Just because people have an opinion on Mrs. Obama’s fashion sense doesn’t mean they hate women of color! I think she has the right spirit and energy in her fashion choices, but she often choose strange shades (case in point: inaugural puke yellow suit with primary green shoes circa 1984?) I like the fact that she is bringing the idea of bright, optimistic colors to politics, but the shades she picks from the color families are ugly and they tend to clash the President’s suits and ties, and the cuts of her dresses don’t do her great figure justice. Her hair fine the way it is. She always looks pulled together without trying too hard. Also, a bit of a history note: the White House was not originally white, and it’s not called the “white” house for a racist reason. During the War of 1812 the British came to Washington D.C. and set the President’s house on fire…smoke covered the walls, and after the war Americans repainted the house with a cheap white paint (called whitewash, because it’s white) and that’s why they called it the “white” house, because it was painted white to hide the damage caused by the fire.

Nancy, if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. It’s not MO whose claiming she’s another Jackie O.Lord knows who came up with that absurdity. It’s to that absurdity people are responding. Not to her color. And it’s a cheap shot turning it into a racial issue. She was a simple working woman wife and mother for a lot of years. Not a fashion plate. She seems confortable with who she is. Publicists or whoever should stop trying to make her out to what she is not. It takes practice to develop fashion savvy. But who says she must be a fashion plate? Let’s hope for her to grow in the White House. But for goodness sake, not in fashion. In useful contributions to the nation.