Maybe it has to do more with age? I had to explain to my momma the other day that skinny asses are not in, in fact a Michelle Obama ass is more pleasing.

Also black/latinos/italians like a nice ass....just saying it's cultural. No big deal, he probably prefers big tits.

Because men tolerate it for the same reason they tolerate everything else women do that get on their nerves.

Can't you almost hear the phrase, "C'mon guys...they're only girls."

Women are treated equally in politics, and in life, when anything goes and nobody gives a shit about their feelings, and no blow is to low.

Anything else is sexist special treatment.

Life is full of little ironies like that.

When she interjected herself into the political process, she became fair game. You can't say things like the government is going to force you to do things and not expect backlash.

Fat posterior or not.

I've always have a booty. A puerto rican I dated was amazed it belonged to a white girl. And I married a hispanic. Ethnic people-for lack of a better term-tend to like bigger butts.

That said, she got exactly what men in politics get. I remember quite a few comments about the gut Clinton had in his jogging shorts.

Oh, please. All the First Ladies get a few comments (at least) about their looks. I remember when Hilary Clinton was in and there were COUNTLESS news articles mocking her hairstyles (and I was in fifth grade at that point!). Hell, I read an entire article yesterday about the fact that Sarah Palin curled her hair. Oh wow. Hard hitting journalism right there.

Hell, I read more than a few bits from bloggers hoping that Fred Thomson would win the GOP nomination last election so that his wife would be a babe of a First Lady.

The public notices how women look. Sometimes they mock it. It has nothing to do with race. Get over it.

Wonder how Mary C urtis reacted when everyone jumped on Chris Christie for his weight. Was that racist too? Was it sexist?And he wasn't even talking about weight/diet problems.

When she interjected herself into the political process, she became fair game.

Oh, she would have been criticized anyway. (See discussion of Chelsea Clinton's looks or people dredging up Laura Bush's teenage auto accident that killed a classmate.) What's risible is the idea that this is motivated by Michelle Obama's skin color.

It's also ridiculous to criticize a man who comments on Obama's appearance when she has been endlessly touted as a fashion icon.

Not everyone finds Michelle Obama attractive. Since she is in the public eye, and particularly because she decided to get involved with so-called "healthy eating", she gets to get criticized. Has nothing to do with racism or sexism.

People need to sack up, even the chicks.

I have to question the eyesight of anyone who thinks Michelle Obama is attractive. I can't look at her face without wanting to retch.

Tyra Banks: Beautiful.

Michelle Obama: Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Then got run over by the ugly truck.

A very dear friend of mine, a bodybuilder who contemplated going pro, always tells me the following:

Don't take diet or exercise advice from anybody you wouldn't want to look like.

We actually have no idea how Michelle's behind would change if she changed up her eating, so until she tries low carb and proves to me that her whole grain diet has nothing to do with her bootyliciousness, I'm going to reject her advice.

Michelle Obama is not a bodybuilder, trainer, or supermodel. Her goal isnt to tell people how to get skinny or look hot, but to how avoid becoming obese. If you already look good, no need to take her advice. If you're one of the many obese Americans who think that doritos, donuts, and french fries make up a balanced diet, then youd do well to listen. Im talking about the 350 pound people toodling around Walmart on motorized scooters. I guarantee none of them got fat from eating too many fruits and whole grains.

Sorry, Amy. She's a hag. All those years of hatred have twisted her face into the ugly that it is now. My politics don't enter into it. She's just not an attractive woman. I don't know any men who would say otherwise.

@Shannon - Actually, her goal is control. Every progressive's goal is control. What grates the most however is that as a completely unelected and unaccountable person, she is going to have the ability to drive policy if Obamacare is ever fully implemented before Obama leaves office.

I find the whole complaint about being "lectured" to about nutrition a bit pathetic. Why don' people complain about actual erosions of their rights, instead of whining about the way Michelle Obama speaks? You can ignore a lecture, for goodness sake.

There are a lot of people in this country killing themselves with food addiction, and bringing up their children to do the same thing, which makes me insanely angry to see. I agree with you Amy about the nutritional facts, and share the frustration about the reluctance of the food health establishment to take those facts on board, and I also think the first lady's role is definitely to try to encourage people to take a bit more responsibility for their own health, which she is trying to do, at least.

It's a shame the one diet Oprah didn't try when she had her show was the no-carb diet. Maybe it would have worked.

here's the Q? Shannon.

Are they going to lose weight by following the diet Michelle is pushing? I think I can guarantee that they won't.

"but to how avoid becoming obese." Shannon.

By following the SAME ADVICE that has been given by the government for 40 years?

And yet SOMEHOW we are more obese than ever. Is there a possibility that the government advice is WRONG?

It's easy to give advice like that, and then blame the individual when it doesn't work, because after all they are a bundle of variables, so they may be to blame. But you have to be DAMN SURE that the advice you assume that they are not following is CORRECT.

There is a lot of science indicating elsewise.

But that doesn't go over with the government, if that means that grain farmers would lose a market... science, schmiance.

Mrs. Obama has poor style.

> She's a hag.

The First Lady of the United States of America has always spoken very highly of your appearance, Brian.

She's stunning to look at. I've not researched her position against the photos and oil portraits of her predecessors in an actually Pillsbury Bake-Off, but I'd have to assume she's the most attractive woman to ever hold the title.

She's repellent, but the problem ain't her looks. She was described by Oprah (etc.) as a "high-powered executive"; yet when she and her Federally-employed husband moved on to new projects, she was not replaced, which makes you wonder how she earned her deep-six-figure salary.

Confusing these forces, personal attractiveness versus competence, is a tremendous problem with this couple. People are too entranced by these most personal, soap-opera appraisals. Type her name into Google: It will autocomplete "Michelle Obama Pregnant", as if this were the plot development Americans most want from her fifth season in this federally-funded sitcom.

Remember the abortion on the Mary Tyler Moore show?

The First Lady of the United States of America has always spoken very highly of your appearance, Brian.

Hey, I've never harbored any illusions as to my own attractiveness (or lack thereof). I'm as generic as they come in the looks department. I don't scare small children, but nobody's beating a path to my door to look at me either.

She's stunning to look at.

This is what I don't get. It must really be a matter of taste, because she's just horrifyingly ugly. Her body has no sense of proportion about it, her face is misshapen and distorted. There's nothing even moderately attractive about her, let alone "stunning".

Of course, we could end up with worse. Have you seen Mrs. Newt? Bitch gots the crazy eyes. Haven't seen Santorum or Perry's wives yet.

In all seriousness, I never though Hillary was all that horrible to look at. I mean, she's no supermodel, but she isn't unpleasant to look at.

Even at the apex of her fertility:

[_] Yes

[✓] No

Brian, you're the only person I know whose standards of beauty are rooted in politics. I'd love to watch you cruise chicks. "Man, check out that babe's gun control stance!"

"Oh, man...what size pro-life does she wear? You think she's a not-even-for-rape-or-incest, or just nothing-past-the-third-trimester?"

DH calls her a Klingon. I have to admit I find nothing appealing about her, either. I have to agree with Brian that she's oddly proportioned. But I harbor no illusions that she's give a crap what I thought, so who cares?

"I find the whole complaint about being "lectured" to about nutrition a bit pathetic. Why don' people complain about actual erosions of their rights, instead of whining about the way Michelle Obama speaks? You can ignore a lecture, for goodness sake. "

Because their intent is to go way beyond lecturing. New York is trying to ban salt. Cleveland is trying to ban trans fats. San Francisco is trying to prevent children from eating hamburgers. The federal government has effectively banned soft drinks in public schools, and it's using SWAT teams on people who dare to sell or buy raw milk.

I've written here before that I think a lot of people who eat and promote vegan or other highly restricted diets are actually trying to rationalize their eating disorders. I see a lot of the above as actually being the ultimate form of rationalization: normalizing one's peccadilloes by forcing everyone else to conform to them.

> she's oddly proportioned.

Look, I gotsta say this: She's not shaped like the white woman who do well in Hollywood. But I think she's feminine and graceful in a way coherent with all our modern (athletic) fascinations. She probably even conforms to Amy's obsessions with hip-to-waist ratios. But just as those, um, "theories" tremble and collapse before the happily married family people I see on Los Angeles buses, 'Chelle is probably unconcerned with your thoughts about this. I've never heard a black person say any such thing about her.

(I remember late in 2008 when she was accused of spending twenty gazillion dollars on a cocktail dress, and it turned out to be only a couple hundred... She can make clothes LOOK expensive.)

Meanwhile, in real life--

> so who cares?

You do. That woman spends a lot of your money on vacations. A lot of your money.

Patrick:

Brian, you're the only person I know whose standards of beauty are rooted in politics. I'd love to watch you cruise chicks. "Man, check out that babe's gun control stance!"

I cannot see how it would be more possible for you to be wrong. I just don't know where you come up with this shit. Is it ust a reflex of yours to hate me?

Look at Michelle Obama's face. Then look at any woman who has a career where being attractive matters. You won't find any similarities beyond the basic layout of forehead, two eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks and chin.

Nothing is proportioned right. And then you watch her move, and she doesn't look human, she moves like a machine.

There is just nothing attractive about her whatsoever. At least not to a heterosexual male.

"There is just nothing attractive about her whatsoever. At least not to a heterosexual male"

You're kidding right? Google images brings up "Michelle Obama hot" or "Michelle Obama hot legs". She's very attractive and plenty of men think so. I doubt many a man her age would decline a date from her.

> You won't find any similarities beyond the basic
> layout of forehead, two eyes, nose, mouth,
> cheeks and chin.

"Basic layout"?

You're a white guy, right? Kinkless hair; short, deeper nose with tight nostrils; stubbier limbs on a wider trunk: All for heat conservation… Right? No genetic predisposition for sickle-cell, with less need for its mild malarial prophylaxis, as in equatorial climates, etc.?

'K.

The Basic Layout!

The problem is her hair - its like a helmet, and it fails to accentuate her cheek bones in the right manner. I'm not sure what her hair looks like before its been styled but I dobut its that strait

White people know how cheekbones are supposed to work.

And there's Amy's topic again--- White people know exactly how black people's "cheekbones" are supposed to work. We'd be happy to help them with these judgments, if only they'd ask....

Sorry for the duplicate sarcasm... One volley on each side of the morning shower. I fergot.

"You do. That woman spends a lot of your money on vacations. A lot of your money."

I despise the woman's actions, but I thought we were talking about her looks?

> I thought we were talking about her looks?

Yeah, but people are getting confused. I agree with Amy directly above: "the disingenuousness that she is supposedly unattractive."

And for the record (and record is on this blog, in earlier comments): The frequent visits Dubya made to his "ranch", with 100,000+ troops deployed to the Middle East at his behest, were no less deplorable... They they might have been less expensive.

People are so silly. I am not politically conservative at all but I think Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin are attractive. They also seem to be loving mothers and wives. Michelle Obama is beautiful and seems to take good care of her family - that is not a political statement. (My boyfriend thinks so too - so count one heterosexual man!)

Aside from that it blows me away that people have managed to politically contort themselves to such a degree that they oppose a campaign against CHILDHOOD OBESITY. Ms. Obama's strongest message so far has been that she thinks kids should move more and eat more vegetables - if you think that's unhealthy and not rooted in an evidence base you are completely nutty.

If she really opposed childhood obesity, she'd champion getting rid of the Department of Education, and taking the lawyers down a few notches and making the kids go out at recess and run around and get dirty.

She champions looking like she's doing something positive so as to make the president look better.

I don't know when this country started expecting this kind of behavior from its first ladies, but it's annoying as hell. We didn't elect her, we elected him. She doesn't have a job that involves pushing agendas and shaping policy.

And eating more vegetables is one of the worst things you can do. Especially if you're eating them raw.

Meat, nuts, and berries. That's what we evolved to eat.

And if they weren't so politically wed to corn, they could easily push the price of soda up without a tax by simply eliminating the corn subsidy, but we won't ever see that happen.

"And eating more vegetables is one of the worst things you can do. Especially if you're eating them raw."

Please link me to whatever you've read that supports this. I doubt this will have much of an impact on you but here is a meta-analysis supporting vegetable intake as a protective factor against CHD:

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/169/7/659

I have additional links if you'd like.

There are tons of great looking black women out there. Michelle Obama isn't hideous, but she's very far from good looking. And I, white guy, love me some round booty! That's where the 1st Lady has it going on, but beyond that, meh...