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Michelle Obama, rosewood smuggler?

Michelle Obama, rosewood smuggler? Seems in 2009, the FLOTUS gave a Gibson guitar with a fretboard made from Indian rosewood (the same wood the DOJ is busting Gibson for now) to the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. If she were a Republican donor, she’d be in real trouble now.

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Ruben says:

August 30, 2011 at 3:12 pm

Michelle's motto on EVERYTHING: good for me but not for thee.
Joe Redfield says:

August 30, 2011 at 12:54 pm

You should know perfectly well that Article 22 of the Constitution exempts the President's wife from the laws that you and me and the rest of peons have to obey.
Kip Hooker says:

August 30, 2011 at 11:32 am

And here all this time I thought it was a sled. Oh wait, that's Rosebud.