Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer wrote:
 RC> Hello Ross!

 RC> 04 May 09 17:54, you wrote to Stan Hardegree:

 SH>>> 2.  Michelle Obama goes to work at a food bank wearing $550
 SH>>> sneakers. $550. If you saw the picture of them over the weekend
 SH>>> you think 1) she paid that much money for THOSE ugly ass things?
 SH>>> and 2) what sort of mindless half wit wears shoes that expensive
 SH>>> to work at a goddam food bank?

 RS>> *SHE* likes the shoes *SHE* paid for, twit.
 RS>> Ever figure that Michelle Obama likes having on comfortable shoes?

 RC> hahahahahahahahaha, lame response..

 RC> First off, had Laura Bush had done something like that, you would have
 RC> been all over it like maggots to a corpse, you would have launched into
 RC> a spit spewing rage followed up by convulsions on the floor with foam
 RC> coming out of your mouth.

 RC> She (Michelle) was on what amounts to be a photo op, she was in front of
 RC> needy destitute people, wearing a pair of shoes that cost more than what
 RC> the government sends **YOU** a month.

 RC> No one faults her for wearing or wanting expensive shoes, the Obamas
 RC> certainly made enough money last year to afford such things, heck
 RC> becoming President, the household took a paycut.

 RC> It sends the wrong signal because of the event..

 RC> For the amount of time she was at that event, a $25 pair of Walmart
 RC> specials would have been more appropriate.

And no one would have noticed much difference.

Ed

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