‘You look gorgeous,” Sherri Shepherd exclaimed. “It’s fun to look pretty,” Michelle Obama announced.
She’s not living in the White House yet, but Michelle Obama is stopping by the mall to shop at White House/Black Market on the road there. The Ivy League education is not wasted on her — she’s learned an important lesson from Elizabeth Edwards: Millionaire Democrats should work to avoid campaign stops at Brooks Brothers.
Such was the depth of campaign coverage this morning on ABC’s chick coffee clique, The View.
With a
New York Times cover story as her
red-carpet pre-show, Michelle Obama stepped out and back on
The View Wednesday morning. Wearing an elegant black and white sleeveless summer dress, the Democratic First Lady-in-waiting successfully took attention off just about anything of substance.
Distancing herself from patronizingly elitist comments that have her dubbed as “America’s Unhappiest Millionaire,” and “Mrs. Grievance” the breaking news from The View was: Michelle Obama stopped wearing pantyhose long ago.
When addressing that “mean business” called politics, Mrs. Obama announced, “I am proud of my country, without a doubt.” She clarified her now-infamous comments, claiming she was referring to “pride in the political process.”
Michelle Obama is able to now have pride in the political process since her husband is somehow above politics. She said of Sen. Obama: “I don’t even see him as a politician.”
She dismissed her role in the campaign, saying of press coverage “I fill up some space” on the Internet, and channeling one of her daughters’ “they just think I’m cute” attitude to politics. Mean things will be said “when you put your heart out there” and wear your “heart on [your] sleeve.”
The sisterhood gathering made it possible for Michelle Obama to show love for both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush at the roundtable. Hillary, because she was a victim of sexism, naturally. As the first popular-vote-attracting (okay, Mrs. O didn’t quite put it that way) female presidential candidate, “She’s taken [the hits] so my girls, when they come along, they won’t have to feel it so badly.”
Although she started off telling a tale of her parents’ example of hard work and personal responsibility, Obama fell into the all-so-acceptable-conventional victimspeak. “People aren’t used to strong women,” Mrs. Obama said. Further, she warned, “there are elements of racism that will go on.”
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