Michelle and the Queen

After his first foreign trip as President, JFK said, “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris–and I have enjoyed it!” Barack Obama may be feeling that way in London this week as the Gallup Poll shows the First Lady’s favorable ratings eclipsing his own.

The British press, as always on the lookout to criticize crude Americans, half-heartedly tried to stir a flap about Michelle Obama “hugging” the Queen, but apparently Her Majesty hugged first, so there is no sequel to George W. Bush’s faux pas in winking at the royal eminence.

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