It just kills us that Elizabeth Edwards has to go through this.
This month's Harper's Bazaar features Tyra as Michelle Obama. And a delicious hottie named Roman as Barack Obama.
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It just kills us that Elizabeth Edwards has to go through this.
Man, ever since that Obama cat learned to text, he's been thinking he is just 2 cool 4 school. He's been blowing up our phone left and right! (Well, maybe just left...)
Anyhow, the technocrat told us (via text, of course) that he will announce his vice presidential pick via text message between now and the DNC convention which starts August 25th. If you want to be the first to know who will be rolling with him to The White House (or trying to roll, anyway), text VP to 62262 or go over here.
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Michelle Obama
Will Michelle officially become America's First Fashionista? We'll find out on Novermber 4th.
Photo: Michelle Obama in Donna Riccio with co-hosts of The View.
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Michelle Obama is on the cover of Ebony this month. She talked to the magazine about her style, getting in some me time, her husband and kids, and of course, politics. You can listen to excerpts of her interview over here.
Also in this issue is an interview with Michelle's mother, Marian Robinson. Mrs. Robinson talks about Michelle's childhood and the road to The White House.
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John McCain is a shoe slut, and he'll pay big money to get some. The Senator has been spotted big pimpin' Ferragamo Pregiato Moccasins, which retail at Neiman Marcus for $520.
Some other media outlets have poked fun at McCain for his high fashion expenditure, but we won't go there. We understand that like food, water, air and sex (uh... not the premarital kind, of course), fabulous shoes are a basic human need. As Carrie Bradshaw, esteemed lobbyist for the right to Choos, once said, "Sometimes you need really special shoes!"
So to John McCain, we say, "Go 'head, sole brother!"
Shoe ho in Ferragamo. Photo credit: The Huffington Post.
Meghan McCain poses for the September issue of Glamour
The September issue of Glamour dishes all you need to know about Meghan McCain. For starters, Meghan's not interested in dating a guy who wants to get closer to her dad than her:
I don't want to be an accessory to a guy's impending political career, and unfortunately I get that a lot. I'm not attracted to guys with political action committees, I'm sorry.... I'm attracted to men whose realities are different [from mine]. You'll get a lot further with me talking about art and music than you will talking about politics.... And I'd really hate myself if I dated a journalist.
Meghan has no interest in dudes who lack game, particularly the guy who tried to pick her up with this lameness: "Baby, I could totally give you a tour of the Capitol." Imagine the deflation of that guy's ego if Meghan told him her dad is John McCain, so she can see the Capitol any ol' time. And who uses pick up lines like that anyway? Alas, as we know all too well from personal experience, every other guy....
If even a potential first daughter can't escape weak game, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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Barack Obama might make an appearance at Lollapalooza. [The Chicago Sun-Times]
Sen.Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator in U.S. History, was indicted Tuesday for not reporting that he let corporate executives pimp his crib to the tune of $250,000. [The Washington Post]
PETA wants the Obama family to adopt "a homeless pound puppy." Ma and Pa Obama have promised the wee Obamas a puppy after the election. [The Los Angeles Times]
Not exactly the celebrity endorsement Barack Obama was hoping for.... Legendary record producer Phil Spector (best known for producing The Beatles' "Let It Be" album and "Imagine" by John Lennon) wore a "Barack Obama Rocks" button to his murder trial. Spector is accused of shooting a young actress to death in his home. [The Los Angeles Times]
Cindy McCain wrote an op-ed about her recent visit to Rwanda. "Women are at the forefront of the physical, emotional and spiritual healing that is moving Rwandan society forward. One of them, from eastern Rwanda, told me her story -- a violent, tragic and heartbreaking testimony of courage. She spoke of surviving multiple gang rapes, running at night in fear of losing her life, going days without food or water and witnessing the death of her entire family -- one person at a time, before her eyes." [The New York Times]
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Extra Extra! Read all about it over here! The Washington Post reports that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is at the top of Obama's short list for veep.
So who is this Tim Kaine guy anyway? Read on.
Today the RNC launched BarackBook, a new website that spoofs FaceBook and attacks Barack Obama. (Naughty naughty, RNC!) So many Obama supporters clowned the site on its message boards that the RNC reportedly had to take them down.
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Michelle Obama. Photo from her BlogHer bio page.
In addition to wife, mother, attorney, and political campaigner, Michelle Obama is adding blogger to her resume. She joins 15 million American women who already have their own blogs.
Michelle's blog will be carried on the BlogHer network. BlogHer, the online community for women who blog, has 26,000 members and is by far the most well known "meeting place" for women bloggers. Way to reach women voters, Michelle! We think this move is smart, smart, smart, expecially when you consider that women make up 54% of the electorate.
Being tech savvy is nothing new to the Obama camp. The campaign has used web organizing tools, blogging, viral video and text messaging to it's advantage from jump. Michelle's blog is yet another extension of the rock solid tech platform that the campaign has built to spread it's message, combat the the messages of political foes and create a momentum now known as Obama-mania.
Check out Michelle's blog over here and her BlogHer bio page here.
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When it comes to picking a president, ever wonder WWCD (what would Carrie do)? Well, here's where she stands on the issues.
Carrie on the Economy:
"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet."
Carrie on Technology:
"I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up."
Carrie on Civil Rights:
"Maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been given, and accessorize with the outfit we've got."
Carrie on Violence in Film and Television:
"Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember."
Carrie on Housing and Urban Development:
"Beauty is fleeting, but a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park is forever."
Carrie on Animal Rights:
"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat in a cuter outfit."
Carrie on Marriage:
"If you're single, after graduation there isn't one occasion where people celebrate you. Hallmark doesn't make a 'congratulations, you didn't marry the wrong guy' card. And where's the flatware for going on vacation alone?"
Indeed they did.
Margo was participating in the Stop Traffick with Fashion show to help raise money for Charity Network, Inc., a humanitarian initiative that works to stop child trafficking. Child trafficking forces children into sexual, domestic, sweatshop and field labor. Margo wants to help stop this horrible crime.
You should check out Margo's Kura Design handbags over here. Why? Because handbags that fight dirt bags are alway in.
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Glamour's editor-in-chief Cindi Leive and Sen. Barack Obama spoke at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.
Why is Cindi Leive so live? She is editor-in-chief of top women's publication Glamour, has scored one-on-one interviews with each of the presidential candidates, and looks understatedly fabulous in just a simple black dress. Some girls have all the luck smarts, savvy and style.
Leive sat down recently with Barack Obama and asked his reaction to political attacks on his wife Michelle. "It's infuriating," said the senator, adding later that "rarely do these foks have the guts to say it to [my] face." In defense of Michelle, he asserted:
Everybody who knows Michelle knows how extraordinary she is. She's ironically the most quintessentially American woman I know. She grew up in a "Leave it to Beaver" family. She is the best mother I know. And our kids are a testimony to that, because she's really had to raise them, oftentimes without me being there. She's the most honest person I know, she's smart, she's funny, so yeah, it infuriates me. And I think that it is an example of the erosion of civility in our political culture that she's been subjected to these attacks, and my attitude is that the people who have attacked her in the ways that they have...if they've got a difference with me on policy, they should debate me. Not her.
You can read a lengthier excerpt of Leive's interview with Obama in Glamour's Glamocracy blog over here. The full interview will be published in Glamour's October issue.
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