By any measure Michelle Obama is a remarkable first lady. She is highly educated, with degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and professionally accomplished, having worked for a top law firm, a big-city government and a big hospital. And she is the first first lady who is the direct descendant of slaves.rnYet what have we heard about this paragon since her husband won the election? That she likes to display her "perfectly toned" arms in public. That she has a penchant for mixing designer clothes with J. Crew. That she and her husband had a romantic dinner together in a four-star Italian restaurant.rnShortly after the election Rebecca Traister took aim in Salon, an online magazine, at the "momification of Michelle". But since then Americans have been forced to endure the "Oprah-isation" and "Jackiefication" as well. Mrs Obama has graced the cover of Oprah Winfrey's magazine O, made several appearances on low-end talk shows and earned the sobriquets "America's next top model" and "leader of the fashionable world".
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