Courtesy of Pam Martens.
Michelle Obama On the Current Cover of Vogue Magazine
During the Great Depression, the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was rapidly creating programs to address joblessness, poverty and the plight of the homeless. The First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, traveled tens of thousands of miles around the country, year after year, to check on those programs and report back to the public in a syndicated column she wrote six days a week titled “My Day.”
In the Great Recession, with 46.2 million Americans living in poverty, including one in every five children according to the U.S. Census Bureau, President Obama is spending his weekends in the Middle East or at a millionaire’s golf club while First Lady Michelle Obama adorns the current issue of Vogue wearing designer clothes costing more than it would take to feed a family of four for a year. This comes on the heels of the First Lady’s February 24th appearance by satellite in another designer gown (a silver, custom beaded tulle by Naeem Khan) to present the best picture award at the Oscars.
The Vogue cover story on the First Lady has an inside photo of her wearing a Michael Kors black top and ballroom skirt. The magazine wants us to know that her hair is by Johnny Wright and her makeup is by Carl Ray. This magazine hits newsstands in the same month that the Coalition for the Homeless is reporting more than 21,000 homeless children in New York City, an increase of 22 percent in the last year and the greatest homeless crisis since the Great Depression.
The Vogue article quotes the First Lady as follows:
“Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole. You know, we have small kids; they’re growing every day. But I think we were both pretty straightforward when we said, ‘Our number-one priority is making sure that our family is whole.’ ”
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