By: Bonnie Fuller
This appeared in alternet.org, see full story
Have the Republicans reverted to a party with so little to say that they are reduced to making feeble jabs at Michelle Obama’s biceps? Are they so afraid of the new Obama era that the First Lady’s arms are enough of a symbol of power that they cower before them?
That can be the only explanation for Republican lite David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, to tell his fellow Times columnist Maureen Dowd that Michelle Obama should put away her arms, “Thunder and Lightning.” Thunder and lightning? Has he actually named the biceps that offend him?
He went on to complain that Michelle’s stunning eggplant sleeveless Narcisco Rodriguez dress, which she wore to Congress, was “ostentatious.” And that the First Lady should not be known for one body part.
Brooks also had the nerve to say that “sometimes I think half the reason Obama ran for president is so Michelle would have a platform to show off her biceps.”
If that doesn’t sound like a sore loser running scared, then I don’t know what does.
