How hard is this?
When you or I hear “Medal of Honor Ceremony” we don’t automatically think “blue morning glories and pink princess pumps.”
Although I must say this is light years better than our first Medal of Honor Ceremony - such a bad memory that I just can’t bring myself to reflect it one more time, but you all know: cleavage revealing cocktail frock in a most questionable print fabric with green shoes. At least this time we don’t have cleavage. And there’s at least a hint of a sleeve, instead of totally bare guns and pits, like, well, you know - last time. And this time we wore some pearls! A nice touch.
But those pink Cinderella pumps – I just can’t get them out of my memory drive. I don’t know why they keep short-circuiting my fealty circuits, and shutting down my loyalty loop. After all, it’s not that I haven’t seen much (much) worse.
So what is it about these shoes, at this ceremony that causes such cognitive-dissonance, and irritates so, so much?
Oh yes... maybe it’s this:
Of course that doesn’t explain all the other mismatched shoe and gown combinations ... or does it?
Well, you all know.
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MOTUS, you must go easy on MOO. Afterall once she saw the dress on the runway she was helpless as we all would be:
ReplyDelete<span>I just picked up a 99c reusable shopping bag from TJ Maxx that has the same print on it. She's just like one of us!</span>
ReplyDeleteLooks slightly different on MOO. Does this woman EVER look in a 3-way mirror?
ReplyDeleteWhat a sick, f'd-up specimen she is, they both are.
ReplyDeleteHas this woman ever found a flowery print frock she did't like? However, she does have on those nice conservative pearls so all is forgiven.
ReplyDeleteThe pink shoes are a strange pick for the patio-toddler dress and it makes me sick to even think that they represent her feelings.
ReplyDeleteThe pink shoes vs hardwood floors; the psi of each step she takes must leave a small impression on the floor. Leaving her mark, as if we could ever erase her occupation of the WH.
Perhaps she has a special affinity for floral prints...because Granny Voodoo never allowed her or brothah Craig to sit on the couch when they were children?
ReplyDeleteBoth O's need to spend time on a couch...in a psychiatrist's office!
How about this one? Or, will it, too, become the next dress?
Someone needs to take Moochelle to a remedial sitting school. Seriously, there is a way to sit in a chair properly to minimize the butt scrunch wrinkles.
ReplyDeleteThat dress is appropriate for lunch in the garden, not for a somber event. And pink shoes should NEVER be worn to a Medal of Honor Cermony. Just goes to show what kind of respect and formality Mrs. O thinks this kind of occasion deserves.
ReplyDeleteThis one looks terrible in the bodice. Why must models be professional anorexics?
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced the poor soul is color-blind ... when it comes to apparel.
ReplyDeleteThe woman is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteI'm not convinced she has a soul.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering whether her inability to dress appropriately for at least some occasions stems from having no real understanding as to what those occasions are/actually signify? So they're handing out a Medal of Honour - well, considering that whole corpse-man débacle, probably the only medals they've personally come across are scholastic ones, or thanks-for-competing-you-did-great- even-though-you-came-last kinds of things, or undeserved Nobel prizes ... so a ceremony involving the handing out of a medal, that's a festive occasion, right?! Bring out the cocktail frock! OK, not a shiny, cleavage-showing number because of the 'inexplicable' criticism last time, but a slightly more somber one - but with festive, fun, pink heels.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's just George W Bush's fault. Or, you know, witchcraft.
Maybe grandma can put a spell on her?
ReplyDeletePhone Manolo.
ReplyDeleteSee if Manolo loves her shoes.
Lime green dress with field of blue morning glories and hot pink shoes=wardrobe clusterfuck!
ReplyDeleteMOTUS, I vote for your Code Pink theory. It's the only one that makes Michelle not seem one order of fries short of a Happy Meal.
ReplyDeleteRPFreeSpeech, I think you're right, in that MOO has a special affinity for floral prints AND couches.
ReplyDeleteThe 'thing' she wore to church (Mooslim lecture) on Sunday was originally made from a sofa, that had been inhabited by a charming but (unfortunately) incontinent cat.
h/t hillbuzz (((Boyz)))
FFA's not so subtle message to Code Pink is, "I'm with ya sistas". It's a double slap in America's face wearing these for a ceremony honoring one of our war heros. She is the biggest (literally) disgrace ever to step through the WH doors.
ReplyDeleteMOTUS, I'm a little perplexed as to why she (supposedly) has high approval numbers...certainly these must have been BS (Before Spain) numbers. I never read anything nice about her...even on the main stream commentaries.
Maybe PuffHo, where all the ass worshipers post, is where they take their polls.
BWW, I, too, would love some insight into this mental illness. Maybe we should be trying to guess, by her outfit, "Where or who does MO think she is today?" Is there a president for this among FL's? I don't think that even Mary Todd Lincoln was this off-the-wall.
ReplyDeleteHe said they were too gay for this hemisphere.
ReplyDeleteThe Jackie O hair and dresses circa the 1960's look like camp or a Halloween costume on MOO.
ReplyDeletePink shoes? Is it because a tasteful tailored suit would look too establishment to a marxist radical like MOO?
The poor children...
Nice job, MOTUS! You poor thing! I don't think you realized what you were getting into when you signed up for that job.
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder your fealty circuits are short circuiting all over the place. Even those new heavy-duty shock absorbers can only take so much!
In a moment of weakness, I clicked onto the link for of a reminder of last year's 'presentation' but I immediately started getting a tummyache and got out of there asap.
In an effort to be helpful, I thought I'd go see what Miss Manners had to say about 'proper attire' for such a serious event. (The Medal of Honor is the ultimate honor and the very highest decoration awarded to any member of the military. Just think about that for a second. Of all the clanking medals and fruit salad, this is at the pinnacle. PLUS, this recipient was killed just after his acts of heroism, making this also a 'memorial' of sorts.)
Maybe MOO could read up on this in her spare time.
http://www.life123.com/career-money/wealth-management/funeral-etiquette/proper-funeral-wake-attire.shtml
Just try to count the etiquette faux-pas, if you have enough digits. Sigh.
Maybe grandma can put a spell on her?
ReplyDeleteI just came across something that, IMHO, sums up the 'problem'.
ReplyDeleteWhat the BO's fail to realize, is that everything is not ABOUT them.
They seem incapable of comprehending such a concept.
Here's what I came across...
ReplyDelete"In this photo by the U.S. Navy, Tears stream down the face of U.S. President George W. Bush during an East Room ceremony to present a posthumous Medal of Honor to the parents of Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor April 8, 2008 at the White House in Washington, DC. Michael Monsoor, a Navy SEAL from Garden Grove, California, threw himself on top of a grenade during Operation Kentucky Jumper September 29, 2006 in South Ramadi, Iraq saving the lives of three comrades and three Iraqi soldiers. He was the fifth person to receive the award since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars."
This is what a 'Commander in Chief' looks like.
MOO has absolutely NO understanding of the word 'somber'. It was not in her syllabus at Princeton!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, heartily! NO SOUL ther, and neither has HE!
ReplyDeleteYou are quite correct, Madame. This seems to be the distorted way the Obama administration thinks of and handles things!
ReplyDeleteI had a bit of energy this morning, after thinking last night about alternatives to that stupid wighat business!
ReplyDeleteAin't Photoshop (TM) just GRAND?
Pink shoes and a smug smirk to a serious military ceremony.
ReplyDeleteMOO, you are a low-rent, stupid cow.
Barry, you are a smug, stupid idiot.
"precedent" not "president"--there's a joke in there but it escapes me now.
ReplyDeleteBy golly you may have found the secret to MO's attire!
ReplyDeleteMaybe she does think it's a gala celebration and is totally confused by lack of cocktails and giddy party talk.
8,9..yikes. She did the exact opposite of the recommended attire for this occasion.
ReplyDeleteIt's the MOO-centric and BOO-centric theory. These two self-absorbed nitwits think they are the center of the universe.
ReplyDeleteA conservative, dark suit with matching shoes would have been appropriate for this solemn event. No, she had to stand out, in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteMost women would never wear those bright pink shoes. I have seen ugly shoes like that at a 50% off sale.
MOTUS-
ReplyDeleteYou've really been on a roll; outdoing yourself everyday. We are truly in awe of you!
Your pink shoes theory is brilliant. I just thought MO was crazy with that choice but with this WH there is always a method to the madness: MO is crazy like a fox! Why lose an opportunity when pretending to honor a fallen warrior to stick a knife in and twist it too? (all in a subtle subliminal way, of course)
This will remove any doubts of how close the low life thugs in the WH are to those anti-war kooks. Look at our so called C-in-C laughing it up with Code Pink founder, Jodie Evans in a fundraiser (I believe last year) :
I just love that man, especially his unabashed love for our country. I really do miss him, especially as Commander in Chief.
ReplyDeleteI like because I really appreciate the Echo on this one!
ReplyDeleteMO's dress definitely looks customized er, modified to accomodate her belly. Belly bandit must have had the day off or something. Because we see what looks like pouch (like a kangaroo's) that they are trying (unsuccessfully in this profile shot at least) to hide behind a giant flap! First there were butt flaps and now we have belly flaps?
ReplyDeleteLOL Green Lantern - the Won kept telling us he was like Lincoln, but until now I hadn't realized that the connection is the loony, shopaholic wife.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me how. I have the giant economy tush and thighs, but make sure when I sit down nothing, but maybe a couple of inches of thigh is showing. Emily Post is spinning in her grave.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, when a girl would come to school dressed completely in appropriately like wearing a prom dress to class, (this really did happen because the girl was very poor, someone gave her the dress at a yard sale, she loved it, and wanted to look her best, so she wore it to school)....then a kind hearted teacher took her aside, voluntarily took her shopping for school clothes and shoes. She learned how to dress and was thankful to those who cared. I think we have a similar 'needy' person in the FLOTUS. Except for one thing, she wouldn't listen to any kind hearted teachers, because she owns the world (in her own mind). The best we can hope for is having them for only 2 more years, and teachin' them a lesson or 2 while they wait to vacate.
ReplyDeleteYou might have something there srdem. There were some pictures that an ABC article linked to of MO and BO greeting the guests (I am not able to find them anymore)at the ceremony. And both of them had really broad grins.
ReplyDeleteIt is like they are each called on to play a role and they mess up royally most of the time. Either because they are really bad actors or they don't care enough to even try to put on a good act.
I was aware of the organization Code Pink but knew little of their tactics. That banner is disgusting and so is Barry. Our troops are fathers, sons and brothers. To even suggest such a thing is incomprehensible to me.
ReplyDeleteGreat photoshopping RPFreeSpeech. I think MO might like the third one the most; for the heavily made up look, at least. Also in her thinking it might be time to diversify her wighats from the boring, monochromatic ones she is currently using to adding something with more color, zing and sass.
ReplyDeleteThough picture two with the orange hair might be pretty tempting too. Check out MO in her animal print cat costume and orange hair from last Halloween:
Same here.
ReplyDeleteLittle Michelle looked huddled under her blankets listening to the sleet lash against the windows of the room she shared with her older brother. Chicago winters were dark and long and morning seemed to come too fast.
ReplyDeleteMichelle dreaded leaving the warmth of her bed, but it was a school day and she had chores to do before she left the house. Gathering her courage, little Michelle jumped out of bed and got dressed, trying not to let her teeth chatter. She broke the ice in the water basin and washed her face.
Michelle dressed in her hand-me-down clothes. Her clothes were old, but never were they dirty. She only had one pair of shoes, second hand lace up oxfords. She kept them shiny as can be.
Michelle dreamed of the day that she would have "nice" shoes - party shoes. "I wish I had pretty pink shoes with heels. Shoes that would make me look like a real live princess," thought little Michelle, as she heaved a big pot of porridge onto the old kitchen stove.
Michelle's lower lip trembled as she set the kitchen table. They only had two spoons, so the family had to share. "Someday I won't have to share spoons with other people," thought Michelle. "And some day I will have a pair of pink patent leather shoes with high heels, like a real live princess. And I will never, ever take them off!" Michelle whispered to herself.
The relentless winter wind blew through the cracks in the kitchen wall, but Michelle would not cry. Some day, some day she would have those shoes.
Breaking now, some revelations from Bob Woodward's book. He apparently had a lot of inside access to the WH and has a has quite a few quotes from the principle characters. According to Woodward BO's the Afghan war (remember that supposed to be BO's 'good' war) strategy is nothing but political. The surge, the withdrawal beginning 2011 all thought of by BO with one end in mind: not losing the Democratic party.
ReplyDeleteThat gives a better context to BO's attitude to the military doesn't it? Still you would think he would at least put on a better show of patriotism.
I did not agree with George W. Bush about a lot of things. But never for one minute did I doubt that he loved his country.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I thought they were radioactive starfish, damn.
ReplyDeleteMorning glories? Are you sure?
Don't forget the "we can take another terrorist hit like 911"
ReplyDeletebecause it really wasn't such a big deal to BO.
I would say anything pink and green is what the country club set would wear while having lunch in the "great room" or having a long island ice tea on the lawn watching tennis.. hint hint this would most likely be white republicans if I had to guess ... Moo is thoroughly ainappropriate not only to wear this outfit at such a nevent, she should not wear this outfit during this season summer going into fall and should not be dressed in anything as unbefitting the occassion
ReplyDeleteShe is thoroughly unbecoming as a First Lady, inappropriate, wears ugly clothes, has serious grooming issues and so on and so forth and I did not go to Harvard or Princeton..... I could spend the whole day talking about this!
Looks like she's going to teach Summer Sunday school to me.
ReplyDeleteIf it was her daughter wearing that I'd give it a pass...and hope mom would teach her to stick with plain dark nylons and shoes for such an event. Covering her arms would be advanced graciousness in the summer for a child, but MOO ought not pass up a good "teaching moment".
See how I allowed that to drift into a more acceptable reality?! I'm catching on to living through this administration!
arabella,
ReplyDeleteJust brilliant; love your style and wit. You should probably write a book in the style of the Obama Diaries but with MO's childhood in focus (with all her Oliver Twist like sufferin' and sacrifin')
NPD:
ReplyDeletelacks empathy, thinks he/she is special, uses others
sound like anyone (or 2) that we know?
NPD indeed!
ReplyDeleteI was afraid I was right.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I am right, aren't I?
ReplyDeleteI expected to have to reflect all sorts of different POTAE & FLOTAE, butt I never expected have to reflect people who don't respect our troops.
ReplyDeleteI expected to have to reflect all sorts of different POTAE & FLOTAE, butt I never expected have to reflect people who don't respect our troops.
ReplyDeleteSu-ha-ha-weet!
ReplyDeleteOwe-bow-Mao's frame of reference is anything butt military.
ReplyDeleteBasically arabella, you hit the nail on the head. Michelle's family was part of the upper-lower class in Chicago when she was growing up. Her dad was a janitor at a Chicago pump station, and a precint captain, which pays in political favors, but not much money. (All the money goes to the aldermen and up.) So MOO never learned how to dress appropriate to the situation.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think that after she became a lawyer and an assistant to dah Mayor that she'd learn about style. But. . .the Chicago political machine is the last place you'd have to learn that.
Back when I was home in Chicago for a summer break from college, I worked for a foundation, which gave out a ceremonial prize each year. I remember distinctly Richard J. Daley Jr. (currently dah Mayor) arriving for the ceremony in a large-plaid, green polyester suit (plaid pant, plaid suitcoat.) I was horrified! But, that's how it is with the members of the Chicago Machine. No class and proud of it!
Nice find, Jullou! :-D
ReplyDeleteIf only the flies on the walls of the White House could talk!
And I thought they were lily pads, so there you are!
ReplyDeleteThis picture always looks so sinister to me.
ReplyDeleteGL, I'm absolutely quivering with outrage over how hateful this latest episode is!
ReplyDeleteContempt is writ large on their smug faces. They are infected with something never seen before in American politics: the ugliest type of dog-in-the-manger syndrome ever!
May they live very long lives after Bam gets his skinny ass handed to him in 2012 . . . so they can spend many years filled with endless days of being pariahs. The best it's ever been for these two ingrates has come and gone.
I don't agree with the Code Pink theory for one reason. How many black faces do you see behind that banner?
ReplyDeleteThe Liberation Theology, I hate whitey, class warrior Michelle Robinson would laugh at Code Pink Ladies. Not because of their cause, but because they represent the White Women of Privilege. You know, the same kind of WWoP who worked to raise money for scholarships for black kids so that they could go to schools like Harvard. The "do gooders" who tried (and still try) to help people who need help. Michelle Robinson is the type who would take their money with a sneer. Then she'd insult the people who gave her the money for trying to make up for their white guilt. No money in the world can ever make up for white guilt.
But she'd take the money and expect more of it. Lots more.
Nuh uh. You are not right. With regard to Code Pink "Where the black sistahs at?"
ReplyDeleteI'm writing a book based on Little House on the Prairie with some other crazy stuff thrown it. It's got some "homages" to Dickens, Trollope, Austen, and popular songs, including the classic "Whitey's on the Moon."
ReplyDeleteNobody will ever read it though.
They'll not be pariahs, I fear. The AfAm lecture circuit and the college circuit will equal big bucks and tons of attention and adulation.
ReplyDeleteTODAY I think Michelle Antoinette believes that she is going to meet a military family who will be overwhelmed by her nearness. She is dressing pretty in pink heels so they will see the warmth under her majesty and not be afraid.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see what her entire day's schedule looked like. I'm wondering if she's dressing this inappropriately so as to not have to change clothes later when she goes to the Fat Kids Behind Day or Racial Rage Day in the afternoon.
Not morning glories -- Michelle Glories -- renamed by God.
ReplyDeleteArabella, that sounds like The One's Auntie Zeituni -- have you seen the interview with her in which she claims "if I come to you as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen?"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212323968.shtml
Well GW wasn't Ronnie, but he was way closer than anyone else I've seen around here. And he at least understood that a fallen soldier was cherished by his friends and family and their loss is palpable forever.
ReplyDeleteSee? Like the sons of Chief Master Sergeant Richard Etchberger, U.S. Air Force. 42 years later and the pain has abated, but it never goes away.
Most of the flies around the Big White write books. It doesn't matter whose flies they are.
ReplyDeleteI've seen this diagnosis before, but these are clearly 2 of the most severe cases ever.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Dr. Sanity can help.
And she didn't even have a trust fund...like the other kids.
ReplyDeleteTo find out their parent was such an honorable man, so many years after his death in the service of his country, and finally getting the honors he so richly deserves would be overwhelming if it was my father. The pain is there, but so is the pride. :'(
ReplyDeleteCode Pink are the Obama's useful idiots. They will cozy up to them for support.
ReplyDeleteAs posted above Arabella...they are useful to the FFA and Baby Doc as leftists and idiots. Otherwise, no they wouldn't have a thing to do with whitey.
ReplyDeleteA fly on a turd; how odd.
ReplyDeletePearls before swine. Or Pearls on a swine.
ReplyDeletePink shoes show her support to Code Pink at Military events. Yes, this makes sense for a deranged First Lady In Name Only (FLINO).
ReplyDeleteGood point, Madame DeFarge. My mind is not subtle enough for these interpretations.
ReplyDeleteUsing Occam's Razor, I still say that Michelle either has bad taste, or she's found one pair of shoes (the Pretty Pink Princess heels) that make her tired ole dogs feel comfy. There are women who pick their shoes using this system, but none of them are First Ladies or figures in the public eye.
If anyone needed proof positive of Moo's whole life being a gift from Affirmative Action, look at her wardrobe. Taste can be learned, but it takes at least a modicum of smarts to absorb the information.
ReplyDeleteHow can a woman with MO's money end up with a dress that has an uneven hem?
ReplyDeleteI don't usually hold with criticizing someone for their appearance.
ReplyDeleteBut, damn, that woman has a fat ass!
I blame Stacy London and Clinton for the pink shoes. They tell hapless women that red shoes "go with" absoutely anything, and that your shoes should "make a statement" that bears no relation to anything else you're wearing.
ReplyDeleteThe whole fashion industry has been pushing that stupid line. Maybe they're just trying to get women to buy more shoes when they've already got an adequante supply of neutrals.
But actually, I also hold Mechelle accountable for not having the taste to know when the "pros" are giving stupid advice.
Nineteen looooong months since the Immaculation...and the green shoes have been worn with EVERY friggin color OTHER THAN THAT SHADE OF GREEN...and when she has a dress (inappropriate tho it maybe) that IS that shade...
ReplyDeleteShe wears pink shoes instead.
It could be worse; she could have added an armful of purple bangles.
So, why isn't the banner the Code Pink fools have treason?
ReplyDelete.
They MUST have soul! They are African-Americans!
ReplyDeleteOh, let's not wait 2 more years. I say we start investigating the imposters after Nov. elections and get them out by Memorial Day (nice touch).
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