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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 AM

First lady got back

I'm a black woman who never thought I'd see a powerful, beautiful female with a body like mine in the White House. Then I saw Michelle Obama -- and her booty!
By Erin Aubry Kaplan

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  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008 08:50 AM

    The First Lady's Butt is a "Metaphor"?

    Fensterbilt, are you serious? YOUR butt is a metaphor. Mine is a simile. My nostrils are synecdoche and my liver is an analogy.

    What the heck are you talking about? Leave Mrs. Obama alone. She is a brilliant, strong, talented woman and a person in her own right. Her body parts aren't "metaphors".

    Talk about her accomplishments or perhaps how her being the first African-American first lady is a symbolic or meaningful event. Stay off the personhood of the first family.

    —Freddy Bendell Read Freddy Bendell's other letters

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