. *DONT_KNOW*    now for that anti acid pill!

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Michelle Obama’s Camp: I Was Forced To Endure Soul-Wrenching Luxury and Heart-Breaking Excess Because I Had To Honor My Friend’s Dead Father

    Hey gitfitnow, that’s good enough to stand on it’s own!  Hysterical!

    Top Ten Activities To Honor Friend’s Departed Father At Michelle Obama’s Five-Star Funeral Jam
    10. Barbecued shrimp slightly al dente out of respect for the dead

    9. When snorkeling, bereavers hold their heads upside-down so brilliantly-colored coral fish appear to be wearing sad face frowns instead of happy face smiles

    8. Commemorative Jet-Skiing

    7. Morning’s mani-pedi group outing begun by reading of appropriate Psalm, and then reading of a random cartoon from Marmaduke: The Classics, because you can’t start your day off too heavy on the Spanish Riviera

    6. Extreme zip-line excursion reminds everyone that life is fleeting

    5. Resort’s specialty drink? The “Mortal Coil Monsoon”

    4. Waiters and bartenders only tipped 7% to remind them that there are things more important than money

    3. Bereavement Para-sailing

    2. Booze Cruise’s Martini-and-crossed-swords flag lowered to half mast
    And the number one activity to honor the dead at Michelle Obama’s five-star funeral jam…

    1. Moment of silence strictly observed after each Bama Slamma shot
    Bonus! Number 0.

    0. Every day after the spa, Michelle flexes her biceps and announces she’s giving Father Blanchard a “two-gun salute”

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Dear oh dear!  I hope she didn’t do anything to feel “punished” about…

  • felizarte

    Michelle doesn’t seem to care how negatively her junket affects public perception of her husband.  What is she upset with him about?  Obama looks gaunt and haggard, even on TV which is supposed to make people appear heavier than they really are in person.  Is he on something to keep his energy up?  

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    This is from Ace of Spades!  Thanks getfitnow.  Sorry for the typo on your moniker up thread.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Black people can make it? Well then let’s ignore the high unemployment rate among  black people especially among young black males.  But the country, no matter the color group, is suffering. People are angry, afraid, and have a sense that we have no leader. 

    Obama doesn’t seem to notice that feeling of lack of leadership. He’s too busy doing what he does best. Campaigning.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    But why would they want a known “racist” on the ticket? Bill is a racist too.

    So let me get this straight.  They want two racists to help Obama get re-elected.

    I’d laugh if it weren’t so sad.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    Well, candymarl, it’s all in the term racist. They’ll use it when it helps and deny it when it doesn’t. I am depressed. I’d just like a little honesty.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    For the 60 million Americans who are unemployed or under employed, a trip to Spain by Michelle is a big thing. It smacks of insensitivity and elitism. It is akin to John Kerry parking his yacht in a neighboring state in order to avoid taxes. Someone with good political instincts would know, a trip to Spain at tax payer expense for your own “private” enjoyment is callow and clueless.
    ============================
    They don’t care. Marie-Me-Chelle Obama wants her vacation now. We peons don’t matter. And That One is too busy with his fellow hoodlums to care.

  • getfitnow

    She has been totally out of the news cycle.

  • getfitnow

    Decent and capable–please. 8-)

  • sowsear

    We’re talking about Bush III now…

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Actually they are only “wannabes” in every regard. 

  • Hank

    I can’t believe the spin that the WH is doing on Marie Michelle.  Now she only traveled with at the most 6 people.  What about the 60 rooms?  What about her meeting with the Saudi Royals?  What was that all about?  Can’t wait for November….

  • beachnan

    Nice try Jeannie.  Yes, our girl did lose, and look what we are stuck with now.  Good grief, I don’ think he could have done a worse job than he has done, but then again, most of us knew he was incapable of being a leader.  Poor Michelle, a friend asked her to go with her to this very ritzy hotel and she just couldn’t turn her down.  Michelle struts around like she is the queen bee and better than everyone else.  People can see when others are acting like elitists and that is Mo and Bo to the nth degree.  By the way, Chelsea and Hillary had eight years to jet around the world, and it seems that Bo and Mo are trying to break that record in record time.  Also, if you will remember, the economy was kickin ass back in the 90′s, not like now with so many Americans unemployed.  It’s always the timing Jeannie, and the timing of this trip was very bad. 

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    What part of freedom don’t you understand Jeannie?  We have every right to be disgusted with Michelle and her hus (gag) band.

    You think just the opposite good for you – but please don’t think you have the right to tell people how to think or tell them how it’s going to go.  (More crystal ball babble) . Doing that is a really bad liberal habit and frankly people are sick of it.

  • beachnan

    CDS Jeannie?   Clinton Derangement Syndrome.   Bo will probably be a one term President, and someone who will rival Jimmy Carter as the “worse President ever”, so scream all you want about the Clintons, because that will not change the fact the Bill Clinton’s Presidency was very successful, and Bo’s-not so much.  Do you need medication for your delusions?

  • sowsear

    Here’s another new reason:
    Noting that his wife’s father had recently died, he said, “They’re good friends and that’s a tough time.” He added, “When someone delivers your children, that’s kind of an important bond, I think.”
    White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday on CNN, “Yes, she is the first lady of the United States. She’s also a mom. She wanted to take her daughter on a trip. They went with some friends of the family to celebrate another little girl’s birthday.

  • I’m a Dr Kracker 3 Seeded Linda too

    OK, THAT’S IT!   Someone is trying to make me TOSS!

    First thing this morning, I’m awakening with my coffee to video of Mich Obama in a bikini walking on a spanish beach.

    Now, tonight at dinner, we had on Greta and they PLAYED THE SAME DAMN CLIP WHILE HUBBY AND I WERE EATING,  It was spicy peanut pasta and brussel sprouts, so that vision REALLY didn’t GO!

  • HARP

    Watch out for these types at rallies.

  • sowsear

    Here it is….

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  • Peggy Sue

    What would possess Lynn Sweet or any other reporter to write about Michelle Obama’s cleansing and purging routine???  Yuck.  That’s w-a-a-y too much information.

    Must have been an incredibly slow news cycle.  Dog days of August.

  • Peggy Sue

    Btw, rather than the “cleansing” of America, I think we can agree that we’re witnessing the fleecing of America.  On a daily basis.

  • TeakWoodKite

    @FrenchNail;
    One might recall the televised schtick Bush Sr did from the Oval office holding a a brick of Crack which was obtained across the street in Laffeyette Park.

    Guess they don’t have leave 1600.

    Still, FrenchNail might you have a link for it? The only thing I could find was a reference to someone with an Iphone picture, which stated that the “photo” had embedded GPS metadata. Which was debunked. No picture either.

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    Its a class red herring situation.  The ‘media’ is so obesseed on what the vacation cost in order to hide the true reason for the trip  hiding in plain sight. 

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    Its a classic red herring situation.  The ‘media’ is so obesseed on what the vacation cost in order to hide the true reason for the trip  hiding in plain sight, smell the mula.   Divert the masses, the idiots.

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    did you remind your friend that he is only HALF AA? How does your friend feel about supporting his honkey momma?  He did fly out of a white womans vajayjay, LOL

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    did you remind your friend that he is only HALF AA? How does your friend feel about supporting his “honkey” whoops I mean “cracker” momma?  He did fly out of a white womans vajayjay, LOL…. those poor souls must just kill them to know that.

  • PssttCmere

    lol….I try.  See what happens when I get Psstt off??   8-)

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • Happy

    Is the Vera Baker story going to break?

  • sowsear
  • Yttik

    LOL! You are just evil.

  • sowsear

    Some of those 75 secret service agents had to double up, if they only had 60 rooms.

  • sowsear

    Why would they revive that sorry story?

  • Happy

    Michlle is worried about Vera Baker

  • Happy

    Not sure but it is come up in different places lately?

  • Yttik

    I have to plug my nose and remind people that Marie Antoinette, I mean Mechelle, is not responsible for the state of the economy or the economic policies that have gotten us into this misery. Her vacation is tacky, it’s self centered, she shows no solidarity with the people, but I think we should be aware that she’s an easy target. For some reason women always become the designated recepticles for the public’s economic rage, whether it be mocking them for their shoe collections or ridiculing their extravagant vacations. Marie Antoinette has certainly gone down in history as the root of all evil, eventually beheaded, when in fact, she was never the King of France. She never really had any power, she simply became a symbol of the arrogant and elite, a convenient scapegoat, who never actually said, “let them eat cake.”

    So, mock Michelle all you want, but keep in mind that the economic policies that have gotten us into this mess are entirely the fault of Congress and President Obama. Michelle is simply a diversion.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Hank they had it down to  4 at one point. So there were no people in the rooms she booked? They booked all of those empty rooms for security reasons? Please. I wouldn’t buy that one if I were selling it to me.

    So Michelle had no friends, entourage, or hangers-on as reported by the foreign press that happened to be in country?

    Let’s say the press was wrong. We The People want to see the total bill. Present it, in writing, to the taxpaying public. We have that right. Or keep making excuses.  That’s what the LSM and Obamabots do best.

    How much does anyone want to bet the LSM will never scream about that the way they did about Chelsea’s wedding? The Secret Service is par for the course. Everything I’ve read, even conservative sources, said the Clintons paid for private security out of pocket.

  • beyond_sea_salted_cracker_words

    More class on display:

    At a Summit with world leaders no less.

  • Docelder

    I am just wondering to what extent exactly do the puppeteers believe that black and maybe brown America can contently live vicariously through this family? It must be the plan. If there in fact is a damn plan.

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    beachnan- you summed it up beautifully.

    The only thing historic about Obama presidency are two things:

    1) the amount of corruption that took place to ensconce him in the WH

    2) the absolute fall from grace from messiah to mess-I-am in 15 months or less.

  • My Site (click to edit)

    It is weird they would spend his birthday apart.

  • Concerned

    Another sinclair moment perhaps? MO walked in on BO and … ?

    Ooo. I love mysteries.

  • Babs

    I would like an accounting of just how much this trip really cost. Advance teams of Secret Service have to ensure a safe site, rooms surrounding the Obamas have to be secured by Secret Service, and what about all the staff she took along, who is footing their bills? They’re all government workers, remember? The flight of AF2 back and forth was probably just a drop in the bucket, what is the real cost? That being said, I have a feeling that Michelle Obama does pretty much what she wants to do, and if any of the WH staff would haved dared to voice objection to this trip, I’m sure there would have been hell to pay for that person.

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    LOL!

  • Docelder

    Bush IV if you count Bill as a Bush. He did give NAFTA and Glass-Steagall to the corporations after all. Glass-Steagall was put there after the first depression to prevent another one. Here we are in a second but undeclared depression. It won’t be declared until everybody robs the cookie jars. In the first depression the little people made runs on the banks. We won’t have any money left to run for by the time this one is declared. But to the point… the Clintons are virtual Bushes just the same as Obama is a virtual Bush. Watch as the Clintons try to ride the coattails of the naked emperor. Grass roots movement to make her the VP… right.

  • Patience

    Okay, I have to finally chime in.  The FLOTUS’ extravagant Spanish vacation was obviously a huge PR mistake.  I caught a [very little] bit of KO on MSNBC tonight and his apoplectic defense of her is unequivocal proof of just how damaging this story is.

    And it’s not just the expense and locale — the Hollywood makeover is also wearing thin.  I love love love fashion but I’m sorry, a FLOTUS just shouldn’t flaunt herself in provocative clothing.  She’s all-too-often inappropriately dressed in cocktail party-like garb.  W-T-F???  In one sense, I actually think she looks great — I’ve seen pictures of her from just a few years ago in which she looked downright fugly — so my hat’s off to whoever has helped her improve her appearance.  She looks good.  But her personal style is absolutely wrong for the job — it sends the wrong message in the wrong place at the wrong time.     

  • Talk2ThePaw

    If he is on something for energy, don’t buy it.  He is never in the “office” until at least 9 am, and I really really really doubt that MObutt is keeping Obutt up late frolicking in the Lincoln bedroom.

  • Talk2ThePaw

    or Nouveau trailer trash ghetto

  • Talk2ThePaw

    That something crawling up her colon was probably the gerbil that Richard Gere used to cleanse his.  She was going for brownie points for recycling the gerbil.

  • lorac

    She didn’t choose the location?  How very coincidental, then, that she was able to meet with the Saudi royalty then, who were vacationing there, as they always do this time of year.

  • Talk2ThePaw

    Maybe MObutt knew how much coverage this trip would get and used it to cover for her daughter.  It would seem that the daughter’s troubles are more than just a little bad behavior at school.  That could be handled easily by telling the truth.  Most families have a child that has a little trouble with behavior at school and people would give it a pass.  This has to be something huge to garner the black out by the press.

  • lorac

    I laughed at all the “why’d he” s

    Let’s translate lol:

    Whitey wanna cut off my head?    
       
    I went on a vaction with my little girl so that she could play on the beach. Whitey called me Marie Antoinette? I’m doin my job as a mother, as a helpmeet, visiting the royal family of Spain. Whitey say I shouldn’t meet a king and queen. Because in this country people of color are not fit meet royalty. So Whitey call me Marie Antoinette. Because as a woman of color, it’s not my place to meet a king and queen.    
       
    And you know what they did to Marie Antoinette? Come on, gimme somethin –    
       
    Yes, that’s right, sisters. Marie Antoinette was the queen of France who got her head cut off. Whitey want me put in a guillotine to have my head chopped off?    
       
    Make no mistake, they hate us. Whitey want to cut off my head because I took my little girl to the beach?  

  • lorac

    He relapsed.

  • lorac

    oooooooooooooooh  Maybe Sarah Palin’s daughter can give her some hints on “what to expect when you’re expecting” lol

  • lorac

    Maybe now the older daughter will suddenly go to Switzerland to study for 9 months….

  • lorac

    Lynn Sweet was one of the two Chicago reporters who didn’t like BO and MO…

  • Timmy

    You can the gal out of Chicago ‘hood but you can take the ‘hood out of the gal.

    Check: the angry black woman from the Chicago ‘hood vacationing alone with 40 of her gal friends. Just ask any black woman whether MO behavior is normal???

    LOL… The house of Obama is in trouble.

  • kafir

    Wow! This is paradise on earth. I wonder how is’t like in Heaven for the Osama, sorry Obama family?

    Well! Allah must be kind to their sensory organs now having sensual pleasure at the highest degree at the expense of the American Taxpayers’ money, sweat and blood!

    Cheers and bottoms up!

  • EWard

    Yttik

    Wow, we are on the same page.  I am not a fan of MO but these attacks on her are misdirected.  Since journolists won’t do it, the voters need to focus like a laser beam and defeat the Democratic Congress in November. 

      

  • Ms.Behaved

    And I heard that it was for the birthday of a friend’s daughter. Go figure.

    Who paid for Bill Clinton’s “extra detail”? Last I knew, Rhinebeck is a village in the US and the local economy appreciated the Clinton’s visit.

  • Clara

    Sweet as surely done a turn-around in her coverage.  She wouldn’t write anything unfavorable.

  • Bonnie Jean Burris

    Jeannie, will you provide links supporting your argument? I remember Hillary and Chelsea in Kosovo and Africa. Also I believe Hillary and Bill took a couple of trips to Bermuda, but perhaps you would be kind enough to refresh my memory?

  • getfitnow
  • Bonnie Jean Burris

    Doesn’t matter if it’s chemical or diet, a discussion of “cleansing” is about bowel movements and that’s a strange topic for a first lady. I’m embarrassed for her again. The article will probably end up in the Presidential Library and become part of history and a lesson to future generations of the importance of regularity. Who knows? It may bring change which will end war for all time ( I’ve heard constipation can cause irritablilty). :-[

  • kafir

    How could the Potus and Flotus be happy if the American people are unhappy?

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  • kafir

    How could the Potus and Flotus be happy if the American people are unhappy?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLyyDfadTts&feature=related

  • MG

    Infiltrate, divide and defeat….such is the lefties strategy.  The left can only take power thru lies and lies and more lies…so undemocratic.

  • MG

    A power hungry militant with no goals except her own needs and wants…uhmmm sounds like Fidel Castro.

  • Noogan

    Eward, you’re right about the ‘invested.’ 

    Personally, I am not ‘invested’ in either political party. I gave that particular fantasy up long ago. 

  • Noogan

    Creeper: whatever. 

  • Noogan

    Jeannie and phil @ aol.com: 

    1) You’re dumber than dirt for posting your email address as your name. 

    2) Michelle Obama is an arrogant elitist. 

    3) Hillary and Chelsea Clinton didn’t go stay in 5 star resorts to get a “cleanse.” They went on trips representing the United States; not luxury spa-vacations with friends. There’s a world of difference.

  • MG

    Sleeping with the fishies?

  • Noogan

    Talk2ThePaw!!!

    Love your name. :)

    and yeah, Nouveau trailer trash ghetto uncouth crass guttersnipes parvenues and grifters…..

    LOVE IT. 

  • Noogan

    Tango–yep. you got it. 

  • Noogan

    Arabella: EXACTLY. I remember reading all of that early on, and at the time; and I remember Michelle herself talking about “troubles” in the marriage during interviews early in the primary process. It is all just part and parcel of the whole big ugly picture of a couple who were a mirage, a fantasy, a delusion that was sold to the American people. But most people here were aware of that all along….

  • Noogan

    Yeah, her “inner plumbing” and whether or not she and the president like “beets.” And, I’ll tell you something, this business of her being a “fashion icon” is ridiculous. Like the little boy said, “The emperor has no clothes.” Michelle Obama dresses in the ugliest outfits I’ve ever seen, and she has no fashion taste whatsoever, unless you like frumpy, dumpy, and clumpy. She could dress in more classic outfits, like suits, which wouldn’t enhance her fat ass so much. I hate to be cruel about it, but she has the worst taste in fashion I’ve ever seen on a First Lady!  

  • Noogan

    To celebrate another little girl’s birthday….

    To a luxury resort in SPAIN? 

    Most kids get to go to Chucky Cheese. 

    They’re not only LIARS, but they’re ludicrously BAD LIARS. 

  • Noogan

    I read Sweet’s article and I didn’t get the impression that she was [ahem] whitewashing anything.  :-D

  • FLDemFem

    They also make pantihose that is configured like garters and hose, no crotch, just the hose and lace “garters” holding them up to the waistband. They are much more comfortable than pantihose, airier so to speak. And when dressed formally, or semi-formally, they should be worn. To dress the way she does is basically a flip-off of every precept of good manners. Which isn’t surprising, given the source.

  • FLDemFem

    Helen, the White House is a Federal building, a no-smoking zone. Therefore, there is no smoking in the White House. Obama has to go outside to smoke, like all other Federal employees.

  • FLDemFem

    That is a ridiculous theory, lorac. The Secret Service would never allow an underage child they are protecting to get into that sort of situation. The word from other parents at Sidwell is that the Obama girls are arrogant, demanding and uncooperative. Not qualities that go over well at Sidwell Friends, which is run by Quakers. They expect their students to behave like ladies and gentlemen of character. Malia has been sent to camp to learn how to do that. Her parents failed to teach her much of anything relating to civilized behavior, apparently.

  • kenoshamarge

    Poor, poor Jeanie, your guy is such a loser that you still have to bring up Hillary Clinton long after “our girl”, joined his administration as Secretary of State. Or hadn’t you noticed you obot twit?

    Yawn, flag, swat.

  • kenoshamarge

    Jeannie the witless weenie is back again. No more interesting or less boring than before.

    Yawn, flag, swat.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Why thank you!

  • arabella trefoil

    I agree, FLDemFem. This is not an unusual situation for Schools like Sidwell to have to handle. The girls are transitioning from one kind of school environment to another. If they need extra help making the transition, the school (Sidwell) suggests remedies, and the parents act on the suggestions.

    Happens all the time.

  • Sassy

    Noogan, I totally agree! I would have been willing to cut Michelle some slack if she had chosen to avail herself of instruction in deportment and etiquette.
    She is too self-absorbed and cocky, and is making herself a laughing stock.
    Her clothes do not look designer created to me, but like they were run up on a sewing machine in a little old ladies back room!

  • Sassy

    candymarl, you made my day! Funny!

  • kenoshamarge

    I agree that FLOTUS is not responsible for our economic problems or for the assinity of her spouse or of the Democratic party.

    She is however a symbol of the Oblahblah Administration. If as such, her self-centered travels alienate some voters then I want those that might be influenced by this to know about it.

    Every administration uses First Ladies as political props. This one is being politically tone-deaf and if talking about her inappropriate vacation makes one person stay home or vote agains the Dems, that’s fine with me.

  • Hank

    Is that why Me-Chell didn’t want to stay and celebrate BO birthday?

  • FLDemFem

    Arabella, the negotiations don’t have to be done by Moo. She can just call Barry and hand her Blackberry to the person he wants to talk to. Then they can talk directly. And the sheiks know that the government can’t listen in, since they were trying to do exactly that in their own countries. So Moo can sit on her fat ass and eat goodies while the deals are made by hubby from Chicago. She doesn’t have to do anything but dial and hand off the phone. I understand those things can do conference calls too. All private since Barry didn’t give up his Blackberry. Would love to be a fly on that memory chip!!

  • Breeze

    -

    Costa Del Solace  
       
    American Thinker,  
    by Jeannie DeAngelis     
     
    Original Article  
     
    8/9/2010  
     
    Those of us who thought the “Michelle tours Marbella” saga ended after the First Lady dined on char-grilled turbot with the King and Queen of Spain and returned to Washington DC were mistaken. Seems today the Obama spin team has taken prevarication to a new level.

  • creeper

    My faith in Rasmussen has been restored.  Barry underwent a nine-point drop in MOA…over the space of two days.

    I’d be willing to bet MIA’s Spanish vacation isn’t sitting well with the folks at home.

  • Breeze

    -

    ABC’S COKIE ROBERTS DEFENDS MICHELLE OBAMA’S SPANISH VACATION:

    “WHAT REAL DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?”

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/08/09/abcs-cokie-roberts-defends-michelle-obamas-spanish-vacation-what-rea

  • creeper

    This is getting funny.  They’re trying stories on like shoes, to see if one will fit.  But they’re just digging themselves in deeper.

  • creeper

    Thirty-six “likes”.  Isn’t that some sort of record?

  • creeper

    So can someone tell me why a Google search for Michell Obama Spain beach bikini brings up no pictures?  Does anyone have a link?

  • creeper

    Was this one of them, sows?  It’s YouTube but not video.  It’s a series of stills.

  • cat

    At your link, his approval rating shows as -19.
    Clicking through, I see -15.
    Are they screwing with the numbers or what??

  • creeper

    AA, I think that one was having software problems…”Recent Comments” superimposed over the ones on the thread. 

    Funny how that happens to the most controversial stuff here.

  • creeper

    Deap, make up your mind.  Are you an obot, a troll, schizophrenic or just plain oblivious?

    How could you possibly have believed a presidential candidate wouldn’t fool around on his wife?  Does the name Gary Hart ring a bell?

  • Breeze

    -

    FROM THE COMMENTS:  
     
     
     
    Posted by: DeLyon Getty   
    Aug 09, 06:55   

    The author leaves out the juciest bit of the saga; the Obama State Department advising all Afro-Americans not to travel to Spain because of danger of being arrested….. on a Monday and the notice being summarily and hastily removed on the Tuesday. A cynic might say that the danger of arrest to ordinary black Americans, ( or at the very least the danger of them being racially abused by an overly racist people), was ignored to avoid any embarrassment to the Big-time-party-girl-FLOTUS. Does anyone believe that this warning notice to American tourists would have been removed had FLOTUS not jetted to the Iberian hot-spot. Spain has many beautiful people, but a lot of them show great antagonism to those they deem of ‘wrong’ colour. Sad but true. 

      
      
    Posted by: Quiet Man  
    Aug 09, 07:38 PM

    Lewis Hamilton, a gifted “black” British formula one driver, has beeN subjected to racial abuse while racing in Spain. Fernando Alonso fans wore painted faces in the stands in Barcelona to bait Lewis.  

      
    Posted by: tripwre
    Aug 09, 08:05 PM 

    Rather ironic, in that, the Kings ancestor Ferdinard sent Columbus across the great blue sea. Sailing for some weeks, Columbus as we well know, discovered the New World (after the earilier journies of the Vikings, first Europeans to the new world-Newfoundland) now known as the Americas. From that time forth, the colonization of the new world began, along with ever increasing slavery being sent o the new colonies. Including Michelle’s ancestors. These slaves, of which a small proportion went to the 13 colonies, later becoming the USA, paled in comparison to the amount of slaves sent to Spanish colonies. Colonies that existed from Mexico, Caribbean to large portions of South America. The treatment by such Spanish slavemasters can be ‘mildly termed as brutal’, with higher respect given to rats and vermin. The death of the beaten and overworked slaves, in today’s terms, bordering on Holocaust proportions. Just wondering, did Michelle bring that up and ask for an apology and reparations. After all, that would be fair, as the Spanish treasury in Europe benefited immensely from such ‘work’ in the colonies….

  • creeper

    Shitty article if you ask me.  Just because Barry’s policies are a disaster that doesn’t make Bush’s actions economically sound.  When you’re looking at that graph, do not forget where all the money Bush spent went…right straight into the pockets of the military/industrial complex.

    I am sick to death of people who can’t view anything except through the prism of political affiliation.

    THEY’RE ALL CROOKS AND MOST OF THEM ARE STUPID.

  • creeper

    FlDemFem, do you really believe he does that? 

  • creeper

    No way, Lorac.  Look for a little side-trip before she went to camp if that’s the problem.

  • creeper

    From MG’s linked Telegraph article:

    “There is however a political revolution fast approaching Washington that is driven not by mob rule but by the power of ideas and principles, based upon the ideals of the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. It is a distinctly conservative revolution that is sweeping America and is reflected in almost every poll ahead of this November’s mid-terms.”

    This is what scares the shit out of me.  The pendulum keeps swinging from right to left, ever more wildly each time.  Where will it stop?

    Come to think of it, the ultimate stop will be the same no matter how it arrives there…totalitarian government.

  • FrenchNail

    No, I don’t have a link for it. But it is recent. I may have found it embedded in a comment. Don’t remember where.

  • FrenchNail

    Yeh, What’s with the addiction to bows? It is ridiculous. Does anybody told her that looking all girly-girly at her age is plain stupid?

  • getfitnow

    I hear you, Yyik, but I can walk and chew gum at the same time ;) .

  • Boxer Mum 06

    There’s always the National Inquirer and Daily Mail.. something tells me, they would jump on the story if they could find some dirt..

    Agreed, we will NEVER see or hear anything about their marriage in the MSM.. the John Edwards story proves this as fact..

    But afterall, we were told the Obama presidency would be historic – has there ever been a president who went through a divorce while in office?

  • creeper

    cat, it was -15 yesterday.  Maybe that’s where that number comes from.

  • arabella trefoil

    creeper – It’s like calculus as opposed to algebra. The pendulum is always swinging.

  • arabella trefoil

    Yup. Divide and Conquer is right out of the Alinsky playbook.

  • thinker

    The Obamas also ran on the notion that they were ordinary folk, so they could empathise with all of us. Remember the discussion about McCain’s seven houses.  I received a mailer from the Democratic party with “Do you know how many houses you own? written on the envelope.  Only an idiot would think that this is not a negative reflection on the Obamas — and what’s up with leaving one of the daughters at sleepaway camp while jetting off to Spain with the other child and forty others.  That also sounds weird to me.

  • kinthenorthwest

    So how many records of Bush Will Obama break…  I wonder how many other presidents had average disapporval ratings of over 50% in less than 2 years with them still falling.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_oba&nbsp; ma_job_approval-1044.html

  • FLDemFem

    Yes, he has to. The White House Curator would be screaming loud and long if he didn’t. And he is a neutral party, everyone would listen.

  • FLDemFem

    Someone over on MOTUS said that the pic of Princess Letizia greeting Moo looked like the princess was graciously thanking a cafeteria worker for her help with the catering. Moo’s hair looks like it’s in a hair-net, all turned under at the back. Totally inappropriate for a visit to a head of state, even if they are on vacation.

  • thinker

    this picture really empahsises how bad FLOTUS looks now.  In this picture she was shapely and her make-up and hair looked presentable.  These days she always looks as if she just crawled out of bed, threw on some clothes and put a rubber band around her hair. Clearly this woman no longer cares about her appearance.  I can believe that she has a substance abuse problem.

  • creeper

    You’re joking, right?  The White House Curator is going to tell this president “No”?

    I don’t think so.  And if he did and Barry refused, what would he do? Complain to the media?

    Barack Obama has been doing as he damn well pleased for all his life.  He is not about to stop now.

    JMHO.

  • getfitnow

    No other was as brilliant or historic. That One is, indeed in category by himself. :-D

  • getfitnow

    It was -15 last week too.

  • Retired

    Marie…uh…I mean Michelle Antoinette is our Queen.  It is not the place of we common serfs to question her travels, whehter or not she is in the company of King Obama.  Personally, I delight in the opportunity to cleanse myself in the manner of Michelle Antoinette as I have been indulging in too much rich Spanish food as of late.  Also, I envy the Spaniards on the beach who were pushed aside so that our Queen could swim.  If only I could be so disrespected.
    As for those who live and (used to work) in the Gulf, let them eat tapas.   

  • Breeze

    -

    Leave Michelle’s Clothes Alone
     
    Daily Beast,
    by Kate Betts   

    Original Article

    8/10/2010

    Marie Antoinette had Rose Bertin to sort out her wardrobe, and Michelle Obama has the Chicago retailer Ikram Goldman. But that’s where the similarities between the two powerful and historically significant women end—although you could also argue that the young dauphine and the first lady both share a certain sartorial boldness. Over the weekend some in the media called the first lady a modern-day Marie Antoinette for taking her daughter, some friends, and full-time security to Spain for a weekend vacation while Americans struggle with a lousy economy….

  • MOTUS

    Hey getfitnow, thanks for the boost!

    Hugs,
    M

    ps: Hi Larry!

  • csuzeq

    I have started to worry that MEchelle is upset that her hubby is a failure and no longer popular and that she is going to divorce him so she can run for POTUS and be the “historic” first AA female.

  • PssttCmere

    I remember a friend of mine from year’s back, who wore panty hose just about 24/7.  She is the only person I knew who wore panty hose under her tennis shorts.  I can’t imagine how hot it must have been out there on the tennis courts… :)

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • FLDemFem

    The White House Curator would leak to the press that Obama is stinking up one of the nation’s museums, the White House. Smoke damages things like paintings and fabrics. The smell never really comes out of the fabrics and smoke film can actually damage the varnish and paint on a painting, especially an old one. So yes, the Curator would do or say something, since he is responsible to the nation for the condition of the White House and its treasures. The Curator doesn’t work for the administration, he works for us, and he knows it.

  • FLDemFem

    When pendulums stop, they stop in the middle.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Thanks.)

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Actually, Ms Misinformed, it was business.  And it was not on the friends’ dime.  It was on ours.  She had plenty going on for the Mosque project and she is a bloody embarrassment.  When she campaigns, speaks out on governement programs, asks for $600M for her no fat behind rip off, she is our business and everything she does has to be accounted for.  Now go peddle your propaganda to someone who cares.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Yes, they are the least prepared family to enter the WH in the history of the country.   No sense of appropriateness, no manners, no knowledge of protocol, small mindedness and petty treatment of our allies, Britain and Israel.  They are obvioulsy pro-palestinean, and love the 3rd world much more than America.  I’d love it if they’d go live there.  

    The bots loved to point out that GWB sold us out to go after Saddam because SH put a hit out on Poppy Bush.  But the same applies to Baby Doc’s embarrassing treatment of the Brits who, it is said, torture his grandfather as a member of the Mau-Mau.  The Mau-Mau were good at hacking white farmers into little pieces in Kenya.  No defense of colonialism but based on that thinking, I can’t seem to get it straight as to why I shouldn’t go on a killing spree of Yankees.  Oh, right.  I have a moral compass.  Hey, Obama.  It happened a long, long time ago in the age of ignorance.  Try to get past it.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Candidate?  Heck POTUS’.  Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Poppy Bush (bought the secretary a mink), Clinton, as we all know, but not Obama?  I don’t know about GWB…I think he is too emotionally dependent on his marriage to fool around.  However, I am more likely to believe his interest is in sex with men than women.  And, may I repeat:  I am truly creeped out by his hanging all over his daughter…mostly Unit 1.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Very true, Creeper.  I didn’t like Bush and I truly despise Obama.  I used to despise Bush too but Obama is making him look better.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    This is a relief, FLDemFem.  This has been a concern because they are so self-absorbed and really don’t like the WH.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I guess Rice (even if I didn’t care for her) and Powell were merely chopped liver?  My God, they aren’t the first in history to be successful.  Glenn Beck recently brought out the stories of all the Black people who were instrumental in winning the Revolutionary War…WTH? 

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I can agree that she is a reflection or symptom of those policies…but she does give input to clueless hubby on the socialist front.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Hmmm, sartorial boldness.  So that’s what it’s called.  How disconnected they are.  Spin and twist.  Sort of reminds me of my local rag referring to Illegal Aliens as “Indigenous migrants” whatever that means.

  • cat

    It appears to have been fixed.
    Can’t wait for -25

    Wonder if Scott Rasmussen will be re-summoned to the White House for a chat any time soon…

  • sowsear

    Yes, that was part of it…and pretty revealing, too, but there was actually footage of his falling down the stairs, sitting there with blood stains on his shirt, and a gash (I think)…I forget now. As I remember, the action video disappeared quickly. Don’t know if anyone still has it…

  • arabella trefoil

    I agree. Michelle is the strong black mama he wished he had had.

    I don’t think he fools around. Every human being needs physical affection – touching, hugging, cuddling, etc. Michelle acts as if she can’t stand to be near her husband. There was a video on the internet recently (I think it was during the visit to the Spy Museum) that caught the Obamas in a candid moment. (I don’t think the Obamas were aware they were being filmed.) Obama was trying to give Michelle a hug or out his arms around her. She kept pushing him away.

    Obama is a needy person. He didn’t have a normal childhood. His mother abandoned him. No wonder he hugs his daughters so often. He’s hungry for human contact.

    Obama relies on Michelle more than anyone knows. The fact that she has “abandoned” him repeatly is dangerous for Obama’s emotional well being. No wonder he’s so thin.

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    so true the AA community thinks they have oh so so bad here in the states,  I would like for them to move to Europe where many do not hide their prejudice at all.  They don’t know shiat until they experience that for real.

    Ever watch any international soccer games? One of the signs along the sidelines is “End Racism” 

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    perhaps Cokie is snorting a little too much cokie

  • MG

    Before the african slaves reach the new world…the Spanish enslaved my people.  And Yet my great grandmother never once spoke of hate toward the white folk.  She always encouraged us to do good , educate ourselves and to be kind toward other’s. Very different to what the likes of Rev Wright, Al Sharpton, etc would preach.

  • arabella trefoil

    FrenchNail – I haven’t heard or seen anything about coke use in the White House. But if Obama were snorting Bolivian marching powder, that would explain the nose picking. I’ve heard that coke boogers can get really big.

  • candy

    What a hypocrital statement coming from Obots. They went nuts over Sarah Palin, working mom, taking advantage of legal per diem to try to work and be a working mom, like THAT was a scandal and as if no other working mom could possibly understand the struggles of balancing family and work, and her $50K wardrobe which she legitimately need to run a national campaign at various climates all over the country, being from the unique climate of Alaska, and she didn’t even own the clothes. Meanwhile, sure, have Jackie O Wannabe jet around the world on the tax payers’ dime, and THAT’s ok.

    Double standard here? You betcha.

    Those libs have lost all credibility for representing anything remotely close to interests of ordinary non-ellitist women.

  • candy

    Marie Antoinnette was a young naive child caught up in things bigger than she understands. The sam can’t be said of Michelle Obama.

    What I see is that from the date she learned that she’s moving into the White House, she already things she’s the second coming of Jackie Kennedy. She thinks she is, and she would BE the black Jackie Kennedy. Hence all the flaunting and obssessing with coutour designer clothing, hobnobbing with stars and celebrities to live up to all that glitz and glamour. It’s all so tacky. She doesn’t even see that all she’s been doing is making a clown of herself.

  • creeper

    -25 may happen sooner than you think.  It was -22 this morning.