Michelle Obama is Vogue’s Cover Girl Next Month

Yes,why not,the first lady should be a cover girl and a fashion icon.If Mrs Bush was not it does not mean that an
age of indulgence has succeeded an age of austerity,What it means is that optimism is carried forward by a partnership which should work for america.
Shane.Cambridge.England.

You mean, Michelle Obama? That America-hating woman? That woman who’s never proud of her country? You mean, the “new Jackie”? We should all rush out and buy a copy!

Ok. We get it. It’s a huge thing that the First Couple is African American….but please…enough with the gushing……it’s sickening….
I think even the Obama’s are getting fed up with it….
We hired the best man for a very important job….let him get on with it….

Why is it that when we click on the article we get a picture of Jake Tapper? I’d rather see Michelle Obama.

Who cares what Anna Wintour thinks? The Obamas need to watch their public exposure very carefully to know when saturation point has been reached, and then cool it. By the way, this is a reader comment, not a user comment.

==Michelle Obama is Vogue’s Cover girl next Month==
So what??
She’s really not all THAT.

Sorry – too much hype over a fairy-tale persona. Her wardrobe looks like it came out of the attic in the 50s!

Keep oversaturating me with the Obamas, I love it.

Mihann — Uhm… Muslim is religion not a race….
Informed — No, sammy most likely didn’t know that since it doesn’t fit into “Tigerazaton” of Pres. Obama, you know when he was running he was black, now that he won, they have to make sure they say “well, he’s half white” same as they did with Tiger Woods, he was the black kid, he started winning he became “well, he’s not all black!” It makes people who have issues feel a bit better, sad isn’t it!

What’s Vogue and who cares? I didn’t even realize it still existed. I’ve never seen a copy in someone’s house, at the doctor’s office, dentist, etc…so who buys it?
(Oh, and I agree with many of you…not attractive and enough of the Obama family being shoved in our faces already! Ohhh..I wonder if Sasha is having chicken nuggets at school today… Not to mention what an annoying speaker Michelle is, her insincere pompous deliveries are bad enough to neutralize his charisma at the podium.)

The cult of personality.

Poor thing – she’s just ugly.

==I cannot wait to buy it. ==
What, 51-52 per cent “bought it,” and lookit us now.

==she’s just ugly.=
I wouldn’t go THAT far, although I would say that she COULD scare many men up a tree.
I would say that she is definitely unattractive. She does more for me than a cold shower.

You who ‘hate’ the Obama’s should be ashamed. They are beautiful people with a desire to help the American people rise above the ashes of your party’s runaway governing. What did George W do for you? Keep us safe? We were attacked on his watch. Only get us in a crisis probably bigger than the great depression? Start a war that we never should have been in..which by the way has cost us our military lives..not to mention $$ trillions of dollars? The list goes on and on..and YOU republican hypocriates are going to bash the looks of our first lady? SHAME SHAME

It’s hard to believe that so many people here are still talking trash about Michelle Obama. She is the first lady, and Barack Obama is president. Let’s all stand behind them now. That’s what patriotism means.

To those who hide behind the shadows of your keyboards, it takes a lot of time and negative energy to think of such evil things to say about someone that you don’t even know. Just remember,
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. – Joseph Addison.
She looks absolutely beautiful.

It’s hard to believe that so many people here are still talking trash about Michelle Obama. She is the first lady, and Barack Obama is president. Let’s all stand behind them now. That’s what patriotism means.
Posted by: Jackie
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michele is just a fake, ugly, angry person who’s trying to remake her image.
If it was Sarah Palin, you wouldn’t be calling for people to stand behind her.

And this is newsworthy because???

Reading this blog is worse than listening to Sean Hannity. Even Hannity would not say the evil things that are written here. And he gets paid to be demonic.

Laura Bysh & her daughters posed for Voque as has EVERY first lady, but Political Punch would rather criticize the Obamas than tell the truth.
Cindy McCain was in Voque during election. Laura Bush was on Good Housekeeping RedBook, etc thousands of times.

I don’t know why the first lady is given a cover shot for Vogue. Can’t we put here in something cerebral instead of a fashion magazine? This to me is a representation of the downfall of America. I am sick of the hollywood publicity of this family as well. Put it to rest by now.

Wow… I am shocked at how much bitterness and hatred there is on this blog. There are sure a lot of angry people out there in the world! Michele is a very cool first lady and is in no way ugly, nor angry. Me thinks the evil republicans are the ones who are angry!

The First Lady looks very nice on the cover of Vogue.
why don’t you people who always complaint about everything get out and volunteer or doing something constructive instead of criticised about everything…. GET REAL!!!

I think Michele Obama is an attractive woman but her fashion sense (cringeworthy at times) does not translate to the cover of a high end fashion magazine. It’s time to dial it back a bit… maybe, Good Housekeeping.

I’m sure Mrs. Obama is a nice person but now is not the time to be a cover girl.

Wow you people are so critical and hateful. I think she is beautiful, she has so much personality and charisma, and the inner beauty shines through.
What about the other first ladies who have been on covers of magazines, were they so great, including Bush, Clinton.
People have mentioned Palin – Beauty is skin deep. She speaks and all is lost.
It’s what’s inside that counts.

To all the complainers out there. If you were an African American, you would understand why the “First” Black/African American President and the “First” Black/African American Family contiues to appear on the covers of magazines and in the media. Please stop complaining and begin supporting “your/our” new President. Even if you were not a fan of our Ex-President Bush, he was shown respect. Even after he threw us into war, drove this country to the state that our new president has to try to dig us out of and left the White House with the “worse” record of any previous president. Let’s get over it and try to live in this messed up country as civilized humans. What are you doing to try to make the world a better place?? Stop complaining about tbe Obamas, until you can say you can do better!

Not such a great time to be posing for the cover of Vogue, but it’s just my opinion.

Michelle wearing her signature fake smile!

‘Laura Bush & her daughters posed for Voque as has EVERY first lady, but Political Punch would rather criticize the Obamas than tell the truth.’
vogue magazine was first published in 1892 bought by conde naste in 1909
so NO not every first lady has been on the cover of vogue
hillary clinton was the first
the bush two daughters were in a spread inside the magazine not on the cover
michelle obama is only the second first lady to be on the cover of vogue
try to get your facts straight
since you obviously have a computer and therefore access to google that should not be overwhelmingly difficult

Michelle Obama is a lovely woman and a great role model for ALL American girls, regardless of “race”. Michelle’s ancestry, like most people of “African American ancestry”, includes White European American roots. Barack is not “biracial”, he is the son of an African/Arabic father and a European American mother. Obama is an American of African ancestry. His “African” ancestry is not “American”, so he is not like James Earl Jones, Tina Turner, Eartha Kitt or Chaka Khan who are Black(descendants of American Slaves from Africa), White and Native American.
Tiger Woods himself, does not identify as “Black” because he honors his mother and her ancestry too. Tiger Woods is African, European and Native – American through his late father and Thai and Chinese through his mother. Tiger’s children Sam and Charlie are half-Swedish. This makes them multiracial and mixed, not “Black”. Enough with this race categorization being forced upon people who are not monoracial.

Vogue is simply trying to sell magazines. It must have been a hard choice to put Michelle Obama, who is a fashion disaster on the cover but money talks….
Vogue did go way overboard in the cover headline claiming that Michelle Obama is “The First Lady the world has been waiting for”. Please stop this nonsense.
The “world” has not changed it’s opinion of “us” one bit. Effigies of Bush have been replaced with Obama and are now burning in Iran, Egypt and elsewhere. The so-called “creative coalition” is anything but, they all go around pontificating and looking foolish spouting their identical talking points, “the world has done a 180 degree turn since the election” blah, blah, blah, It’s simply not true.
Hillary Clinton is doing the hard work of changing perceptions of the U.S. around the world.
Hillary Clinton should have been our President. Missed opportunties indeed. My Dem party chose the wrong candidate. Obama is simply not up to the task. The so-called stimulus package is a disgrace.

I am so tired of hearing African American, or Mexican American or any other something American. We are all Americans. I don’t go around saying I am Irish American. I am American and proud of it.

As a black man i say Michelle is an average looking black woman that knows how to make herself beautiful like most American women. She has achieved more success than any of the haters here without Barack. The bad comments here show deep cowardly racial jealousy & hatred. Stand tall my sister and thanks to all civil minded Americans of all stripes that smack down this ignorance.

Good God you people need to get a life. Can’t you think of anything better and more mature to do than to smack talk a woman’s appearance? BTW, what did Laura Bush accomplish during her first month as First Lady? I am having a hard time thinking of anything. If you want to see First Ladies getting things done you need to look to the Dems – Eleanor, Hillary Clinton, Rosalynn Carter…

maybe she should have posed with a homeless person and showed her spreading some of her own wealth,instead of milking the americans for their hard earned wealth…after her 300% pay raise after Obama became senator should be no problem for her.

Mrs. Obama has a history of poor timing and judgement. With the current state of the economy this is the LAST thing she should be doing.

I kind of feel sorry for her — she just doesn’t get it.

Posted by: Wendel | Feb 11, 2009 11:58:47 AM
==The plural for Obama is not Obama’s it is Obamaas.==
thanks for the update

I believe that most of the American people, specially during this economy crises, don’t care who is on the oover of a Vogue Magazine. People are loosing their job along with their homes, health insurance… I thought this new administration will keep the focus on the American people real needs “jobs”.

Michelle looks great and exudes a beautiful and honest impression that can be admired by all americans. As a side note, the fact that Hillary assumed (and probably her campaign people as well) she would look a little too feminine if she had done the cover of Vogue (during the campaign) while seeking the nomination is a bit disconcerting. This thought process only re-validates the inept notion that women need to be more masculine-like when seeking positions of authority in society and that is very un-becoming of a figure of her stature. All we need to do is look around american society and note that nearly 50% of all households are run by single parents who are women (not to mention other parts of the world). A little less vanity and more realism is expected from the secretary of state in the future.

The “American standard” of beauty, traditionally, has not included Black women, Asian woman or Latinas. In the past, Black women were not even considered beautiful by White standards. I grew up in an America where the celebration of my beauty had to come from within my community, and where my (multicultural) features were not included in mainstream media, and certainly not in fashion magazines.
I celebrate Mrs. O in her new American standard of beauty. So what she is not traditionally beautiful. Her beauty is only magnified by her intelligence and spirit! It is important that women of color are celebrated in this country, as well as the traditional, “European” standard.

And, as for Palin, what would she wear? Some of those $150k Republican convention clothes? Some of you evil trolls need to take a step back, and learn to respect the President and First Lady. Some of your comments regarding Mr. and Mrs. Obama are just nasty. Yes, we have free speech, however at his worst, nobody picked on Laura B’s looks or lack of fashion sense.

Is it the Obama’s fault that the economy tnaked? Look to yourselves, your credit cards, your overpriced houses, your lack of savings and the failure of “trickle down economics.”

NatFrankie, your comment has nothing to do with this article, and Bush is the one who made the agreement with Banks and Credit Card Companies (Extension of Banks to make monies off of consumers who don’t pay their balances in full). So, Obama had nothing to do with that, and the economy tanked in September, so Nat, get your facts straight

jpt quotes Michelle Obama:
“That’s what women have to focus on: what makes them feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.”
Will the Obama crap machine NEVER stop grinding?
Wasn’t the Inaugural bedspread with the undanceable train ENOUGH “fun” from Obama to last a lifetime?
The born-to-shop suggestion that women “have to” focus, just now, on “fun with fashion” shows how shallow it must have been, pulling down a half million a year in the non-profitocracy.
When I saw this topic, I went “phew”! whaaa?! Actually READING Obama’s let-’em-eat-cake simpering, though — making a stupid joke of slightly more than half the population, most of whom are wearing ten-year-old bathrobes, and wondering where their next whatever is coming from — makes it clear why it’s here.
Vogue. Right. Let’s HOPE that for however long this embarrassing reign lasts, Obama will just shut up about “what women have to focus on” and soak up the swag.

Mrs. Obama has a history of poor timing and judgement. With the current state of the economy this is the LAST thing she should be doing.
Posted by: kelly | Feb 11, 2009 11:58:40 AM
Please elaborate. What history of poor timing and judgement? Michelle Robinson graduated Chicago public school, went on to graduate from Princeton and Harvard, fell in love with an up and coming lawyer/politician, became a mother, and currently the nation’s First Lady!!! Furthermore, the current state of our economy will not be weakened by Michelle Obama giving an interview and cover picture for a $6.99 magazine. Get a grip. I suppose you want her to bake some girl scout cookies and contribute the proceeds to the national debt payments!!! You TURD!!!

“The “American standard” of beauty, traditionally, has not included Black women, Asian woman or Latinas. NatFrankie | Feb 11, 2009 12:16:05 PM ”
Not exactly true, sorry. You seem to forget that such great beauties like Josephine Baker (African American) and Rita Hayworth (Latina-Irish), Iman (Somalian) were/are celebrated beauties. Princess Kaiulani Cleghorn (Hawaiian, Scottish) was a celebrated beauty in her day way back in the 1800s. The so-called “American Standard” of beauty is not untainable for most American females, regardless of “race” or “color”.
‘It is important that women of color are celebrated in this country, as well as the traditional, “European” standard.- NatFrankie | Feb 11, 2009 12:16:05 PM”
It is even more important to note that “white is a color too”, and the continual clinging to this rather “racist and divisive” category of “people of color” only continues to serve as a narrow-minded skincolor categorization that indirectly slurs people who are or look White as being separate just because of their skincolor. I am seriously tired of this continued race and skincolor divisiveness that so many people cling too.
Oh, and by the way, your face is not “multicultural. A person’s facial features do not denote “culture”. It is “ethnicity” that may be discernable as to a person’s particular “looks”. In todays world, many people have transcended their particular racial, ethnic and cultural roots to become something else, therefore one does not really know what someone’s race, ethnicity, culture or heritage is just by looking at them and the “superficial” appearance. Most Americans are multiethnic and/or multiracial, and therefore one cannot look at people and determine what their “culture” is.
My ancestry is diverse racially, ethnically and culturally, but I see myself as an American and a human being, first and foremost, and NOT a race or color.

Josephine Baker (African American) and Rita Hayworth (Latina-Irish), Iman (Somalian) were/are celebrated beauties. Princess Kaiulani Cleghorn (Hawaiian, Scottish) was a celebrated beauty in her day way back in the 1800s. The so-called “American Standard” of beauty is not untainable for most American females, regardless of “race” or “color
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Here we go:
Josephine Baker had to leave the United States in order to work as an entertainer, due to the racism she faced here.
Rita Hayworth had to change her name and publicly deny her heritage due to racism.
Iman has to start her own line of cosmetics because she was unable to purchase makeup in colors and composition that were suitable to her skin color, as she has said in many inteviews.
I would venture to add the princess faced her fair share of issues in the 1800′s as a mixed-culture woman in the good old USA.
I don’t need a lecture on multi-ethnicity and beauty, as a middle-aged woman who lived through the civil rights era I have seen it all. As a historian, I have read just about all of it. As a BLACK woman in American, I have LIVED it. Although my ancestry (as is that of most Black Americans) is mixed, society first called me “colored”, then “Negro” then “Afro-American” until I decided to become BLACK! Oh, and I have been called the other “n-word” often enough here at home as well.
Many of us do not have the option of being “American” we have had no choice but to first accept, then celebrate, our own ethnic beauty. MIchelle Obama is a stirring example of that beauty!

“Mrs. Obama has said that she has a desire to give her daughters and other young African American women the opportunity to see people who look like them on the cover of magazines. “… Frankly, this sounds a little racist to me. Weren’t Tyra Banks, Beyonce, Naomi Campbell (sp?) and MANY others on the covers before? As an Asian woman, why is it… that I don’t feel the need to have an Asian woman on a fashion cover magazine to make me feel better about myself, or for my daughter to feel better about myself. I think of women as women, and the oppositr of us are men… it’s weird how race all over the media nowadays?

Well said Kim

check this out… the Japanese get excited about ‘Change’ in America

Why is all of these peoples hating on Michelle. JEALOUS JEALOUS
She got somethimg that you wish you had
a fine man, beautiful kids and the First Lady of the USA GET OVER IT!

Gg51: I have to say, you make me laugh. First, be serious.. it’s not just women who are critical of her. Very, very few men will ever say she’s attractive. And come on, where do all you people get this bit about “loving and accept and giving of ourselves” anyway? We’ve seen nothing about her to suggest that, you’re projecting these views because you were suckered by her husband. The only things we’ve seen from her makes her out to be petty, selfish and arrogant.
She an ugly woman with an uglier personality.

I LOVE YOU Michelle Obama

Mrs. O is the epitome of class and grace. Let’s add that she is exceptionally intelligent and well-educated. The only recent first lady who could be her in intelligence and educationally is Hillary Clinton. (My compliments to Mrs. Clinton as well). The Bush ladies were nice, quiet (I guess) old-style wives nothing wrogn with that. I appreciate and admire Mrs. O and Mrs. C, women who are equally-educated and committed to America!

Sarah, nobody gets an Ivy League degree only on paper. Jackie Kennedy is only a standard for some women and not all. I suggest you do some listening because Mrs. Obama is probably more well spoken than you are.

I’m not a Jack Tapper but decided to read this post. I’m glad I made that decision so I could see all of the haters on the website.

michele is trying to remake her image but like what barrack had said before, you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still…..

Reality2009 said (in part): don’t kill the messenger if can’t handled the facts. (copied and pasted with grammar error intact)
Sorry, but you don’t seem to present facts, only your opinions (such as implying First Lady Obama is a pig in lipstick). And yes, you are entitled to them just as others are entitled to theirs. Try being a little more respectful, and a little less belligerent, where that FACT is concerned if you really want to be taken seriously.

She needs to do something for herself. She is so ugly, arrogant and hateful. I guess she is proud to be an American now. If she weasn’t so angry, her face would show it. I think it is just awful to put her on Vogue. So much for buying tha magazine again. She should not wear sleeveless dresses for the obvious reason.

This is really unfortunate. I was hoping she would refuse to be the traditional version of First Lady. I was hoping she would have her own career independent of her husband and the White House like Mrs. Biden who has apparently decided not to spend all her time planning menus and sitting around imitating a doily.

==The Obama’s are rich folks.==
Since when does a plural take an apostrophe as just your plain ol’ plural?

I am so glad my First Lady is Real… no botox, no drug addict, no stick-pin, educated, classy, smart and unpretentious. Beautiful and strong with hips, arms, legs, and an extended family. I am soo glad she wasn’t born with a silver spoon, worked hard, and never forgot where she came from. I am so glad she doesn’t walk behind her husband, but beside him and see herself as an equal, not a “head bobbing” armpiece. I am so glad she is not promoting “just say no”, and safer issues as “libraries”, or “human rights in another country”, when they’re not exercised in the U.S. In other words, I am so glad Michelle Obama is not a FAKE

==I am so glad Michelle Obama is not a FAKE==
She’s got YOU fooled, too, huh, like a vampire mesmerizes its victim.

Gg51, Do you Know Michelle? The First Lady, that the Media says is a very succesful Princeton Lawyer. Whom is banned from practicing law. Ever wonder what cases the very succesful Princeton attorney litigated. I suggest instead of name calling do a little investigation first. As Einstein once said, Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

==sngeorgia, I am so glad my First Lady is Real… no botox, no drug addict, no stick-pin, educated, classy, smart and unpretentious. Girl, I agree with you whole heartedly, I mean she the one that got him to stop smokin cigarettes. If she had been with him in his younger days maybe he wouldn’t have done cocaine and smoked weed. Way to go Michelle, we don’t need no more Marion Barry’s.==
You two need to get a room.

In 2005 the hospital raised Michelle’s salary from $120,000 to $317,000 – nearly
twice what her husband made as a Senator
Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure
had. Requested a $1 Million earmark for the UC Medical Center
But now that Mrs Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will
remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be
worth $317,000?

So Greg what have you done for the needy lately its easy to cast your opinions but I bet you don’t help anyone. They havent’ even been in office for a month and people can’t say anything nice. My mother always said if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all. I for one am proud to be an american and I voted for Obama. Let the world see that we back our president and that he is trying his very best if anyone can do better maybe they should run for president in 2012.

bdaman:
Thank you for your response. And yes, I have done my investigative journalism, and I think I would do my homework more thoroughly sir before you make claims about anyone. She is still licensed to practice law, and she hasn’t been disbarred. BDAman, are you Karl Rove?

Voluntary inactive means just that a person withdraws from practice for various reasons like marriage, child care, go back to school, and many more legitimate reasons, but still able to practice law when resumes upon the laws of the state, once acknowledged and meets criteria to resume. If there aren’t any disciplinary actions, then a person can resume once criteria has been met to resume. So, do your homework more thoroughly next time.

The First Lady the World’s been waiting for? Please!! I think the media is gushing a bit too much! And we have reached the point of oversaturation. I read a little bit of the article and I would like to make some comments. With all due respect to Michelle Obama, it is not like she is going to reinvent the wheel at the White House. All previous first ladies have done wonderful work in their areas of interest. They have shown great dignity and grace at alltimes. And the White House has always been inclusive. The first ladies and their families have welcomed heads of states, dignataries and americans. The White House has always opened its doors to all americans. Let’s stopped with this “inclusive for the first time” nonsense about the White House. And as far as Michelle Obama’s comment that she wants black americans to see people like them on the cover of magazines…where has she been all these years? What about Oprah, Queen Latifah, Beyonce, Tyra Banks, Iman? All these ladies have graced the cover of magazines. And let’s not forget the men. Tiger Woods, Will Smith, Eddie Murphy. Please!!! Perhaps, if we stop with the hyphens….and call ourselves Americans..we would not have to keep track of how many times we make it to the cover of magazines.

The American people as a majority are tired of this nonsense that I am reading here and want us to move forward as communities and country This country is not being destroyed without by terrorism or anything else, it is being destroyed from within by the ugly divisiveness. Cease and find common ground with your neighbor, your colleague, your family member who believes differently than you. Mrs. Obama will be beautiful on the cover of Vogue – Congratulations to her. Her triumph takes nothing from me or you.

Michelle Obama on the cover of VOGUE? Is this a joke? The woman has zero sense of fashion.

She loves to buy clothes, makes her feel good. She has the money to do so. She is not reaching out to the average American. She may very well be encouraging more poor choices as others may agree with her that buying clothes gives them joy, too, but not be able to pay the bills later. Not everyone gets a fairytale ending like she got.

Michelle is beautiful, warm, gracious and intelligent. I thinkl she is a tremendous asset in the White House. I liked Laura Bush too, for differing reasons; but I think Mrs. Obama can connect in a unique way to the young. They could do a whole lot worse than to follow her example.

As a Canadian, and an observer — I have to say a lot of Americans sound like they’re bitter, and jealous – and maybe have a headache. Perhaps an enema would help them.
I’m always surprised at how narrowminded (some) Americans can be, when something wonderful happens in their own country. The worst and nastiest critics of the Obamas are within the US; and these people are incredibly divisive. Yet they’ll talk about how “liberated” and “free” they are.
Cheer the hell up for crying out loud. You have to start being happy for other people, start talking happy before you’re ever going to become happy yourselves.
Michelle Obama is stunning – she’s fit, she’s TRYING to make women enjoy their lives . . . she is well able to wear a sleeveless dress because her arms are muscled and smooth. She has a beautiful, strong face – and she is just a beautiful person.
Bets any of the critics on this page wouldn’t want their photograph displayed on Vogue or anywhere else.
Cheers – from Canada.

If our attitude in this country does not change,people are going to end up in hell. I have never heard so much hatred in my life. God gave this world to all people, not just a handful. Hate is eating this country alive. We can’t even see what’s happening in front of us to make the changes to come together.
I voted for bush, I didn’t agree with all his decision, nor will I agree with all of our new president. I’m willing to give him a chance. People are silly If they think they’re the only smart person in the world. But I forget that’s the only way some people feel good is by putting other people down. I feel sorry for them If they don’t change. They’re probably they first one going thru the church doors on worship Day Shame on You.!!!!!!!!!!!!!