I Vote for Non-Bra-Burning, Eco-Friendly Feminism at the White House. But Liking Burqas? That's a Tough Nut to Swallow.

It's been a slow news weekend at the Obama White House. We haven't had a jolt of O-Effect electricity since Thursday night's luau.

I, on the other hand, have been diligently digging into Mother Nature over at Anne of Carversville.

We have tomato plants growing better to women's voices, and I've challenged PETA that flies are not higher on the ethics pole than orchids, asking PETA if plants have feelings, shouldn't we stop eating them, too?

Writing that Prince Charles is the man of the hour for telling us 30 years ago that talking to plants was a good practice, I've come up with a splendid idea for Michelle to ignite yet another activist lightening rod, this time around recycling. It's a doosey!

The White House sous-chef clips rosemary in The First Lady's Garden to use in an upcoming dinner in 2007There's a catch, however. My idea might not go down well with Michelle new East Wing crew, if the pundits are right.

The word is that Michelle wants to be taken more seriously (as if she's not???). Say it isn't so, Michelle. We don't need perfectly-manicured gardens in the White House?

Personally, I think women journalists aren't totally understanding the First Lady's real strategy, but I'm not hanging out in Washington.

What do I know? Nothing.

I'm just a grown woman observing the action up here in New York. But as I wrote previously, Michelle is a sly girl -- complex, layered, and always thinking.

Lois Romano, writing for the Washington Post last week, insists that Michelle isn't satisfied with her impact as role model in chief. The word is that Michelle's changing her role, perhaps a la Hillary Clinton, now that Hillary has softened herself to be more like Michelle.

Romano writes that Michelle's new chief of staff, Susan Sher, 61, is a close friend and former boss who the first lady thinks will be more forceful about getting her and her team on the West Wing's radar screen. The first thing Sher said she told senior adviser David Axelrod, whom she has known for years: When I call, "you need to get back to me right away."

I totally understand the First Lady's desire for Deliverables. This is the Smart part of her Smart Sensuality mindset. Of course, she wants Deliverables because Michelle's an accountable kind of person in a city that skirts personal responsibility.

Dining in the First Lady's Garden on June 16, 2009Michelle Obama loves special effects, which is why she will love my idea, of only Susan Sher will buy into it.

Did you know that when Michelle was banging the table with the kids, saying "We want food", that she was presiding in the venerable First Lady's' Garden (aka First Ladies' Garden)?

You have a photo higher up on the page -- that austere looking, perfectly manicured place that Michelle took down a peg or two with the kids, about 10 days before the big luau. That's what I'm talkin' about.

(Parenthetically, let me say that no one forced Michelle to be so exhuberant in saying the group was hungry. She did this of her own accord, which is why I argue that Michelle Obama is always her own woman. Don't expect her to be transformed into a pinstripe-wearing mama any time soon. On occasion, perhaps, but we will be seeing the Michelle we know and love, whether Axelrod returns Sher's calls promptly or not.)

I found out about the First Lady's Garden, formerly The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, looking for new articles on the White House Kitchen Garden as a setup for my idea.

Perhaps my love of Susan Reimer's gardening blog piece and my push back on Lois Romano's analysis of Michelle's new pinstripe strategy reflects my firm convictions that the First Lady is truly operating on all eight-cylinders of her Smart Sensuality strategy.

See how different this photo and the others in Susan Reimer's story are from the perfectly manicured photo above and many more on the official White House museum website? Same location, but with a totally different photo perspective.

Michelle is a hollyhocks, phlox, honeysuckle kind of woman. She's a peony, too, and an orchid.

FLOTUS is not some perfectly manicured flower in a pinstripe suit. Dream on, my dear Brooks Brothers sisters. Michelle Obama has a bigger, newer, more contemporary and relevant agenda.

I keep telling you that she's not a Modern woman. She's a Smart Sensuality woman with Cultural Creative values.

I think Michelle should make her own statement in the perfectly-manicured First Ladies' Garden.

Correct that, Michelle Obama can make yet another statement besides the preciously-endearing moment of banging the table, saying "We want food."

Michelle Obama can create a revolution in the First Ladies' Garden with a gesture that should appeal to bra-burning feminists everywhere. Yes, indeed. This is another gesture of flinging our bras to the ground metaphorically, but we do it Michelle-Style.

Being Smart Sensuality feminists who care about the world, we will recycle our bras, not burn them. And how will we recycle them?

Dada! Wait . . .there's more.

via Michelle-StyleOnce again, Michelle can beat her good friend the Queen of England to the proverbial punch, stealing the thunder stateside, absconding with the idea -- thanks to me -- from the Queen's backyard! This could be the equivalent of Washington Crossing the Delaware, Michelle Obama style.

Once again Michelle Obama scores foreign policy kudos with a soft glove approach. She strikes but in such a nice way. Modern woman do not understnd this style of doing business.

OK, OK. Enough already. This is my idea, and the Queen will love it.

via Redtracker Smart Sensuality News 7-6-09A couple days before the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which begins on July 12, Michelle plants a bra in the White House Ladies Garden. Indeed, using recycled bras (and jockey shorts) as planters is the latest, greatest idea in container gardening and will be a major feature at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

Admit it, my friends. This idea is very clever. The Brits have an entire strategy around "intimates" gardening in the wings, but they haven't gone global with it yet. In another couple months, we lose our advantage of moving like lightening on this possibility.

Michelle can take the kids -- and perhaps feminists who qualify for social security would be better -- and they will march over to the White House Ladies Garden, and give it a facelift for the 21st century. We're Going Green, giving the gardens back to the people, too.

There you go -- Anne's idea to no news from the White House Monday, when I need something to write about.

Afterthoughts

On a more serious note, I also thought I'd blast this Michelle Obama love note into cyberspace, while I weigh my position on her husband's view that burquas are not my concern, as an American woman.

The more I read and think and ruminate on this topic, I think I'm looking for a far less flip comment from POTUS than the statement he made in Cairo, addresssing the topic of women like me interfering with how Muslim men and their governments dress 'their' women. (That is the truth, is it not, in many countries? These women can't dress as they choose to dress.)

Queen Rania takes a harder line on this topic than POTUS. They haven't thrown her out of the Middle East. POTUS can be nice about it, using softer language than Sarkozy.

This whole subject is being framed under the guise of anti-immigration rhetoric. Excuse me, please, women still get stoned to death in the Middle East. Lots of Muslims are trying to change these laws. Can we at least have an opinion? This is about women's rights, not only anti-immigration . . . unless you don't think much of women's rights.

For every Middle Eastern woman who thinks the burqa is great, there must be thousands dying of the heat under there. Writing yesterday, searching for my own articulated position on this subject, I can't separate it from our own civil rights movement.

I remember the years in America when House Negroes were cited as examples of why racism wasn't actually a problem in this country. African Americans were considered 'happy' and 'content' under the yoke of slavery and later, rampant discrimination.

I'm all for a more positive relationship with Muslims. I thought the Cairo speech was a great one. I understand the need not to upset the apple cart, and I support increased sensitivity about Western mores in Muslim cultures.

But President Obama's statement about Americans not interfering in dress codes -- now that I'm studying the issue in much greater detail -- was way too flip for my blood.

I understand diplomacy and gradual change. But the POTUS statement wasn't a neutral one. He said that we shouldn't interfere in how women are dressed in Muslim countries.

Botom line, POTUS is fine with burqas, as long as they're not on Michelle, of course. Or Sasha and Malia.

From bras to burqas, the subject of women and clothing are always intertwined. Women understand this fact, even when smart men don't.

Any woman who willing chooses to wear a burqa because she likes it in there, is fine with me. But let's call this dress code for what it is, and not make the debate about short skirts or long ones and whether a woman's knee is showing.

As an American woman who supports President Obama, am I really expected to agree that burqas are none of my business? I don't think so, POTUS.

Let's get Susan Sher going on that line of communication with the West Wing, thank you. Anne

Read my Journal from June 28, 2009: While the World Debates Burqas, Fashion Designers Show Beautiful Abayas at Paris's George V Hotel.

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