{"id":701517,"date":"2010-03-26T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:21:25","slug":"goodbye-desiree-rogers-we%e2%80%99ll-miss-your-fabulosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701517","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Desiree Rogers- We\u2019ll Miss Your Fabulosity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Desiree%20Rogers&amp;iid=5041261\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/a\/8\/9\/b\/Obamas_Bidens_Host_69ad.jpg?resize=234%2C160\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obamas, Bidens Host White House Luau For Members Of Congress\" width=\"234\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>This is Gina. In case you didn&#8217;t know, Desiree Rogers has left the building, the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that is. Though some of you expressed frustration with Roger&#8217;s appearance in photos with the First Lady, she didn&#8217;t really ever bother me. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t really ever give Desiree more than a passing thought. She wasn&#8217;t the First Lady so I figured &#8220;who cares?&#8221; In fact what bothered me the most was the ganging up on her in the end to make her smaller than what she is. Desiree is Desiree. Folks knew who she was when she was chosen for her position.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Desiree%20Rogers&amp;iid=8206283\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/e\/a\/2\/c\/Obama_And_First_18e5.jpg?resize=234%2C162\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obama And First Lady Attend International Women's Day Reception\" width=\"234\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\nI still marvel at the fact that Desiree Rogers is gone *achoo* and Timothy Geithner has managed to hold on to his job *achoo*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also bristle at this blood thirsty desire to see you &#8220;put in your place&#8221; by the likes of \u00a0the Washington Post&#8217;s Sally Quinn, who doesn&#8217;t even have the social intelligence not to schedule her child&#8217;s wedding on the same day as her husband&#8217;s granddaughter&#8217;s wedding and then lacks the self awareness not to realize that nobody wants to read about her social faux pas in the pages of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Desiree%20Rogers&amp;iid=4297929\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/f\/a\/9\/8\/PicImg_Michelle_Obama_Visits_0b52.jpg?resize=234%2C164\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Michelle Obama Visits DC-Area School As Part Of Women's History Month\" width=\"234\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>And don&#8217;t get me started on the <a href=\"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/2009\/12\/your-desiree-rogers-salahis-open-thread-when-robin-givhan-and-april-ryan-attack\/\">hatchet job April Ryan and Robin Givahn<\/a> did on you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Robin%20Givhan&amp;iid=1323479\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0\/a\/d\/e\/BCBG_Max_Azria_aad1.jpg?resize=234%2C399\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BCBG Max Azria - Front Row - Spring 09 MBFW\" width=\"234\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=April%20Ryan&amp;iid=5705695\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/b\/f\/f\/d\/Summer_TCA_Tour_a5ec.jpg?resize=234%2C156\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Summer TCA Tour - Day 4\" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>I can&#8217;t imaging WHY Robin and April tried to kick a sister when she was down. I can&#8217;t imagine AT ALL. COMPLETELY CLUELESS.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you are a mean spirited harpy as some have tried to argue to me &#8211; who cares? You rocked out the 12 months you were in the White House. I&#8217;ll miss the fabulosity. Black women need more fabulosity and you brought the FAB! Sure maybe you could have been out of the camera shot a bit more, but then again, if you had been we&#8217;d have nothing to remember you by.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Desiree%20Rogers&amp;iid=5001821\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/2\/e\/2\/e\/9th_Annual_Michael_587e.jpg?resize=234%2C317\" border=\"0\" alt=\"9th Annual Michael Z. Bennahum Forum By The Creative Coalition\" width=\"234\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>PPS. I don&#8217;t know what kind of New Orleans brew you are concocting at the house, but you need to bottle it and sell it because I can only DREAM of looking that fab when I am 50 years old.\u00a0Black don&#8217;t crack!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=Desiree%20Rogers&amp;iid=5041491\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/8\/c\/f\/0\/Obamas_Bidens_Host_8c0e.JPG?resize=234%2C351\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obamas, Bidens Host White House Luau For Members Of Congress\" width=\"234\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=#michelleobamawatch\" title=\"Post to twitter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelleobamawatch.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-twitter.png?w=780\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a 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