Jackie O—and her skinny, flat ass—wasn’t the first woman in the White House! If you take a closer look at the pictures of past first ladies I think you will find that the seats in the White House have felt the weight of many abundant derrieres over the years. Some of the prior posteriors of first ladies make Michelle Obama’s look like something out of a weight watchers ad in comparison.

Really Salon, is this the kind of crap we're going to be subjected to? Just because we're all excited to see a black family in the White House, does that mean we have to listen to every black person's inner thoughts on the subject, no matter how banal? The premise is stupid enough but to top it off M.O. doesn't even have a big butt!

.. the same writer has also authored a Salon article about Jennifer Lopez's butt.

Is journalism now so specialized that writers make a career of writing about particular parts of the anatomy? Can this article be reworked and sold to the Quarterly Journal of Buttock Studies, or remodeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?

Where where the articles about a cigarette smoker like me when yellow-fingered Laura Bush's butts were placed in the White House ash-trays?

Michelle is somewhat statuesque, but she is no Hottentot, and like millions of American women of all ages and races she tries to choose clothes, hairstyles, and makeup that make her look good for public consumption and conceal her ugliest features.

Nothing wrong with that.

Here we go--you think the cat thing got letters?

Nobody is talking about Barack's butt, I've noticed. If you're a feminist, be a feminist. Women are people, not sexualized objects, remember? Barack's butt is off limits; Michelle's butt should be off limits too.

So I guess we can expect a piece on the inspiring magnificence of Obama's emblematic black man's package next week? No? But wait a minute, why would you devote an entire story to a secondary sexual characteristic of the first la--

Right. Got it.

She sticks out in all the right places. Of course, Kucinich would have had the hottest first lady of all the candidates...with Fred Thompson's wife coming in a close second.

Okay, this is just wrong.

Who cares.

Daikon legs.

How unfortunate that the grace period for not discussing Michelle Obama's physique is apparently over.

I thought the piece was tongue in cheek funny..pun intended.

Michelle Obama is a very fit-looking woman. She works at looking as she does.

No, you're wrong about the Election Night dress. It was unsuited to her figure for two reasons. First, she is short-waisted and it emphasized her waist. It was nothing to do with her butt. The Thakoon she wore on the night of Obama's nomination speech looked much better on her. Second, that designer dress had been altered in such a way as to ruin the proportions of the original design, which was quite low-cut. Neither would the original have flattered Michelle, cause while baby might have back, she ain't got no front.

That said, I think Michelle will grow her role as an exemplar of the black female figure and as a fashion icon. She has very little choice, since apparently every aspect of the first couple will be examined, physical, psychological, and emotional. Their marriage will become a veritable fish bowl. If they quarrel in the presence of staff, it will leak out.

What sort of dog will they get?

Will she be stifled in her Mom-role?

Does he actually like his MIL?

When will their eldest daughter develop breasts?

What sort of underwear does he wear?

No, don't answer that question. While I might like to know if he has back (it is hard to tell in those suits), I don't really want to know about his underwear.

I am glad black women will feel liberated by Michelle's figure, just as skinny women probably felt liberated by Jackie's, and women with premature lines radiating from their upper lips no doubt feel liberated by Laura's mouth.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we didn't, any of us of any race, feel the need to be liberated/validated by the bodies of other women. After all, we all have our own.

There's absolutely no comparison to Jackie Kennedy. Jackie was

demure; a classic beauty; refined, with her own natural style. The classiest First Lady we'll ever see.

when's Debra Dickerson going to come back and admit her huge error in attacking Obama repeatedly on this website? Does she still think he's "uppity"?

fine black ass in a dashiki for the next 8 years in the White House, and gets her hair up in a big old natural! And takes a stroll every godDAMNED saturday morning down the capitol mall (while reading Harvard Law Review).

And I think the fabric here:

http://afrofabric.com/voile-lace/5yards-yellow-black-voile-lace.html

will be perfect for the Oval Office and a re-do of the Lincoln Bedroom.

It's about time.

Jackie's mother thought she wore her skirts too short. She also wore light-colored t-shirts without a bra after Jack was gone. She had this affected, little-girl voice. When she married again, she got a very advantageous prenup agreement from Onassis.

She was never demure. She was shrewd. Demure is what we often end up calling upperclass women who get their way. Now just what would we call some woman from a trailer park who managed to snag Aristotle Onassis? Not demure.

who read this article with a big grin on her face. It was exuberant and joyful - a celebration. Nothing wrong with that. Michelle Obama is beautiful and intelligent - and she has a sense of humor. Just maybe she would get a chuckle out of this essay too.

This is a new low for Salon, which in recent weeks has been hitting new lows daily. Palin the dominatrix? Michelle Obama's ... black booty?

Salon is establishing itself as "Political news for hipsters too dumb to actually understand anything."

From "That's right. I'm going to talk about the first lady's butt" to "miscegenation" just a few paragraphs down. This is demeaning, vacuous tripe that doesn't even work as satire. The size and shape of Michelle Obama's butt is not a topic from which any of us can hope to derive enlightenment, nor will it dispel any stereotypes. Is Salon really this desperate for material? If so, I have a drawerful of musings on Christopher Hitchens's nipples, David Sedaris's calves and Greta van Susteren's nose you might want to look at.