by Mark Silva
Halle Berry, Christina Aguilera, Angelina Jolie and...
Michelle Obama.
One of "Barack's beauties'' -- along with Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff.
The world's most beautiful people, according to People.
"The First Lady says growing up in a supportive household helped make her the confident woman she is today,'' People magazine reports in its lineup of the world's most beautiful.
"I had a father and a brother who thought I was beautiful, and they made me feel that way every single day," Obama, 45, says in the feature. "I grew up with very strong male role models who thought I was smart and fast and funny, so I heard that a lot. I know that there are many young girls who don't hear it."
NBC's Matt Lauer noted in an interview on Today that People's lineup includes "a section on 'Barack's beauties.'' It includes the first lady, Treasury's Tim Geitner and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Lauer asked Vice President Joe Biden about missing the cut.
"I'm extremely disappointed.,'' Biden replied. "Rahm made it and I didn't. I wish you hadn't told me that, you ruined my whole day.''
(Photo of Michelle Obama by Marc Hom / People)
Comments
See the White House Propaganda Machine is at it again.
Posted by: Inky | April 30, 2009 10:59 AM
Rahm Emanuel is "Beautiful"? Tim Geithner?
Just when you think the Obama partisans at People can't get any sillier, any more fawning.....
Posted by: Party gal | April 30, 2009 11:47 AM
She has bare arms again! Quick - call out the right wingnuttia brigade to be outraged!!!
Posted by: BC | April 30, 2009 11:48 AM
Bemused is going to be soooo angry that Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton weren't #1 and #2 on the list. Implying that they aren''t perfect in all ways usually sets her off.
Posted by: Liz | April 30, 2009 12:12 PM
Now that this is on my mind again-can someone please tell me why photographers still insist on posing their female subjects with the hand draped under the chin?
It can't be because it looks good.
Posted by: rob | April 30, 2009 12:15 PM
Oh Geographically Ignorant BC, me and the "right wingers" could care less about Michelle's bare arms.
But this is silly. Barack's Beauties and it includes Tax-Cheat-In-Chief Tim Geithner and Rahm Emanuel?
This overblown media fawning must stop! Good grief!!
Posted by: John D | April 30, 2009 1:13 PM
Rahm is hot, especially when he's angry or smiley -- or angry smiley. ;)
Posted by: lolly | April 30, 2009 1:46 PM
But BC, the wingnuts are always defending the right to bare arms....
Posted by: rupert | April 30, 2009 2:15 PM
Wingnuts
Righty - tighty
Lefty - loosey
I got it, thanks! any other idiotic misplaced words laying around you can puke up?
Posted by: springfieldspringfield | April 30, 2009 3:26 PM
Rahm IS hot in a short, angry, ballet dncer sort of way, LOL
BTW where was the outrage when Bushies Condi and Colin Powell made the list? Oh right, there wasn't any outrage :O
Posted by: tt0405 | April 30, 2009 4:20 PM
That pic actually startled me when I scrolled down. Gee, wonder why Sarah Palin, an obvious beauty wasn't included??
Posted by: mc | April 30, 2009 9:01 PM
The liberal singing to their own brand of music, and liking what they see.
So, in actuality, only half to even closed to say, less than half of the nation really will spend money to buy people's magazines.
Posted by: eva | May 1, 2009 3:59 AM
Geographically Ignorant Little Johnnie D, "the Joseph Stalin of Streamwood" - will you ever have the backbone to admit that you were wrong about the island of Cuba being TOTALLY in the Caribbean and NOT in the Gulf of Mexico?
Of course not, you coward.
Posted by: BC | May 1, 2009 12:56 PM
I just do not get it she is not that good looking let alone beautiful. Actually, take away her elite hair stylist and make-up artist she is comfortably average. Incidentally, she does not dress that great either. Cindy McCain and Laura Bush even without accounting for age were her equal in the least and no one, especially the media, fawned over their "beauty". My point is not her beauty or in my opinion average looks but that with sycophants in the media reality can be changed.
Posted by: Stephan | July 16, 2009 12:36 AM
People magazine has lost all credibility by naming these people as beautiful. Other than Halle Barry and maybe Angelina Jolie, there is no one beautiful on this list. And don't try to talk about "inner beauty"...that is not what this list is about. The most shocking one is Rahm Emanuel...he looks like a crocodile...one of the ugliest and scariest men alive.
Posted by: dee | September 20, 2009 3:17 AM