Michelle Obama Watch

Three to four magazine cover and/or articles in the last month and all of a sudden we have have the Drudger Report citing a survey people are tired of the Obama’s. Let’s forget about the fact it is the silly season for the media w/ or w/o an upcoming election and whether or not the Obama’s are celebrities what I want to know is why the public hasn’t figured out that we live in a society was something “hot” is driven as a story line in the media until every last dollar has been wrung out of the market place.

Michelle is a Super Star to me

I feel like the news media thrives on criticizing the Obamas for something, anything. I don’t know if they have noticed, but unlike John McCain, Obama hasn’t been in the Senate for over twenty years, and this is his first time running for president. Just a couple of weeks ago, people were saying that Obama needs to become familiar with the voters, now they are saying that he is overexposed. Give me a freaking break.

Some of these petty people will find any excuse to tear the Obamas down.

We need to make sure we buy these magazines the Obamas are on especially the ones that rarely have blacks on the cover like Ladies Home Journal, us weekly, people etc. If these issues sell well, they will be more likely to put more positive images of people of color on them.

Y’all better go out nd buy all of these magazines and put them in plastic because you never know when we will see the likes of this again.

Michelle Obama is also on the cover of UPSCALE magazine!

So far, I’ve purchased Upscale and Ebony. I passed it around but made sure I got them back. I’ve been looking for Essence, but I don’t see it on the shelves yet. That too will be purchased because I definitely want to add to the circulation numbers. Plus, it is greatly inspiring to read what she and her friends and family have to say about herself.

And on a note that someone raised earlier. It is strange how a constant, never-ending complaint is, “We don’t know her… we don’t know him. We’re not sure where he’s coming from or what she’s really trying to do to our family values.”

And now, Michelle is on cover after cover. And it is great she’s on Ladies Home Journal. I rarely read that (okay never) but I will this month! I believe these were the best, classiest, most assertive answers to the hideous New Yorker cover and other attacks (yes the NYer cover was an attack). MSM tried to define her, put her in a box, then call it satire or “political vetting” when called on their crap. But the Obamas continue to transcend the ugly behavior dealt their way. The Obamas are doing the world a great favor by forcing the U.S. to deal with poisonous racial prejudice in an international spotlight.

I’m so thankful that Black-owned and Black-oriented media have gone to the mat to allow Michelle Obama to clarify and define herself.

“If we don’t define ourself for ourself we’ll be crushed into other’s expectations of us and eaten alive.” Nikki Giovanni(?)

@ Lynne–LMAO! And I’m not laughing at you at all, friend. My grandma had one of those portraits, too–it was a rug that hung above her favorite chair where she looked out the window and into the neighborhood. Wow…the childhood memories.

Well, I am an ardent fan of the Obama’s success story! I bought a copy of Essence magazine for my archives and read all the othrs..Ebony and LHJ.
Let’s face it, the world needs to know the Obama’s have what it takes.