WOW!!! Michelle Obama was Extraordinarily Superb & Pretty!!!
 

The Michelle Obama speech at the DNC on Monday, August 25, 2008 was just WOW!!!

She was beautiful. I love her "refinement ensembled makeover". She showed her what she is all about and I personally think that she put those silly stereotypes to rest about her. And her edges were DONE!!! And so her daughter's hurr was cutely done!!!

I loved the video with her mother. And the speech from her brother was special.

She made some folks cry... LOL..

She really held it down! I had just read the cover article about her in this month's Ebony so it was a nice one-two dose of the next FLOTUS. :)

I tuned in to the DNC just for her. And on a silly note.....yeah, her hair was DONE! She was rocking the serious stove curler press! LOL

But seriously..she is awersome. Now I know why in the 60's, women fawned all over Jackie O. This is how I feel about Michelle O. :cool:

Me too.

She was ok.

I thought she was terrific (and she looked beautiful, indeed)! I actually watched with my family (since it was my sister's birthday and we were all together). So many of her comments hit home with us. I will be very pleased to see her as our First Lady.

(Surprisingly) I agree.

SHE WAS FANTASTIC

michelle obama did a great job at what she was 'asked' to do. she looked more like a working mom than a politician's wife. she said the right things and did so flawlessly. i couldn't help but feel like last night went under the category of "trying to hard."

I liked Michelle O.'s speech and visual presentation, particularly when the girls came out and Sasha was asking where was her daddy. It was well-imaged and designed to "defang" her, although I have never picked up angry Black woman from her. Not at all.

Her speech just didn't WOW me. Didn't move me. Sorry.

Yep. Just ok to me. I wasn't impressed or moved by her delivery or the content. Very average.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels it was just a speech.

On that note:

I hated when "Isn't She Lovely" started playing and the kids came out. LOL. Then the "hi daddy" and stuff from the kids just seemed so staged. We get the point, geesh....

"Look how cute the kids are...ohhhhhh...he'll be a persistent President because he jokingly says he kept asking Michelle out eventhough she kept saying 'no'...she changed her mind and that's change we can believe in." :rolleyes:

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eventhough there was a bit of a delay, obama's response to me brought the point home that this was just a speech. his youngest daughter was being well, a kid and he seemed to kinda 'brush' her off to focus more on saying what he had to say.

Aww...such a cynic.

I didn't think that he was brushing her off. I think that he couldn't actually hear her/them because the kids AND Michelle said things to him and he just kept on talking. He seemed to hear them towards the end of being patched in via satellite.

Anyway, I was impressed with her speech. I think that she is a dynamic and eloquent speaker. I heart her! :D

I agree, and Ithink Sasha asking him where he was in response to first he said Kansas City and then he said St. Louis. He was able to set the record straight.

I liked Michelle's speech. I am glad I saw the video, because now I see she really is a remarkable woman on her own.

Realist...cynic...whichever.

i really hope so..lol. i was doing a paper while watching this.

I bet if lil Sasha had said "Daddy, mommy say you betta get to Denver or we going shopping again" dude would not have brushed her off.

Nominating conventions are crafted for the broad, unengaged middle. People, who to this point, have not focused on the detail of either campaign. For many it's the first introduction to Obama and his family. For those who are engaged, it probably will appear, at times,.....boring.

Personally, I didn't think Michelle's speech was all that either, but it was effective, I think, in debunking the initial image her husband's opponents have tried to create for her.

One of my colleagues has worked for years (although not this year) as a lead guy at RNC stage committee (making sure everything/everyone you see at the podium happens as they want it to happen.) Trust me, this is stagecraft writ large for both parties.

That's the exact same feeling I had.

And my feeling is that they should not stoop to defend themselves against baseless and unfounded allegations. That to do so gives those allegations a weight and significance that they do not possess.

Of course, that is probably why I would not make a good politican.

I did not like her dress; I thought it fit funny. My grandmother liked it though. Other than the dress, she was lovely.

i was chatting with a friend about michelle's speech. i agree with your comments. it was definitely designed to quiet the naysayers and perhaps bring the staunch hillary folks and/or the folks who are considering mccain since hillary didnt get the nom.


on a side note, i love your signature :)

that is the one thing about politics i dont like. but that is the game that must be played. i liked her dress. she looked more working mom and less stepford wife.

what i didnt like was michael eric dyson commenting on her backside. highly inappropriate and unnecessary.

As he generally is. Booo.

it was really disappointing. i prefer TV-1 and when i watched that mess i felt i was watching BET. just crazy!

That was John Kerry's thoughts on the Swiftboat Vets. You see where that got him! Unfortunately in today's society if you say something loud enough and long enough people start to believe it.

To add: They call them the "pundits"... Find everything and anything to debunk or build up a mythology about the opponent. A media slaughter--a marketing tool for product/ad placement.

Michelle O. will be an icon in the future. Her image, likeness, persona, branding, etc. will be marketed to mass groups the world over. Who does it and how it gets done, who knows? Oprah and Poprah had something to say about... LOL.. ;)

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who didn't like the dress. What was up with the ornamentation in the middle??

I too thought her speech was just average....

You right. But I would hope that the majority of people know that these conventions for any party is basically a big pep rally. :)

Go team go! http://www.siyclone.com/forum//style...ault/cheer.gif

...in politics, you'd be surprised at the number of folks who let others do their thinking for them.

LOL I think that applies to life in the US in general, not just politics. ;)

Present GC company excluded of course. :cool:

nice clean up. verrrrrry nice. :)

Okay, just finished watching Barack accept the nomination and that was great BUT someone needs to get Michelle Obama a stylist...STAT!

She's usually classy and understated (as I believe she should be in her position). Tonight's dress was...eh. I don't know. The girls looked lovely as ever though!

My mom and I were just discussing this. She is either SHARP or TACKY. On the Ebony cover, she was the former, last night and at the VP rollout she was the latter.

I cried. I thought she was beautiful and eloquent and I was truly moved. I cried every night of the convention though. I guess I found the history of it all moving. I'm very sentimental like that though.