Barbara Walters Picks Michelle Obama Most Fascinating of 2009

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by Steve Krakauer | 10:15 am, December 10th, 2009

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There was Glenn Beck, Gaga, and Glambert, but the most fascinating person of 2009, according to Barbara Walters, was First Lady Michelle Obama.

The subsequent interview showed just what is so fascinating about Obama – a mixture of hard and decidedly soft news angles.

You know what you’re in for when Walters started her big reveal by saying, “I was recently told I should pick this next person as most fascinating for her arms alone.” Then it’s a dramatic half-turn, and, “But First Lady Michelle Obama is shaping up to be much more than the sum of her parts.”

During the short interview, Obama described what she most wants to accomplish. “I think I’ve begun to lay the foundation to a conversation about the health of our kids,” she said.

But it didn’t take long – in fact, it was the very next question – to get to this exchange:

Walters: Can we talk about your arms.
Obama: My arms?
W: Your arms.
O: Why certainly.
W: Yes, there has been so much written…
O: Why would you want to talk about my arms?
W: So do you feel pressured to have great arms? Do you have to get up every day and do the exercises? I’m so glad you wore a sleeveless dress.

Not unexpected, but fascinating?

Obama joins some other first ladies to be named most fascinating, including Laura Bush in 2002 and Hillary Clinton in 1993. Last year’s winner stayed in the family – President-elect Barack Obama. Here’s a good breakdown of the past ‘most fascinatings’.

The Michelle Obama interview:

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marigrace

Toned arms, a garden and an obedient dog, make a fascinating woman ?????

Hopefully by the time her husband’s presidency is over she will have accomplished something of substance.
Winghunter

‘fascinating’, eh? What else could we expect from a feminazi who not only refused to wear a United States flag pin after 9/11 but also spoke out urging others not to??

Michelle Obama
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaWife.htm
Pat Doherty

I like Michelle Obama as much as the next person, but what about her is so fascinating? These majority-entertainer lists of “fascinating people” seem to become more asinine every year.
libra blue

I guess it depends on what your definition of “fascinating” is.

Are there really people out there that give a damn what Barbara Walters has to say? If there are I don’t want to know them.

@marigrace, MO did grow a vegetable garden, does that count? The MSM covered it for days!
marigrace

libra blue,

From one who has been growing vegetables since………….forever. No it doesn’t count. Her staff did the work, not her.
http://www.uselessbeauty.com Vidiot

Really? I like Michelle Obama a lot, but this is lamesauce…and Baba Wawa quizzing her about her arms is just plain weird.
JunkJunk

How’s the Hater-rade, you Republicons? Hating on a beautiful woman like this. You all should be ashamed.
marquis

JunkJunk, that shit was so funny “republicons” wow, you are one creative little markass buster. Yea this woman is seriously beautiful…like a bag full of mashed up turds beautiful.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maggie-Denson/100000117356468 Maggie Denson

JunkJunk :
Surely you are making a JOKE? If not, and you are a male, you have no taste in beautiful. Maybe you have been looking at the wrong picture. Try looking at the ones above to be sure! O.K. NOW are you sure you picked the correct one? Of course, we all know about Baba Wawa and she wouldn’t even be mentioned with the word beautiful, EITHER!
hkyplayer

Maybe she will be the next Nobel prize winner. If she is a good looking woman? I think you drank way too much of the koolaid. Please leave some for the rest of the nut cases.
marigrace

Not hate here. Michelle Obama is a good mother and probably has other great redeeming qualities. But so far she has revealed an element of shallowness. That may be the reason there is so much focus on her toned arms (sic). There is very little else to talk about. As I said, hopefully by the end of the presidency she will have done something of substance.

Also she is NOT a beautiful woman. She is average looking, just as many other millions of American women are.