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First dance for first couple
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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
January 20, 2009 08:39 PM
Introduced by actor Denzel Washington, President Obama arrived at the Neighborhood Ball, the first of 10 tonight, but which he said best captured the spirit of his campaign.
"We got the idea for the neighborhood ball because we are neighborhood people," Obama said. Organizers invited "everyday Americans" and not the high-rollers who financed much of the inaugural festivities.
He wore a black tuxedo with white bow tie and flag pin. Michelle Obama wore an one-shoulder, off-white, floor-length gown.
"How good looking is my wife?" he asked the cheering crowd.
Whispering to each other and slowly twirling, the Obamas took their first dance to Beyonce's stylings on "At Last," the classic Etta James love song.
When they finished, the crowd chanted "Obama, Obama."
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Where is the picture?!
How impressive it was to see our President and his wife tonight! What a historical moment!
At last!
A beautiful moment .. for all of us.
Simply awesome.
God bless you both, I pray you will both dance on to even greater things in our country
I loved First Lady Michelle Obama's dress for the first dance. President Barack Obama and his wife looked like a newly-wed couple. It was so cute and adorable! I really want to know who made First Lady Michelle Obama's dress for the dance.
As an Obama campaign volunteer, I wish the Obamas well, but whoever advised Michelle for her Inaugural ball dress made a BIG mistake! The bulky, embroidered white fabric makes her look too big, and more importantly the long cut of the hem makes it IMPOSSIBLE for her and Barack to dance. The shoulder strap doesn't fit quite right at the back either. Come on, Michelle, for an event like this you should have used Oscar de la Renta. Now there's a man who knows how to dress your figure! HELLO???
Someone anyone please help Michelle Obama with her wardrobe, she is too beautiful to dress like a "non-celebrity". Alicia Keys or Beyonce' call your mom or your stylist to help her,please.
How do I get a message to MSNBC to never let Ann Curry interview anyone ever again. First she insults Axlerod to his face by asking him if he was Karl Rowe to Obama. Then at the commander-in-chief ball Ann interviews like she's trying to break secrets. What an irrevelant news person she is. Even Geraldo pretended not to here Fox News Shepard's tacky comment about Obama have the nerve to interrupt Keenen West by a very classy comment by Geraldo " sorry I didn't catch that, everyone here is haveing a wonderfully happy time." We don't want the Shepards and Curry's with their digging for hate content anymore. Pass is on and don't return it.
All you had to do was go to Wikipedia to find that ""At Last!" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Orchestra Wives, starring George Montgomery and Ann Rutherford." The fact that Etta James recorded it much later does not make it "her" song. I expect better from The Globe.
"Slowly twirling?!" PLEASE! It looked more like an awkward, pimple-faced teenager shuffling through his 1st dance! It was pathetic!
I wish the best for them, and our country. The one thing that bothers me most is the Hitlerist chanting of Obama, Obama, Obama. At least at the McCain rallies they used to chant, USA, USA, USA.
To worship your country is bad enough, but to worship a leader is, well, we know what happened in Germany in the 1930's, at least I hope we do.