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S Landreth

Photo above are hot pants/short shorts (kindof),……….what Michelle is wearing are walking shorts, I believe.

Humbert

I'm sure this kind of racist, school girl cattiness amuses some people but why not put it MKP where it belongs. Utterly brilliant.

Texpat

The hotline for fishiness is: flag[at]whitehouse.gov

*edit*

Wait, I think that's for anything that sounds fishy.

Norton

Can't have that. Issues must have a platform for the anti everything crowd to express their opinions via thoughtful posts and informative pics. Their voices must be heard! None really have a topic to debate but have high value as they provide convenient dumping grounds for all sorts of subjects.

In fact they have several.

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...lle-obama.html (Michelle Obama)

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...ws-thread.html (President Obama News Thread)

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...eck-rocks.html (Glenn Beck Rocks!)

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...democrats.html (The Democrats)

http://teakdoor.com/issues/5043-poli...cs-thread.html (political cartoons - the 'funny' pics thread.)

http://teakdoor.com/issues/8973-jimmy-carters-pals.html (Jimmy Carter's Pals)

http://teakdoor.com/issues/54613-pat...t-because.html (Pat Condell -- Just Because)

The bedazzled, blind followers of the messiah have some as well.

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...-meltdown.html (The GOP in Meltdown)

http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...errorists.html (right-wing domestic terrorists)

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AntRobertson

It's unbelievable isn't it; 38pgs - and counting - of thinly veiled racism and critiques on the pressing issue of fashion.

sabang

There's been a big fuss this week because Michelle Obama wore shorts. She's worn shorts before — to walk the dog, do stuff around the White House. But the photos of her wearing them in that iconic descending-from-Air-Force-One-onto-the-tarmac setting proved too much for the media. Obamas? Check. Summer news doldrums? Check. Controversy? Close enough. It was a story.

And people reacted. The Today Show's poll on whether she should have shown that much thigh got one of the show's biggest responses ever, with 83% pro-shorts. Local papers found "experts" to discuss the implications of the shorts for the Obama White House, international papers analyzed what it said about American culture, the blogosphere took up every angle from what this said about the objectification of women to the taxonomy of the shorts: Hot pants? Cutoffs? Booty Shorts?

Michelle Obama and the Shorts Heard Round the World - TIME

It seems certain TD'ers are not alone in their fixation with all things Michelle. She's even got an article in Time.

Only 17% of Americans 'anti-shorts' though.

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Jet Gorgon

Well, what has she done of worth? Oh ya, worn mourning attire to read school children stories and dressed up again like a farmer to hoe her garden with the kiddies.

Jet Gorgon

See, even the guys are calling fashion plays! I'd rather see this chick in shorts. The First Lady shows no sense of decorum. I bet the muslim nations are really happy with her states of undress. And no, she does not have nice legs or arms.

Boon Mee

No racism involved. She's just plain arrogant, ugly and rude. A disgrace to the building called the White House...

sabang

Nothing to justify a 38 page thread, thats for sure! She's just the Presidents wife after all- she holds no official position. She hit it off pretty well with good Queen Bessie, planted some veg in the Whitehouse, wears shorts when she wants to. Whatever.

It seems a bit strange that all around the Globe, nobody who is anybody has an issue with her. Just the entrenched political opposition in the USA. So really, all the fuss about Michelle is just indicative of the state of politics in the US these days.

You are one of the 17% of Amerkins that think so, and we all know who you voted for booner. 'Nuff said.

sore losers?

AntRobertson

Thanks for proving my point.

This ongoing obsession over clothing choices by the First Lady really just serves to illustrate how increasingly frustrated, pointless and ultimately irrelevant the 'Right' has become since Obama took office.

And he's still there for at least another 3yrs, there will be frothing seizures before the end of his 2nd!

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larvidchr

No that is really not strange, in most of the world leaders wife's are by other important people and the serious news agency's/journalists considered of limits and of no importance as they should be, US presidential wife's are extended all sorts of shallow curtsy to make them feel and look important, and only as a public relations exercise because we know that the American people would scream bloody murder if we don't, but nobody really means it.

In most of the rest of the world, we understand that just because a former model of sexy underwear becomes the wife of a president, or a lady washing kiddies clothes while singing "we shall overcome" becomes the wife of a president, it does not necessarily endov her with a brilliant mind, nor does the different presidential attachments former achievements as housewife's suddenly become elevated to be world history altering events.

Bestowing all this honour and importance to a person who's only asset is that they accidentally are married to a Man who becomes president is a bit of a travesty but very typical American, just please don't expect the rest of us to take those vacuum-cleaner swingers seriously.

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AntRobertson

I agree with you. I honestly couldn't tell you anything more about the wife of the current PM of New Zealand, John Key, other than that her name is presumably Mrs. [something] Key.

However another irony of this thread and its teenaged catiness, dissection of, and bitching over every little thing Michelle Obama wears is that she's a graduate of Princeton (cum laude) and Harvard. The woman quite obviously as a brain in her head; something the assembled members of the Fashion Police, Obama Sqaud seem to be lacking themselves.

panama hat

She's smart, well-educated and black . . . fukk-a-dukk that must hurt the select few here and in the US and the best they can come up with is:

(quoting Ant in a quote)

Jet Gorgon

The wife or husband of any leader gets the pillow talk and for sure puts bugs in the ear of their partner. Let's not forget Hillary and her healthcare scheme. Not bad for a cuckqueaned First Lady.

S Landreth

Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner


A genealogist working with the New York Times has discovered a new page in the family history of First Lady Michelle Obama; her great-great-great grandmother, a teenage slave girl named Melvinia as young as 15 was impregnated by a white slave owner.

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak reconstructed this long-lost piece of the First Lady's family tree by using probate records, old photos and legal documents, and by interviewing senior citizens who remember the family of Melvinia's biracial son, Dolphus T. Shields (the Shields owned his young mother). Smoleynek said of the discovery: "Out of all of Michelle's roots, it is Melvinia who is screaming to be found."

Melvinia bore four children, three of whom were listed as 'mulatto.' It is doubtful that Melvinia's family tree will yield further results; on her death certificate the names of her parents are absent, listed by a relative as "don't know."

Melvinia's oldest son, the First Lady's great-great grandfather Dolphus, was said by those who remembered him to have been a light skinned, literate, church-going man. In an extraordinary linking of the past and future, Dolphus was heavily involved in the founding of two churches that figured in the history of the U.S. civil rights movement; he was co-founder of Trinity Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. and ran the Sunday school program at First Ebenezer Baptist Church of Birmingham.

"No one should be surprised anymore to hear about the number of rapes and the amount of sexual exploitation that took place under slavery; it was an everyday experience," said Jason A. Gillmer, a law professor at Texas Wesleyan University who researches the history of slaves and their owners. But Dolphus' story gains a special resonance with that of his direct descendant: the same country that looked upon Melvinia's slavery as legal now looks up to her great-great-great granddaughter as its First Lady.

Bobbie Holt, a 73-year-old woman raised by Dolphus and his wife who was interviewed for the article, said that despite the pain in Dolphus' own family history, he was always hopeful there would one day be equality. She quoted him saying, "It's going to come together one day."


Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marlene-h-phillips/michelle-obama-descended_b_313000.html

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sabang

^ I wish some genealogist would do my family tree for free.
All sorts of 'family skeletons', no doubt.

Michelle is receiving some gushing praise across the Pond for her artistic taste -

Still lifes and landscapes are out. Folk art, conceptual art, Native American art and African American art are in. Drawn mainly from the vaults of three Washington museums, the collection includes four scenes by William H. Johnson, a black painter who trained in Scandinavia in the 1930s, and a pottery bottle by Jeri Redcorn, descended from the Caddo Indians, who said she screamed with joy when she learnt that her work had found its way on to a shelf in the Oval Office.

There is also a dramatic rebuke to white racism in Black Like Me #2, by Glenn Ligon — a tall rectangular canvas covered in the words “All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence”. The sentence comes from a book by a white journalist, John Howard Griffin, who passed himself off as a black man and kept a diary as he travelled through the segregated South in 1959.

There are few works by women, none by Latinos and none by gay artists in the new collection, but it has been well received by the mainly liberal arbiters of the American art world, who pronounced it sophisticated, challenging and “great art to live with”. Harry Cooper, a modern art specialist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, called it mainstream but powerful. “It has wall power,” he said.

For traditionalists there are two Degas sculptures and twelve bucolic scenes of Native American life by the 19th-century wanderer George Catlin. But it is an indication of the avant garde tone of most of the First Lady’s choices that her one Mark Rothko — representing one of the great conceptual artists of the 20th century — looks conventional in its new setting.

Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House - Times Online