Caviar vs Couture: Is Barack Obama the luckiest man on earth?

[Clio the Leo]

So when was it? Monday? The Washington Post reports a FALSE story claiming that Michelle Obama ran up a $400 dinner tab at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC eating lobster and caviar. The Post has since retracted the story. Michelle was actually in Indiana at the time.

And then yesterday, we have a LEGIT story of Palin spending $150,000 on her wardrobe using public campaign money.

Now, the cynic in me thinks that perhaps someone, deep within the Obama campaign had this info and was holding onto it until just the right moment ... and when lobster-gate broke, the moment presented itself.

Either that, or the Obama's were born under a good moon.

A friend of mine on another board brough up the lobster story a couple of days ago not realizing it was a fake story, she was trying to slam Obama. As much as I would like to, I'm not gonna rub this in her face.

Instead, I will go eat some pie.

Michelle Obama makes $148 frock a fashion smash
Print dress she wore on ‘The View’ sells out; designer is ‘very surprised’



By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:12 a.m. ET, Fri., June. 20, 2008
Donna Ricco has been a successful fashion designer for a long time — but it took Michelle Obama to make her famous.

On Wednesday, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a turn as co-host of TV talkfest “The View.” When the show’s audience saw her breezy, black-and-white, high-waisted print dress designed by Ricco, they had to have it. Virtually overnight, the dress all but sold out at the White House/Black Market boutiques that sell it for an affordable $148.

“I’m very happy. I’m very surprised. I had no idea she would be wearing this dress,” Ricco told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Friday in New York. “But it’s sort of a natural happening for me, because I’ve been designing dresses a long time. We ship a lot of dresses to the stores, and I’m happy that Michelle chose this dress to wear on ‘The View.’ ”