Rarely do I give a flying flip about what the first lady wears.  I’m not that shallow or flighty.  I don’t read fashion magazines; I have a real life to live.  I don’t spend time with women who are so into such things they don’t have time for genuinely important things.  But when dressing for a memorial service, anyone over the age of 12 ought to know that discretion, respect and good manners call for wearing inconspicuous clothing, generally black.

The idea is twofold.  Black is the long-standing, across many cultures, color for expressing mourning and greif.  Second, the important statement one makes when choosing clothing for a memorial service — especially a national memorial for one’s fallen soldiers! –  is to be unobtrusive.  The important dressing quality for such an occasion is the express that YOU are not the center of attention and you wish to do all you can in dressing yourself to show your humility and not draw unnecessary attention to yourself.

So, have a look at Michelle Obama’s disgraceful, turquoise outfit worn at the national memorial for Veterans Day yesterday at Arlington Memorial Cemetary.  Ask yourself this:  when a woman has 23 attendants and assistants on the taxpayers’ payroll, and none apparently can tell her something this basic, what is wrong?  Michelle Obama is starting to resemble Imelda Marcos, and that can’t be a good sign.

What’s wrong with this picture?