Michelle Obama: 'Want pie, there's pie': The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted March 6, 2009 1:00 PM
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The April issue of O, featuring Oprah Winfrey's White House interview with Michelle Obama.

The Swamp

by Mark Silva

Michelle Obama, who has asserted the "right to bare arms'' in high fashion during the first month-and-a-half as first lady, says the White House has its advantages.

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"If you want pie, there's pie!'' the first lady of Washington tells the first lady of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey. "If something breaks, it's fixed. In an hour.''

(The pie in the White House, Winfrey reports, "is dangerously good.")

Yet the Obamas are mindful, as they often note, that they are merely guests in the presidential residence. In the interview with Obama appearing in the April issue of O (see the photo from O here), on sale in mid-March, the first lady says: "We have the good fortune of being able to sleep here, but this house belongs to America..''

And the children, well they are to be treated like children.

"Not little princesses.''

From O.... The Exclusive O Interview:

Our new First Lady on the surprises of life in the White House ("If you want pie, there's pie! If something breaks, it's fixed. In an hour")...the rules she's laid down for Malia and Sasha ("I want the kids to be treated like children, not little princesses")...and how she hopes to use "one of the best jobs in the world" to help women transform their lives. Here's a sneak peek...

For all the majesty of the White House, the First Lady has already infused it with a palpable ease; her presence makes the place feel open and approachable. When we sit down to talk, she seems as relaxed as she did when I first interviewed her and her husband in their Chicago apartment in 2004. "This room has the best light in the house," she tells me as we settle in, shoes off, on a comfortable sofa. "And there's pie here, too. The pie in the White House is dangerously good." -- Oprah

Oprah: So after the inauguration, what was your first weekend in the White House like?

Michelle Obama: Well, we still had family here, so it was almost like a wedding. A huge, very complicated wedding. The last visitors didn't leave until Sunday. And then the first Monday was kind of weird. You know: Now we live here, and Barack is getting up and going to work, and it's just us. This is our home now.

Oprah: I had heart palpitations coming through the White House gate, recognizing that this really is now your home. It's the White House, and it's your home.

Michelle Obama: And it's a beautiful home. When you go out and come back, especially at night, with all the white lights on--it's just beautiful. We feel privileged, and we feel a responsibility to make it feel like the people's house. We have the good fortune of being able to sleep here, but this house belongs to America.

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Prepare for the morally bankrupt republicans to find evil in all of America. Short sleeves, soup kitchens......all evil in the mind of the pathetic right. How much more does America need to see before they become extinct? 2010 will be here soon and what will they learn from this loss? Not one darn thing....just like from 2006 and 2008. They have at least become a little more honest. They at least openly admit they want failure so they have a chance to weasel their way back in.


It's a miracle. Usually O thinks so highly of herself that she is the only one on the cover.
She obviously wants a piece of the Presidential pie.
she is pathetic.


what happened to the comments, cover up creeps.


She obviously wants a piece of the Presidential pie.
she is pathetic.

Posted by: kar | March 6, 2009 1:38 PM


Spot on. Deep thought brought you to the idea that THE FIRST LADY wants something presidential.....what a tool. In the land of the living....you can't get closer to presidential than living in the WHITEHOUSE. Brilliant!!!!!


How come this magazine isn't bankrupt? Didn't you females get the message? Oprah doesn't care about you! If she did, she would have supported Clinton. She's a fraud! Wake Up!


Oprah is racist because she doesn't allow any white women on here cover. It works both ways, O.


Didn't you females get the message?
Posted by: Denny Crane | March 6, 2009 2:13 PM


Thank you "Denny" for your womanly views. As someone obviously in touch with womans need and inner most thoughts......I have always taken the tact that a man should has no clue, noe any right to speak for woman. They're smarter than men in every way.


Over 650,000 job loses, stock market at a twelve year low and the dem elitists talk about eating pie.
Last week Obama had $100.00 a pound
Kobe beef flown in from Japan to serve at his Wednesday evening dinner parties.

Change you can beleive in!

Paulo


Let's try again in English.


Didn't you females get the message?
Posted by: Denny Crane | March 6, 2009 2:13 PM


Thank you "Denny" for your womanly views. As someone obviously in touch with womans need and inner most thoughts......I have always taken the tact that a man has no clue, nor any right to speak for woman. They're smarter than men in every way.


I love Barack but Michelle is rapidly gaining on the BIG O as the person I'm most sick of seeing in print. Enough already.


Oprah Winfrey is not a psychiatrist.
She is not a psychologist.
She is not a literary scholar.
She is not a political analyst.
She is not a theologian.
She is not a spiritual leader.
She is not a formal educator.
She is not even a very good actress.

Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host.
And that's all, folks!


If she wants pie, she gets pie.

And if she wants $100 a pound wagyu beef, she gets $100 a pound wagyu beef.

Good to see the White House part of the economy is doing so well.....


Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host.
And that's all, folks!

Posted by: McVicker | March 6, 2009 2:39 PM


Like Rush?


Yes, she is a talk show host and has her own magazine, among other things. She can put who ever she wants on her cover, and if she wants to celebrate the Obamas, then she gets to. No one is forcing you to read it. However, if you did, you would find it great insight to the issues that women are interested in and the ones they care about.


Bill R
In English, what kind of woman are ? Bill ? I wasn't speaking for women, just stating facts. Duh!


Well then, McVicker, I gues that means she should be running the Democratic Party.


Denny...It was quite obvious what you were doing. What isn't obvious...at least to you is that women don't need to be manipulated by men like you.


Denny...It was quite obvious what you were doing. What isn't obvious...at least to you is that women don't need to be manipulated by men like you.

Or manipulated by men like you bill r.


Do you ever eat kobe beef Paula?? It's good. I know a sushi place in Rockford that has it for $35 a pound. Try it.

Your correct about jobs and the stock market though. Makes you think back to when your buddy BJ Clinton was in the White House. The market was at 14,000. Five million more people were employed. Forty five million more people had health care coverage. Gas was less than $2 a gallon. And we all had more money in our bank accounts, IRA's and pension funds. Then along came the Supreme Court appointed George Bush.


And we care because.....? why? We, as a Nation, have WAY too many BIGGER FISH to fry than to care about this STUPID topic....O, get Over yOurself, and stOp sucking up to the O bamas.


I wonder if Okra cried her eye lashes off again ?


Goodness gracious..someone else on the cover!

It must be insecurity that drives a person to have only their face on the cover...either that or they are self-absorbed with themselves.

Glad that Michelle is the first to break the pattern on O. She's a beautiful lady.


bill r

Good luck on the Dr. Phil show, I hope he can help you with your problem.


bill r

Good luck on the Dr. Phil show, I hope he can help you with your problem.


Posted by: Denny Crane | March 6, 2009 4:16 PM


Hey...By all means don't let me stop you from telling women what to think and who looks out for who's interests. You obviously have your hand on the pulse. Do you also suggest they listen to Rush....you know the guy who said the feminist movement was created so ugly women can enter the mainstream? Yes indeedy...women want nothing more than men to speak for them.


First, does it matter that O has only her face on her cover, NO it does not. Second, most of you clearly can not understand what you read, because if you could then your comments would be about what it is like for Michelle and the Girls to be living in the White House, and how they are still just normal people who eat pie and have things that break , that need to be fixed.They are just normal People who respect America and know that they are there to serve not to be served to. Stop all the hate people, do we always need to attack? when are we going to learn that Negative brings Negative, and Positive brings LOVE.


SOOOOOO glad I dumped this magazine subscription a few years back. I wised up to the fact I was only lining Oprah's pockets. She's a racist thru and thru


Is that a pretty Easter Egg of a cover or what? Of course you know that "pie" is a huge internet joke that will have certain people rolling in the aisles. There's video of our President using "pie" about a dozen times on a campaign stop.

And, of course you know that every slice of pie the President's family eats, the President pays for. Every single bite of food they eat they pay for, so they can eat anything they want, dontcha think?


This is not a good thing. I like and admire Michelle Obama very much and I don't want to see her become "owned" by The Oprah like everyone else she decides to promote. Being too closely aligned with The Oprah could hurt the Obamas. I would be very careful with that relationship.


Ron,

I'm glad O won't allow white women on her cover. (which i don't believe to be true) As a black woman all i ever see are magazines that won't be caught dead with a black woman on the cover. Go O!!!!! Nothing wrong with supporting your own especially when we are always outcast.


Hey Nicole, Given your position then I'm Sure you won't mind if white people only support their own? Right. Don't even begin to think that your attitude will float on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Obama is not black - he's bi-racial.


No they will not be treated like princesses because they are not. Don't the Obamas realize that they are not royalty.


Orca uses a teleprompter. She is a talk show host.
Dr.Limbaugh never needs a teleprompter, and is not a talk show host. He is the head of the Conservative Underground. He loves black people and he is not divisive, and he wants us all to succeed. He has enough sense and balls to tell the truth. We are smart enough to know that Conservatives know what is the right thing to do, and that Comrade Erkle is a traitor/Marxist/liar/phony/and out to destroy our country. We have lost almost everything in the stockmarket. Thanks, Zer0.


You mean there's room for Michelle?


Gee, Nicole, thanks for bringing back neo-racism...it's not racist, it's just "supporting your own." Who gets to do that? Everyone or just blacks?


They are both pigs!


Ah yes, the rednecks show up again, as always. Don't say anything to Ron K's stupid remark, but jump on Nicole.


OneofMany and Pearl, I'm not black and even I understood what Nicole meant. There are a huge amount of periodicals with only white or non-black women that grace its covers. Oprah is a roll model for thousands of women of all races and origins. She is successful and everyday (regardless of your lack of thought on the subject). She is approachable. She makes women think and believe that they can accomplish. However for black women she is more than that, she is an icon, a roll model, a mentor to women who never were told that they could accomplish anything. Of course you never had that experience (or at least that is the image you project through your words). Stop talking about things you don't fully understand or grasp.


I love the pie comment. Especially since she's already promised that I'm going to have to give up some (more) of my pie


When is enough enough??

I mean really. Pathetic.

Ms. "I don't get involved with politics on my show - Obama only" Winfrey.

Discriminatory, self-centered peddler.


Which one is Ruby, and which one is Sapphire?


Oprah made Obama President by helping him beat Clinton now she making history again by sharing her cover. Her paid back by OBAMA will be paying more in taxes.

Now thats what I call "FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE"

VJ Machiavelli
http:/www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com
NO MORE SCHUMER
NO MORE PELOSI


Oprah is buying a sleep over at the white house by putting Michelle on the cover, I hope she don't get it.
Fact: The stock market went to 14,000 a little over a year ago, under G. W. Bush. The stock market went to 12,000 under Bill Clinton with GOP congress and senate.
Fact: The president does not pay for food in the white house.
Fact: Woman are stupid, look in front, back. on both sides of your house, there is a woman raising a man's kid and the man who likely didn't marry her in the first place is in la la land, making more fatherless kids. Woman work and come home and cook, clean, wash clothes, take the kids to doctors and school ect. men may work and come home to the tv cause he's so tired. He ask the woman to get him a beer and after about 10 he beat the crap out of her and she says, but he say he love me. Wmoan you don't hurt something you love, do he beat the crap out of his car, he thinks less of you than he do his car. Men have more top jobs even when they don't have the experience, such as Hillary/ expresident Bill, verses Obama Jr senator /Michelle.
Fact: Michelle has only one season-- summer. Cover your arms please.
Fact: Michelle don't mind pluggin J. Crews clothes on her daughters, but stopped Ty beanie babies dead in his tracks for making beanies with her daughters names, the beanies didn't look like the girls.
Fact: Since Obama was elected 4 million jobs have been lost, the stock market have lost almost 50%.
Fact: Most people was doing pretty good three years ago, but the democrats took over the congress and senate and we had a lame duck president with no power and the country started going south, now we have a democrat president along with congress and senate and the country has CRASHED.
Fact: To the black man, if you are darker than white, you are black. Clue, Obama is not black, he is African/American, black African/white American, you likely are just a plain black American.
News tip: Every time the stock market lose a 1,000 points now, one million jobs are lost. When these people have no money to buy things, even more people will be laid off. You voted for a Jr senator and you got what you voted for. Blame Bush for the war that you wanted when it started and changed your mind, but all this other crap blame the gloom and doom democrats.


When will O stop having her covers photoshopped? It is blatantly obvious with this cover - just as obvious as her need for attention, even using the newly elected president and his wife to further herself.
Or is it a case of mutual use?
Hummmm.


On the cover: Michelle, Oprah and Oprah's oversized ego. Wait where's Gayle?


Just a wonderful clip from an article by one of the most brilliant women in America interviewing another very honest and intelligent, well-accomplished woman. I loved it. Yes, as a man I still like and respect Oprah, and feel more of the same toward Michelle Obama.By contrast, Look at all these sour grapes posts by people who have nothing but envy and disgust and anger and hurt and pain to share with their fellow Americans. I think it's disgraceful that Americans have to post heir vitriol and jealousy on comment boards like this, and expect others to agree with their pathetic, insulting comments. If you don't agree with Obama on everything, join the human race, no one agrees 100% with everyone else. But to exhibit a sense of respectfulness and agreeableness is still a value I, for one, hold dear. Evidently many who post here think they can dump their manure in any church they want to in America. I feel sorry for them.


I am an Indonesian.I proud with Michelle Obama & Oprah Winfrey......G B U


THE COVER OF OPRAH IS PURE ELEGANCE. THIS IS WHAT THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN WAITING FOR. JUST TO SAY THAT OPRAH IS RACIST IS VERY IGNORANT. WHY NOT HAVE MICHELLE ON THE FRONT RIGHT NOW SHE IS BY FAR ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT WOMAN IN THE WORLD BESIDES OPRAH. FIRST OF ALL OPRAH IS THE OWNER OF O MAGAZINE AND SECOND OF ALL SHE CAN DO WHAT SHE WANTS TO DO WITH HER MAGAZINE. ASK OPRAH DO SHE CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HER AND MICHELLE EATTING PIE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.


Michelle Obama is a young woman and she can wear what she wants and I think the way people pick on every little thing shows they aren't happy people themselves. Obama is our President and he deserves our respect. What would you have him serve his guest bologna? Oprah Winfrey is an African American woman who made it to the top. I don't always agree with Oprah but her opinions are her own . I'm white and I use to be racist and it took one little tiny bi-racial baby boy my greatgrandson Jerimyah to turn our whole family around and we love this child unconditionally and want him to learn both sides of his heritage. It saddens me when I read everyday this person or that person being attacked. It shows how much hatred we have in our country.


What's wrong with you people? Why are you all so negative and hateful?


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