It's in the bag. The subliminal messages of the Obamas

Posted here and at The Borg Conspiracy, by guest blogger Locutisprime.

As one of millions of interested observers (taxpayers), I have begun to notice what I believe is a bothersome trend being established by the Obama family. Beginning with Michelle and her supposed fashion sense. We first saw a glimpse of that supposed frugality and sense of fashion last April, when the first lady was observed wearing a $540 pair of sneakers to a photo op for a food bank in Washington where she was volunteering.

My first thoughts back then were...."who pays that kind of money for sneakers?" Discounting the fact that there are obviously a great number of the super wealthy in the world, there still remains a certain amount of shock in my mind, when I see or hear of anyone spending that kind of money on something as basic as shoes. And here I am today reading the news and I get treated to the dual reports of both Michelle Obama and one of her daughters sporting questionable clothing and accessories while accompanying the president on his tour of Russia and Italy. (I wonder if they laid back and went shopping again like they did in Paris last month.)

In either event, it seems that while traveling with the president, that they have decided to make their own fashion and political statements, subtle as they are if not palpably less than subliminal. First in the news today, we have reports and photographs of first daughter Malia sporting not one but two different versions of the Peace symbol as her traveling attire while visiting Rome with her mother and sister.

The Brits picked up on that rather quickly.

Then comes news that Michelle was captured sporting a nifty little clutch purse, while playing the roll of the dutiful first lady. She was photographed following along behind Barack and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev as they strolled through the woods in Moscow accompanied by the Russian president's wife. And during that stroll she can clearly be seen sporting a black clutch purse.

Cost of the purse according to the fashion police? Right at $6000. That's right, Michelle Obama is photographed carrying a purse that retails for almost $6000! Of course the first lady's press office immediately denied that the purse she was carrying was the one sold by VBH of Italy or that is cost anything approaching that much. Opting rather to attempt to clarify their report by saying that it was actually another purse made by a different stylist and that in reality, the purse the first lady was carrying only costs $875. Oh....I get it. An $875 purse makes it alright. What a relief. I thought for a minute there? That we had another example of an elitist being caught being an elitist. Mean while, the makers of the $5990 purse first spotted and identified as a VBH original had this to say.

  

Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours [manila bag]."

Comments

[Mommynator]

That girl looks like she's 20, not 11. Who is that dude right next to her? Doesn't look like the Secret Service.

And why couldn't we expect sloppy thinking in a child whose father is the King of Sloppy Thinkers?

[Toejam]

"That girl looks like she's 20, not 11."

GIRL? YOU SURE?

Looks more like Michael Jackson half-way through his metamorphosis from a poor, little black boy to a rich, white, woman.

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“we have reports and photographs of first daughter Malia sporting not one but two different versions of the Peace symbol as her traveling attire”

Since she looks to be around the same age as Sarah Palin’s daughter I would think it only fair to start making jokes about her, right?

Do you hear that Michelle Obama and her daughter Malia went to a soccer match? Yea, when mom wasn’t looking Malia get knocked up by some Italian futbol player.

What kind’ a name is Malia anyways, sounds like some spice used in Italian cooking.

Offended yet? Good, now you may understand a little about how it feels to be Sarah Palin.

[Toejam]

tim aka The Godless Heathen,

You hit it on the head!

That comment deserves a Pulitzer prize.
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[Locutisprime]

I can see the parallels between both the metaphors concerning MJ and the tacky jokes about Sarah Palin's daughters. But hopefully, we as non liberal conservatives can rise above that level of petty and juvenile angst reactions.

Yes, she looks far older than any eleven year old that I have ever seen, and she is obviously being manipulated by her parents for their own political ideologies and agenda.

[salvage]

Ha! Ha! Yes! How dare the Obamas be wealthy! Everyone should be equal, private property should be abolished, all Americans should make the same amount of money! Go comrades!

It's weird how y'all suddenly became communists or at least ant-capitalists. I only ever hear bitching about this sort of thing from commies and wingnuts.

At least the commies are consistent wingnuts only go on about this stuff when someone whose politics they disagree with are showing wealth.

What's also weird is how you can't seem to find anything of substance to attack Obama with. His wife and child's clothing?

Really? That's the best you can do? A failure of imagination or intellect?

Probably both.

[Locutisprime]

Salvage, your relativist prattling means nothing. You are quite aware of the rightful comparisons being made.

And in the midst of the worst recession/depression since the big one? Your president and his wife are having weekly cocktail parties at the White House and she is sporting lavish shoes and accessories? While her husband is telling the rest of us that we simply need to give it time?

Right, I got it now. The old, "don't do as I do, do as I say do.?" And besides, why should America's first black president be prevented from living in the extreme.

Try again Sal. And by the way, you need to come by more often. We regularly savage your idol on a variety of issues of substance.