Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Barbra Walters’ most fascinating person for 2009 is Michelle Obama.
When this ‘most fascinating person’ was asked what her personal paradise is she replied “just clicking through mindless shows” with her dog.
How truly fascinating. Please, tell me more…
I mean, if you think about this year, I had to get these two beautiful girls settled into a new city, into a new home, into a new school. We got a dog. I visited eight countries with my husband. I planted a garden. I’ve started a mentoring program. It has been everything.
How absolutely fascinating. They moved. They got a dog. They planted a garden. Holy riveting stories batman!
At least now she’s proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. Now that her husband, the most recent Nobel Peace Prize winner has set a course to triple the number of troops in Afghanistan, had, by September, exceeded last year’s number of Predator drone strikes, has failed to close Guantanamo in a year, and has failed to produce the transparency he so often promised on the campaign trail. Truly things to be proud of for a most fascinating woman.
[ADDENDUM: Lest we forget, this is the First Couple that gave the Queen of England a very thoughtful iPod and Gordon Brown a boxed set of DVDs.]
The new garden put her over the edge in that tough competition I'm sure.