So, How Did Michelle Obama Get to the Target Store for Her Phony “I Shop Just Like Common People” Photo Op?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 10, 2011
Did she use a taxpayer-funded jet for this questionable photo op? First Lady Michelle Obama 'caught' shopping at a Alexandria, Virginia Target store a few weeks ago
First Lady Michelle Obama’s contrived photographed shopping excursion at a Virgina Target store, complete with baseball cap and the Associated Press conveniently there to snap photos of her buying dog food and Lysol, bothered me when it happened.
I’m not the only one struck by the bogus photo op — I’ve wondered how did Michelle arrive at the Target store in Alexandria. Was there a multi-vehicle procession or did she fly there via a taxpayer-funded jet? Photos outside the store weren’t permitted, the store was in lock-down mode, so no telling how many armored cars were parked outside Target. And how often does Michelle “sneak” off to shop there?
Dr. Milton Wolf at Washington Times also wonders about this trip… he speculates and wrote this about the recent PR disasters of Michelle Obama:
Finally, the White House has decided to be transparent – and embarrassingly so. The first lady officially announced her husband’s kickoff of the 2012 election with a thinly veiled photo-op trip to a local Target discount store.
It’s not clear if Mrs. Obama took her own taxpayer-funded private jet to the store or perhaps three jets to accommodate her entourage, as she did for her European vacation. Sources are unclear how often she frequents the Target stores at her usual getaways to places such as Vail, Hawaii or Martha’s Vineyard or whether she wears her $42,000 diamond bracelets while clipping coupons.
The same woman who couldn’t find anything about America that made her proud until her husband was nominated to run for president is now the proud bargain shopper. The same woman who acknowledged that “my scores weren’t high enough” to be admitted to Princeton but still was somehow given a spot and later raked in a cool $200,000 raise as a “diversity consultant” – coincidentally just as her husband was rising in national prominence – is suddenly just one of us commoners. Who knew?
Seriously, whom does the White House think it will win over or even placate with its newly released photos of the jet-set first lady donning a ball cap and pushing her own shopping cart around the discount store? How dumb must it think Americans are? What’s next? Schlepping the kids around in a minivan?
We all expect politicians to pander to the great unwashed masses, but this is just embarrassing. The photograph deserves its own wing in the Bad Political Photo-ops Hall of Fame. This is John-Kerry-crawling-on-all-fours-in-his-hoodie-spaceman-costume embarrassing. It’s Michael-Dukakis-bouncing-around-in-a-tank-with-an-oversized-helmet embarrassing. It’s Barack-Obama- bowling-a-37 embarrassing.
Of course, this isn’t the first photo-op disaster for the first lady. Who can forget the priceless image of Michelle Obama smiling gaily while being photographed by a downtrodden patron at a homeless soup kitchen with his $500 Blackberry smartphone? Well, maybe it wasn’t entirely priceless. After all, she was sporting her $540 Lanvin sneakers at the time.
Mustn’t forget her White House gardening photo op last year when she wore expensive designer fashion boots:
October 2010: FLOTUS & her staged gardening photo op - the boots cost $495
From Jeannieology at Big Government, there are more observations about Michelle-O’s questionable Target trip (plus juicy must-read background on a publicized photo taken of Bill and Hillary Clinton being all cutesy-lovey-dovey and slow-dancing on the beach in St. Thomas, during the height of his sordid Paula Jones scandal in 1994) — With Barack’s Polls Lagging, Michelle Obama Smiles (And Dresses Down) for The Cameras:
Michelle Obama is either a woman who thinks Americans are slow on the uptake or couldn’t care less what any of us think.
Recently recruited to assist the re-election efforts of a president whose poll numbers are falling faster than his wife changes outfits, it seemed time to call out the cameras, change from couture into khakis, and send Mrs. Obama on a shopping trip that screams “I push around red shopping carts and pre-scan items to keep on a budget, too.”
Resurrecting the subject of shopping in an attempt to make the President’s wife appear to identify with those who’ve compared the lines at Target with those at Wal-Mart, über brilliant liberal advisers dispatched the same woman who recently wore $40K in diamond-encrusted wristlets to a fundraising event, to stage a bargain-shop for Lysol and dog food.
Although accompanied by photographers and a cavalcade of Secret Service, Democrats can only hope that while at Target the incognito Mrs. Obama thought ahead and purchased a one-piece bathing suit for herself and boxer-style swim trunks for Barack.
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Maybe she was stocking up on lysol to donate to all those filthy bums barry is astroturfing at the occupy wall street party?
The must think we are ALL MORONS to buy this BS. She’ll get a rude awakening soon.