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No gatecrashers - but a new hairdo for First Lady
Obamas lay on the pomp and circumstance for Mexico's President Calderon
Barack and Michelle Obama threw a state dinner at the White House last night and, as far as we know, not a single wannabe reality TV star managed to sneak in without an invitation this time.
The President's new social secretary, Julianna Smoot, was in charge, and a multitude of security checks ensured there was no repeat of last November's scandal when Michaele and Tareq Salahi famously gatecrashed a similar event.
Last night's dinner, given for the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala, saw the White House on full pomp and circumstance alert. Two hundred came for dinner and 100 more joined them for dessert in a specially constructed pavilion decorated with thousands of butterflies in honour of Calderon's birthplace, Michoacam, famous for the monarch butterflies that migrate there from Canada.
Guests included the richest man in the world, Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim, and one of the most photographed women in the world, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker. Others from the world of showbiz with connections across the border included comedian George Lopez, who said of the innumerable security checks, "The guy with the club was nice."
The First Lady was sporting a new 'tousled' hairdo and a one-shoulder draped gown designed by Peter Soronen. The strong sapphire blue colour meant there was no repeat of November's other embarrassment - the use of the word "nude" to describe the colour of the Naeem Khan dress she wore that night.
According to a report in today's Daily Telegraph, that description is now the subject of a sartorial "race row" because, against Michelle Obama's black skin, the pale beige colour could hardly be seen as "nude".
"We talk of nude now and there is no one colour. It's politically incorrect," Gale Epstein, founder of the US lingerie brand Hanky Panky, told the Telegraph. "Human skin tones are a whole colour palette unto themselves."
Apparently the AP news agency had to revise its reference to the dress colour from "flesh" to "champagne" after one fashion editor objected, asking: "Whose flesh? Not hers." ·
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Does the first lady have a new stylist? If so, they should be removed immediately! That blue gown is so unbecoming. The squished-up bosom under her right shoulder just looks ghastly. And as for the blue eyeshadow - suitable only for some starlet, not a woman of dignity.
Since the US government will not protect our borders from illegal crossing, the state of Arizona has enacted a law to try to protect its state from nation-crashers.
Yesterday, the President of Mexico and Barack Obama lambasted the people of Arizona for doiing what Washington won't do--from the lawn of the White Hosue. Then. last night they celebrated their friendship with "pomp and circumstance".
The whole affair is a massive insult to the people of Arizona and the entire country. I'm sure tens of millions of my fellow american citizens are as inslulted as I am by their behavior.