Raise your hand if you enjoyed/cheered when that guy threw a shoe at George W. Bush.

[Summer Hathaway]

210. DU is rife with

phrases like "peons in the peanut gallery" and Michelle being "challenged by a commoner" today.

What I don't get is why this meme is considered appropriate to this situation - because it's not.

This has nothing to do with the First Lady reacting in such a way as to dismiss anyone as a 'peon' or a 'commoner'. It has to do with Michelle being invited to speak, and those present being entitled to hear what she had to say.

Had Ms. Sturtz been an invited speaker, and had then been interrupted by Michelle on the basis that she was the First Lady and, by virtue of that fact, was therefore to be afforded certain 'privilege', you might have a point. But that's not what happened here. Far from it.

Ms. Obama was addressing an important issue, the plight of inner-city children. The fact that Ms. Sturtz wanted her to address a different topic entirely, and was insistent that she do so, has absolutely nothing to do with 'peons in the peanut gallery' having their say. What it does have to do with is one respecting another's right to speak to the topic of their choice as they had been specifically invited to do.

The idea of turning an annoying heckling incident into an argument about 'commoners' and 'peons' is utterly ridiculous.

As for the shoe-throwing incident, the day Michelle Obama is elected POTUS and then launches a war based on lies, I'll have my shoes at-the-ready to be thrown. But unless I've missed some late-breaking news, that hasn't happened. And comparing one incident to the other is nothing less than laughable.