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On Facebook the other day, one of my friends offered her services as an English tutor — and included a grammatical error in her offer.  Admittedly, it was an error that involved a usage that has been changing over time, but I still expect an English tutor to avoid this particular mistake.  Even if her [...]

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If you’ve been trolling the internet at all the lost couple of days, you’re aware by now that Christopher Knight, who has what is apparently a paying gig at the Los Angeles Times, has taken umbrage at a political cartoon likening the profligate Mrs. Obama to Marie Antoinette, who was herself no slouch at spending [...]

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I was talking with a friend (he knows who he is) about the uniforms we wear.  The military imposes uniforms on its members, but most of us impose uniforms upon ourselves. Because I’m quite petite (being both short and reasonably slender) and because I have matching small feet, it is extremely hard for me to [...]

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Here’s the video of a speech Obama gave at the Transition Ceremony for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  You need only watch the first 40 or so seconds. Here’s my transcript of those seconds: Thank you very much.  Secretary Panetta, thank you for your introduction and your extraordinary leadership.  To Members of Cong, Vice President [...]

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A video is making the rounds.  Taking during the flag folding portion of the 9/11 ceremonies, it shows Michelle Obama whispering in Barack’s ear.  He responds with a nod and a suppressed grin.  Here, see for yourself: I dislike Michelle Obama every bit as much as the next person, but absent a credible lip reader, [...]

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Michelle Obama’s fashion advisors must really hate her.  Otherwise, how do you explain a dress that is so incredibly unflattering?  First rule of women’s fashion — never, never wear clothes that give you the underarm equivalent of a muffin top.  Also, referring to my post yesterday, my friend is right, in that Michelle looks miserable.

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I need help from you guys developing a thought.  The thought started with this picture of Michelle Obama in a deep-veed, fluffy blouse; a saggy sweater; a bondage belt; and the gypsy skirt from hell: Aside from the fact that the picture pretty much puts the lie forever to the media’s desparate attempt to liken [...]

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I’m noticing an interesting pattern in Obama’s Muslim speeches.  He thinks it’s a very good thing for women to cover up.  In his Cairo speech, he made that point, not once, not twice, but three times.  As I caught in the post I wrote at the time, he said: Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible [...]

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A few days ago, the University of California at Merced announced that the First Lady’s commencement address cost this public institution a fortune — although it hastened to assure us that most of the cost would be covered, not by California’s overburdened taxpayers, but by private donors. The nation’s overburdened taxpayers, it seems, are not [...]

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By now, all of you are familiar with the Obama administration’s effort to shut down an Inspector General who was making life uncomfortable for a big Obama supporter.  IG Walpin contended that Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson was misusing federal funds (to the tune of $800,000 plus) for his personal benefit.  The vehicle for this taxpayer [...]

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This is supposed to be a “news” story about the Obama family trip to Paris.  It strikes me as coming much closer to a bad bodice ripper, with scary Messianic overtones: People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It [...]

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Michelle Malkin takes Michelle Obama to task for her apparently hypocritical advise to UC Merced graduates to “give.”  Malkin took issue with this language: “You will face tough times. You will certainly have doubts, and let me tell you because I know I did when I was your age,” she said. “Remember that you are [...]

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If you’re over thirty, you remember the shampoo commercials that had the tag line “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.”  If you’ve forgotten, let me refresh your memory: That slogan started repeating itself in my head with the attacks on Sarah Palin. I won’t repeat here (or link to) the startling savagery of the hatred [...]

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I suspect Obama did this because he’s a yahoo who is out of his league, but there is no doubt but that this is a weirdly symbolic picture of Obama’s foreign policy. And let’s not even get into the weird marital ramifications behind the fact that, while Obama grovels to kings, his wife hugs queens.

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I have been trying my darndest to ignore Judith Warner’s sleazy New York Times piece detailing the sexual fantasies liberal women are having about Obama.  On the list of things I really don’t want to know, this ranks right up there with the nature of Bill Clinton’s underwear.  These are presidents, for goodness sakes — [...]

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Mary Katharine Ham also weighs in on both Michelle’s and Barack’s periodic meanness.  She mentions a few examples I’d forgotten and reminds me of Obama’s snide remark about Pennsylvianians as embittered, religiously fanatic gun clingers.  One can be nice and witty.  One can be mean and witty.  And one can be just mean.  Obama hits [...]

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I thought it was her taste in clothes, but maybe it’s just me.  No matter what Mrs. Obama wears, she reminds me of a couch.  For example, compare this (her dress for the inauguration) and this (a yellow couch).  Or how about this (her ball gown) and this (a white couch).  And, lastly, this (her [...]

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I don’t feel like blogging today.  I’m working on a post-election plan, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet, and I’m feeling a little in limbo right now, just watching things play out. However, I do want you to know that I have an opinion on “the dress” (that would be the dress that Michelle [...]

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Final word:  it’s a fake. See The Corner for more info. ********************************************************************************* No wonder the Obama campaign has been keeping Michelle in the background.  Every time she opens her mouth, something shocking comes out. UPDATE:  The Obama camp is pushing back, saying the entire thing is a fake.  And it may well be.  True or [...]

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The media is working hard to prevent the American people from hearing what comes from the conservatives, whether by ignoring it altogether, or by using selective cut and paste, or by engaging in intentional humiliation tactics (with their opposite number being saved for Obama).  Sometimes, though, verbal judo works — which is to say, let [...]

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As part of an excellent analysis of the bizarre pathologies that drive Barack and Michelle Obama in this most weird of political campaigns, James Lewis writes: Barack’s run for President is his big chance to make up for those haunting feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness. So for the Obama campaign, grandiose ego display is the [...]

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Obama has a pattern when a person or institution proves problematic: First, loyally, he tries to defend the troublemaker. Second, when his poll numbers show that the defense is futile, he ruthlessly jettisons the troublemaker, whether it’s Samantha Power, Jeremiah Wright or Trinity Church. But what about this troublemaker (assuming, for the moment, that the [...]

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Michelle Malkin takes on Michelle Obama’s endless flow of whining and bile. It’s not surprising. As I pointed out in my Anger on the Left post, Leftism once seemed logically congruent with anger because Leftism was the politics of the underclass. In recent years, though, Leftism has shifted to become the politics of the affluent [...]

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Much is being made of the fact that Michelle and Barack Obama, when they were earning a mere quarter million after tax dollars per year, were exceptionally stingy with their charitable donations. (See here and here, for example.) If that is the whole story of their charitable contributions, that’s pretty stingy and does not reflect [...]

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Barack Obama, a political nobody in terms of experience, has been thrust to the highest echelons in a matter of months, with the White House realistically within his reach. This is every politician’s dream, it’s the Hollywood movie, but it may not be quite the perfect scenario that Obama and his followers envisioned. You see, [...]

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