God help her if she wears white before Memorial Day or

[Are_grits_groceries]

after Labor Day.

The latest arms controversy embroiling the White House has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Instead, it's sprung from criticism about Michelle Obama showing off her toned triceps and biceps in her first official photo as first lady.
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But some are criticizing the South Side Chicago native for her choice of attire, calling it too informal and out of season.

And Obama's black dress with a strand of white pearls around her neck is just the most recent of her fashion choices that have featured her exposed arms.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6986019&page=1

They need to STFU! They're just mad because she can wear dresses that don't cocoon her entire body.

[Randomthought]

Agreed!

She has great shoulders and arms and she should show them off.

[azmouse]

1. The world is falling down around their RW ears and

all they care about is a sleeveless Michelle. Oy vey!

[supernova]

5. Ain't that the truth

Hey, it's a forward thinking photo. Much of the year, DC and the South in general are sleeveless weather anyway.

[sandnsea]

2. Well she was just asking for it, you know

I think this is the craziest comment I have read so far. Who are these women anyway.

"Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune, may as well have told Michelle to “lay back and enjoy it” by saying “any famous woman who bares her arms in front of the U. S. Congress, on television, in winter, may as well have texted an invitation to the nation to discuss her biceps.”

http://www.obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=185

[CTyankee]

3. But yesterday GMA showed photos of Jackie Kennedy in a sleeveless dress at a SOTU

address. So if Jackie did it....

Wait til spring and summer. We'll see more of Michelle's arms then and I say great.

Some people need to get a hobby and get off their unhealthy fixation on the First Lady's arms. It's stoopid...

[TexasProgresive]

4. To late

She blew that at the inauguration ball.

[Gman]

6. She better not wear white before Easter

it's not before Easter here...

The fashion police make the rules.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. You're right.

I forgot my rules. I wear white all the effing time.

[Gman]

12. You've been wearing white???

OMG are you in deep stuff!

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. My aunt would be ashamed I tell you. Ashamed! nt

[fasttense]

7. How dare she show her arms. Those religious fundamentalists think women

should be covered from head to foot. They wont be happy until all American women are wearing burqas.

[get the red out]

13. Except for their own

Ann Coulter doesn't exactly dress "conservatively", and she has no flesh to show! Just skin stretched over bones with a bad attitude on top.

[gratuitous]

9. They really have nothing, don't they?

And anybody foolish enough to say any of that to Mrs. Obama's face might want to be prepared to have her press their ears together. She's a lot classier than I am, though, and would probably settle for a gracious smile, a condescending comment cloaked by politeness, and she'd forget about the boor before she finished speaking.

[shireen]

10. i love how she's taking "them" on!

These idiots who dictate fashion don't own fashion!

[Rebubula]

11. This is less...

...Mrs. Obama bias and more gender bias.

The media always focuses on women's fashion than men's and they are very snippy\catty about it.

[Jamastiene]

14. She always looks classy.

They only wish they could look as good as she does. It's jealousy.

[liberal N proud]

16. It's tabloid TV

[tanyev]

17. She grew up in Chicago, fer cryin' out loud.

The temps in D.C. are warm and balmy to her.

[lies and propaganda]

18. I miss Pickles and her Drapery Gowns

Michelle just looks so modern and amazing all the time.

[NashVegas]

19. She Looks Great BUT - Here's the Problem

It's the same criticism women - and men - have when we're watching a TV show that's set in the northeast, and the cast is in sleeveless shirts and dresses, with spaghetti straps - and it's freaking 20 degrees outside!

Yes, Michelle looks wonderful sleeveless, but it's a FACT that as First Lady, and a very young, attractive, First Lady, women are going to imitate her style, if for no other reason than designers will mass produce her styles.

What makes it inappropriate is that they're wrecking it for everyone else who will be expected to follow suit.

Shall we all turn the thermostats up, so we, too, can go sleeveless in February?