PHOTOS Michelle's Day (Prague, April 5)

[Jackeens]

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First Lady Michelle Obama visits Saint Vaclav Chapel at Prague Castle

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First lady Michelle Obama walks with her Czech counterpart Livia Klausova in front of the Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle

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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with Czech first lady LivIa Klausova during a visit to Saint Vaclav Chapel at Prague Castle

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First lady Michelle Obama visits a synagogue in Prague

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All from www.daylife.com


More of today's Prague photos here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8322498&mesg_id=8322498

[Hope And Change]

1. Wonderful pics.K & R!

[geiger]

13. yes indeedy.

clearly a thoughtful and moved lady.

[ClarkUSA]

2. The bow needs to go. I like her "Beam Me Up, Scotty" belt look, though.

[geiger]

6. funny I love the bow and hate the belt (:

[polichick]

7. The belt might be better worn at her waist...

As is, I don't much like the bow or the belt.

[ClarkUSA]

26. It looks hip and sexy to me.

[polichick]

31. Makes her look pregnant to me. :)

[gblady]

32. that was my first thought also....

it really accentuates her tummy
when worn at that level.

[seaker]

8. I don't get the belt either

Still love her way beyond the clothes...

[ClarkUSA]

24. heh heh

:)

[Merlot]

28. It looks more like a sculpture than an actual bow

When I saw it close up I was very intrigued, it's not your standrd "bow."

[FrenchieCat]

10. The bow is not doing it for me either.

It looks pretty good on stage, as it provides interest from a long distance,
but beyond that, it's bigger than her head, and that can't be good.
Still she looks more fab than the last First lady did in her entire 8 years. :)

[ClarkUSA]

27. Yup.

Even with the bow, she looks finer than any First Lady in memory.

[Top Cat]

3. Is that Rahm in pic #9?

[Hope And Change]

5. I think so and to the right behind Michelle is David Axelrod I think.

[frazzled]

21. They're at one of the synagogues in the old Jewish quarter

The names on the wall you can (or perhaps can't) see are the names of all the czech jews who were sent to concentration camps, and their home towns that have been painted onto the plaster walls in one of the synagogues.

Prague is one of the few places in Europe where you can tour a number of old synagogues--from Romanesque and Gothic to Baroque and Renaissance. Hitler wanted to make Prague a sort of museum of the extinct race, so he sent all the looted materials from the destroyed synagogues all over Europe there, and the synagogues were never destroyed. (Prague was never bombed, which is why it is such a historically beautiful city.) It's a very fascinating day tour.

[PopSixSquish]

22. Both Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod Accompanied Her on the Tour

"The first part of the tour was the Pinkas synagogue, which has been inscribed on the inside with the names of 80,000 Holocaust victims from Bohemia and Morovia. The listing is mostly alphabetical, though new names are still being added based on ongoing research. Michelle was primarily toured around by Michaela Sideberg, the visual arts curator of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

The secret service agents were given disposable felt kipot, the Jewish head coverings also known as yarmulkes, to wear during the tour. Emanuel and Axelrod wore more traditional woven kipot. Axelrod's was white with gray and black stitching. Emanuel's was blue with white and gray stitching. It was a somber tour, with Axelrod and Emanuel mostly following behind Michelle...Michelle also visited a room of children's drawings which had been created between 1942 and 1944 in Terazin, a transit station for Jews who were being sent to the extermination camps.

The group then came out into the cemetery, which is populated by about 12,000 gravestones, with graves sometimes stacked 12 layers deep. Dorling Kindersley's book says there are estimated to be 100,000 people buried in the space. The FLOTUS group made several stops as they wound their way through the path, including at the oldest gravestone of Avigdor Kara (1439). According to Sideberg, Michelle followed the Jewish tradition of depositing a wish on a small piece of folded paper near the grave of Rabbi Low."

via pool report on Politico

[Kerrytravelers]

4. It's nice to have a First Lady who doesn't appear to be drugged out on Xanex.

After eight years, it is so nice to not be internationally embaressed 24/7/365 by my President and First Lady.

[geiger]

12. OMG is that what it was? I could never figure that out.

[geiger]

20. How could I not have figured that out? I knew something was wrong.

[AyanEva]

9. I love

her bow! I'd normally hate it but it's cute the way she has it with the belt.

[seaker]

11. Thank you

for the photos. Not just these. I appreciate that you do this very much.
:loveya:

[Botany]

14. The bow is awful

She is great but the bow is way over the top.

[geiger]

16. I love the bow, esp for the setting....

the only place more glamorous must be Vienna.

[Botany]

18. picture # 10

love the bow or hate the bow ..... I swell w/ pride seeing these pix.

Our President went before the people in the capital of a former communist
country and called for getting rid of nuclear weapons. :applause:

The Obamas are making history and winning friends w/ this tour.

[geiger]

19. I know. The more pixs I see the more I want.

[K8-EEE]

25. agreed! Lose the bow!

Hated it! Love her though!

[mrsadm]

15. Hey, about the bow and belt...

At least Michelle has the panache to try lots of fashionable looks, unlike Mrs. W who wore suits exactly like those my mother mothballed in 1967! Some looks will work and others maybe not, but at least she's not dowdy. I applaud her.

[geiger]

17. I love the bow!

[mikiturner]

23. I've been to that Chapel

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities on Earth.

[hlthe2b]

29. God, I hate BOWS.... love ya Michelle, but Good God...

ditch the bows, please!

[ChiGal]

30. She looks lovely

except the belt worn up so high on the bodice makes her look pregnant.

[Vinca]

33. Bows, belts . . . this lady would look good wearing a feed sack. nt

[Sheltiemama]

34. Not crazy about the bow.

But I love that she wore sensible flats for sight-seeing.

[Clio the Leo]

35. I bet she's glad to be done looking at giant old "churches"....

... all of that extravagance built on the backs of the poor in the name of God irritates me. I can appreciate the architectural wonderment of it all but still, I'd be at least wanting to visit a museum or something.

[Jackeens]

36. Clio, you're a hoot...."giant old churches", ROFL! But you're absolutely right...

....they were built by the downtrodden, something I should have remembered when I purred at the very buildings the Obamas admired today on my one and only visit to Prague. A deeply depressing thought.

[Clio the Leo]

37. Yep. And the giant "churches" in the US today, built as tax shelters...

.... to house frivilous "family life centers" that go on for blocks while Christians around the globe meet in shacks.

Disgraceful.

[elleng]

40. Whomever is interested,

and don't mean to be sanctimonious, but churches and museums go together in Europe; one of the best higher education forums, starting to become such for my daugters.

[Pachamama]

38. What's w/ the virtue bow right above the S&M belt? Not working for me...

Hate to be a fashion critic, but its one of the stranger looks I've seen in a long time...on anyone.

Anyway, love me some Michelle regardless and love that she got to see one of my favorite cities in Europe...was just there in November and love it so...

[elleng]

39. Included the Jewish cemetary, #2.

Was that Rahm at synagogue with her?

[elleng]

41. 'Mrs. Obama then spent two hours touring the Jewish Quarter's

synagogues and unique cemetery. Her visit included a stop at the Pinkas synagogue, whose walls bear the names of more than 80,000 Czech Holocaust victims — including the ancestors of Madeleine Albright, the Czech-born former U.S. secretary of state.

Leo Pavlat, director of Prague's Jewish Museum, said Mrs. Obama liked the inside of the synagogue — "especially the exhibit of children's drawings from the Theresienstadt ghetto."

There were a few somber moments at the tiny cemetery, jammed with some 12,000 family gravestones crowded into a little garden near the Vltava River, and about 100,000 dead buried in several layers beneath them.

Places a prayer on paper
Mrs. Obama stood briefly by the oldest gravestone — that marking the resting place of poet Avigdor Kara, who died in 1439 — before moving to the grave of the legendary 16th century rabbi Yehudav Loew, considered one of the greatest Jewish scholars and philosophers. In keeping with local custom, she placed a prayer on a piece of paper and weighted it down with a little stone.'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30055701/

[Left Coast2020]

42. The only time she is smiling is when she is on rope line.

She has such a serious look on her face in the other shots.

[elleng]

43. This is a pretty serious place.

I've been there.