FLPOS Mooch turned 50 last Friday, Jan. 17, 2014.
In honor of her birthday, ABCNews published an essay “50 Ways to Celebrate Michelle Obama’s Birthday.”
I refused to read it, thinking it was ABCNews being slavishly obsequious to the FLPOS.
But Brian Anderson of Downtrend.com has a different, very interesting, and I believe, the right take on the article:
“The list of 50 Ways To Celebrate Michele Obama’s Birthday is supposed to be a loving tribute, but it shows how truly unimportant Barack’s ‘trophy wife’ has been.
The list tries really hard to note all of Michelle’s accomplishments, but the best it can come up with is drinking more water and forcing school children to eat food they describe as ‘barf.’ Other important things the First Lady has done include shopping and taking vacations. She really hasn’t established herself as a woman of the people.”
Take a look at ABC’s “50 ways” and see if you agree with Anderson. The words between brackets [] in red italics are mine.
- Dance to Beyonce
- Eat your vegetables
- Move into a massive new house with your family and invite your mother to move in too [at the expense of beleaguered U.S. taxpayers]
- Work out yours arms
- Make the cover of Vogue
- Call the president, “Barack”
- Plant a garden
- Buy a Jason Wu dress
- Drink lots of water
- Get bangs
- Shop at J. Crew
- Play with Portuguese Water Dogs
- Grab a burger at Five Guys
- Lend a hand at a homeless shelter or food pantry
- Laugh out loud
- Watch Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” on your first date with your future husband
- Root for Oregon State basketball
- Hang out with your friend, Oprah
- Cook up a storm on “Good Morning America”
- Shop at Target
- Work on your Pinboard
- Take a jog on the White House lawn
- Roll your eyes at House Speaker John Boehner or the Danish prime minister [Conduct that's rude and unseemly for the First Lady of the United States]
- Buy your own bee hive
- Visit “Sesame Street”
- Do jumping jacks
- Challenge Desmond Tutu to a pushup contest
- Surprise some unsuspecting tourists at the White House.
- Give Britain’s Prince Harry a brown leather flying jacket
- Promote college accessibility
- Watch “Modern Family”
- Hug, kiss and fist bump the President of the United States
- Shop at Target with sunglasses on
- Graduate from both Princeton and Harvard [but surrendered her law license by court order]
- Thank a veteran
- Eat a lower calorie, lower sodium meal at the Olive Garden
- Do push ups to show up Ellen DeGeneres
- Make your husband stop smoking
- Allow him to chew Nicorette indefinitely
- Do the Dougie (with Jimmy Fallon)
- Travel the world on Air Force One [at the expense of beleaguered U.S. taxpayers]
- Promote a healthy living rap album
- Dine at Spiagga in Chicago
- Give a speech at the Democratic National Convention
- Say “never say never” to botox
- Hang out in Hawaii for an extra week as an early birthday gift [and at the expense of beleaguered U.S. taxpayers]
- Host the most popular boy band in the world at your daughters’ first party in their new home
- Put a heckler in his place
- Let your husband plan your 50th birthday party [at the expense of beleaguered U.S. taxpayers]
- Just keep on dancing…
Anderson continues:
“Wow, those seem like the accomplishments of Paris Hilton or maybe a Kardashian, not the Ivy League educated First Lady of the United States. She really comes off as a Marie Antoinette-type character that frivolously spends as the people suffer under the ‘King’s’ iron rule. Instead of ‘let them eat cake’ she says, ‘make them eat vegetables.’
I will be thankful when her birthday is over and the media stops flashing pictures of her all over the news. Her shallowness is annoying and I find her really hard to look at. Man, is she one gigantic unattractive woman.”