Mrs. Obama Speaks Out About Her Household

[my2sense]

Mrs. Obama Speaks Out About Her Household

By MARIAN BURROS
WASHINGTON — Reporters are not the only ones with a particularly keen interest in what Michelle Obama wears. Her husband, Mrs. Obama says, notices everything. In fact, she has learned not to wear a certain gray metallic belt when the president is around.

“Barack calls it my ‘Star Trek’ belt,” the first lady said in an interview this week. “He doesn’t understand fashion.”

The interview, which started out on the subject of the new White House vegetable garden, ended up ranging over a variety of household topics, which Mrs. Obama addressed with substantial fun-poking at her husband, her mother and herself.

On the president and her wardrobe:

“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”

She teasingly imitated him: “You didn’t need any more shoes. The shoes you had on yesterday were fine. Why can’t you just wear that for the rest of the presidency?”

more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/politics/21michelle.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=print

[Cha]

1. Too cute

for words..thanks, my2sense. This White House organic garden is the best thing ever..ever since FDR days.

My parents made me eat liver, too, and I would sit for hours at the table avoiding the next bite..gag.

[my2sense]

3. Yeah I used to wrap mine up and

put it in the trash - underneath other trash. I also would put the lima beans back in the pot when mom wasn't looking - LOL.

[InvisibleTouch]

2. I would take "Star Trek belt" as a compliment. n/t

[starroute]

20. That "Star Trek belt" was in the news last year

Though some idiot at Newsweek has obviously never heard of "dilithium" and tried to correct it to "the lithium," Obama knows better.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167755/page/6

On May 20, the night of the primaries in Oregon (a satisfying win in a liberal state) and Kentucky (another discouraging blowout in Appalachia; he had lost West Virginia the week before by 41 points), he stood off-stage at the Des Moines Historical Society Museum in Iowa. He had wanted to go back to the state of his first great triumph to give a speech unofficially kicking off the fall campaign, even though Clinton officially was still in the race. "That's an interesting belt buckle," he said to Michelle, mischievously. She feigned offense and said, "I am interesting, next to you. Surprise, surprise, a blue suit, a white shirt and a tie." Obama grinned and bent down until he was almost at eye level with her waist. He jabbed a playful finger toward her belt buckle, and let loose his inner nerd. "The lithium crystals! Beam me up, Scotty!" Obama squeaked, laughing at his own lame joke as Michelle rolled her eyes.

[InvisibleTouch]

21. I think one of the old old episodes of the original series...

...possibly even one of the pilot episodes, did in fact use "lithium" rather than "dilithium." But it quickly became "dilithium" forever after.

[Wickerman]

4. "Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger."

I like these two.

[Somawas]

5. Every time Michelle Obama does almost anything

I get a little more impressed with her. She just totally rocks.

[elleng]

6. "I’m like, ‘Who are you? What did you do with my mother?’ ”

!!!!

[TahitiNut]

14. Gotta love a grandmother who "does her job".

(Spoiling the grandkids and driving the kids nuts.)

:rofl: :rofl:

[elleng]

16. Yes.

My mother just passed on, and I am feeling sorry for my daughters.

AND I know how much she would have enjoyed the Obamas, as we do, and sent me clippings about them (as well as salmonella!)

[hootinholler]

18. Um why would your Mom send you salmonella?

Sounds dangerous to me.

:shrug:

-Hoot

[elleng]

19. NEWS clippings

about any dangerous stuffs hanging around! :silly:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. He'll never understand Michelle and shoes...photo

[Lindsey]

8. Michelle is awesome beyond words. I think she's going to be

the best First Lady ever.And their relationship is incredible.

[firedupdem]

9. I love Michelle...she's just so real. n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

10. Definitely refreshing to have her there.

THe POTUS is a lucky man to have a good woman like that.

[rocktivity]

11. LOL!!!!!

Mrs. Obama said, “...I’ll get my brother here, and we can spend hours railing about how we hid lima beans in our napkins. And for the days we had to eat liver, we were gagging over it.”

Sounds like dinner at my house when we had split peas--we'd say, "Look over there!" and throw them on each other's plates! We weren't big on liver, either...

:rofl:
rocktivity

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Ewwww! Liver & lima beans.....how well I remember.

:puke:

[FrenchieCat]

13. She makes me feel comfortable in that we are in good hands

with her hubby at the helm.

[Uzybone]

15. Real people, not ashamed to be who they are

[Tx4obama]

17. Reminds me of when

long ago I had a step-father that told me that if I didn't eat the roast on my plate that he would put my pet turtles on my birthday cake that was in the other room... I cried soooo hard and was gagging soooo much that everything in my stomach ended up on the floor - can't remember ever even getting to eat that b-day cake.