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Designer Jason Wu on Michelle Obama gown: ‘Still pinching myself’
The young, foreign-born designer of Michelle Obama’s hotly-anticipated inauguration gown still can’t believe his creation caught the first lady’s fancy. “I’m still pinching myself to see that’s all real,” Jason Wu said in an interview with NBC’s Today Show Tuesday just hours after the tightly-kept fashion secret was lifted when…
Obamas in the limelight at monster inaugural ball
Barack and Michelle Obama slow-danced their way into their next four years in the White House at a monster inaugural ball featuring some of the biggest stars in popular music today. Like the king and queen of a high school prom, the president and first lady flashed awkward smiles as…
Bangs craze ignited by Michelle Obama thwarts Jon Stewart’s inauguration coverage
On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart poked fun at America’s apparent obsession with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fashionable new hairdo. On inauguration day, Stewart noted that “just as feared, Obama came out as a liberal.” The President called for action on climate change, acceptance of…
Michelle Obama rolls her eyes at Speaker Boehner (A GIF for the masses)
If, like most people, you stopped watching the wall-to-wall inaugural coverage around the time Jay-Z and Beyoncé followed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) off the main stage, you might have missed this moment during the luncheon, when something House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said got a reaction out of First Lady…
Crowds build for second Obama inauguration
Excited crowds poured into downtown Washington on Monday for Barack Obama’s second inauguration as US president, anchored on a call for America to unite despite ugly political divides. Barack Hussein Obama will raise his right hand and place his left on Bibles once owned by Martin Luther King and Abraham…
Obama kicks off inauguration weekend with volunteering
Americans kicked off Barack Obama’s inauguration weekend Saturday with a day of service, with the president and his family volunteering their efforts in Washington. The president will participate in a local project around 11:30 am local time (1630 GMT). Meanwhile, vice president Joe Biden and his family were at the…
Obama daughters take White House childhood in stride
The Obama girls have quietly made a mark of their own: shielded from public over-exposure, they are growing up with rules and responsibilities and making it look easy, even though they live in the White House. Malia and Sasha Obama were 10 and seven respectively when they followed their father…
Michelle Obama opens a Twitter account for her birthday
Michelle Obama’s office said Thursday it had opened a Twitter account, as the US first lady turned 49. The account is @FLOTUS, the acronym for First Lady of the United States, and it will be administered by the first lady’s staff. Tweets penned by the first lady herself will bear…
Democratic office in Tennessee vandalized with racist bumper sticker
The front window of the Sumner County Democratic Party office in Gallatin, Tennessee was defaced on Monday with a bumper sticker that refers to President Barack Obama as a “bro” and First Lady Michelle Obama as a “ho.” But Maria Brewer, the vice chairman of the Sumner County Democratic Party,…
From Michelle with love, First Lady casts vote
WASHINGTON — US First Lady Michelle Obama cast an absentee ballot on Monday, twinning a campaign push for early voting with an affectionate morale boost for her husband who was hunkered down at debate camp. “Hey, @BarackObama, I just dropped my absentee ballot in the mail — I couldn’t wait…
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