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    Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom"

    Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn

    Michelle Obama In Time: "There Are Thousands Of Role Models Like Me"

    Later That Day, Sorting Hat Places First Lady In Gryffindor, As Expected

    The President And First Lady Take Flight

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    Image of Sarah Dove Sarah Dove
    11/04/09

    In reply to Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom"
    If Mrs Obama writes a cookbook, I hope it includes her family recipe for Awesome Sauce. #michelleobama
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    11/04/09

    In reply to Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom"
    Her relationship advice is a little trite. A man can't make you feel "whole." You have to be whole by yourself. Only then can a man make you "completely happy." #michelleobama
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    11/04/09

    @SarahMC: Yeaaaah. Also the "person who brings you complete and utter joy" might lead young girls to think it's supposed to be all sunshine and roses.

    I love Mrs. O wholeheartedly, and I'm glad she's telling women not to settle, but the picture is a wee bit rosy. #michelleobama
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    11/04/09

    @SarahMC: But I've definitely been with people who made me feel less than. A lot of that is on me, but I've been with people who knew exactly how to make me feel small. #michelleobama
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    Image of banana_grabber banana_grabber
    11/04/09

    @SarahMC: Perhaps this is mincing words, but I didn't get the feeling that she was saying that the man makes you whole, but that you feel like you are whole around that person, which is kind of different. I've been in relationships where I really didn't feel like I could be my whole person around them and I'm glad to be married to someone that I do feel whole around, not that they complete me or anything. So perhaps she meant it like that. #michelleobama
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    Image of banana_grabber banana_grabber
    11/04/09

    @Maritsa: I think maybe she is talking about dating. Like if things aren't pretty rosy during dating, it's not like it's going to get better if you get married (which I do think some women assume). She has talked about marriage as being difficult, so I'm thinking maybe she is referring to a dating relationship here.

    Of course, I might be projecting because I feel like my dating relationship with my husband really did make me feel complete and utter joy, which doesn't mean it was perfect, but it did really give me confidence that he was the one. #michelleobama
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    11/04/09

    @banana_grabber: Well, you may be right. The fact that she's talked about marriage requiring work made that quote all the more odd to me. The NYT Mag article was refreshingly honest, but this seems a bit treacly to me. #michelleobama
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    Image of banana_grabber banana_grabber
    11/04/09

    @Maritsa: It might have something to do with the audience as well. Glamour women want treacly and NYT people just want serious hard hitting journalism. Ok, that's totally an exaggeration, but it might be part of it. I appreciated the NYT article as well much more than this, but that's just me (but adore Michelle in all forms). I only like things dusted with sugar and not completely sugar coated, but to each their own. #michelleobama
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    Image of Cimorene Cimorene
    11/04/09

    @banana_grabber: This is what I thought, too. I'm in the first relationship I've ever been in in which I can be my whole self around the other person, without self-censoring in any way. It's not because before I was in a relationship I was incomplete, as much as before I was in this particular relationship I tended to adopt various aspects of my personality to play the roles I felt were expected of me, rather than un-self-consciously being "myself" around my partner. Of course, "myself" is always a construct when talking about one's relationship with others, but now my current presentation of "self" is unthought, un-anxious, un-purposefully-incomplete-so-as-to-not-....

    I don't have a problem with that, even though (perhaps because?) I've always felt that it's better to be alone than to compromise myself for a relationship. Which is why this is also my first actual relationship, as opposed to the whole "get drunk and make out with you every weekend" type relationship. So basically I've been following Michelle Obama's advice for years. #michelleobama
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    Image of stealthird stealthird
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    I love that we get to see so much more Wanda these days! I adore her and think she needs her own show that can't be canceled and maybe should me on HBO or Showtime.
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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    It is really unfortunate that Leno isn't a black woman. Because if he was, you know he never would've gotten a late-night show on a network channel.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    Oh how I wish I could find the wonderful column I read after the election that said, (I'm paraphrasing): Not once during the election did we see when music came on Michelle Obama stop what she was talking about to say, "Oh girl, that's my jam!"


    The absurdity of that image continues to crack me up.

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    Image of nyc-caribbean-ragazza nyc-caribbean-ragazza
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    I don't get how Jay Leno beats Letterman in the ratings.


    I just don't.


    Wanda on the other hand is hilarious.

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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    05/28/09

    @nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I agree. I loathe Leno. Even more after the whole show-before-Conan schtick.


    And if there were a 24-hour Wanda channel, I would never leave my house. I re-watch her old specials when they air. They still make me laugh!

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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    A) Wanda Sykes is too fucking brilliant.


    B) Dodai, I know that I, for one, as a white former member of the press, have been waiting for your real self to emerge since I started reading this site. When are you going to necksnap, already?!

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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    In other news, the press is waiting for soon to be Justice Sotomayor to say to someone "Oh no you didn't."
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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    05/28/09

    @badmutha: While wearing very high heels and a low-cut blouse.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    05/28/09

    @badmutha: And flip her hair back to remove her giant hoops and start cutting bitches with her acrylic nails.
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    Image of MissyMcCLung MissyMcCLung
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    But Jay, you could have done that joke. It's not an insider thing that only a black woman can say is it? Calling out the media on latent racism? Why couldn't you have said that when the media says they want to see the "real Michelle" they mean "angry black" Michelle. You don't have Wanda's delivery, so it wouldn't have been funny, but you could still say it...


    confused.

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    Image of TheLittlestChicken TheLittlestChicken
    05/28/09

    @MissyMcCLung: I agree there's nothing wrong with a white guy doing that joke (and maybe even more powerful to some people to hear the point against racism made from him?), but people would jump down his neck. I know it.
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    Image of MissyMcCLung MissyMcCLung
    05/28/09

    @TheLittlestChicken: Well, if he actually did the head and hand thingy maybe. And sure,. some people would be upset if he actually said anything substantive, but that happens to anyone who calls out the media.
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    Image of AthertonMerriweather AthertonMerriweather
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    Jay wasn't mad that he was white, he was mad that he can't steal the joke.
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    Image of cirocco cirocco
    05/28/09

    @AthertonMerriweather: I thought he might be saying he literally could not move his neck like that due to the weight of his giant head.


    Well, I'm kidding on that front, but I'm still not feeling the outrage over his offhand crack. (Outrage is like cash; waste it on petty things and you won't have enough at hand when you come across something that desperately needs to be unloaded on.)

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    Image of victoriasauce victoriasauce
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    It's two comedians being silly with each other. Hardly loathsome IMO.


    Anyway, I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but I like Jay and it's weird seeing him leave!

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    Image of Penny Penny
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    My boss and I call that the chicken neck, and we employ it often.
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    Image of anonanimal anonanimal
    05/28/09

    @Penny: All I can imagine now is something saying, "Deploy the chicken neck!" and then seeing two women's necks bobble uncontrollably.
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    Image of anonanimal anonanimal
    05/28/09

    @anonanimal: Their *heads bobbly....etc.
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    Image of anonanimal anonanimal
    05/28/09

    @anonanimal: *blobble.


    Ugh, okay, no more.

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    Image of hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    on another note: i have a nigerian american friend who complains that the obamas are not black enough... so they are getting it from both sides...
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    Jay can't do that joke 'cuz his writers couldn't have come up w/ it - I've seen him deliver much worse.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Wanda: The Press Is Waiting For Michelle To Throw Barack's Stuff On The White House Lawn
    In addition to making a ridiculous "point" Leno totally interupted the flow of her joke. Not cool!
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