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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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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:16 AM

    you've come a long way baby

    (head in hands)

    This article is wildly inappropriate, and represents two major steps backwards for women's liberation.

    Don't you get it? You cannot have it both ways - either women are sex symbols or they are taken seriously intellectually. I'm sorry our culture has set things up that way, but there it is.

    Let's put it a different way: have you seen any articles out there by male authors talking about Barack Obama's ass?

    —Whispers Read Whispers's other letters

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