Dear Friend -
I am so lucky to be married to the woman who delivered that speech last night.
Michelle was electrifying, inspiring, and absolutely magnificent. I get a lot of credit for the speech I gave at the 2004 convention -- but I think she may have me beat.
You have to see it to believe it.
And make sure to forward this email to your friends and family -- they'll want to see it too.
http://my.barackobama.com/michelle
You really don't want to miss this.
And I'm not just saying that because she's my wife -- I truly believe it was the best speech of the campaign so far.
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Did I SEE her!
Did I SEE her!
Are you KIDDING me!
M'Lady Michelle has been the constant topic of conversation since her speech -- did I SEE her!
She was articulate, spoke masterfully, was poised, looked absolutely stunning -- in fact, I'm cutting MY hair; I want the same EXACT hairstyle that she was wearing last night -- did I SEE her indeed!!!
Look here, now Barack: I do not know how to break this to you, but she really speaks better than you. There, there. You've got the Presidency, but I'm just saying -- did I see her. What a question.
Congratulations.
I was always told -- and found it to be true -- that, in order to know the character and substance of a man you look at his woman. SHE is quite a woman, and it speaks volumes about the man that you are. You are going to make a great President, and she'll be a First Lady unlike any other -- bringing the spirit, style, class, youthful vigor, intelligence, freshness, briskness of a Jackie Kennedy back to the White House, yet unlike Jackie Kennedy, this era shall be the era of
Michelle Obama
I wonder at what point the headline speaker of the Democratic Convention becomes “fair game” for the media.
It seems disingenuous that you would attack Mrs. McCain’s financial success, while she has had so little to do with her husband’s campaign, yet you demand unequal protection for your own wife.
Confused in Colorado.
Just wondering if your wife's finances are open to scrutiny as are Mrs. McCain’s?
Some people have it . . . taste, I mean . . . and some people DO NOT!!!
"Obama won!
Michelle Obama, that is. Vanity Fair has named presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's wife #1 on its 2008 Best Dressed List, calling her "our commander-in-sheath."
Clever.
Michelle beat out some stiff competition, including designer darling, former model and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, presumptive Queen Kate Middleton, "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker (this has got to be better than her recent Maxim honors), Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, cosmetics queen Evelyn Lauder, the real Princess Mathilde of Belgium and a few fashionable women you've probably never heard of. "
Obama made Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List for the second year in a row, based on a poll of fashion insiders in the issue that hits newsstands Wednesday.
"Michelle Obama connects to the modern woman. She has a real woman look to her but is even bigger and better," said Amy Fine Collins, a special correspondent for the magazine. "She has a sleek style that's not overdone. ... She's beautifully dressed without too much fuss. She puts on the dress and goes — and it's always a good dress."
One of the best, according to Fine Collins, was the purple one by Maria Pinto that she wore with a black Azzedine Alaia belt on the campaign trail in Minnesota last month.
"The Alaia shows she's a little bit of a fashion insider, but it's more of her intelligence and independence that shows through," Fine Collins says.
Obama was named to the list alongside French first lady and former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Middleton, best known as Prince William's girlfriend, among others.
Vanity Fair inherited the best-dressed list from Eleanor Lambert, the fashion publicist who had established it in 1940. She died in 2003. Ballots go out to fashion insiders and are compiled by the magazine. "We consider ourselves the electoral college that oversees the popular vote," Fine Collins explains.
She thinks Obama has taken the right cues from Jackie Kennedy, including the pearls and sheath dresses, but seems much more modern because she's not overdone. "You have a sense of her as a physical person on the move and on the go, not a paper-doll cutout."
Meanwhile, Fine Collins says Cindy McCain's style is fairly unremarkable. "It's a style people have seen before. It's not going to inspire someone to say, `I want to look just like that.' She's not doing anything wrong — she's nice looking and has nice clothes — but then you move on and forget her."
I'm no Vanity Fair expert, but it would seem that THESE people AGREE with ME!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25939033/
BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
(New York Daily News)
Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 4:00 AM
Michelle Obama (l.) won Vanity Fair's fashion vote, while Cindy McCain got snubbed.
Score one for Michelle Obama.
The First Lady fashion fight continues as the Democrat White House wanna-be got the vote from Vanity Fair, which put her on its global best-dressed list for the second year in a row.
They praised her simple, chic style - calling her "our commander in sheath." Left off the coveted roster was Cindy McCain, who must've felt like, well, sheath, from the snub.
Clothes make the woman, after all. Like it or lump it, the personal style of each candidate's wife has become an important part in establishing individuality, likability and power.
Cindy McCain made news while getting a private peek at Oscar de la Renta's fancy fall line (her grumbling bodyguards, left to stand outside the designer's studio in the heat, gave the story away). But Michelle Obama, who has her own favorite high-end designers, has made sure to advertise her everywoman-frugality every chance she gets.
Women across the country bought the pitch - and the dress - when Obama announced she was wearing a $150 White House Black Market frock (she revealed she shops at Target, too).
It's down-to-earth versus fussbudget? Maybe, but McCain has been working to relax her rigid look - and her reputation.
Earlier this month she traded her rigid updo for a wavier, more carefree coiffure. Without saying a word, she let it be known she can cut loose.
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/07/30/2008-07-30_michelle_obama_not_cindy_mccain_wins_bes.html
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Any questions? Contact Vanity Fair. or since Jackie is no longer with us, Michelle can give some fashion tips!
I think that I have had what secular humanists may call a. “religious experience.”
After listening to c.a. Sebelius et. al. I GOT IT! I "heard," Barak Obama!
Hope is bigger than 'man.'
A word of advice from a citizen. You guys have got to get your agenda straight in this election.
The agenda is NOT to unify the Demacratic party. So far, that's what everyone is speaking about at the convention. The agenda is to WIN THAT FREAKING ELECTION!!!
You can have the best ideas, and intentions in the world, but unless you win, you don't get to impliment the program.
WIN, Obama, WIN!!! FIGHT, OBAMA, FIGHT!!!
And you are so right, there really is NO accounting for taste. :)
A careful comparison with the present first lady leaves no doubt that Michelle will be very effective for the country. Can you imagine with the diversity in the world how Barak and Michelle Obama can restore the respect that the United States enjoyed before the foreign relations disaster of the last seven and three quarter's years.
Many people love this country but have not been proud of it these last eight years. I am one of those people. I am ashamed of what my country has done in my name and can't imagine why anyone would be proud of what we've allowed to happen here. That makes no sense. There really not much that is more disgusting than false pride. If you care to read it, I wrote something that might put a picture to the thoughts I am trying to express.
I've been around over half a century and have never seen or met a woman who impressed me more than Michelle Obama has. Actually, I have always been happy with myself and skipped past those "wish I could be somebody famous" phases - until I saw Michelle Obama. I don't want to trade places with her or be her, but it sure is nice at my age to be inspired by someone so much younger. If I ever grow up, I hope to be more like her.
Give Michelle Obama a break. There's nothing wrong with you supporting McCain/Palin. But Michelle nor Barack is not a communist. Cleaning your toilet? She wouldn't even beg you. Michelle Obama is a beautiful woman, and a great speaker.
Obama/Biden 08
Damn!