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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!

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  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008 03:39 AM

    I did not find the article 'offensive'...

    ... but I do find it silly in the extreme. Salon loses at least 40% of the respect I had for it on account of this little bit of less-than-frippery.

    I can only presume the writer could find no other way of getting the attention of Salon editors - and the editors somehow had managed to totally turn off their critical faculties when they accepted this rubbish for publication. Writer and Editors: Please do let us know something about your thought processes when you put this 'article' together. That exercise at least may provide some useful insights to us readers. (At this point, I've not read all the input from the readers, where you may have done this already: I'm not from the USA, and I've not yet thought through about any racism that may well be implicit in this endeavour of yours).

    -- GSC

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