From my friend, the Canadian Sentinel:

Michelle, ma belle, sports a $1,000 handbag, for God’s sake.

Anyone, besides me, think this is a bag that could be acquired had you purchased $50 or more worth of books at Barnes & Noble? From WhiteHouseDossier:

It’s a Reed Krakoff two-tone ribboned large tote, and you can get it at Mr. Krakoff’s website for $990, plus shipping I guess. But we don’t worry about shipping. Fedex it, in fact.

No wait a second, you can’t get it, because it’s already sold out, at least in the teal color she got.

Love it with the blue slippers, BTW. It just WORKS, okay?

Mr Obama campaigned upon the need of America to once again gain its position of respect and, further, adoration by other nations of the world.

Imagine, if you can, the total shock that must be occurring, in private, with Mr Obama and his wife when they were not met with utter and complete deference and love during their vacation in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.

A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked.

Worse:

President Barack Obama has cancelled a public speech he was scheduled to deliver Sunday in a Rio square during his upcoming visit to Brazil, the US embassy in Brasilia said.

The speech in the historic plaza known as Cinelandia, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, “is cancelled,” an embassy spokeswoman told AFP.

Obama instead will deliver remarks at Rio’s Municipal Theatre, the official said, without specifying whether it would be open to the public or exclusively for invited guests.

No explanation for the change of venue was given by the embassy. Brazilian authorities have laid out a heavy security presence for Obama’s two-day visit to South America’s largest nation, and police in Rio had closed numerous streets from midnight Thursday in preparation.

On Thursday, members of an advance US security team were seen inspecting the surroundings of Cinelandia, where anti-US banners could be seen hanging from a road-side fence.

Some social and union groups have declared Obama a “persona non grata” and called for a protest, accusing him of a “bellicose policy of occupation” in foreign countries, and of attacking people “in the name of the war on terror.”

Can you imagine how this must be stabbing Mr Obama in his very Socialistically/Alinsky/Ayers-educated heart? How it must pain him to be called an “occupier,” a “terrorist.” For shame!

Further, he won’t take questions from the Brazilian press.

So let’s see if I have things straight: though Mr Obama will bow before damned near anyone, will allow the UN to determine US policy, denigrates and sublimates America and tries, himself, to put us in our place. . .

He still finds that he isn’t universally loved around the world?

Imagine the shock! The consternation! The feelings of betrayal!

And now its Obama’s good friend and racist Louis Farrakhan who wants to determine Obama’s policy? From WVON, Chicago:

[Pick up the video at 7:15 for some very specific and salient comments to his fellow black man.]

How sharply disappointing it must be to find yourself targeted from both sides of the spectrum — particularly the side that supported your original election bid.

Perhaps the one thing that actually managed to change Mr Obama a bit after taking office: the PDB.

BZ

Is this a man who should run for president?

He certainly could afford the run.

BZ

You tell me what you think:

Looks to me like the bully got what he deserved.

But, of course, at least in America, the kid who body-slammed the bully should pay at least as much — if not more — than the actual initial aggressor.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, explains so much of our country today.

BZ

Unless it’s said by a fellow Demorat. From The Daily.com:

Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, Clinton announced that she’s done with Obama after 2012 — even if he wins again.

“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”

He went on, “If you take a look at what’s on her plate as compared with what’s on the plates of previous Secretary of States — there’s more going on now at this particular moment, and it’s like playing sports with a bunch of amateurs. And she doesn’t have any power. She’s trying to do what she can to keep things from imploding.”

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s former top adviser Anne-Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason.

Huh; imagine that. A Demorat actually acknowledging that Mr Obama commits to nothing, decides nothing, sits back and prefers — as I’ve certainly stated before — to be “concerned” and “monitoring”?

Let’s tot things up on the Big Board, shall we?

March 11th, the 9.0 Richter Tohoku earthquake in Japan; Mr Obama played golf.

Egypt and Libya cooked off; Mr Obama was likewise “concerned” and “monitoring.” It was the UN which decided to instigate a “no fly” zone — not a unilateral Mr Obama, who is unfamiliar with the definition of the word.

Simultaneously, the Middle East continues to cook, in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia (to name a few locales). Mr Obama concerns and monitors with unfurrowed, lethargic brow.

The country directly to our south, Mexico, is beyond merely cooking and is now boiling, bringing death to our border, into our nation, whilst our good, young men and women combat Mexican cartels with LTL beanbag shotguns vs fully automatic AK-47s, Ingrams, ARs and the like.

Meanwhile, back at the DC ranch, the Demorats and Mr Obama absolutely refuse to make significant cuts to the national budget, argue over defunding the CPB (a mockery of a do-nothing bill anyway!), whilst Republicans such as Boehner, Cantor and GOP Congressman Jack Kingston (his dribblings on Hugh Hewitt’s Wednesday show are here) indicate that — check this out — the GOP “needs to be more inclusive, collaborative and inclined towards compromise and concessions.”

Isn’t it odd, I should care to point out, that when the GOP is allegedly in power, it needs to compromise; when the Demorats are in power they can simply ram ObamaKare down the national throat.

Mr Obama indecisive? Perish the thought!

BZ