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What’s in the news today?

By on 18 January 2009

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Share links, have at it. As always, foreign policy topics (and discussion) appreciated. …but obviously, O-Biden is big news right now.

Robin Ghivan (of Clinton cleavage infamy) didn’t waste any time weighing in on the “challenge” Michelle Obama faces, because of “fate.” Ho-boy.

[...] We love a first lady in a classic sheath except when we think it’s inappropriately bare. We are attracted to glamour until it becomes distracting. We argue emphatically about fashion except when we’re declaring it trivial. We want the first lady’s clothes to be modern but cringe if they are too trendy. We love a first lady with an athletic physique, but we get uncomfortable when we can actually see it. We are deeply dysfunctional and tortured in our relationship to fashion. Tim Gunn, help us all.

Obama’s style so far has been mostly distinguished by her fondness for a sleeveless, body-conscious dress often adorned with playful brooches or worn with a strand of marble-size pearls. That preference has led to comparisons to Jackie Kennedy, the last first lady to rise to the level of fashion icon in the popular imagination.

But even Kennedy couldn’t please the public all the time…

About Taylor Marsh

Veteran political analyst and author of "The Hillary Effect - Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss," now available in print at Amazon.com, and 1 of 4 books chosen by Barnes and Noble to launch their "NOOK First" Featured Authors Selection program. Former Miss Missouri, Broadway dancer, & relationship consultant at LA Weekly, produced & wrote one woman show "Weeping for JFK."
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9 Responses to What’s in the news today?

  1. GeoT 18 January 2009 at 11:24 am #

    I’m really looking forward to Tuesday… and the HBO coverage today, but otherwise I’ve od’d on Inauguration coverage… I’m taking the day off :=)

  2. GeoT 18 January 2009 at 11:31 am #

    also:

    I liked the question posed to Axelrod this morning: will Obama have an envoy on the ground on day one to deal with the Israeli/Palestinian situation? Good question. He didn’t really answer but I think it would send a strong message that we’re ready to play an active roll by having someone there right away to get to work.

  3. TaylorMarsh 18 January 2009 at 11:34 am #

    Heya GeoT. Expect envoys across the diplomatic spectrum.

  4. GeoT 18 January 2009 at 12:21 pm #

    interlude: NEW rockin’ song from Neil Young:

    Fork In The Road

    “

Keep on bloggin’ ’til the power goes out,
 and your battery’s dead.

    Twist and Shout. 
On the radio.
 Those were the days.
 Bring ‘em back.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7L7XsHKCVs

  5. AnninCA 18 January 2009 at 3:34 pm #

    Me, too, Geo. I can’t wait until it’s over.

  6. GeoT 18 January 2009 at 3:43 pm #

    Stevie Wonder, Usher, Shakira live @ the Lincoln Memorial:

    http://www.hbo.com/weareone/

    awesome!

  7. GeoT 18 January 2009 at 3:44 pm #

    Me, too, Geo. I can’t wait until it’s over.
    AnninCA | 01.18.2009 – 3:34 pm | #

    that’s not how I feel at all… I’m celebrating and savoring this moment in American history and I couldn’t be more proud.

    (the talking heads I could do without)

  8. secularhumanizinevoluter 18 January 2009 at 4:25 pm #

    Shakira, uuuuuuuum! I have some misgivings but I am celebrating also. The darkness is receeding and dawn is breaking. What that new day will hold I don’t know, but whatever it is it will be better then the horrors of the long, dark, lawless night we have endured.

  9. AnninCA 19 January 2009 at 10:56 am #

    Looks like Israel will not be on Obama’s plate, after all.