The winds of change are a'blowin'.
His speech on the 4th was fantastic (as was McCain's, assuming that it was from his close-to-cardiac-arrest heart), and I felt a swelling sense of pride as I watched the first black family enter onto the stage: Obama, his daughter's Malia Ann and Natasha, and then... WTF?? is Michelle Obama wearing?!
Ordinarily I would try my hardest to rebel against agreeing the opinions of others, but I have admit: most people I've talked to feel very passionately about this dress... the same sort of passion the KKK probably feels about this whole situation.
If I've ever hated anything in my life...
What's a little comforting about my decline into the public general consensus is that EVERYONE hates that thing, giving me more faith in the fashion-challenged members of our country... and less in Mrs. Obama's impending first-lady fashion threads.
The hideous thing was regurgitated out of the mind of Narciso Rodriguez - a designer whom I generally don't despise - based on the 2009 Spring collection and probably cost at LEAST a thousand buckaroos.
HOPEFULLY because it's only WINTER 2008, those two were just extremely fashion forward and all of us spectators will stop griping and fall in love with the outfit after the New Year... but I doubt it.
Something like a black widow spider comes to mind when my eyes wander haphazardly onto those garbs - a term even more unnerving considering how paranoid I am that Obama may not make it to January 20th.
Mrs. Obama, I still love you. I forgive you. It's been a long campaign, and this has been the only real fashion discrepancy that I've felt horrible enough to comment on. But I beg of you, not only as an American, but as a person who is not visibly-handicapped... don't ever in your life do that again.
And oh, "congratulations."
--- TRU.KIDD (honorary ?E?)
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