(Via Ricochet.com) Michelle Obama’s handshake is in the news again. Two years ago it was the “terrorist fist jab” faux controversy. Today it’s Tifatul Sembiring’s unfortunate photo op. (more)
With her husband facing electoral oblivion at next week’s mid-terms, Michelle Obama is clearly prepared to do anything she can to help. (more)
The Chicago Board of Elections said no complaints have been filed following allegations that First Lady Michelle Obama violated Illinois election law Thursday. (more)
First Lady Michelle Obama reportedly violated Illinois election laws by encouraging voters to support President Obama at a polling place in Chicago Thursday morning. (more)
When President Obama appointed Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, it was rightly viewed as a masterful stroke of Machiavellian politicking; a modern day demonstration of the philosopher’s famous creed: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. (more)
First Lady Michelle Obama is venturing out onto the campaign trail to shore up embattled Democratic candidates. Apparently, Lady Macbeth wasn’t available. (more)
Washington (CNN) — First lady Michelle Obama’s push for a new child nutrition law has hit a wall in Congress — at least temporarily. (more)
In the hallowed halls of government and in dressing rooms from sea to shining sea, there continues to be an issue so controversial that it’s ripping red state from blue state while precariously juggling within its slippery grip the fate of society as we know it: Michelle Obama’s status as the First Lady of Fashion! (more)
Carla Bruni — who had a reputation as a “man-eater” before becoming the first lady of France — had three former lovers as houseguests when she took French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Riviera on his first vacation in her Mediterranean villa, a new book claims. (more)
It’s a first for first ladies: Michelle Obama and Laura Bush will appear together next month on the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in Shanksville, Pa., where United flight 93 went down after the crew and passengers fought back against terrorists. (more)
According to the website CNN.com, some of the criticism of first lady Michelle Obama is driven by partisan politics. However, “others say the attacks are rooted in white resentment of the ‘uppity Negro.’” Two things quickly come to mind. The first is that no one other than Harry Reid uses the word “Negro” anymore. Second, that it is the 21st century and yet there are those who continue to talk about race as if it were 1955. (more)
Democrats who reluctantly slashed a food stamp program to fund a state aid bill may have to do so again to pay for a top priority of first lady Michelle Obama. (more)
The White House’s efforts to hold on to a majority in Congress have expanded from the West Wing to the East Wing, where political operatives are calling on Michelle Obama to campaign for endangered Democrats. (more)
My favorite part of the uproar over First Lady Michelle Obama’s “private vacation” to Spain is what I heard on MSNBC Saturday morning, August 7th. (more)
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama’s inaugural address to the nation, and he’s referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet. (more)
Thursday morning, Barack Obama decided to face the hard hitting, hyper critical, no-spin firing squad that is The View. (more)
When the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation decided in 1991 to take on Joe Camel, it became the nation’s largest private funding source for fighting smoking. The foundation spent $700 million to help knock the cartoon character out of advertisements, finance research and advocacy for higher cigarette taxes and smoke-free air laws and, ultimately, to aid in reducing the nation’s smoking rate almost by half. (more)
We elected him as a mirror,
And because he wasn’t George W. Bush,
Racially mixed, he seemed to reflect US well,
Kids and wife; finally, a First Lady with a tush! (more)
There is evidence our fashionista First Lady might be starting her own economic stimulus for the fashion industry. (more)
It is no secret that the Obamas are advocates for free handouts, but even in her personal life Michelle Obama does not appear to have shied away from accepting free goodies. Numerous news outlets have reported on the first lady’s proclivity for high fashion. And Mrs. Obama’s pricey tastes have not precluded her ability to wear the outfits over which many women drool. (more)






















