While we cut back, Michelle Obama is getting herself a private hairdresser?

I read she wore $500 sneakers to a food bank event. I never even knew sneakers could go for so much. Then again, if this is coming out of the Obama's own pockets, should it matter? Of course with all the attention that was put on Cindy McCain and her jewels, I guess it is only par for the course to notice what Michelle is doing with their money.

Do you choose where you go for a haircut? Only fair she can too if it is coming out of her money.

More telling to me that someone was so comfortable in their own skin and with their life that an invite to move to the W H was declined.
BTW Did you ever wonder if the extensive plastic surgery that Pickles had over the years was paid for by TAX payers?

APE... I agree with you about the "own skin" thing. Kudos to Rhani.

who's pickles?

Don't be jealous Carol, wouldn't you love to do that too?

Pickles is Laura Bush...the lump in 'W's bed LOL

Joanne,
I would love to, but I wouldn't ask American people who are struggling to put food on the table to pay for it. She is lying dog who looks good with a pickled man who tells Americans to cut back, while his wife gets a private hairdresser, and his mother-in-law lives off the American's teat!

Umm Carol the president gets a salary.

Now as a a retired teacher do you feel that the public, since they were paying YOUR salary from their taxes, should have been allowed to tell you how to spend your salary?

Bush spent MY money on $10,000 dollar suits. I say we should have stripped him nekked or made him go to Goodwill.

Do you feel like an idiot yet Carol? You should.

Laura Bush's Republican convention ensemble paid for by the tax payers.

Oscar de la Renta suit: $2,500
Stuart Weitzman heels: $325
Pearl stud earrings: $600–$1,500
Total: Between $3,425 and $4,325

Dear Carol - this critique reminds me so vividly of... yes, Raisa Gorbacheva, now the late. If you only knew how she was attacked by our resident conservatives for wearing clothes that much surpassed anything an average Russian woman could allow - AND, if you didn't live in Russia in the late 1980th-early 1990th, you have no idea what a REAL crisis looks like. So what?... She was our first "First Lady" in the genuine sense of the word, being the face of the country every time she went abroad with Michael - and, unlike all the Soviet leaders' wives before her, she DID look like a lady, not like a dairy woman from Shepetovka. She stood at her husband's side even when everybody around betrayed him - she literally worked herself out trying to help the children with leukemia and finally died from the same illness - and only when she had left this world, we began to understand what an inspiration for us all she was and what we lost with her passing... so, after all this, who would dare to blame her for clothes?... I certainly didn't - and I'm far from blaming Michelle.

Blessings and best wishes - S.

she is paying for those things out of her own pocket, i am sure of it. and don't be jealous! i would wear $500 tennis shoes if i could!

Why would a millionaire need to cut back on getting her hair done? And as a high profile black woman in Washington, and always in the public eye, I would say that that is money well spent, and one thing she shouldn't cut back on if at all possible, but then again, she doesn't need to. I can definitely sympathize with her, as maintaining African American hair can be a trying task, especially relaxed hair.

HOW DARE SHE !!!

She should cut her own hair with a clippers like I do. And then wear cheap wigs (cheap wigs photograph just as well as expensive ones if the color is dark enough).

It's all about the cameras, right?

I bet Nancy Reagan's hair needed a team, two cans of hairspray per side, and the right day as provided by the White House astrologer. THAT was some voodoo hair !!!

Now these are the kind of issues I like having with those in Washington. Someone who was not elected to office being criticized for trying to look her best. This is the kind of problem we should have. Problems of torture, needless war, and forsaken wounded veterans are such nasty things.

Lori,
Laura Pickles Bush, was a Democrat! Need I say more. That's why she's so whimpy.

Peter,
You could use a hairdresser today, dear.

Did you forget that they had their own money before they moved into the white house? or do you think they lived in the "ghetto"?

I had my own personal hairdresser for 17 years that I woud had taken to MN with me, now that I am back home, I went back to her and asked to please please fix my hair..it cost me 200.00...and it was paid for from my last unemployment check

I don't remember you complaining about the Bushes and their excesses.

You're very one-sided Carol.

Too bad Michelle Obama never T-boned an ex boyfriends car causing his death....... like Pickles did. No charges brought tho.......go figure!

I'm really not sure why you're whining about this, Carol. The Obama's can pay whoever they want to style their hair.

What I'm really curious to know is, what was your reaction to Sarah Palin using campaign funds to go on a $100,000+ Manhattan shopping spree? No, it's not tax money, but it's money donated by, well, at least a few hard working rank-and-file Republicans who hoped it would be spent on a winning strategy, not at Neiman Marcus.

oh the Palin spending spree was so much fun. I seem to remember that her hair dresser was the highest paid individual on the campaign staff. Good fun.

I love it when dems compare themselves to republicans! Ha, ha! Hey guys, quit while you are way behind, the joke is on you!

Great article Carol!