Michelle Obama has been making the talk show rounds this week (“The Tonight Show,” “Rachael Ray”) and now “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” to talk about her fitness and healthy eating initiative. She already made Jay Leno eat vegetables, and now, the First Lady shows off her athletic skills in a competition with Ellen DeGeneres: Read full article > >

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Ellen DeGeneres challenges Michelle Obama to a push-up contest (Video)

Michelle Obama has been making the talk show rounds this week (“The Tonight Show,” “Rachael Ray”) and now “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” to talk about her fitness and healthy eating initiative. She already made Jay Leno eat vegetables, and now, the First Lady shows off her athletic skills in a competition with Ellen DeGeneres: Read full article > >

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Ellen DeGeneres challenges Michelle Obama to a push-up contest (Video)

Michelle Obama has been making the talk show rounds this week (“The Tonight Show,” “Rachael Ray”) and now “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” to talk about her fitness and healthy eating initiative. She already made Jay Leno eat vegetables, and now, the First Lady shows off her athletic skills in a competition with Ellen DeGeneres: Read full article > >

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Ellen DeGeneres challenges Michelle Obama to a push-up contest (Video)

President Obama has called on a special guest to help him make his case for economic fairness during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night: Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek. Bosanek will be among the guests in first lady Michelle Obama’s box in the House chamber when Obama delivers his third annual report to Congress at 9 p.m. She is the inspiration for the president’s call for wealthier Americans to pay a higher tax rate, known as the “Buffett rule,” which Obama is expected to highlight again in his speech. Read full article > >

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Warren Buffett’s secretary to sit with Michelle Obama during State of the Union

If there’s one thing we love to do as a nation, it’s to judge one another for what we eat. This is part of what’s made Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move; Here, Have A Salad” campaign so mesmerizing. We hate being told what not to eat, what to eat, that we’re too fat or that we’re too skinny. Find a seemingly well-adjusted person and ask about her weight, and nine times out of 10 you are suddenly tangled in a mess of exposed nerves, and everyone involved has to undergo several years of therapy. Read full article > >

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Alexandra Petri: Paula Deen and our unhealthy fixation

I   can’t speak for Michelle Obama , but call me an angry white woman. If the first lady isn’t angry, she certainly has every right to be. Like every woman I know, black or white, I’ve watched Mrs. Obama with respect, admiration and arm-envy. Every woman. We talk about her unique role in American history, and we are proud and impressed. I’ve interviewed a former first lady’s chief of staff, various Republican operatives, and former staffers for previous presidents, and without exception, they all say the same thing: “I admire her so much.” Read full article > >

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Denigrating Michelle Obama with the ‘angry black woman’ slur

Michelle Obama is rejecting stories of White House conflicts between her office and the president’s and says people have wrongly tried to portray her as “some angry black woman.” In a wide-ranging interview with CBS anchor Gayle King, Obama challenged characterizations of her in “ The Obamas ,” a new book by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor that describes the first lady as a forceful shadow operator in her husband’s administration. Read full article > >

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First lady rejects White House drama

Michelle Obama could have stayed home with her lips sealed today, and gotten a head-start on the annual Easter egg hunt. Instead she spoke about the alleged conflicts with former White House advisers described in Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,” a type of work the first lady pointedly said she does not read. Read full article > >

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Michelle Obama: I’m not ‘some angry black woman’

First lady Michelle Obama got into the Christmas spirit Saturday by helping field phone calls from excited children eagerly tracking Santa and his sleigh full of toys across the world.

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First lady helps track Santa

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his family attended a worship service Sunday morning at an Episcopal church just across the street from the White House where presidents frequently have visited. The president, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia made the short walk across Lafayette Square to St. John’s Church. Read full article > >

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Amid the festive sparkle of 37 Christmas trees and a 400-pound gingerbread White House , Michelle Obama honored military families as she unveiled her 2011 holiday decor. The “Shine, Give, Share” theme was reflected in the East Room’s shimmering quartz ornaments and the silver pine cones in the Entrance Hall. The stately 1767 portrait of Ben Franklin in the Green Room looked curiously out at the recycled aluminum trees adorning antique tables. The first lady added some glitter to the Wednesday afternoon event as well, wearing a black knit dress with a sparkly white collar . Read full article > >

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Bo is Christmas star in White House decor

Amid the festive sparkle of 37 Christmas trees and a 400-pound gingerbread White House , Michelle Obama honored military families as she unveiled her 2011 holiday decor. The “Shine, Give, Share” theme was reflected in the East Room’s shimmering quartz ornaments and the silver pine cones in the Entrance Hall. The stately 1767 portrait of Ben Franklin in the Green Room looked curiously out at the recycled aluminum trees adorning antique tables. The first lady added some glitter to the Wednesday afternoon event as well, wearing a black knit dress with a sparkly white collar . Read full article > >

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Bo is Christmas star in White House decor

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and family dog Bo have witnessed arrival of a 19-foot balsam fir from Wisconsin as the official White House Christmas tree. The fir came from Tom and Sue Schroeder’s Forevergreens farm near Neshkoro, Wis. It’s the first time one of the Schroeder’s trees has made it to the White House. Read full article > >

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Oh Christmas Tree: Michelle Obama, daughters, Bo receive official White House Christmas tree

Introduces Michelle Obama with ‘Baby Got Back.’

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Limbaugh Criticizes Bachmann Song

After nearly three years of limiting her time in the public sphere, Michelle Obama is suddenly ubiquitous as motivator in chief.

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Michelle Obama’s Mission: Energizing the Campaign