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Take a gander at the photo in this piece by – and read some of the comments to – Andrew Malcom at the L.A. Times.

Andrew wrote about Michelle Obama’s recent PR stunt volunteerism in a D.C. soup kitchen and dared ask how a homeless person in need of a meal owns a cell phone (with which he took the First Lady’s picture).

From the close of Andrew’s piece:

If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?

And if he is homeless, where do they send the cell phone bills?

I chuckled and then scrolled down to read the comments, most of which are dripping with outrage at poor Andrew’s cruel-mindedness.  How DARE him?!

Said they:  The cell phone could be pre-paid; he needs it so he can receive calls from potential employers; maybe a friend or family member is paying for it; etc.

Could be.  But Andrew’s questions were still funny, and the photo of Michelle Obama hamming it up for the guy’s camera is great.

After the article made its way around the office, a co-worker asked:  “nevermind how he got it and who pays for it; where does he charge the battery?”

A gold star goes to the best smart-alec answer (leave in Comments).

Well, I’ve listened to an hour+ of commentary and been on a dozen blogs and no one is mentioning the thing that (to me) stood out most in Michelle Obama’s speech:  she started at least a dozen sentences with the word “See…” to the point that the repetition became a distraction and annoyance.

I took it this way:  ”See, it’s like this” and “See, let me tell you how” and “See, this is what you have to understand.”  As she delivered her lines, she was just shy of being vein-poppingly earnest.  Which is to say, she wasn’t quite convincing except in her obvious desire to make us See what she thinks we need to See in order to put she and her husband in the White House.

Coupled with the finger pointing and subtle head-bobbing which both increased as the moments ticked on (go back to the video and watch for it) I couldn’t help but think, “You can take the girl out of the South Side, but you can’t take the South Side out of the girl.” 

No soft dress, salon-styled hair, and suave speech writer can make Michelle Obama other than what she is:  an overtly proud and condescending woman with an attitude a mile high.