Michelle that is.1 And Sunday in the Chicago Sun-Times, a "journalist" decided it was something spilling ink on.
Though I'm only doing the world more damage by bringing this article up and linking to it, I believe the typically brilliant Stereohyped said it best when they noted:
Congratulations, black women, even if you become the First Lady, people won't stop talking about your big ass.2
I've read and re-read this article, trying to find a way in as a reader that I was missing to discover that the whole thing was tongue-in-cheek, but the only thing I was able to do is laugh at myself for using the phrase "tongue-in-cheek" in this context.3
1 Barack, though possibly the most attractive president we've ever had, is way too skinny to have trunk junk worth discussing; though you know what they say about tall skinny guys...an urban legend that I've found in my studies to be a fairly accurate statement...and my research hasn't exactly been done with a small sample size.
2 While it is true that this is stupid at best and offensive at worst, it also seems like the type of thing at which, behind close doors, that Michelle laughs off and may find funny as hell. Or that she, at least, is tough enough that she only finds it bothersome in theory because she knows that there are women out there who aren't as strong as she is and who may have problems with things like this.
3 Yes, I'm disturbingly awesome. There is no denying it.
