This is so disrespectful and plays into the stereotypes white people have about black women (I am a black woman, by the way). The white media already talk disrespectfully about the black body, why does this black woman feel the need to pile on? When black people, like this author, start talking about Mrs. Obama's "booty" white people see it as an invitation to follow suit. Black people already have to get into beefs with white people who hear rappers say "nigga" and think they are not using a slur because rappers have make the spurious distinction between "nigger" and "nigga." I cannot wait to hear Rush Limbaugh's spin on this. Mrs. Obama is a mother and a wife so it is inappropriate to objectify her sexually because that is not how she presents herself. She is not Lil' Kim, Beyonce, Cassie, or Ciara. She wants to be the "Mom in Chief" not the "hoochie in chief." How dare the author reduce her to her "booty?" What's next? Will we hear about how Obama must be some black buck who will shake the walls of the east wing when he taps and slaps Michelle's "booty?"

I wish black people wouldn't descend to this level. It is bad enough that the media portray us as people whose only contribution to society is what we can do with our bodies. I never bought into the prevailing wisdom that Obama's triumph would erase all of the stereotypes about black people. It is pathetic that my cynicism has been vindicated so quickly.

The editors of Salon are racist for publishing this. I hope they have the decency to pull it right away. I cannot imagine Salon publishing a piece on Laura Bush's "rack" or George Bush's "package." I urge Joan Walsh to remove this immediately.

Hillary Clinton should run for governor of New York. Right now, she is one vote out of one hundred. Obama and his groupies have made her irrelevant. If she wants to stay in Washington and be relevant, she is going to have to undermine him, otherwise she will be a rubber stamp. If she wants to go to Albany, she should keep her head down and be a good little mindless soldier. Other than that, she should avoid Obama like the plague. He hates her and now he can be indifferent to her if she becomes a rubber stamp or he can make her totally irrelevant by making her his flunky as SoS and then firing her.

Clinton can make her mark as governor. Universal health care will never happen on the federal level. Clinton should let Obama and the people in the Senate who disavowed her fail without her. She could use her position as the chief executive of the state of New York to create a universal health care system for the citizens of the state, revolutionize the educational system in New York, to rebuild the broken infrastructure of New York. She should make nice in the Senate if she intends to run for governor so that Obama's Congress does not exact revenge on her by denying New York federal funding for projects. She would have Chuck Schumer's support because he hates that no one cares about him so long as Clinton is the junior senator.