Thread: I Kinda Feel Sorry for Michelle Obama

Originally Posted by gtgreentre

Why is everyone attacking the Obama's? Is it because they are black? I'm tired of hearing all the racist remarks against them. People need to see pass the color.

Have you listened to the sermons that come out of the church he belongs to? That is racist. I personally have many black friends and would never think of not liking someone because of that

Originally Posted by ssgjeg

Originally Posted by gtgreentre

Why is everyone attacking the Obama's? Is it because they are black? I'm tired of hearing all the racist remarks against them. People need to see pass the color.

No. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin. It has to do with their hypocrisy. They spout unity when they have been members for over 20 years of a church that spouts racism. Tell me, who has friends for over 20 years and doesn't know that friends thoughts and feelings on certain subjects. I'm not talking acquaintances but people they say they have had to their home for dinner, performed their marriage ceremony, baptised their children, etc.

It also has to do with the fact that they try to act as if they know the trials of the average working class person in this country. I don't know about anyone else but I sure don't identify well with someone who makes $500,000 a year. I don't care that they do but just don't try to connect with me because you can't. Heck they donated more in one year than my dh makes.
At least Hillary just says she understands the problems of the common person and doesn't try to make me feel sorry that she has all these bills that she struggles to pay while saving for college for her kids. If you can't pay your bills and save for college on the kind of money that they make then I damn sure don't trust them with the budget of this country.

And the other candidates in this race have to deal with flak also but McCain isn't crying that someone is picking on him just because of his age and Hillary isn't crying that everything she has had to endure is just because she is a woman. The man is a presidential candidate and his closet is going to be combed for any skeletons he may have. Just like everybody else.

I totally agree !

Originally Posted by ssgjeg

If they can't budget on that then what are they going to do the country's budget?

A Democratic Bush!

Crick - you keep send me some very insightful "reps" to these political threads - why don't you just post them here to share with all ?

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

Crick - you keep send me some very insightful "reps" to these political threads - why don't you just post them here to share with all ?

Because you're special! LOL

Originally Posted by PrincessArky

what really gets me about the whole Obama thing is this..........how many black ppl are voting for him just because he is black??? to me that is no reason to vote for anyone.......I wouldnt vote for someone because they are black, white or purple nor would the sex of a person make up my decision as to who to vote for either

thank you!!!!!!!!!!! they had that topic on yahoo last week. It is sickening if he gets to be president because of this!!
I think what that lady that worked for hillary said is true, he is only winning becuase he is black!! And right now i think they are ready for black president.
He does not have the experience or the balls to be one!!!

From the 'Please, God, Let it Be True' Files

Michelle Obama to team up with Teresa Heinz-Kerry for a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_p...e-trouble.aspx

Michelle and Teresa: Double Trouble?

At a "Stand for Change" rally at Carnegie Mellon University tomorrow, Michelle Obama will be joined by "special guest" Teresa Heinz Kerry. It is, according to the campaign, Michelle's "first visit of the Pennsylvania primary season to Pittsburgh" and Teresa's first appearance on behalf of Obama.

I can't decide if this is a fine idea or a horrible one. For all her charms, the oh-so-colorful Teresa was a problematic figure for her husband's campaign: rich, elite, mouthy, irreverent, and at times confrontational. (Countless candidates' wives have fantasized about telling a reporter to "Shove it!" but Teresa may be the only one to live the dream.) Michelle, of course, has drawn fire herself for being too outspoken on the trail. So does her appearing with Teresa make Michelle look mild-mannered by comparison--or does it remind people of the downsides of an unpredictable spouse?

Let's just hope the gals don't get competitive about who's man has poorer hygiene or more annoying nighttime habits. (Show of hands, ladies: snoring vs. Vietnam flashbacks!)


The Great Gaffe Queens, together at last! Hillary is smiling broadly right now.

I want to take this reference to would-be presidential wives as a way to talk about the so-called "cookie test." How does the First Lady, or potential First Lady, handle such a delicate matter? I wonder...

Laura Bush: "I baked some snickerdoodles for you, Prime Minister! I hope you enjoy them."

Teresa Heinz Kerry: "Hello, Prime Minister. I just had one of our servants prepare some madeleines, if you would care for one let me know."

Hillary Clinton: "Somebody get the guy some cookies. Now, what I want to talk about is your agricultural subsidies..."

Michelle Obama: "Yeah, I made some cookies, but they're for the kids. If you can convince Sasha to give you hers, go right ahead. How's Carla?"

Michelle Obama stooped to Stephen Colbert’s level and endured a 7-minute rendezvous with buffoonery to tout The Soul-Fixer’s campaign. Why did she agree to appear? Because Barack is “special” and because, as she so nobly put it, “I’m willing to make the sacrifices.”

She wasn’t kidding.

Colbert prides himself on his talent at spoofing narcissism. Michelle Obama’s narcissism is beyond parody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AqmLH9z9Qw

Unintentionally funniest line: “Barack and I tend to look at the positives.”

The Michelle Obama-patented subject-changer

In a pickle with your spouse over laundry you neglected to do
or trash you forgot to take out?

Looking for an easy way to wriggle out of a tough spot with your boss?

Never fear. Michelle Obama is here with her new patented subject-changer:

“You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids.”

Worked like a charm yesterday during her softball interview with NBC’s Meredith Viera:

MEREDITH VIEIRA: Michelle, do you feel that the Reverend Wright betrayed your husband?

MICHELLE OBAMA: I think Barack has spoken so clearly and eloquently about this.

MEREDITH VIEIRA: But do you personally feel that the Reverend Wright…

MICHELLE OBAMA: You know what I think Meredith? I think we gotta move forward. You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids. You know, it doesn’t help kids out there who are looking for us to make decisions and choices about how we’re going to better fund education.

I can see it now:

- Homeowners under water in heated discussions with their banks:

“You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids.”

- Speeders arguing with traffic cops:

“You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids.”

You know when Michelle really should have used that line? When she was sitting in church with her kids sometime over the last 20 years listening to Jeremiah Wright “conversing” about his standard litany of grievances against America.

See also : http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/0...amas-on-today/

Obama’s bitter half
Michelle Malkin

Are you ready for hope and change?

Barack Obama better hope his bitter half has a change of attitude if she expects to assume the title of first lady in November. She’s been likened to John F. Kennedy’s wife, what with her chic suits and pearls and perfectly coiffed helmet hair. But when she opens her mouth, Michelle O. is less Jackie O. and more Wendy W. — as in Wendy Whiner, the constantly kvetching Saturday Night Live character from the early 1980s.

When last our worldviews collided, back in February, the other Michelle was expounding on her lack of pride in America. I gave her myriad reasons to cheer up — from America’s role in the fall of communism and our unparalleled generosity to our nation’s superior economic system, cultural resilience, entrepreneurial spirit, and ingenuity. But since then, Mrs. Obama has dug in her $500 Jimmy Choo heels and solidified her role in the 2008 presidential campaign as Queen of the Grievance-Mongers.

In one of her few (unintentionally) funny moments during a recent sit-down with comedian Stephen Colbert, Mrs. Obama claimed, “Barack and I tend to look at the positives.” That’s a side-splitter.

As National Review’s Yuval Levin put it, Michelle Obama is “America’s unhappiest millionaire.” And she has the audacity to extrapolate her misery and her husband’s alleged victimization to the “vast majority of Americans.”

In South Carolina, she called America “just downright mean” and bemoaned “a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.” And in case you hadn’t heard enough of her carping about how hard it is for a seven-figure-earning family to pay for ballet lessons and piano lessons and pay off college loans, Mrs. Oh-Woe-Is-Me was at it again on the campaign trail in Indiana and North Carolina before Tuesday’s primary.

On the stump, she warmed up (or rather, berated) supporters by complaining about how her husband is an underdog even after he keeps winning primary and caucus after primary and caucus. With a scowl etched on her face, she bellyached that “the bar is constantly changing for this man.” Call the waambulance, stat.

Barack Obama, the missus explains, is Everyman who has ever been put down by The Man. And “understand this” (a condescending verbal tic shared by both Obamas): Mrs. Obama is here to make sure you feel their pain. Which is really your pain. Because the hardships of a privileged Ivy League couple are “exactly” the same as the travails of miners or service workers or small-business owners: “So the bar has been shifting and moving in this race,” she grumbles, “but the irony is, the sad irony is, that’s exactly what is happening to most Americans in this country.”

Don’t tell Michelle about the Great Depression or the Carter Malaise.
“Folks are struggling like never before,” she seethes.

Well, yes, gas prices are up. Some food prices are rising. And borrowers who bought more housing than they could afford are underwater. But “struggling like never before”? Didn’t they teach her about Hoovervilles and stagflation?

In Mrs. Obama, the fear-mongering pot meets the angst-stirring kettle: “Fear,” she froths, “creates this veil of impossibility and it is hanging over all of our heads.”

But what Mrs. Obama lacks in pride for her country and its promise she more than makes up for with bottomless pride for her husband. Her standard campaign speeches include at least a dozen references to how “proud” she is of him. And of herself. And of everyone who has overcome The Man and pierced the “veil of impossibility” to get to the polls and vote Obama. An online MSNBC report on a joint appearance by the Obamas on The Today Show in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright debacle included this tellingly narcissistic passage:

[Mrs. Obama]: “‘I’m so proud of how he has maintained his dignity, his cool, his honor.’

“Obama gently tried to interrupt, admitting to being embarrassed by the praise.

“‘But I am proud of you,” she said.

“I know,” he replied.

We all know. So get over yourself already, haughty spirit. Pride doesn’t photograph well. And bitterness leaves frown lines. Which means Botox bills. Which “struggling folks” like you and your husband simply cannot afford.

Try smiling for once. It’s cheaper.

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