One can assume, I believe, that all the support staff on the campaigns are not just there to help with the speeches and handshaking, but also to tell the candidates, and their spouses, what to wear, how to appear approachable, etc. So what is going on, over at Obama’s camp, with the styling of Michelle? I hate to say it, but she’s looking a lot like Condi. It’s as though someone in their camp thought, well, this is how Americans accept a black woman looking.
Granted it’s no seperated at birth, but notice the flipped hair, the dark suit, the little pearl earrings… I would think they would have done Michelle’s hair more differently than “a messy” version of Condi’s That Girl flip. Not only do I question what it say about politics, but what does it say about politicos’ opinion of the American People and what we’ll accept? Open wide for pablum. Yum.
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
March 4, 2008 at 9:52 pm
roderic
perhaps this hair skewed young in demographic testing, or somehow conveys the idea of domestic competence? second-hand electability?
maybe there was an attempt by the obama people to confuse the voters into thinking barrack obama is married to condi (i sometimes got confused and thought that colin powell was condi’s father).
given that many white people think all black people look alike, this could represent an insidious effort by unscrupulous persons to obfuscate michelle’s true identity (condi had the hair first after all, apparently since 1952). maybe next they will dress michelle as a winter (like condi), when clearly she is a summer.
for realsies, i think it only looks the same from the back. michelle’s hair has more movement and is less helmet-y. condi’s hair is constipated.
March 5, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Dave Saldana
could’ve been worse. they could’ve gone for the harriett myers look.