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1. #101
   On August 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pm, gco said:

   This is the most attention she’s had in the media for the past 5 or 6 weeks. She must not be polling well in the focus groups.

2. #102
   On August 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pm, CO2 Producer said:

   The money quote from the last paragraph of the USA Today article:
   

   “We draw conclusions from what she wears because that’s all we have to go on,” Norwood said. “But also, it’s fun.”

3. #103
   On August 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm, walterc said:

   Granted she’s no Laura Bush, Jackie O or Nancy Reagan, but she is the first Lady and while reading the comments here I thought I was on dkos.

   While I agree her fashion sense leaves a bit to be desired, come on guys, a little class. Save your nasty comments for policy/gaffes of the Administration (including Michelle)and the stupidity of the media.

   Degrading comments about her (or any other public figure’s) weight, facial features or other physical features should be left to the libtards.

   We’re better than that.

4. #104
   On August 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pm, imjustsaying said:

   Unfortunately, walterc, we’re not.

5. #105
   On August 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

   For women there’s an emphasis on appearance, but that’s not because of us Neanderthal men: most of mainstream TV is aimed toward women and their sensibilities. So much for progress and men keeping women down.

6. #106
   On August 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

   On August 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm, walterc said:
   Granted she’s no Laura Bush, Jackie O or Nancy Reagan, but she is the first Lady and while reading the comments here I thought I was on dkos.

   While I agree her fashion sense leaves a bit to be desired, come on guys, a little class. Save your nasty comments for policy/gaffes of the Administration (including Michelle)and the stupidity of the media.

   Degrading comments about her (or any other public figure’s) weight, facial features or other physical features should be left to the libtards.

   We’re better than that.

   You’re right in some aspect. We delve too easily into cheap comments about her figure or looks,(guilty) but, comments regarding her slovenly appearance with regards to the degradation of the Whitehouse or the Presidency, I think are fair game. That picture indicates a severe lack of care about her current stature and what she represents. She is purportedly the First Lady. She should start dressing like one.

7. #107
   On August 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm, lonecanoeist said:

   You can take them out of the Ghetto, but you can’t take the Ghetto out of them.

8. #108
   On August 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pm, corkie said:

   On August 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm, walterc said:

   Granted she’s no Laura Bush, Jackie O or Nancy Reagan, but she is the first Lady and while reading the comments here I thought I was on dkos.

   I think you should have stated, “…while reading some of the comments here…”

   Many of the comments have respectfully pointed out that Michelle Obama was disrespectful in her appearance.

   However, I agree with your main point. There’s a big difference between being critical and being mean/shallow.

9. #109
   On August 21st, 2009 at 4:47 pm, 24Klady said:

   If reports are true and she has 22 ladies in waiting (plus a make-up and hair person), I would think one of them would remind her that everytime she leaves their private living quarters she is on stage. Perhaps she wasn’t all that thrilled to be placed in that spotlight, but certainly hasn’t said No to the trips and perks that go along with it.

10. #110
    On August 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pm, GraniteMan said:

    Poor, poor taste, Michelle. I’m ashamed she, in a way, is showing her contempt for our nation. I guess she’ not proud of the USA any more after the first time.

11. #111
    On August 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pm, atheling said:

    iowavette: No problem!

    I’ve got a mean comment because Michelle O thinks America is a mean country:

    My God, if she sat in wet cement she’d make a skateboard park.

12. #112
    On August 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm, T-Bone said:

    Barack in flip flops, Michelle in shorts. They are just cool and breezy, laid back, hipsters, showing the stuffy old codgers that you don’t need to dress up to go to church, or court, or dinner, or ride Air Force One and dress p.c. It’s cool bra!

13. #113
    On August 21st, 2009 at 6:56 pm, Vntnrse said:

    Yeah, Ronald Reagan wouldn’t be caught dead in the oval office without his suitcoat on……how low this country has degraded since then…..

    

14. #115
    On August 21st, 2009 at 6:56 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    All I can say is at least we aren’t talking spandex.

    ECS

15. #117
    On August 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On August 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am, luckydogg said:
    Whats next??? 20 yr old rusty caddy,s on blocks on white house lawn……

    Of course, not. Hydraulics and spinners on the Presidential limo.

    ECS

16. #118
    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:19 pm, blogagog said:

    “She’s like an unemployed school teacher. No class.” – Mushmouth

17. #119
    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:23 pm, piumosso said:

    There’s a “style editor” at the HuffPo?

18. #120
    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pm, NestingHawk said:

    How can you possibly talk like this about every female public figure and wonder why more women tend to vote Democrat? Is there a pathological fear of female thighs going around?
    It’s not any more mature when you discuss Michael Moore’s weight problem, but the women definitely get targeted more, on more threads than I care to count. There’s nothing wrong with the way Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton or Janet Reno look, and even if there were, why would you waste so much time picking at it? Just have to let every female Democratic voter who might switch to Republican know that all the stereotypes are true and conservatives think of women only as decoration?
    Or do you just want conservative women who may have the traits you pick on in equal or greater measure to be repulsed by your behavior?
    Sure, argue about whether that’s appropriate attire for Air Force One or not. Etiquette, protocol, diplomacy, whatever. But when you start claiming she’s fat or saying she looks like a man, you are the ones who look…I’m going to be polite here and say “bad.” And you may want to get your vision checked.

19. #121
    On August 21st, 2009 at 9:34 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    No wonder big ear barry was always texting and talking to scarlett johannson

    Hard to do that with the mother in law living in the next room.

    Has any other president ever had his mother in law living at 1600 before?

    Almost makes me feel sorry for him…

20. #122
    On August 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pm, corkie said:

    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pm, NestingHawk said:

    You’re 100% correct about not attacking people’s physical attributes.

    However, you’re dead wrong about it being a conservative thing. In fact, I question your intelligence for suggesting so.

21. #123
    On August 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pm, ajmontana said:

    #113 nesting.

    It’s her personality that makes her a classless pig, and my eyes are fine, she’s fugly.

22. #124
    On August 21st, 2009 at 9:43 pm, corkie said:

    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pm, NestingHawk said:

    Sure, argue about whether that’s appropriate attire for Air Force One or not. Etiquette, protocol, diplomacy, whatever.

    Gee, thanks for giving many of us the permission to do exactly what we were doing.

23. #125
    On August 21st, 2009 at 9:51 pm, lonecanoeist said:

    The more i look at that picture ,the more i realize only 2 things are missing. A glass of Kool-Aid in one hand and a 25 cent bag of chips in the other.

24. #126
    On August 21st, 2009 at 10:00 pm, ajmontana said:

    Oh and one more thing nesting, moore is a disgusting fat pig and a waste of air.

25. #127
    On August 21st, 2009 at 11:17 pm, realitycheck said:

    lonecanoeist said:
    The more i look at that picture ,the more i realize only 2 things are missing. A glass of Kool-Aid in one hand and a 25 cent bag of chips in the other.

    Good point. The only thing you forgot was the corndog.

26. #130
    On August 21st, 2009 at 11:24 pm, pubscout said:

    I’m at the age where I know I look better with my clothes on, so I usually keep ‘em on, even in the pool. She’ll see these pics and come to the same conclusion.

27. #131
    On August 21st, 2009 at 11:31 pm, NestingHawk said:

    Corkie,
    I know liberals do it, too. I don’t care as much. I don’t consider myself a liberal, so I don’t feel they’re making me look bad when they do it, and I am tired of watching conservatives take machine guns to their own feet. If liberals want to make themselves look horrible and then get voted out, good for the country.

    Conservatives need to be a little more careful-actually, a lot more careful-because people come to the table with the idea that conservatives are sexist and liberals aren’t. A liberal saying stuff like that is assumed by the general public to be the exception; a conservative is assumed to be the rule. I know better, but I’m sold on conservative ideals already, so who cares what I do or don’t know?

    The way Obama and the Democrats treated Palin during the election was absolutely disgusting, and the MSM made sure to cover that up. Don’t get me started on Bill Clinton, or how being pro-gun, especially pro-small gun, is a necessary feminist position, and I see poor Mrs. Malkin’s posts from her email, too. I don’t even touch Kos.

    However, I always hope for better from conservatives, and have been getting really, really tired of what I’ve been reading on these boards, even more so in conjunction with all the “We’re so classy, and liberals aren’t” stuff. I’m embarrassed by it, as a self-identified conservative.

    And I obviously am not in any kind of permission-giving capacity on this board; I meant only to distinguish what sorts of comments I was and was not complaining about.

    And glad some people agree with me about the physical attributes. Thank you

28. #132
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 am, Surveyor said:

    Dear First Lady,

    Please wear appropriate attire while boarding or exiting OUR plane.

29. #133
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 am, corkie said:

    I obviously agree with your point, but you exhibited poor leadership in your attempt to positively influence.

    Sarcastically asking if,

    Just have to let every female Democratic voter who might switch to Republican know that all the stereotypes are true and conservatives think of women only as decoration?

    isn’t going to produce the effect you desired. Hell, even someone that agreed with you became indignant (me).

    Anyway, trying to guide MM’s commenters away from mean, shallow remarks is a worthy pursuit for both of us.

30. #134
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am, Savage24 said:

    Is this the trailer park trash Clinton was talking about?

31. #135
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 11:04 am, TigerLady said:

    Is this the trailer park trash Clinton was talking about?

    You can dress her up in $100 a pair denim shorts but she’s still a pig with lipstick.

32. #136
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm, NestingHawk said:

    Corkie,
    Yeah, I can see where the sarcasm, and some other things that would have been indicated by tone in real life, didn’t get across. Thanks for the constructive criticism, Corkie. I mean that.
    And that last point-quite agreed

33. #137
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm, Offhanded said:

    I can understand the substantive dismantling of Michelle-my-belle Obama,…but her shorts?,…why should I care about her shorts?. I must be missing something.I hope I am.

34. #138
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm, Cristy Li said:

    Oh, all you haters out there…

    You know that her outfit is the pinnacle of fashion. No one can look better than she.

35. #139
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm, atheling said:

    On August 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pm, NestingHawk said:
    How can you possibly talk like this about every female public figure and wonder why more women tend to vote Democrat? Is there a pathological fear of female thighs going around?
    It’s not any more mature when you discuss Michael Moore’s weight problem, but the women definitely get targeted more, on more threads than I care to count. There’s nothing wrong with the way Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton or Janet Reno look, and even if there were, why would you waste so much time picking at it? Just have to let every female Democratic voter who might switch to Republican know that all the stereotypes are true and conservatives think of women only as decoration?
    Or do you just want conservative women who may have the traits you pick on in equal or greater measure to be repulsed by your behavior?
    Sure, argue about whether that’s appropriate attire for Air Force One or not. Etiquette, protocol, diplomacy, whatever. But when you start claiming she’s fat or saying she looks like a man, you are the ones who look…I’m going to be polite here and say “bad.” And you may want to get your vision checked.

    Chill. We make fun of Obama whenever his glistening pecs appear.

    We’re equal opportunity gender bashers.

36. #142
    On August 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm, sbw999 said:

    It is a perfect statement…of her obvious contempt for her Country. Dems, one by one, have torn down every worthwhile tradition in this Country since the 1960’s. This is just one more. What a class act. Yeeech.

37. #143
    On August 23rd, 2009 at 12:38 am, GJCorby said:

    Here is another Obama first, the first President activly seeking the destroy both the United States and capitalism at the same .

38. #144
    On August 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 am, GJCorby said:

    …time

39. #148
    On August 24th, 2009 at 8:11 pm, NestingHawk said:

    Cyberspace ate my first response…
    Atheling,
    Can you really look at the “physical appearance” posts about male versus female political players and honestly tell me they are the same in quantity and tone?