Michelle Obama appears to roll her eyes at John Boehner during inaugural lunch

1/22/2013 7:00am by 80

I LOVE Michelle Obama.

You have to watch the video here, to get the full effect.  But in a nutshell, during yesterday’s official congressional luncheon immediately following the President’s swearing in, GOP House Speaker John Boehner was saying something likely idiotic to President Obama, and Michelle Obama, who was seated between Boehner and the President, seems to look away from Boehner and roll her eyes.

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First Lady Michelle Obama rolls her eyes at GOP Speaker John Boehner. (Animated gif via Raw Story.)

How many different ways can I say I love this woman.

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve only had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Obama twice, for a grand total of 5 seconds each time (it was at the White House Christmas party, twice).  But oddly, for such a brief encounter, I was stunned by, and in, her presence. The lady has charisma.  And is quite beautiful too (I don’t think most photos do her justice). But the warmth and personality she exudes.  Far more than her husband, interestingly enough.

And clearly, she’s a woman with a brain in a position that doesn’t always look kindly on women with brains, or any sense of self.

So, I don’t know in the end if this was just an odd clip that seems to have caught something it really didn’t, or what.  But if Mrs. O did roll her eyes at John Boehner, and lord knows he’d deserve it, it’s just one more reason we love her.

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  • [email protected]

    she has ugly eyes ……what a wench ……..wonder how she treats her husband behind close doors . she has no class

  • htfd

    Doesn’t everyone roll their eyes at what ever Boehner says? As to toughing….if he did she should have gotten him on assault.

  • Jfmanca

    What a class act that Michelle Obama. I guess she was never taught that it’s in poor taste to eat with your arm on the table. Perhaps she’s been hanging out at too many trucker stops.

  • http://fighttherightwingnuts.blogspot.com/ mike31c

    Let’s be fair here: I roll my eyes at that moron Boehner ( and to ignorant gop pigs/t-baggers ) most days too!

  • penpal

    HA! That’s the way the president should treat Boner, too. Epic shade from an epic lady. I’d do the same thing to anyone who was maligning my husband to score political points with his insane base.

  • jomicur

    Maybe she just doesn’t like having to look at an orange human being while she’s eating.

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      The FL knows that agent orange causes cancer. Smart Lady, also never more beautiful.

  • Lizzie Crowe

    World Class Shade. Yes, Ma’am!

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      Bigot Cracker, put that on your burning cross and shove it up your pointy white hood.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg Moderator4

        Comment was deleted, and poster banned, Karmanot.

        • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

          Thanks. It set me off. Maybe I should just listen for a few days.

  • ezpz

    Would you ‘love’ Laura Bush or “beautiful mind” Barbara Bush if either of them had rolled their eyes at a (D) speaker of the house?

    Whether Boehner ‘deserved’ it or not is hardly the point. It’s the double standard that’s on display, and the fawning over a (D) first lady who, by all appearances, did not exactly set a good example of taking the high road.

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      How could one possibly take a high road when dealing with the level of Boner?

      • ezpz

        The Lotus Flower.

        Maybe I’m too idealistic and maybe it’s not realistic to expect the wife of the leader of the free world to rise above – like the Lotus Flower that grows in mud, but remains unmuddied.

        From “Lotus Meditation”:

        “…..A white lotus flower. You stand beautifully above the muddy water, not dirtied by the mud from which you grow. You are white, fragrant and beautiful…”

        “…You are a beautiful white lotus flower, and your role is to remind people to rise above their defilements and sufferings, just as you are arising above the muddy water and not dirtied by the mud from which you grow.”

        To that, I would add: not dirtied by the mud that surrounds you.

        • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

          The lotus—ironically, so beautiful and gathers its life from the nourishment of mud. Nice one.

        • FunMe

          Lotus flower … someone call me? ;-)

          • ezpz

            Speaking of which, where is your avatar? I don’t see it.

  • nicho

    Well, Boner is the type of guy who would “accidentally” brush his hand against a woman’s ass in the elevator.

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      euuuuuu

  • Baderite

    During the President’s first inaugural I remember quite distinctly seeing Boehner go through a reception line and the First Lady reaching out her hand and smiling at him. And I saw him literally snub her like she was beneath contempt. He may have gotten over that now but I can’t say as I blame her if she has not. Not to mention that I think she is fiercely loyal to her husband and one can only imagine how she views the treatment of the President at the hands of the GOP over the last four years. (see Joe Wilson you lie rudeness, birtherism, Donald Trumpishness, etc)

  • FLL

    Michelle is just trying to eat in peace, but Boehner raps her arm with his hand to get her attention, then regales her—not once but several times—with who knows what series of annoying comments. You can take John Boehner out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of John Boehner.

    • bcoopee

      You are so right! Why was he touching her?!!! So, disrespectful. The whining, Crying, half-of-a-man.

    • HolyMoly

      Michelle needs some sort of hand signal like Queen Elizabeth has when someone is invading her space, so Secret Service or someone comes over and politely draws the offender away from her.

      I think the queen clutches her purse in a certain way to signal that she doesn’t want to be touched (when Michelle took her arm a few years ago, she did not mind at all, by the way).

      • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

        Clutchinga purse always works. :)

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      Yep, Boner is a sad, inadequate little man, who has been placed far above his evolutionary potential.

  • nicho

    Trolls are out in force today.

  • ninjakiller

    Yeah an eye roll, and a definitive, “fuck you” in terms of general body language.

    • http://www.rebeccamorn.com/mind BeccaM

      Lacking the full context it’s hard to tell exactly what transpired…but yes, Michelle’s body language could not be more clear in expressing “leave me the hell alone.”

  • Car 7391

    I’m surprised Boehner didn’t start crying lol

    • http://AMERICAblog.com/ John Aravosis

      LOL Oh god that’s the best response ever!

    • FunMe

      He wasn’t drunk enough yet. It was only lunch time.

  • HereinDC

    Would Boehner be tapping Nancy Regan on the bicep like that?
    Watch it…..he taps Michelle on the bicep like she’s justt some chum or buddy or bud.
    WTF?
    She’s the wife of the President….show her respect you moran.

    BTW, did you know Boehner has not attend ANY of the 6 STATE Dinners. NONE of them.

    • locigalmomma

      I agree. That was rude. She wasn’t roller her eyes. She was looking out into the hall. I would have clocked him had he smacked me in the arm like that.

  • DonS

    Yeah, she’s just the bees knees. And for that we can forgive Obama for being an a–hole. Yeah, get it. Go Michelle. You make me feel so warm and fuzzy and secure about our nation. Now since your so wonderful, could you please tell your a–hole hubby to stop prosecuting the wrong folks and start prosecuting the real perps ? And maybe get his head out of his a– wrt ‘entitlements’. Oh yeah, how about sweet talking him into not bombing so may innocentsl Thanks a bunch.

    • http://AMERICAblog.com/ John Aravosis

      It’s okay to like a woman even if you don’t like her husband’s policies. :)

      • Don S

        I know, but it’s equally hard for me to separate her from his policies as for most of the rest of the ‘inner circle’

        • nicho

          Well, just try harder.

          • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

            By all accounts Eva Brown was beautiful, gracious, gentle and incidentally a Nazi.

            • ezpz

              Snap!

              • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

                Except I have a deep admiration for the FL.

              • ezpz

                Still a good point you made.

              • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

                thanks

    • bcoopee

      You should have told that to the last War Mongering President and Vice Pres. You are so shallow!

      • Don S

        Oh just bite me you know nothing turd. Who the hell do think you are taking my inventory.

        • Bronxboy47

          It’s a very short inventory. One word suffices: Bigot

    • Bronxboy47

      Feel better now? I can only hope your fever will break soon–or carry you off. Either way, no one needs to suffer like that.

  • S1AMER

    It’s depressing that something that might or might not have happened is a news story.

    • Cletus

      Exactly. Even in the picture above, it seems her attention is focused on something across the table, not Boner.

      • Drew2u

        Here’s an animated .gif of the eye-rolling.

        http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022232577

      • http://AMERICAblog.com/ John Aravosis

        Well, by definition, it’s kind of difficult to catch eyes rolling in a static photo :) That’s why I posted the link to the video :)

        • Cletus

          Which is why I said “Even in the picture above”. Yes, Boner is making a comment, and yes Michelle is rolling her eyes, but we’re seeing a snippet in time and half the table, with no accompanying audio. She could be reacting to someone across the table talking to her. Just saying.

          • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

            We can only hope she was repelled by Boner, so many of us are

      • FunMe

        The food! I would be focused on the food, too. ;-)

    • http://AMERICAblog.com/ John Aravosis

      It’s not news. It’s funny.

      • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

        It is . The FL’s repellant reaction to the tan man was funny.

  • Bronxboy47

    It’s entirely possible that Michelle Obama’s eye roll was simply a reaction to an innocuous joke from Boehner, but try telling that to someone suffering from ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome).

    • HolyMoly

      He probably told her, “Honest, Michelle, my tan is natural.” [poke-poke, laughter].

      • dmhlt_66

        Nah.
        Boehner was asking, “Say, Barack – are you going to finish that wine? If not …”

  • http://www.facebook.com/mark.bishton.35 Mark Bishton

    How nice for you to contribute this pap to the national dialogue, I mean pissing match.
    The problem in this country is not disingenuous liars like Boehner & Obama, it is people like you taking the public’s voyeurous eyes off the fact that both sides, working for their corporate bosses, are fucking everyone in the ear hole.

    You’ve clearly given up on contributing something positive. How appropriate that you label yourself a pundit, proudly proclaiming you’ve been on O’Reilly & Hardball. I’d like to know when you’re on next. I have a chalkboard that I’d like to scratch.

    • HereinDC

      Lord Mary……you’re that turd they talk about in the punchbowl.

      • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

        A steamer in the stew

    • http://AMERICAblog.com/ John Aravosis

      Yes, all hope is lost because I posted a funny video of Michelle Obama. And you’re right. It will now be impossible for us to ever post anything useful that contributes to positive change in the future – all because I posted a funny video of Michelle Obama. I’m sorry I injected some levity into the nasty day to day brawl that is politics.

      But just so I have this down right – do the puppy and kitten videos also contribute to the end of all that is good and holy, or just the kittens?

      (You know who else posted funny videos to his blog? Hitler.)

      • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

        We will defend kitties and puppy post to the bitter end!

    • nicho

      No, the problem is people like you who have no humor.

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      Speaking of sourpusses.

  • Bob

    God, I’d rather wake up next to Horny Harry Reid than Obama’s big fat mama!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Alexander/502988241 Alan Alexander

      Instead of either, you will likely wake up, once more, alone, unloved and surrounded by a pile of used tissues.

    • nicho

      Aren’t you the racist piece of shit. ” Big fat mama?” Why didn’t you just say “n******r” and get it over with?

    • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

      We would rather you did too.

  • Kalirob

    Boehner touches her inappropriately and she rolls her eyes. His is the behavior that merits mention, not hers.

    • Bronxboy47

      She doesn’t just roll her eyes, she pull’s her arm as far away from Boehner as possible. Clear message: I don’t care to be touched by you. Can any sane person blame her?

      • boysenberry

        She has absolutely no manners and no class. Keeps on stuffing her face, and rolls her eyes. A world of difference from other first ladies, Laura Bush, Nancy Regan, LadyBird Johnson, and of course Jaquie Kennedy.

        • bcoopee

          He should not have TOUCHED her. So ill-mannered that Orange Faced Ogre. YUCK!!! He has NO Class! His wife is looking for something to stick him with. Right in the You know Where!!!

        • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

          You go posionberry!

        • Bronxboy47

          I think the question was: can any Sane person blame her? That disqualifies all those, including yourself, suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome.

  • Houndentenor

    I can’t imagine the self-restraint it must take not to smack him across the face. He got off easy if you ask me.

  • kingstonbears

    And the sour puss next to Boehner who is so bored that she’s texting?

    • Drew2u

      His wife.

      • http://adgitadiaries.com/ karmanot

        lol

  • stldem

    It looked like Boehner and the President were teasing Mrs. Obama about something.

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