Carla Bruni

[Dottore]

See the link for a very nice Maureen Dowd piece in today's NYT about the new, hot, French first lady, and why the French are so superior to you frumpy, stuffy, moralizing Yanks in every way.

I mean Carla Bruni or Laura Bush?

I rest my case.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22dowd.html?ex=1371787200&en=bd25257d2a0d1465&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

[dipso]

I would have to pick Carla.
Laura is a little embarrassing, loaded all the time and not too bright.

[fintstone]

Laura Bush is a great first lady. In the US, women like Carla Bruni date married NY Governors or married Liberal presidents...

[dipso]

Dottore,
You could be in for a run for your money here. This in todays LA times, just read it over breakfast.
Looks like we are going to have the new Jackie O.




What do U.S. women feel about a potential first lady who wears an inexpensive, off-the-rack dress to co-host "The View?"

Pretty darn enthusiastic.

After Michelle Obama mentioned on "The View" on Wednesday that she bought her B&W sundress at a store called White House/Black Market, women started pouring into the retail chain's stores, clamoring for the $148 dress designed by Donna Ricco.

"Women literally were snatching (that dress) up," Jessica Wells, a spokeswoman for the White House/Black Market, which has 322 stores across the country, told the Wall Street Journal.

Turns out it may not only be time for a political change, it may also be time for a change of clothes when it comes to first ladies.

"I'd put her in an Oprah sphere in terms of influence," Tom Julian, prez of the Tom Julian Group, a New York City-based brand consultancy, told the WSJ.

Later, speaking to the Dish Rag, Julian predicted that Obama will change the face of political fashion in that she could be the first first lady to wear both high and low-end fashion.

"She will bring affordable American sportswear to the forefront, and this is very appealing to the Middle American woman voter. I can also see her as a Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett-style dresser. She's modern –- a boomer, a woman of color with a real shape. It will be interesting what she picks as a signature piece, and I predict that it will be in the sportswear realm."

He also says he would not be surprised to see her embrace some black designers such as Kevan Hall and Tracy Reese, to tell a modern American fashion story during the upcoming election.

Speaking solely for myself, how incredibly refreshing to see an intelligent, articulate woman who shops for herself, doesn't use a stylist and doesn't think a designer name means she's better dressed than someone else. Michelle just likes to look pretty and comfortable. How novel.

I far prefer this woman's fashion sense to that other one, you know, the waifish blond beer heiress who goes with Secret Service agents to Oscar de la Renta's swanky Manhattan showroom to check out his designer wares.

[dipso]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Laura Bush is a great first lady. In the US, women like Carla Bruni date married NY Governors or married Liberal presidents...

Laura Bush is a stepford wife and Cindy McCain has her own prescription med "history".

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by dipso

Laura Bush is a stepford wife and Cindy McCain has her own prescription med "history".

No they are ladies...not trailer trash like Bruni...and unlike you or Obama...have always been proud of their country.

[RANDY P]

Yep, who needs to respect a woman who actually has contributed to her country when we can have a hot slut who was tagged by Mick Jagger?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bush

Dottore, you actually like your women slightly (or in this case massively) used but trust me on this, it's not always a good thing to hear about it. $hit if I found out my GF was touched by Mick I'd get myself checked for AIDS 1st, then dump the skank.

Oh and the French were trying out some new rockets up in CA the other day and I happened to have my trusty camcorder. CHeck it out- French technology at it's finest:



Cheers!

Originally Posted by fintstone

Laura Bush is a great first lady. In the US, women like Carla Bruni date married NY Governors or married Liberal presidents...

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by dipso

Laura Bush is a stepford wife and Cindy McCain has her own prescription med "history".

And you and the planet Mars are best friends.

Correct about Cindy but you are FOS about Laura, but then thats normal for you it seems and anything other than tree hugging liberals.

[RANDY P]

" A moral compass needle needs a butt end. Wherever direction France is pointing — toward collaboration with Nazis, accommodation with communists, existentialism, Jerry Lewis, or a UN resolution veto — we can go the other way with a quiet conscience."

P.J O'Rourke

[dipso]

Originally Posted by fintstone

No they ladies...not trailer trash like Bruni...and unlike you or Obama...have always been proud of their country.

As seen through medicated glasses.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by RANDY P

Oh and the French were trying out some new rockets up in CA the other day and I happened to have my trusty camcorder. CHeck it out- French technology at it's finest:

Frence is in a contnant called Urope.

Canadia is in a contnant called America (we shair it with them).

Lottsa people from Frence (French people}long ago now live in Canadia an dont like to speak English or Canadian cause their prowd to be French background (!). They ar known as French-Canadians (but they are really jus Canadians).

Canadia has lottsa English-Canadians to, even some Jewish and German an, oh yeah, even some Italian-Canadians (some are pretty smart - loyers, even!).

I never heared about no French-Canadian Infantry.

Did you get yer deegree on YouTube?

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by RANDY P

Oh and the French were trying out some new rockets up in CA the other day and I happened to have my trusty camcorder. CHeck it out- French technology at it's finest:

I'm think that video is fake, Randy. But it's funny as hell, though!

[dipso]

Somebody is off their meds.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSXIUIF52rY&feature=related

[svandamme]

us technology

[Dottore]

Back to Carla:

[K. Roman]

pic removed - ns


In looks alone, this girl wins...You could have Laura. Why is anyone arguing over who's hotter?

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by K. Roman

In looks alone, this girl wins...You could have Laura. Why is anyone arguing over who's hotter?

A question of patriotism perhaps?

[speeder]

I actually think that there is something ugly about CB, maybe it's a hardness to her face or something. Not my favorite model. She is sexy I guess for a first lady, but in a dirty way. I can see why the French like her, though, my taste rarely intersects w/ the French in those matters.

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by RANDY P

Dottore, you actually like your women slightly (or in this case massively) used but trust me on this, it's not always a good thing to hear about it. $hit if I found out my GF was touched by Mick I'd get myself checked for AIDS 1st, then dump the skank.

You illustrate my point nicely. In the US a permanently pickled, matronly, frump is considered a respectable first lady, and a hot, talented and intelligent woman is considered a skank because she admits to a sexual history (a modest one, but a history nevertheless).

In France people take delight in their new first lady, and think she reflects well on the taste and virility of their head of state. In the US the only thing that matters in a first lady is that she have no apparent sex life.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by dipso

Somebody is off their meds.

Yes, we have known that about you for a long time now.



K. Roman,

Us conservatives get thrown off of the board for posting something like that. Wonder if you will get away with it?