[galveston]

I wonder if anyone knows who the worse first lady was?

Not yet.

Did she wear the sneakers to a State dinner?

[speechlesstx]

I wonder if anyone knows who the worse first lady was?

My instinct would to be to nominate the current Secretary of State but that may not be fair.

[tomder55]

I'd have to go with either Mary Todd Lincoln or Florence Kling Harding... Probably Harding because there were suspicions that she had her husband killed (not that I blame her .He was a cad philanderer worse then Slick Willie) .

Mary Todd Lincoln ? The 1st thing she did entering the White House during the nations worse crisis was to redecorate . She also is the model for Michelle Obama's fashion sense. She frequently made trips to NY to lavishly shop. Shopping was an addiction or a remedy for her many mental health issues.

[spitvenom]

Gal I think she wore them on the today show or some show like that.

[speechlesstx]

Supposedly she wears them to walk the dog, 'they're just shoes' she said. She was caught sporting them while volunteering at the DC food bank to help feed the poor.

[spitvenom]

I agree they are just shoes. I have a pair $250 and $125 pair of sneakers from a company called undrcrwn. I say if you have the money where whatever you want. Oh and here is a preemptive answer to the well she was wearing them to a food bank comment. So what!

[tomder55]

That would have course be our answer... wear what you please.

But in her case it appears to be just another hypocrisy.

[spitvenom]

Why is it Hypocrisy? I missed what she said

[speechlesstx]

Why is it Hypocricy? I missed what she said

Personally I think it's a little insensitive to wear $540 sneakers to feed the poor, but then the "poor" in America is often a misnomer. The hypocrisy is in her celebrated "cost conscious" approach to fashion which was widely trumpeted in the media while they were slamming Sarah Palin's expensive wardrobe. Now it appears to be spare no expense.

[spitvenom]

I am confused did she say she was cost conscious or did the media label her as cost conscious.

[tomder55]

She's a hypocrite because she and hubby have touted the class warfare garbage to rise to power. She reminds me of 'Raibow High' in Evita.

I came from the people
They need to adore me
So Christian Dior me
From my head to my toes
I need to be dazzling
I want to be Rainbow High!
They must have excitement
And so must I

I'm their savior!
That's what they call me
So Lauren Bacall me
Anything goes
To make me fantastic
I have to be Rainbow High
In magical colors--

You're not decorating a girl for a night on the town!
And I'm not a second-rate queen getting kicks with a crown!

This is a women who goes to make an address at universities blasting conspicuous consumption and argued that graduates should resist the temptation for big buck industries and instead look for careers in public service that would require the foreswearing of material gain.

"We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we're asking young people to do" "Don't go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we're encouraging our young people to do that."

[spitvenom]

Yeah those J crew and H&M outfits really Lauren Becall her. You guys are really R E A C H I N G on this one

[speechlesstx]

Yeah those J crew and H&M outfits really Lauren Becall her. you guys are really R E A C H I N G on this one

It's no reach Spit, it's old news. The left gets obsessed with decrying excesses of rich Republicans but doesn't blink at their own excesses. But the shoes were just part of the larger point of this thread, a) how in God's name can anyone declare Michelle Obama to be "the greatest First Lady we've ever known" 3 months into the administration, and b) where the hell is the adversarial media? We're getting puff pieces on the kind of crap I mentioned and things like Joe and O went to have a hamburger.

I used to wonder if the left had lost their minds over their obsession with hating Bush. After watching all the drooling over the Obama's I think I can safely say they that's no longer in doubt.

[tomder55]

Uhh mr president... that's not your teleprompter .

[spitvenom]

I already agreed with you that no one can claim she is the greatest first lady ever since she hasn't even been there a year.

Oh I agree about the hamburger piece. But if it wasn't that puff piece then it would have been a different puff piece. That is why I don't watch the news. In philly the news usually starts with someone getting shot, Then a corruption story about some philly cop then puff story, then another puff story, then A is something in your home killing you story, then sports, then weather then more puff.

I just hate it so much

[spitvenom]

You guys are just mad because Obama knows what a teleprompter is. And Bush kept asking where his cartoons were every time they turned the teleprompter on. (sorry I couldn't resist)

[tomder55]

Imagine the outrage and media feeding frenzy if President Bush had eaten at this restaurant under this sexploitation movie poster ?

[tomder55]

You want me to put some chump change in the tip jar ? Might as well... you'll be paying it back in taxes anyway!!

[tomder55]

Joe Biden asked for a Nuevo Texican Whopper

[spitvenom]

Tom come on no claims tip jar money on their taxes!