re: #682 yma o hyd

Now - for all the Lizardesses who love to give their inner cat a run-out, here’s the first picture of Michelle and Carla Bruin, ahem, Madame Sarkozy, side by side:

Meow!

I can almost hear the “Meow!” [SCRATCH]:

[Tina] Brown writes that Michelle is such a mega-star she even eclipses Carla Bruni, supermodel wife of Nicolas Sarkozy:

“It was smart of France’s ravishing first lady, Carla Bruni, to let her husband go to the conference without her. The second Madame Sarkozy was a big wow when she visited London last March, but she’s a shrewd enough PR hand to know she would suffer in comparison to the first and only Mrs. Obama. Carla is old news next to Michelle. Sure, she’s more beautiful in the cover-girl sense—looking good is her profession, after all—but an Italian heiress who strums the guitar and made a predatory move on France’s reigning little Napoleon isn’t the best poster girl for the scariest economic downturn since the 1930s. The Brits went off Carla almost as soon as she was back in Paris. That fake-demure little Dior suit she wore to lunch with Queen Elizabeth seemed in retrospect like the kind of get-up a reformed hooker might wear to meet her latest CEO for lunch at the Savoy. “

What the hell is this, high school?