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Questions for Michelle Obama about immigration - 06/18/14

Taking a break from her many other tasks, Michelle Obama spoke [1] at a naturalization ceremony earlier today and, as many other past and present political figures have done, used the opportunity to promote comprehensive immigration reform.

Do Peruvians think they can move to the U.S. at will? (Carla Salazar) - 06/01/10

Carla Salazar of the Associated Press offers a Topsy-Turvy World article called "Peruvian child becomes symbol of US undocumented" [1] about the seven-year-old girl who revealed to Michelle Obama that her mother was here illegally, causing Michelle Obama to advocate for

Michelle Obama: Kenya is Barack Obama's "home country" - 04/04/10

The video at peekURL.com/vzgiubo [1] shows Michelle Obama speaking to an LGBT Delegate dinner on August 26, 2008 and she clearly states the following: "Barack has led by example. When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya we took a public HIV test for the very point of showing folks in Kenya that there is nothing to be embarrassed about in getting tested." That's not a slip of the tongue and she doesn't correct herself: she states it as a simple fact. Does this prove that Obama was born in Kenya? No, and it doesn't provide strong evidence of it either. It certainly...

Sally Quinn drools all over Michelle Obama's arms - 05/10/09

Washington Post "Staff Writer" Sally Quinn offers "The Nation's Embracing, and Embraceable, Arms" (link): "May I change the subject," said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner. The conversation had been high-minded -- religion, philosophy, the nature of evil. "I'd like to talk about Michelle Obama's arms," he said. He is a big fan of those arms. We then began a discussion about the significance of the first lady's arms. Actually, it turned out to be equally serious. Michelle Obama's arms, we determined, were transformational. Her arms are representative of a new kind of woman...

Michelle Obama wears $540 sneakers to DC food bank - 05/01/09

On Wednesday, Michelle Obama conducted a photo op at a Washington DC food bank while wearing sneakers that cost $540 (link): These sneakers - suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps - are made by French design house Lanvin, one of fashion's hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions, and have been a brisk seller all spring... Michelle has stepped out in Lanvin before while getting down to business. A week ago, she shoveled dirt at a tree planting while wearing the line's chiffon tank... In the second photo she might be rebuilding her larder in case the White...

Give like Michelle Obama: toy helicopters like ones given to Gordon Brown available for $4.11 - 03/06/09

Now, you members of hoi polloi can give gifts just like Michelle Obama! On his recent visit, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was presented with panoply of goods that would make a potlatch-throwing chief mad with envy, including 25 DVDs and two small toy helicopters for his sons. The latter were presented by Michelle, and she actually went all the way to the White House gift shop to get them (perhaps with her employee's discount). As it turns out (link): Similar models of Marine One in identical-looking boxes bearing the White House crest are sold on Amazon for $15 (Β£10.67). But, you can...

Whitehouse.gov omits Blagojevich link from Michael Strautmanis biography - 01/20/09

The all new whitehouse dot gov has a new Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs, the new president's gatekeepers to hoi polloi. That office's "Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison" is Michael Strautmanis, a long-time Obama associate who also used to work for Rod Blagojevich. Oddly enough, that association is not listed in his biography (link and full text below). Even the New York Times tells us this (go here and browse people): A longtime friend of the Obamas who once worked as Michele Obama's paralegal. Obama's...

What Michelle Obama's "court ordered inactive status" as a lawyer means - 01/05/09

If you go to the website run by the Attorney Registration and Displinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois and search for the record belonging to Michelle Obama (link, earlier screengrab here), you'll find that her Illinois Registration Status is listed as "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice la

Barack Obama William Ayers panel 11 20 1997 - 10/06/08

"Close-up on juvenile justice"/[[Jennifer Vanasco]]/[[University of Chicago Chronicle]]/[[November 6, 1997]]/ link Close-up on juvenile justiceAuthor, former offender among speakers By Jennifer VanascoNews Office Children who kill are called "super predators," "people with no conscience," "feral pre-social beings" -- and "adults."