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Michelle Obama’s hypocrisy: Quail eggs & $6800 clothing

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When Michelle Obama jetted off to Britain to instruct the US Olympic Team on what they need to do to come home with the gold, it became apparent that America’s first lady had found a way to party hearty, regardless of the pledge to forgo her annual Martha’s Vineyard vacation.

Call me cynical, but just because Michelle Obama has well-cut biceps from doing 15-lb curls in the White House gym, trounced Ellen DeGeneres in a push-up contest, and kicked Jimmy Fallon’s butt in a potato-sack race, that doesn’t exactly qualify her to dole out pointers to seasoned Olympic athletes. But, then again, this is a woman who appointed herself Healthy Eating Czar while pretty much eating anything she damned well pleases.

For example, just prior to the Olympic opening ceremony at a reception held at Buckingham Palace, as “the Queen [of England] gave a welcoming speech” in front of 200 guests and dignitaries from all over the world, healthy eater Michelle enthusiastically wolfed down “Quail’s egg canapés.”

Meanwhile, back home Barack was concocting class warfare strategies while across the pond, resplendent in a $6,800 embroidered top and white pleated skirt from the J. Mendel 2013 collection, the first lady mingled with of 95 heads of state, including her “flexible” husband Barack’s best Russian friend, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Not to be rude, but just in case Michelle Obama exuberantly identified herself in a way similar to her husband, Mongolian president Tsakhiagiin Elbegdor chose to mill around Kate Middleton, who on more than one occasion has exhibited the decorum to refrain from waving at the camera when participating in a group photo with world leaders.

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Spouse appeal: Wives help Obama, Romney campaigns

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It’s no coincidence that Michelle Obama and Ann Romney are showing up a lot more as the tight presidential race barrels into the final few months.

The rival campaigns are rolling out their top assets in a big way. The first lady is the public face of a new grass-roots mobilizing effort for Team Obama. And Mrs. Romney’s recent interviews have put her on display cutting through the campaign din – including her blunt statement Thursday that her husband has provided everything that “people need to know” and won’t be releasing more tax returns.

Although Mrs. Romney is still largely unknown to a large swath of the public, both women are well regarded by voters in their own parties, and the campaigns are going all-out to use their appeal in ways that go well beyond the traditional presidential cookie bakeoff.

“They really do appear to be in it to win it, both of them, and sincerely in it to win it,” says Anita McBride, who served as Laura Bush’s chief of staff in the White House.

Mrs. Obama on Thursday made her debut as the leader the Obama campaign’s new “It Takes One” program, which asks supporters to do one thing to promote the campaign – and to engage someone else to do likewise.

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