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This one gave me shudders. The alternative was more than I cared to imagine.

[idea filched from Suzette]

The First Lady Gets Organic

Nutrition meets the photo op.

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers [...]

What’s Next For Glamour? Sweats and Flip Flops?

People magazine’s annual 10 Best Dressed List was revealed on Wednesday, acknowledging the ladies who have a great fashion sense and are consistent epitomes of glamour.

…U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama is “most accessible glamour” because her dressing style is creating waves and making sales.

via Kate Winslet, Michelle Obama in best-dressed list.

I expect Suzette will have [...]

Health Food

ABC News’ Yunji de Nies reports: After delivering remarks on Senator Kennedy’s passing, the President resumed his family vacation.

The Obamas spent two hours at Oyster Watcha beach, a private beach on Martha’s Vineyard’s southern shore. The President, First Lady and First Tweens, Malia and Sasha, then headed to Oak Bluff’s for lunch. They, staff and [...]

How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On the Farm, After They Ate The Pee?

Many pundits (including us) have noted the similarity between the Obama and Clinton Administrations on a number of levels. Here is one more… an underground level.

Much was made of the M’Chelle’s “organic” vegetable garden when it was planted this spring. Photo ops galore. Problem: just as the nation had to suffer from the toxicity of [...]

Special Deputy Assistant Grand Poobah

How times have changed. The First Lady I was first aware of was Mamie Eisenhower1 . Mrs. Eisenhower had a staff of one: a personal secretary whose salary came out of her own pocket. Of course, that was just prior to Jackie Kennedy and the upscaling of the First Lady from spouse and hostess to [...]

One Hand Washes The Other

First Lady Dearest Michelle Obama has replaced her Chief of Staff. (Note to self: did Mamie Eisenhower have a Chief of Staff? A staff?). Gone is Jackie Norris, in is Susan Sher.

Sher worked with Obama at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Mrs. O. had a job — created in part by Ms. Sher [...]

Sneaking Around

Our TAS Fashion Correspondent (whether she knows it or not), Suzette, spots the fact that M’Shelle showed up at a food bank charity event yesterday wearing $540 sneakers.

That money could have bought a lot of mac ‘n’ cheese, tuna or Dinty Moore Beef Stew.

Once again, explain to me, a clueless, fashion-deaf male, why [...]

A Man of the People

The Weak In Review

Obama returns from his first whirlwind tour of the planet1 to a nation that seems to be healing its economic wounds without him.

Let’s recap. In the UK he and his wife insulted the Queen. He bowed to the Chief Financier of Jihad and King of a country that still stones women, sanctions marital rape and [...]