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"...from what is known about the Obamas, what do you think their reaction to this would be?"
From what Ive seen, theyve been amazingly good sports, considering over the last several weeks the POTUS-elect has been accused of "palling around with terrorists", being a marxist/communist, and has had many blood-chilling epithets made in his regard.
Perhaps that is the point- in the same way that "Palin fatigue" has set in for the vast majority of Americans, maybe the Obamas would like to take a week or two off from being the country's ciphers. Is there nothing so miniscule about them that it doesnt warrant scrutiny?
"...as Rob Halford would say, I'm offended by your offendability."
I happen to like that line a lot, and find it endlessly applicable when confronting the puritanical zealotry of the far right; it is perhaps less applicable towards a group of people who would just as soon leave some aspects of the Obamas' life free of hyper-analysis, and I would humbly submit that the characteristics of Michelle's posterior fall within those parameters.
