Michelle "Let Them Eat Cake" Obama

UPDATE: Don't miss the sequel to this post, Damn, That Liberal Press!

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Michelle Obama is said to have ordered lobster appetizers, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar, and French champagne while hanging out at the Waldorf-Astoria during a trip to New York with her husband, Barack, aka "The One."

While the "let them eat cake" quotation has been misattributed to Marie Antoinette, the phrase nevertheless remains perfectly descriptive of Michelle Obama's decadence, and the hypocrisy of her husband.

As Sweetness and Light indicates, Barack Obama's life and pursuit of the presidency has been about sacrifice and service:

Indeed, in his first autobiography, Dreams From My Father, page 293, Mr. Obama specifically cites a passage from Wright’s sermon “The Audacity To Hope” that helped inspire him to a life of public service and sacrifice:

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere... That’s the world! On which hope sits!

Well, perhaps Obama's "spread the wealth" philosophy includes sending to each according to their need a nice allowance of Bollinger champagne and Iranian Osetra caviar. Got to keep the proles in line...