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(Washington Post) Unlikely Work-life balance is a challenge, says the First Lady, so every family needs a "chief of staff and a personal assistant" just like she has   (voices.washingtonpost.com) divider line 132
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harryasaboy 2009-05-08 10:45:13 AM  
Her predecessor had them, too. Back then, it was a good thing. Now very bad.
Context was a joke.
/whine much? sheesh

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 10:55:02 AM  
She is - of course - the first First Lady to ever have those...

I can just picture her in her trampy sleeveless gown ordering her servants to smother her arugula with Dijon mustard. God I hate those elitists SOOOO much!!1!

 
40below [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 10:57:10 AM  
i47.photobucket.com

 
KaponoFor3 [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-08 10:57:18 AM  
"Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants," Obama said with a laugh as she spoke before a crowd of business executives meeting today during a "Corporate Voices for Working Families" conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

"Well if that isn't socialist, then I don't know what is."

 
KaponoFor3 [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-08 10:57:55 AM  
... and yes, that above post is a joke.

 
SusanIvanova [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 11:03:13 AM  
Yes, everyone should have aides. And I'm sure Michelle Obama will personally give aides to every underpriviliged child in Africa.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 11:14:34 AM  
She should conscript conservatives and force them to do this for no pay. It'd be a good learning experience for them and let them make a positive contribution to their country for a change.

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 11:22:05 AM  
That is uppity.

 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 11:23:32 AM  
Mordant: She should conscript conservatives and force them to do this for no pay. It'd be a good learning experience for them and let them make a positive contribution to their country for a change.

You're RaR's puppetmaster, aren't you?

 
Wight Power [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:16:03 PM  
i223.photobucket.com

Surely relevant in some way

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:16:48 PM  
What's with this Obama spicy mustard business? Is it Dijon or Bavarian? Because if anyone criticizes Bavarian mustard, I will have to run them over in my VW Golf.

 
quizzical 2009-05-08 12:20:22 PM  
img.fark.com First Lady Makes Joke

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:20:39 PM  
When I win Powerball, I'm hiring both...and both will be midgets.

 
Freak Flag Fly [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:21:16 PM  
All y'all Right Wingers should switch from Faux News and go over to Comedy Central once in awhile. You might learn to recognize irony and humor. Plus a few other things.

 
Mr_Fabulous 2009-05-08 12:21:32 PM  
Kidding aside, it seems like she and Barry Hussein Osama-bin-Marx have done an all-right job raising those kids. They appear to be decent young girls.

/yes, I said the same about Jenna & Barb
//yeah, and Chelsea too
///whatever

 
Shaggy_C 2009-05-08 12:21:53 PM  
Let's see here. She doesn't have to cook, cos that's all done for her. She doesn't have to raise the brats, cos there's white house nannies at her disposal. She doesn't have to clean cos there's maids all over the place. She doesn't work at that hospital that got all the porkbarrel money any more. What does she do other than buy makeup and drink wine on the couch and go shopping for expensive things and occasionally go give a 15 minutes speech? I guess she needs the personal assistant to answer her calls and a chief of staff to order more caviar to go with her wine so she doesn't have to speak to the 'normies' lol

 
InteriorDesignNinja 2009-05-08 12:21:57 PM  
Wight Power: Surely relevant in some way

...would that be the Republican Party after 8 years of Bush rebranding?!?

/zing!

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-05-08 12:22:39 PM  
How did the subby miss the first paragraph?

First lady Michelle Obama called her "current life" in the White House "a very blessed situation, because I have what most families don't have -- tons of support all around, not just my mother, but staff and administration. I have a chief of staff and a personal assistant, and everyone needs that."

And then followed with...

"Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants," Obama said with a laugh as she spoke before a crowd of business executives meeting today during a "Corporate Voices for Working Families" conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

 
Car_Ramrod 2009-05-08 12:22:51 PM  
But would that personal assistant have their own personal assistant? Would it be personal assistants all the way down?

 
Anti_illuminati [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:22:53 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: When I win Powerball, I'm hiring both...and both will be midgets.

And I'll bet you'll put the pots and pans in the top cupboard. You cruel, cruel man.

 
Shaggy_C 2009-05-08 12:24:12 PM  
All2morrowsparTs: with a laugh

I just hear that snide, condescending rich person laugh. "Why doesn't everyone have box seats to the opera, ha ha ha" or "I don't know why anyone would ever eat a steak not imported from Argentina, ha ha ha".

 
someonelse 2009-05-08 12:24:35 PM  
Shaggy_C: Let's see here. She doesn't have to cook, cos that's all done for her. She doesn't have to raise the brats, cos there's white house nannies at her disposal. She doesn't have to clean cos there's maids all over the place. She doesn't work at that hospital that got all the porkbarrel money any more. What does she do other than buy makeup and drink wine on the couch and go shopping for expensive things and occasionally go give a 15 minutes speech? I guess she needs the personal assistant to answer her calls and a chief of staff to order more caviar to go with her wine so she doesn't have to speak to the 'normies' lol

Gosh, it's almost hard to believe you're single. Catch this one before he gets away, ladies!

 
Kit Carson 2009-05-08 12:24:51 PM  
b - b - b - but Bush!

(Is that how it works?)

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:25:41 PM  
Mr_Fabulous: /yes, I said the same about Jenna & Barb

Wait...you said that Jenna & Barb seemed like 'decent young girls'?

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-05-08 12:26:22 PM  
Car_Ramrod: But would that personal assistant have their own personal assistant? Would it be personal assistants all the way down?

Turtles

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:26:49 PM  
Anti_illuminati: And I'll bet you'll put the pots and pans in the top cupboard. You cruel, cruel man.

Damn straight. If I'm hiring midgets, I'm hiring them for entertainment. Do you think I care how good they are at writing shorthand?

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:27:50 PM  
All2morrowsparTs: Turtles

img4.imageshack.us
Ready to take dictation

 
Phil Herup 2009-05-08 12:28:18 PM  
OMG.... she is soooo beautiful.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:28:24 PM  
Shaggy_C: All2morrowsparTs: with a laugh

I just hear that snide, condescending rich person laugh. "Why doesn't everyone have box seats to the opera, ha ha ha" or "I don't know why anyone would ever eat a steak not imported from Argentina, ha ha ha".


You hear what you want to hear - that which reinforces your prejudice. Normal people her a woman making a joke.

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-05-08 12:29:19 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: Anti_illuminati: And I'll bet you'll put the pots and pans in the top cupboard. You cruel, cruel man.

Damn straight. If I'm hiring midgets, I'm hiring them for entertainment. Do you think I care how good they are at writing shorthand?


what you did, there I see

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2009-05-08 12:29:21 PM  
I thought making a joke was bad? I mustard been mistaken.

 
InteriorDesignNinja 2009-05-08 12:29:46 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: Anti_illuminati: And I'll bet you'll put the pots and pans in the top cupboard. You cruel, cruel man.

Damn straight. If I'm hiring midgets, I'm hiring them for entertainment. Do you think I care how good they are at writing shorthand?


Depends: do you enjoy making your assistants take a dictation just for kicks? You know, Peter-Griffin-writing-to-Kellogg's-Cereal style?

 
Shaggy_C 2009-05-08 12:29:59 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: You hear what you want to hear - that which reinforces your prejudice.

Prejudice? Yes, this does stir up my hatred of the ultra-wealthy in general. Nothing against the Obamas, but I hate rich people. Especially snide ones who joke about their perfect lives and expect us to laugh right along with them.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:30:02 PM  
Phil Herup: OMG.... she is soooo beautiful.

Just use a tissue afterward.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:31:29 PM  
InteriorDesignNinja: Depends: do you enjoy making your assistants take a dictation just for kicks? You know, Peter-Griffin-writing-to-Kellogg's-Cereal style?

If I got that rich and hired them, I really don't know what I'd do.

"Hey...you. Climb up on top of that stepladder and pretend you're a chicken"

"Ok...you two...back into the ewok costumes. Great, now let me get my bat"

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-05-08 12:32:49 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: InteriorDesignNinja: Depends: do you enjoy making your assistants take a dictation just for kicks? You know, Peter-Griffin-writing-to-Kellogg's-Cereal style?

If I got that rich and hired them, I really don't know what I'd do.

"Hey...you. Climb up on top of that stepladder and pretend you're a chicken"

"Ok...you two...back into the ewok costumes. Great, now let me get my bat"


twisted midget porn.

 
Spanky_McFarksalot 2009-05-08 12:32:58 PM  
I heard in the 2010 budget they eliminate unemployment by making everyone out of work the personal assistant of someone who's still got a job.

I'm hoping for porn star assistant.

 
FVendetta 2009-05-08 12:33:03 PM  
Rahm Emanuel can micromanage my life any time he wants.

That's right, berate me, tiny dancer.

 
dstanley 2009-05-08 12:34:13 PM  
I always joke that I want to have enough money to afford an entourage and a cocaine habit.

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-05-08 12:35:36 PM  
Spanky_McFarksalot: I heard in the 2010 budget they eliminate unemployment by making everyone out of work the personal assistant of someone who's still got a job.

I'm hoping for porn star assistant.


They are called fluffers.

 
FightDirector 2009-05-08 12:36:13 PM  
Spanky_McFarksalot: I heard in the 2010 budget they eliminate unemployment by making everyone out of work the personal assistant of someone who's still got a job.

I'm hoping for porn star assistant.


I'd suggest "female porn star's" assistant if I were you. Just sayin...

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:37:08 PM  
Shaggy_C: Lionel Mandrake: You hear what you want to hear - that which reinforces your prejudice.

Prejudice? Yes, this does stir up my hatred of the ultra-wealthy in general. Nothing against the Obamas, but I hate rich people. Especially snide ones who joke about their perfect lives and expect us to laugh right along with them.


You question my use of the term "prejudice" and then make a blanket statement of hatred against a group of people?

You're not very bright.

 
alternative girlfriend [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:38:04 PM  
Shaggy_C: Prejudice? Yes, this does stir up my hatred of the ultra-wealthy in general. Nothing against the Obamas, but I hate rich people. Especially snide ones who joke about their perfect lives and expect us to laugh right along with them.

You do realize that this is the first time the Obamas have had anyof these things, right? That, before the election, it was basically the Obamas did everything like regular people, with maybe help from Grandma, right?

You also do realize thatFirst Lady was probably responding to a frequent question about how she handles all of her responsibilities, right?

Yeesh, talk about looking for something to complain about.

 
Spade 2009-05-08 12:39:51 PM  
I could use a chief of staff and personal assistant.

Of course I'm too busy saving money to keep my head above water for when my DOD job gets axed in the Fall. I'm sure the money will be much better spent on Palestine or proping up a failing company with a bad business model.

/how do you leech off welfare?
//seems like a decent gig.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-05-08 12:42:14 PM  
I had a houseboy once.

Kinda like a personal assistant.

 
Phil Herup 2009-05-08 12:42:42 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: "Hey...you. Climb up on top of that stepladder and pretend you're a chicken"

"Ok...you two...back into the ewok costumes. Great, now let me get my bat"




You would be a fun rich guy.

- would definitely hang out with!

 
GanjSmokr 2009-05-08 12:43:05 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: You hear what you want to hear - that which witch reinforces your prejudice.

FTFY

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-05-08 12:43:50 PM  
Elitist pot shots at the first lady -- someone has a love for them. As they're extremely predictable.

 
Phil Herup 2009-05-08 12:44:22 PM  
vernonFL: I had a houseboy once.


tbn1.google.com

 
Spade 2009-05-08 12:45:01 PM  
alternative girlfriend: Shaggy_C: Prejudice? Yes, this does stir up my hatred of the ultra-wealthy in general. Nothing against the Obamas, but I hate rich people. Especially snide ones who joke about their perfect lives and expect us to laugh right along with them.

You do realize that this is the first time the Obamas have had anyof these things, right? That, before the election, it was basically the Obamas did everything like regular people, with maybe help from Grandma, right?


Yeah, regular folks with $300k+ gigs at hospitals where the job description was "be married to an influential politician".

Why, she's just like me. Except for the $300k a year job, huge house, influential spouse bit. I mean, I bet we both eat steak. Of course I have to save up for mine and buy it from the supermarket instead of getting the stuff flown in from Japan or something. But similar.

 
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