Thursday, July 09, 2009

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




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 seem 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]."

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