If you have been following the Marie Antoinette spike on Twitter, it is largely due to a recent controversy over the First Lady, Michelle Obama. In a recent piece in the NY Daily News, she has been compared to the famous Queen of France."Instead, Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects' plight - than an average mother of two. While she's spent her time in the White House telling parents they should relieve their chubby kids' dependency on sugar and stressing the importance of an organic veggie garden, hopping a jet to Europe to meet with Spanish royalty isn't the visual the White House probably wants to project."
Read the full piece here: Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation
