MO's Mojo Delights Indian Children: Obama's Bomb-Proof Tunnel Astounds India

Michelle Obama's magical mojo delights some "disadvantaged" children in India shortly after Air Force One landed in Mumbai. She danced and played a game of "vocabulary-building hopscotch, telling the kids she loves to dance. The president did his own amazing, with the construction of an above-ground, bomb-proof tunnel to take him to a museum.

Michelle Obama's Mojo!

Michelle's mojo extended to decorator pillows being sold in bazaars with her very slender image perched on a swing, with the words "First Lady Fabulous," and "We Love Her." Just like the cover of Oprah's O mag, Oprah looks nothing like herself, Michelle looks nothing like the beautiful, swinging lady in pearls.

POTUS' mojo includes the first ever over-ground, 12' X 12' bomb-proof tunnel, with closed circuit cameras and air conditioning, to allow the President and his "cavalcade" to travel safely to "Mani Bhavan - the Gandhi museum - on Saturday." Once the entourage passes through, the U.S. military will dismantle (or perhaps after the "cavalcade" returns) the tunnel in about one hour's time. The tunnel is the answer to a skyscraper which loomed nearby with a clear view of Obama route to the museum.

Coconut trees were robbed of their coconuts. The reason for doing so was not given. Must assume that falling coconuts are lethal.

The cost of this grand tour is reported to cost taxpayers $200 million a day. The White House says that figure is "wildly overflated," but there has been no attempt to correct the reports, or disclose the actual cost.

Photo credits: AP



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327223/Obama-India-I-love-dancing-Michelle-Obama-does-Bollywood-routine-plays-tambourine-orphans-runaways-Mumbai.html

Two of the Ugliest Dresses Evah! Michelle and Carla

Two of the ugliest dresses EVAH, both worn with no grace. Meeeooooowwww

Michelle and Carla - two of the ugliest dresses EVAH!

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Related: Michelle Obama: Being First Lady is Hell

Michelle Obama: Being First Lady is Hell

The First Lady of France, Carli Bruni Sarkozy, chats in a new book that Michelle Obama told her being the First Lady of the United States is "hell.  I would expect nothing less from MO, and I want her to know I think its 'hell," too and am counting down the 858 days to January 20, 2013. Weazel Zippers has the whole story.









Related: Two of the Ugliest Dresses Evah! Michelle and Carla

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Good Grief. Is that a Panty Line or...a Thong: FLOTUS Does Wal-Mart

Who is advising FLOTUS? Doesn't she have a 'dresser,' and a hairdresser and a mirror? Is that a...a...panty line for all the world to see...on the First Lady of the United States of America? Good grief!

Thanks to my biggest little brother.

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

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Michelle Obama Prescriptions for Fat Kids

Doctors will be checking the BMI (Body Mass Index) of your children, and if you cannot stop shoving the chicken fried steak down your kid, the Pediatrician will write a prescription. Is this appalling or what? Video below.

Fat Kids

Prescriptions for Fat Kids
Cartoon courtesy of Ryan Mason At Random

Obama and The New Yorker Team Up to Target Americans for Prosperity and Koch Industries

Obama spoke in Austin, Texas in early August and tried to lay a landmine for conservative grassroots organizations with "harmless sounding names, like Americans for Prosperity." Alluding to scary Big Oil foreign-controlled corporations and evil banks, Obama complained that Americans for Prosperity (AFP) are spending millions in ads against Democrats without revealing "exactly who they are." Hear it in the video below, newly released on Wednesday, August 25th.

David Koch

The problem for Obama is America's prosperity, and for him the name (AFP) and what it stands for is not "harmless." The President and his congressional lemmings are in big trouble precisely because America's prosperity is feared to be missing. Obama places the blame on Justice John Roberts and his Supreme Court, when earlier this year it ruled that free-speech can rightly be extended to corporations and labor unions, and they can speak with their money.

Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country.  And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are.  You don't know if it’s a foreign-controlled corporation.  You don't know if it’s a big oil company, or a big bank.  You don't know if it’s a insurance company that wants to see some of the provisions in health reform repealed because it’s good for their bottom line, even if it’s not good for the American people.

A Supreme Court decision allowed this to happen.  And we tried to fix it, just by saying disclose what’s going on, and making sure that foreign companies can’t influence our elections. Seemed pretty straightforward.  The other side said no.

They don't want you to know who the Americans for Prosperity are, because they're thinking about the next election.  But we’ve got to think about future generations.  We’ve got to make sure that we’re fighting for reform.  We’ve got to make sure that we don't have a corporate takeover of our democracy.

Obama knows who Americans for Prosperity is and who funds it - and I'll prove it as you read on. It's not a secret, and much to his distress, it is legal and he can't do anything about it, other than to vilify one of the most prolific philanthropists of this time, billionaire David Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries who formed Americans for Prosperity Foundation and American's for Prosperity years ago- two separate entities with separate governing boards and both committed to educating citizens about economic policy and restoring the Constitution in government. Koch is a Libertarian who once ran as the Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee in 1980 against the Reagan campaign.

The New Yorker magazine has an eleven page (yes, 11) hit piece (Covert Operations) on David Koch and his brother Charles. Apparently it is just too much that a conservative has contributed multi-millions to New York City's most sacred places: $100 million to modernize the Lincoln Center's New York State Theatre building, $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History, $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for repair of the fountains, and $40 million to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Perhaps New York is testy that Koch bought Jackie Kennedy's Fifth Avenue apartment in 1995 but sold it years later (it was too small). According to the article, the sale price was $32 million - likely a very nice profit. The New Yorker, of course, sees "profit" as a four-letter-word when that "profit" is the handiwork of a conservative.

So how do I know that Barack Obama knows who Americas for Prosperity is and what it does? The New Yorker article makes it clear in the story they told of the May 2010 "seventieth annual gala of the American Ballet Theatre:"

...David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had been a patron of the ballet...

One dignitary was conspicuously absent from the gala: the event’s third honorary co-chair, Michelle Obama. Her office said that a scheduling conflict had prevented her from attending. Yet had the First Lady shared the stage with Koch it might have created an awkward tableau. In Washington, Koch is best known as part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal government, and on the Obama Administration in particular.

"Stealth attacks?" Oh my! Michelle missed her big night to stand next to Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg on the American Ballet Theatre stage - Caroline dressed in emerald green (also MO's favorite color - would Caroline have relented and chosen something in petal pink?), because it would be a tad awkward for her, the wife of a man who hates private industry, has never met a payroll, to stand beside an enormously successful man who disdains your husband policies with every ounce of energy he has, and had the audacity to generously gift New York City from his own private funds.

Those mysterious people at Americans for Prosperity, concerned about the absence of limited government, looming ObamaCare, the revisionist education of our children, leviathan tax increases, and the administration's energy plans, are people like you and I...and Glen Beck. Watch as Beck talks about the "stealth" organizations behind Obama et al, in the second video. The first video is the illuminating release from Americans for Prosperity.



Americans for Prosperity Response to Obama Attacks (video) Glenn Beck on Obama's "Alliances" (video)
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Obama Family Heads for 11 Days on Martha's Vineyard where George Bush T-Shirts are Selling Like Hot Cakes

Not quite eight full months into 2010 and the Obama family takes their sixth vacation holiday of the year - ELEVEN days at Martha's Vineyard, where George W. Bush t-shirts are selling like hot cakes and BO's just hang out in the marketplace. Nothing like getting yourself to the shore and finding security blocking your every move as the Obama family has their many days in the sun.

Here's more: Ace says Bush is POLLING better than Obama in "Imperiled Democrat Districts."

Sasha Obama Meets King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia Video

King Juan Carolos and Queen Sophia graciously meet  Michelle and 9 year-old daughter Sasha Obama, who looks like a little doll.  I wonder what Sasha is thinking?

Sasha Obama Meet King Juan Carolos and Queen Sophia of Spain (video)

Michelle O Jill Biden: Jill Disrespects MO? FLOTUS Not Fond of Jill Biden

Meeeee-shell, the Belle, reportedly believes that Joe Biden's wife Jill Dr. Jill Biden disrespects her.

Michelle Obama

The report is from the Enquirer which occasionally gets it right, so take this with a good measure of skepticism. However, as Weazel Zippers says, "the odds are there's some truth behind it." Their source is said to be a "political source in the nation's capital," and the headline is a bit dramatic: Why Michelle Obama Hates Jill Biden's Guts!

As the story goes, Joe and Jill are far too casual around the First Family and it is insulting to MO. Talk about insulting - how about FLOTUS insulting us, and walking the streets of Spain in daytime looking like this - I mean, she is a First Lady!

Michelle Obama in Spain

I think I can pinpoint Dr. Jill's problem. She has no background in organizing, and probably little experience with people who did not live in a compound before coming to the White House. A background of shilling in Chicago Mayor Daley's office for a living may also be repugnant to Mrs. Joe Biden.

Michelle Goes Bare Shoulder in Spain in Broad Daylight

Good grief! Michelle Obama traversed Spain in a bare shoulder - one on, one off, in broad daylight.

Michelle Obama

Andrea Tantaros talks about the economy of this flagrant vacation:

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice. When Michelle Obama accompanied her husband to Copenhagen along with best buddy Oprah Winfrey, she billed the trip - an ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago - as follows: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."

A quick jaunt to Denmark is a sacrifice? What portraits in courage!

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_material_girl_michelle_obama_is_a_modernday_marie_antoinette_on_a_glitzy_spanish.html#ixzz0vpsXG3aa

Michelle Obama on Free Health Care, Doesn't Mention New Taxes

Michelle Obama is stumping for health care and throwing the word "free" around like a frisbee.

Michelle Obama

FLOTUS says these services will be free after September 23rd, as she obviously believes it, as only a Progressive Democrat can:

“Under this new law, all new private plans will provide basic preventive services — things like childhood immunizations and checkups, mammograms, colonoscopies, cervical screenings, and treatment for high blood pressure — absolutely free of charge. No copay. No deductible. No co-insurance needed,” she wrote.

Maybe we won't pay at the Doctor's office, but some of us will pay with the health care tax the administration is planning as a vehicle to spread our wealth, whether we have it or. If you're not on the tax hit list, don't take much comfort. They will undoubtedly come for you soon, unless you're poor.

Mrs. Obama says her life will be "easier" now that her husband's health care is taking effect.

The first thing I tell people who ask about the Affordable Care Act is that, for moms like me, it makes our lives easier. It gives families control over their own care. And it gives us the comfort of knowing that our insurance will be there when we need it most — especially if we get sick. Then I tell them that it gets better, but there’s a lot to know. To help, this administration has set up HealthCare.gov, where folks can see customized information about how care will improve for their families.

Can't wait for the blowback in October, and again in January when the new taxes hit. Get the White House spin here.

Obamas at Bar Harbor Club Shuts Down Vacationers

In Bar Harbon, Maine where the Obama Family vacationed, other "regular people" were not allowed to visit one of the most popular features of the area. At low tide, tourists can walk across the sand bar to Bar Island...unless the vacationing Obama's are in town and playing tennis or romping in the pool at the Bar Harbor Club (see photo).

I believe any President and family must be able to travel and have some fun, but we saw the Obama's in Hawaii, one of the top vacation spots on everybody's radar, renting a home that was a bit in the middle of the activity. The many people who came to the beach could not participate in their own vacations. I would like to see presidents pick a spot a bit more isolated for their entourage so not quite so many people are inconvenienced.

This particular First Family ignores that they are servants of the people, not the rulers of the people.

DOJ Consulted NAACP on Black Panther Case: Direct Ties NAACP DOJ Black Panther Case

The DOJ Black Panther whistleblower, J. Christian Adams, was prompted to answer a critical question by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The Commission General Counsel David Blackwood directly asked Adams if the DOJ was consulting with the NAACP on the dismissal of the Black Panther voter intimidation case. See a video below with the Memphis TEA party's Mark Skoda, saying the movement has asked the NAACP for videos or other proof showing racism, and offered to provide requested info to the NAACP. The NAACP ignored the request.

Mark Skoda - Memphis Tea Party

This is particularly pertinent because the NAACP has just voted on a "resolution" saying the TEA party movement is "racist." Once that news was out, brought to light because of Michelle Obama's keynote speech at the NAACP, the St. Louis, Missouri TEA party released their own, detailed resolution condemning the NAACP for their ironic racism.

Adams answered that his information was secondhand, and that he was told the NAACP was at the DOJ in March of 2009 asking when the case against the militants would be dismissed. Adams characterized this as "interesting," because there had never been any discussion of dismissing the case he was lead attorney on.

It was first reported here at the Washington Times that "Kristen Clarke, director of political participation at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Washington, however, confirmed to The Times that she talked about the case with lawyers at the Justice Department and shared copies of the complaint with several persons. She said, however, her organization was 'not involved in the decision to dismiss the civil complaint.'"

Ms. Clarke testified to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights a few months back that that account was wrong. But J. Christian Adams, the main lawyer who built the case against the Black Panthers, contradicted her when he testified to the commission on July 6. 

Blackwood knew about Kristen Clarke's comment in The Washington Times, and also knew that Clarke denied it before his Commission. Watch

The NAACP is one of the most racist organizations to meet on this planet, ranking second to the current U.S. Department of Justice. In the video below you'll hear Mark Skoda, the Memphis TEA party founder and Hilary Shelton, the Washington  Bureau NAACP director, decide they will meet and try to work things out. Note that Shelton confined the charges of TEA Party racism to "fringe elements" of the movement. Undoubtedly, they are backpedalling. They have no proof, and especially in the face of Skoda saying they have asked for NAACP videos showing TEA Party racism and received nothing.

Mark Skoda Memphis TEA Party and Hilary Shelton NAACP (video)

Related and Background:

St. Louis Tea Party NAACP Condemns NAACP Racism


Megyn Kelly and Christian Adams on DOJ Bias
Christian Adams with Megyn Kelly: DOJ Attorney Resigns DOJ Black Panther Protest - Video
Black Panther DOJ Coverup: In Your Face DOJ Racism
Document drop: DOJ still obstructing justice in Black Panther case - Michelle Malkin

Black Panthers Win: Voter Fraud Wins: Voter Rights Lose

Obamas to Fellow Americans: You Vacation in Gulf, We're Going to Maine

Michelle Obama showed up at the Gulf Coast's Panama City Beach, Florida and said the best way to help the people in the oil spill area is for "fellow Americans" to "come on down here and spend some money." After walking barefoot in the "sparkling sand," she returned to Washington D.C. to ready for the first family's vacation in...the state of Main. See a video below.

Michelle Obama

Since the Gulf spill, the Obamas have vacationed in North Carolina, Chicago and this weekend in Maine. Karen at The Lonely Conservative has the real story. InfoWars has some interesting commentary about the beach and MO's visit.




Tarballs on Panama City Beach (video)

St. Louis Tea Party NAACP: Tea Party Resolution Condemns NAACP Racism

The St. Louis TEA Party has passed a resolution condemning NAACP racism. Yesterday I reported that the NAACP was passing a resolution stating the extreme racism of the TEA Party movement. Michelle Obama delivered the keynote address at that occasion for the racist organization. Don't tell me she did not know the agenda for the 101st Annual meeting of the NAACP.

St. Louis Tea Party

This morning, Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, and a member of the St. Louis TEA Party reports the passing of the following resolution:

St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Resolution
July 12, 2010

Whereas, the National Coalition for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded to advance the position of minority groups, and 

Whereas a hallmark of the NAACP has been to do the important work of identifying and exposing remaining vestiges of racism and discrimination, and 

Whereas the NAACP vocally stands against the discriminatory and harmful practice of labeling people with a broad brush, and 

Whereas the NAACP decided to launch their 101st National Convention with a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement and labeling millions of their fellow Americans who subscribe to the movement as “racists”, and 

Whereas the “Tea Party movement” is a label applied to patriotic Americans who have expressed their political free speech in the grand tradition of all that is American, that being the spirited expression of viewpoints in a 100% peaceful manner, and 

Whereas, it is a hallmark of America that we settle our disputes civilly and avoid the gutter tactic of attempting to silence opponents by inflammatory name-calling, and 

Whereas the very term “racist” has diminished meaning due to its overuse by political partisans including members of the NAACP, and 

Whereas, the NAACP had an opportunity to preserve some semblance of legitimacy by standing up for Ken Gladney, the victim of a vicious racist battery conducted by a black avowed communist, even labeling him an “Uncle Tom”, but chose instead to use the opportunity to mock the St. Louis Tea Party, and 

Whereas, the NAACP has refused to denounce the New Black Panther’s call to murder white cops and their babies, and 

Whereas, the NAACP does its entire membership a grave disservice by hypocritically engaging in the very conduct it purports to oppose, 

Now therefore be it resolved that the St. Louis Tea Party condemns the NAACP for lowering itself to the dishonorable position of a partisan political attack dog organization, and,

Be it further resolved that the St. Louis Tea Party calls on similar organizations to join in unanimous condemnation of this despicable behavior, and 

Be it further resolved that we demand that the NAACP withdrawal their bigoted, false and inflammatory resolution against the tea party for any further consideration, and

Be it further resolved that these organizations call on the Internal Revenue Service to evenly apply their standards and consider the tax-exempt status of the NAACP considering the degree to which they are engaging in habitual partisan political behavior. 

Adopted unanimously, this day, July 12th, in the year of our Lord, 2010.

A copy of this resolution shall be sent immediately to the NAACP at: washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org

Read the background on the NAACP resolution and Michelle's speech here.

Michelle Obama NAACP: Michelle Obama Supports NAACP 'Resolving' Tea Parties Racist

The NAACP is formally "resolving" that TEA Parties are racist, and First Lady Michelle Obama helped "energize" the crowd when she appeared before them, the Nation's premier racists. She talked about obese children according to the press, but "roused" the crowd nevertheless.

Michelle Obama

From the Examiner: (read this Examiner article if you have time. It refutes everything you read below.)

...She spoke impassionedly about signs and posters members of the group displayed that were intended to degrade people of color."

From another Examiner report on Michelle and the NAACP, Lisa Carter speaks from experience and says the NAACP's Los Angeles division threatened her for "going against their liberal victimization philosophy.

I've avoided the "Obama isn't my President" claim, but I will tell you today, this man and his administration are not my President or my administration.

The FLOTUS agreed to appear before the NAACP and give the keynote address on the the occasion of the resolve against racist TEA Parties, which in part says this:

[Tea Party members have used] "racial epithets," have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them, and protestors have engaged in "explicitly racist behavior" and "displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama, specifically," according to the proposed resolution.

"We're deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we've made," NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell told ABC News. "We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement."

This is an outlandish lie, and I am sick of it. I think every White person, and many Blacks are sick of it. There is no proof of TEA Parties and racism, not even a hint of any of the above charges. It's a lie - a Democrat lie.

I want to know why ABC, CBS, NBC are not reporting the dangerously explosive racism in our Department of Justice, the refusal to tell the story of the New Black Panthers intimidating voters on election day in Philadelphia, and Eric Holder and the DOJ threatening attornies if they honor subpoenas, telling them the victims of Black wrongdoers will not be prosecuted, that no motor voter crimes will be investigated. Where are the stories?

Where are the stories, and I mean far more than a token report, at ABC, CBS, NBC? Yet they will litter the internet with "resolutions" of the lying, deceitful, racist NAACP, and tell us the FLOTUS has "roused" the members.

To top it off, CBS' Bob Schieffer, who should hang it up, turn-out the lights, and let the studio door spanking his bottom be his goodbye party. Schieffer had Attorney General Eric Holder on his show for a full 30-minutes today and didn't ask Holder a single question about the New Black Panther Case - which should be known as the case of Black and White people stopped from voting at a legitimate polling place by The New Black Panther Party (NBPP). Where are the reports of King Samir Shabazz calling for death to Whites, including their children?

In the video below from the NAACP address, MO talks about the "crumbling schools" Black children are forced to attend. Here's a few words from Karen at The Lonely Conservative - I can't say it any better:

Whose fault is it that we have failing schools? The liberals, unions and Democrats have controlled education for decades! Whose policies are hurting the African American community? Michelle Obama’s husband’s, that’s whose. Since he started enacting his agenda the poor became poorer and the middle class is diminishing.

Karen has more on Michelle's speech and another video. The second video below is partially some new video you may not have seen of the New Black Panthers meeting in May 2010. Thanks to Big Journalism for the video. Read MO's speech transcript here.

Michelle Obama at NAACP Meeting (video) Malik Shabazz, King Samir Shabazz on Arming Blacks (video)

George Bush Al Gore: Bush Blamed for Gore's Separation - I Have the Real Story

Al Gore never did get over losing the presidential election to Bush in 2000. Everything began to go wrong from that point. Bush made Al blow-up and pack on the pounds. A close friend of the Gore's, columnist Sally Quinn, said the election might have done the marriage "irreparable harm." Neither Al or Tipper will ever "get over" winning the popular vote but losing the election, she said.

Al and Tipper Gore

Election by the Electoral College is not a new thing. Surely the Gore's knew the Electoral College is the "decider," and it's Constitutional. NewsBusters quotes Washington Post's Sharyl Attkisson saying "while Gore was out fighting global warming, Tipper was cooling."

In my original post on the separation, (in case you missed it) I reported the real reason for the split (don't ask about my source - I promised anonymity): I heard Tipper left him for bringing copious amounts of hot air into the marriage. She was forced to use an inhaler. Al was cruel beyond belief, and insisted she wear green - all the time. When she refused to let him bring the Nobel to bed with them, that did it. She filed claiming irreconcilable carbon credits.

Nevertheless, a writer at Salon is having a tough time handling the news of the break-up. She doesn't know the Gore's, but, well...it "scares the bejesus" out of her. Madeline Holler at Strollerderby, noted that the Gore's were "polished but flawed." 'Polished?' Al and Tipper 'polished.' The 'flawed' part, according to Holler is Tipper's depression and his 'drugs and drunk-driving.' Reeeaaaalllly? Yes, and they were also "cool." Tipper "played the drums," they played the Grateful Dead and best of all, "they recycled," - even back then.

Sorry, I had to take a break to find a Kleenex.

Well, I just do not believe George W. Bush broke-up the Gore's marriage. This is just too sad and depressing. Gosh, now I'm thinking about Barack and Michelle. Can this happen to them? This will ruin my entire day. I need more Kleenex. Can't wait to hear who gets the Montecito house.

Michelle Obama Sasha Malia Go to Broadway: Secret Service Threatens Audience - No More Photos

Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia escaped the throngs in the Capitol and went to Broadway to see Memphis, taking a dozen or so other with her. Do you think the Secret Service could possibly be alarmed that audience members tried to take photos of The First Lady and First and Second Daughters? Me neither - but...the report says they were. At intermission, Secret Service warned the audience they would confiscate anyone attempting to take more photos.

Michelle Obama - Memphis

Just before intermission, the audience endured the First Girls being escorted out - while the stage was still performing. The First Girls were escorted back in after the audience was seated - hopefully not after the production had struck up the band once more.

Memphis:

...the musical tells the story of a white DJ, Huey Calhoun, in 1050's segregated Tennessee; his love for a black singer, Felicia Powell, and the then underground sound that gave birth to rock and roll.

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Motive in IG Walpin Firing? Larry Brown Curries Favor with Obama? Michelle Rhee Covers for Kevin Johnson?

Inspector General Gerald Walpin was fired by the White House for exposing the misuse of federal funds by AmeriCorps and former NBA star Kevin Johnson, currently the mayor of Sacramento, California. Today we learn one possible motive for instigating Walpin's removal.

Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee

The story has all the eye-popping details of a sensational National Enquirer story. Think John Edwards and his love child. The Walpin story has prestige: An honorable Inspector General doing his job spectacularly well. An acting U.S. Attorney, Larry Brown, looking for a presidential appointment, a famed NBA star, Kevin Johnson, just elected Mayor of Sacramento, California. Johnson's charity, St. HOPE Academy, AmeriCorps volunteers, $75 million in tainted federal funds, and the future chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools and St. HOPE Chairman of the Board, Michelle Rhee. Johnson and Rhee would soon be engaged. Then there are the three young school age girls who accused Kevin Johnson of inappropriate sexual behavior,  and the appearance, at least, that Michelle Rhee knew of the misused funds and the claims of the young girls.

Inspector General Gerald Walpin found that Kevin Johnson and AmeriCorps had spent $75 million in federal funds in inappropriate ways. Walpin's report to Congress also detailed the accusations of the three young women. Much has happened since the schizey hit the fan. Walpin has been cleared of all  the ethics charges that U.S. Attorney General Lawrence Brown tired to instigate,  including "overstepped authority." Walpin wants his job back and has sued.

Keep this in mind as the new part of this story evolves. Kevin Johnson and Barack Obama are tight. It is believed that Michelle O is tight with Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools. Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson are now engaged. Before the engagement, Rhee sat on the board of St. HOPE. A Washington, D.C. education blogger poses some problems and asks some questions:

...holding several, conflicting positions for one organization – Ms. Rhee’s titles at the St. Hope Charter Academy boggle the mind. 

Were all the positions paid positions? How did she perform the duties of board member and Chief Operating Officer at the same time? 

As president, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at the same time? as President, COO, board member and a consultant for St. Hope on three projects, at the same time? 

Why, when  Rhee was apprised by St. Hope employee Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez about sexual misconduct allegations against Kevin Johnson by 3 Americorps teenage volunteers, did she not contact California State authorities she was obligated to do under California law?

As COO and President, not to mention those consulting positions, was Ms. Rhee aware of the misuse of Americorps funds and volunteers as outlined in the Investigative General’s report of August 2008?  

As one of the top three office holders of St. Hope it seems that either Ms. Rhee was aware and therefore particpated or that she was not aware and she was negligent in her duties or these positions were merely window dressing for her resume and padding for her bank account.

So Walpin's report was in. Kevin Johnson was soon to be sworn as Sacramento mayor and...there was a big problem. Johnson and his charity were under suspension from federal funds. This meant, as mayor, Johnson disqualified Sacramento from receiving a single penny from taxpayers.

So here is where it really gets interesting. Enter acting U.S. Attorney General Lawrence Brown. Brown wanted President Obama to appoint him as permanent Attorney General.  Brown stepped in, made a civil deal with Kevin Johnson to repay some of the funds - money that Walpin showed neither Johnson or his charity had available, that agreement lifted the ban on Sacramento's federal funding and Brown used his official letterhead to get Walpin investigated by the 'Integrity and Ethics" Counsel of Inspectors General.

Michelle Rhee didn't give up on Kevin - a few charges of inappropriate behavior with young woman? Not really important. She paid a visit to Gerald Walpin to plead Johnson's case, but Walpin's report remained unchanged.

From a Department of Justice document:

Acting United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced today that St. HOPE Academy has agreed to pay $423,836.50 to settle allegations that St. HOPE did not appropriately spend AmeriCorps grant awards and education awards...The amount of the civil settlement represents one-half of the $847,673 in AmeriCorps grant funds received by St. HOPE Academy. 

“The agreement reached strikes a proper balance between accountability and finality. St. HOPE Academy must pay a significant amount for its improper handling of AmeriCorps funds. [Don't you love this one?]

St. HOPE will make an initial payment of $73,836.50 by electronic transfer within five business days from today;

Kevin Johnson will pay $72,836.50 of the initial payment by St. HOPE, with possible repayment to Johnson by St. HOPE when it is financially able to do so;

Dana Gonzalez will pay $1,000.00 of the initial payment by St. HOPE.

Johnson and Gonzalez shall each register to take an online course offered by Management Concepts titled “Cost Principles”;

For a quick read of the charges of sexual impropriety, read "G" here, or find more linked below.

Save a president's friend from public shame and you just might get a presidential appointment. 

The Washington Examiner published information today on Larry's Brown's ambitions for the presidential appointment to the U.S. Attorney's office:

In a January 5, 2009 letter to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Brown's home-state senator and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Brown wrote, "I write to express my interest in appointment as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California" -- a presidentially-appointed position. In the letter, Brown took care to highlight his Democratic credentials.

"As this is a political appointment," Brown wrote: I will note that for the past two years, I have been registered as Decline to State. From 1988-2007, I was a registered Democrat and from 1982-1988, a Republican. As may be evident, I am not a rigid ideologue and discovered that I simply did not fit neatly within either party. I chose to ultimately become an independent because I felt that in my line of work, namely the administration of justice, neither party has a monopoly and its handiwork must be performed in non-partisan fashion. I count myself in the ranks of those who have grown weary of the overly-simplistic "red state/blue state" debates over complex issues and enthusiastically embrace President-elect Obama's call to abandon such labels and become the united states [sic] of America.

When Obama's White House counsel, Gregory Craig, fired Walpin, he used Brown's accusatory letter. There were also accusations of something like disorientation and maybe senility by the White House, which has since been shown to be unfounded.

Senator Charles Grassley has been on point on behalf of IG Walpin since the time of his firing, and Democrats have joined in as well. Grassley wanted Obama to follow proper procedure for firing an inspector general. The only procedure used was that the president said he had lost confidence in Walpin. That's not the way an IG should lose his/her job.

There is so much more to this story. It is full of corruption from the office of AmeriCorp right up to the White House. Johnson was accused of using AmeriCorps volunteers to drive him around, do personal errands...wash his car, etc. St. HOPE emails were intentionally deleted. If our political persuasion is Liberal, we can hush it by repaying in some way. 

In the end, Brown did not get his appointment, and he now sits on the Sacramento Superior Court. Kevin Johnson leads a magical life, one charity and several young girls left in the wake he makes, as he jets back and forth to see Rhee in Washington, D.C. An Inspector General who dared expose graft and corruption, especially with one of Obama's fondest volunteer organizations, AmeriCorps, is now out of the way. In the link second from the bottom below, you'll read how the White House directed another Inspector General to shred documents pertinent to Gerald Walpin's defense. Is this the White House you want? I didn't think so.

I have a lot of background reporting on this story. Links follow.

Michelle Rhee Covered up Kevin Johnson Sex Scandal?  

Kevin Johnson - St. Hope Scandal: Rick Maya Resigns, Gerald Walpin Investigates

Who is Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson - Walpin-Johnson Investigation

U.S. Attorney Larry Brown and CnCS Displeasure with Walpin's Investigation

Schwarzenegger Involvement: Kevin Johnson Investigation by Gerald Walpin

Glen Beck - Gerald Walpin Video: IG Gerald Walpin on Glen Beck

White House Charges Walpin Confused, Disoriented, Disruptive

Gerald Walpin Firing Update: AmeriCorp $75 Million Misused: Michelle Obama Hires?

Gerald Walpin Fired by President Obama: Inspector General Walpin Fired

Kenneth Bach Shreds Gerald Walpin Documents

Former AG Michael Mukasey says Walpin was fired illegally 

Mike Huckabee Michelle Obama: Huckabee interviews Michelle Obama on Childhood Obesity

Michelle Obama will appear on Mike Huckabee to talk about childhood obesity. It is estimated at 17% of America's children are obese. The segment will air Saturday, February 20th.

 

Malia and Sasha Obama with Dad, Barack Obama

The First Lady said her daughter's pediatrician recently advised her to pay attention to her own daughter's body mass indexes (BMI). (Check out this quick site to compute your own BMI)

...the family's pediatrician, she said, kept a close eye on trends in African-American children and "warned that he was concerned that something was getting off-balance."

Here is how the FLOTUS went about changing the problems in her own family:

No more weekday TV. More attention to portion sizes. Low-fat milk. Water bottles in the lunch boxes. Grapes on the breakfast table. Apple slices at lunch. Colorful vegetables on the dinner table.

The positive results showed at the next pediatrician's appointment, and the doctor was amazed:

It was so significant that the next time we visited our pediatrician, he was amazed. He looked over the girls' charts and he said, 'What on earth are you doing?'"

Huckabee has been a prominent voice in the battle against weight loss. He lost over 100 pounds and wrote the book Stop Digging your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12 Step Program. He believes the government should not try to regulate our eating habits.