At least three times during the two-week run-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference (and despite the cold and snow outside), Michelle Obama wore strapless or sleeveless dresses in the 18-foot-ceilinged White House, the 5-storied Kennedy Center Opera House, and the heated and electrified South Lawn State Dinner tent.

Michelle Cover Up
By Asher Embry

The press, they love Michelle Obama when her arms are bare.
Not us. We ask the obvious: How warm d’they keep it there?
What carbon does it take to run that Kennedy Honors thing?
Or throw an ornate tented bash for India’s PM Singh?
We don’t begrudge a minute of Barack’s festivities;
But don’t then go and tell us how to live our own lives, please!

(You can read more of Asher Embry’s Political Verse at www.politicalverse.com.)