thenation.com - 4/11/2009
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Someday we'll get beyond obsessing about first ladies--and by "we" I mean the sort of journalists who use "we" to mean "the vast majority of Americans" when it is usually just themselves and their friends. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is getting more bouquets from the media than any woman in ...
firedoglake.com - 4/16/2009
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firedoglake.com —
Michelle Malkin has a teabagger timeline . She
seems to have left a few things out. December...
2004 -- I learn from the Rude One what "tea bagging" means. December 16, 2007 -- Ron Paul supporters have the first anti-tax Tea Party , ...
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A Brief History of Tea Bagging
sweetness-light.com - 4/16/2009
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sweetness-light.com —
First this report from her fans at the
Associated Press: Obamas report $2.7 million in income for...
2008 By Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, millionaires from his best-selling books, ...
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Michelle Obama Got $63K For No Show Job?
maristpoll.marist.edu - 4/16/2009
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maristpoll.marist.edu —
Nearly three months after her husband assumed the
highest office in the land, a plurality of Americans...
— 44% — thinks Michelle Obama represents change for the better as First Lady of the United States. Just 4% have a negative impression of Mrs. Obama ...
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4/16: A New Era for First Ladies? : Pebbles and Pundits
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Rice as a glorified appointments secretary were in for a surprise. With Powell and Rumsfeld gone, and Cheney’s influence constrained by aggressive legal proceedings against his chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the secretary of state has emerged as the foreign-policy linchpin of an administration that is largely staffed and run by colleagues from her days in Brent Scowcroft’s NSC...
[2] Katha Pollitt:
Mad About Michelle: David Samuels writes in New York magazine:
There are ...
Harold Pollack: Why does Michelle Obama drive people crazy?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As Katha Pollitt observes, this is an odd description of a conspicuously driven and successful Harvard lawyer whose last position was a VP slot at one of America's leading academic medical centers. (Samuels elaborates--to my mind gets weirder-- ...
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