Just where has Michelle been since the inauguration?

 

I started to write this blog on one subject, then I got to thinking about another, so we'll just cover them both.

 

First, have you seen Michelle Obama's latest Vogue cover? Here it is:

 

 

Let's compare it to her 2009 Vogue cover:

 

Do you see any difference in the face? Does her nose look thinner in the new photo? Is the skin a little tighter around the lips? Does it look like her cheeks are thinner? Does she look a little like Jerry Jones in that new one?

Now think about it -- how many pictures of Michelle have you seen since last January's inauguration?

A little plastic surgery, you think?

What I really started to write this post about was how Michelle and Barack have common experiences with every newsmaker around. The latest is Michelle's assertion that "Hadiya Pendleton was me, and I was her." Hadiya was the teenager who was killed in Chicago (the city with some of the strictest gun control in the nation) after her high school band performed at the inauguration.

Then there was Michelle on the news the other day proclaiming she was a single mom.

And Barack saying if he had a son, he would look just like Trayvon Martin.

I guess these people have to create an image for themselves, because they have no sense of who they really are -- they are whatever they need to be in order to get what they want  -- power.

"For first lady, gun debate is personal." The Dallas Morning News; April 11, 2013; p. 2A.