Michelle Obama goes sleeveless, Congress Tuesday night.
She’s got the guns to go sleeveless, and Frist Lady Michelle Obama, chose to bare her arms four times out of seven this week. The message being, fit, toned and healthy is good, and have your arms ready to work… but in the most elegant of ways, of course. However, some of the more conservative pundits were up in arms about whether Mrs Obama’s fashion sense is appropriate or not.
Here what the AP is reporting on the issue from Washington: “The First Lady impressed many, but also made a few waves on Tuesday night when she broke with tradition and wore a sleeveless Narsico Rodriguez dress to the President’s address before Congress. Opinion was divided over whether it was appropriate to show so much skin at such a ceremonial event.
“‘Does the lady not understand that these Big Speech Events are serious and important? Not a cocktail party?’” wrote one Chicago Tribuune reader. ””The season is winter. The occasion is business. Dress was wrong place and time.’”
Social Secretary DESIREE ROGERS defended the decision, telling the Washington Post that Mrs. Obama’s feeling is “If I want to wear no sleeves to hear my husband speak, that’s what I’m going to do.” Apparently Michelle Obama has enough self-confidence to lead America forward, with her own brand of leadership and style. To find out more about her strong sense of security within herself…. This report on Michelle Obama, was written for TU MAI Magazine, Polynesia’s leading lifestyle magazine from New Zealand:
Thankfully though, Barack Obama cannot tame his wife, neither does he need to or seek to. He is famous for saying on nationwide TV, “When mama’s happy. We all are happy,” perhaps indicating that no one tells Michelle Obama what to do, including him.
Undoubtedly Michelle Obama is Barack’s ace jewel in his crown as The 44thPresident of the United States. Colleagues of the couple have told me, that Michelle always had higher grades than Barack at Harvard Law School and that it was he that amorously pursued her. Apparently, it wasn’t easy for him to win her over either but thankfully he did. Michelle always earned a higher salary than him until she had the children. Most importantly Michelle Obama knows how to keep Barack grounded by speaking the truth in love.
Michelle once rolled her eyes in a 60 Minutes prime time interview and told him off on nationwide TV, when he exaggerated slightly that he would be doing his own dishes to save water and excessive energy costs in the Whitehouse.
Honesty is Michelle Obama’s first and only language of the heart and she offers him the stability of a wife and mother that he perhaps never found so solidly in his own mother when he was a child. You get the sense that Michelle Obama is going to ensure that he’s always comfortable to remain himself and does not become an over inflated construct of someone more important than what he will naturally grow into as a leader. There’s safety in that.
In that second of absolute frankness, Michelle Obama reaffirmed a trustworthy quality in her that America needs and wants in a First Lady to keep their President level headed. Michelle Obama is stunning in her intelligence, ability as a strategist, her integrity, her love for her husband, children and nation and her passion for education to transform her nation’s imaginations. She’s the black Jackie O of America.
From what I’ve observed, I like them both a lot so far. America is in the inspiring and capable two hands of Hope. May a new era of good leadership and new courage also arise in New Zealand too and inspire the world. Let’s work our Polynesian friendly mindsets too and be proud to do so, like Hawaii’s favorite son, Barack Obama is doing right now for America. In our fertile and diverse lives are the seeds of eternal greatness. Tu Mai Ora y’all!
ENDS
[...] seem to be indicating so. Women, are getting ready, to roll up their sleeves and get busy. Or, in MICHELLE OBAMA’S case, just going totally sleeveless all together, and save the rolling up part. The American [...]