Michelle gets busy!!

The Snake Pit had to take a break in the past few days due to the fact that both Cobra and Black Mamba decided to take a 4 day weekend mini vacation at the same time, in the same place, hehe (wink wink!).

But we are back in action... or at least, Black Mamba is going to TRY to be back in action.  I do go to graduate school at a prestigious university (ho ho ho) and finals horror week is about to start.  In fact, this post is clearly a procrastination attempt! oops.  I'll be brief.

I want to say that I'm really loving Michelle Obama's first outing into the world as a first lady.  She first went to Haiti in a surprise visit - which reminds me, WHY HASN'T OBAMA GONE TO HAITI??? I totally did not even notice that! but that is not cool, come on Barry.  Anyway, then Michelle went to Mexico and that is what has me really happy.  So far the trip has been a success, they have received her well, she's getting a lot of positive PR.  It shows two things:
-that the administration is whiling to put Latin America at the top of SOME list.
-that Mexico is a really cool place right now.

To the second point, I speak with sadness at the current state of Latin American countries.  At this point, there are only a handful of countries that can actually be visited in this way.  Mexico? Brazil? Colombia? everywhere else is just brewing with lame animosity.  Bush is gone, man! get over it L.A! Venezuela beat America and Cuba as the most interventionist force in the region, so far.  The days that the leftist leaders speak of ARE gone.  So why continue with these counterproductive battles?

Sigh... Mexico is doing so well right now, EVEN with a massive drug related crisis, they STILL are doing better than Venezuela.  Sigh, that just hurts.

but on a less lamenting note...  not all politics is boring!! here's a link from the Huffington Post with some photos of Michelle's trip (and fashion, DUH).  I'm impressed that first lady Margarita Zavala is almost as tall as Michelle... damn those european descended latin americans.

see link:
Michelle Obama's fashion in Mexico