Michelle Obama doesn't give a **** about the US, and that the only reason she is doing anything relevant to anything is so her husband can get re-elected so she can continue to live a life of luxury and continue telling America what it can and can't eat. Now I'm not saying that being the wife of the president doesn't cause tremendous stress, but she just as much a celebrity as any movie star, and it's so apparent that she is loving it. Don't take this as me bashing Obama or Democrats. I'm bashing Michelle Obama.
That would make sense if she hasn't been doing this since before she even had a chance to get accustomed to that lifestyle.
Also, I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure that they're really not making that much more now as the Presidential family than they did before Barry won the election in 2008. The President's salary is about 398,000, if I recall. Granted, that's an increase from what he made as Senator (which was not only less than half of that, but also less than what Michelle made), but most of their money doesn't come from his job. They get a lot of money from royalties and Boards that Michelle used to work on.
That lifestyle was forced on her from the beginning by virtue of being the first black first lady. Though that doesn't mean that because she has been doing this from the beginning, that she didn't at some point realize how much she liked the lifestyle, and how much influence she has (as apparent by trying the whole food thing), and as a result desperately wants to continue. I can't wait for the day when I can go shopping and not see her face on every magazine, or turn on the tv and not see her in every commercial.
... I've never seen Michelle Obama in a commercial. A few magazines, yeah, but not a single commercial. And what exactly is so bad about her promoting healthy eating habits? It's not like America is the paragon of good health, and it's not like she's taken all unhealthy foods away from us, so we're still free to shove delicious, processed crap down our throats.
The thing is, her partaking in all of this before the 2008 elections says that she probably wasn't doing it to soak up any fame, but because she genuinely cares about these issues. As the first lady, I think it's her duty to involve herself in projects that need addressing but the President simply cannot get to, like childhood obesity/healthy eating habits. Maybe it does seem like she's loving her position right now, but her influence took a major increase from it, and I'm sure her projects have seen better results from the publicity and her now vast resources--is it so wrong that she may love seeing her causes go further? If people are helping others, I don't usually care about their motives. Their motives will die out with them (and not necessarily die as in actually dead, but when they've faded from the limelight). What they did will live on.
