Michelle Obama Comes to Seattle Tomorrow 0 comments
Tonight Governor Chris Gregoire will party with us here in Austin at Daily Kos, but tomorrow she'll have flown back to Seattle in time for a luncheon fundraiser with Michelle Obama (who will help her against Dino Rossi.) My friend Ben Doko volunteering so I'll have a first-hand report and would probably have volunteered myself had I not ended up here in Austin!!
Time for a Buff First Lady 0 comments
I read this review in the newspaper - it talked about what Michelle Obama was wearing. I work out with weights 3x/week and I have thought about this alot.
The most notable aspect of her dress was that it was sleeveless. In the preposterously narrowly defined sartorial world of first ladyness, this means something other than it is June and thus, warm.
Generally, the women who have occupied the White House have been loath to appear sleeveless in public, as if the upper arms are some sort of political erogenous zone. They also tend to wardrobe themselves in suits that are tasteful above everything else -- including comfortable, flattering or even vaguely fashionable. So Obama was bucking tradition.
It is also true that a significant number of women, beginning as early as 30-something, don't particularly enjoy revealing their arms because they are self-conscious that theirs do not look like Madonna's sinewy limbs. While Michelle Obama doesn't look as though she spends half her day in a yoga half push-up -- chaturanga dandasana, to be specific -- she looks fit and she's got the arms to prove it.
