Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley told CNN's Wolf Blitzer his magazine didn't mean to put Michelle Obama "on a pedestal" with its new cover. Um, OK.

She's just an ordinary, penny-pinching working mom, you see:

One of the great advantages of Michelle is she embraces being a mother, a wife and she's got a lot of things to juggle and she can sit down and shop and get a whole outfit online for $400.

Jackie Kennedy couldn't do that. Thus: Hope! Also: Change.

Then again,70-percent-off recession sales at Saks have helped bring fashion to the masses, too. Won't someone thank former President Bush? (No, actually. More Michelle please, kthanks.)

Also: Vogue swears the First Lady picked out her outfits on her own.

(Thanks to video intern Sarah Moroz for the clip.)

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