Michelle’s ring thing Updated
Update: Not true?
Bling.
I have just a few comments about the Michelle Obama Thank You Ring thing (assuming it’s true), and then I’ll get out of the way and let you have at it.
1) Remember when MichelleO cracked her joke about how women would use the $600 stimulus check to buy earrings?
Man, I thought that was a sign of elitism run amok. But now we’re talking about a $30,000 piece of rhodium just for doing what a supportive spouse should do? Out of this world:
She loves her inexpensive outfits from the mall, but Michelle Obama will soon be sporting something much fancier than anything you’ll find at J. Crew. It is being reported that President-elect Barack Obama is buying his wife a new ring for her support during the election. A spokesperson for top Italian designer Giovanni Bosco allegedly said that President-Elect Barack Obama is looking to purchase a $30,000 Harmony ring made of rhodium and encrusted with diamonds as a thank you gift to Michelle. The future First Lady is expected to receive the ring just in time for her husband’s January inauguration ceremony. One of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, only about 25 tons of rhodium are mined each year, setting the price at over $7,660 per ounce — or about ten times the cost of gold.
2) Is it really a good idea to have let this slip just days after a Wal-Mart temporary worker died in a hyper-consumerist stampede?
3) Speaking of bad timing, is it really a good idea to be crowing about this extravagant present when — as Barack Obama so ably reminded us in campaign infomerical before Election Day — Americans are hurting in the midst of tough economic times that will only get tougher?
4) What is it with some women who feel entitled to receive lavish presents from their husbands for work that should be its own reward? Reminds me of this ridiculous “Push Present” phenomenon involving women who expect big-ticket gifts from their husbands for bearing their children (see Dr. Helen’s column here).
Criminey.
If Michelle thinks she should receive a present for contributing to the successful Obama campaign, what gift is she getting him for winning it?
5) How long before someone screams RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST?
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And no one who has bashed Bush for the last 8 years has a single leg to stand on when it comes to asking whether or not something used to demonstrate the utter hypocrisy and lies of Obama is factual or not.
Should this end up NOT being true, it will only be because there was a backlash and he changed his mind in order to keep up the lie of his not being an elitist pig.
By this type of inductive leap, you would also say that “Britney Spears” is the most important story in the world seeing as she was the top google search this past year. That hardly makes it true, though.
Number of comments does not signify importance any more than your post exemplifies your understanding of the conservative point of view.
By the same token of “information” that you claim we use to bash Obama, you make a claim based on the number of comments to bash MM commenters.
Try not to fall off that high horse. It’s apparent you’re not really here to have a discussion with us.
Seems to me that there was something about someone whining and crying over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, which BTW was donated to charity.
Hmmmm who could that have been…
LGM, Your side hasn’t cared about the truth since 2000 so shove it up your a$$
Even that is under suspicion.
After 2 years of lies we are expected to believe an Obama spokesman?
sonofdy said (#198):
Good Grief!
“… an anonymous spokesman for the manufacturer of the rhodium ring…”
ANONYMOUS, what does that tell you?
Italian designer Giovanni Bosco just recieved beaucoup free publicity. And people bit.
sonofdy said (#198):
Moral equivalency?
(sorry about hitting “submit” prematurely)
Just because they were shamed out of purchasing it openly (re: a Dick Morris wannabe advised it wouldn’t poll well) doesn’t mean someone else won’t buy Mrs. “O” the ring as a Christmas present, now that their wealthy donors know what she wants; who knows, the ring may end up as one of Oprah’s “favorite things” and she can give it to M.O. in a holiday special!
Too bad, I was kinda hoping it was made out of Rhodium-101
pretty sad that you had to stoop so low to generate content for your blog Michelle… how about you focus on the topics that draw me and millions of others to your blog: expose the crap sandwich bailout being fed to us and focus on reigning in the threats to our national security and leave the sleaze to the tabloids.