It’s not that Obama doesn’t know the anodyne, wifely things to say (essentially, nothing). She is, after all, a “community and external affairs” professional. But her pride visibly chafes at being asked to subsume her personality, to make herself seem duller and less independent than she is, even in the service of getting her husband elected President of the United States.
Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”
First Ladies have traditionally gravitated toward happy topics like roadside flower beds, so it comes as a surprise that Obama’s speech is such an unrelenting downer. Obama acknowledged to me that some advisers have lobbied her to take a sunnier tone, with little success.
Thoughts
Mrs. Hussein and the pretender-elect
Submitted on April 12th, 2008 by AnonymousBirds of a feather...I guess some sayings do have truth to them.
For anyone who has not heard MRS. Hussein's stump speech on April 08 in North Carolina:
Michelle Obama
Giving Hope a Comeback
Harrisburg, North Carolina
April 8, 2008
Keep talking, Michelle...
She said, "Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so
that someone else can have more." (Photo by Jennifer Schnabel/WCNC)
Mrs. Obama discussed her party's socialist plans for America yesterday to
a group of depressed women in Harrisburg, NC.
Charlotte.com reported:
Most Americans, she said, don't want much.
"They don't want the whole pie," she told the women. "There are some who
do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little
bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach."
"If we don't wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership...for how
we want this country to work, then we won't get universal health care,"
she said.
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a
revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a
piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
Actually, the Obama's don't sound any different than Hillary Clinton on
their plans to socialize America.
Now,...maybe you forgot that she felt embarrassed to be an American. Hmm, maybe the Marxist approach will give her some comfort. The question is: How can we elect this idiot if he and his wife are so obviously divisive and destructive to the interest/soveriegnity of the U.S.?
Stop listening to the empty chants of Change people. Listen to what these clowns have to say.
**The Anti-P.C. Watchdog
Michelle Obama For First Lady
Submitted on April 12th, 2008 by AnonymousI would be very proud of her as First Lady.She is honest,and yes, not afraid to speak the truth.There are alot of mean people in this country.If you don,t believe it, just read the blogs, or better yet,turn on fox news and listen to people like Sean Hannity!He makes me sick with shame.He is the hate spreader,and god forgive him,who calls himself a Christian. What he did to Rev Wright is terrible.Why not play the whole sermon so we know what the whole lesson was?If you read the bible you would know he was not preaching hate- but I can,t say the same for Hannity
you got that right
Submitted on April 11th, 2008 by sunshine308Probably because of hanging around Wright and that racist church of her husband and her family..they are taught hate of whites and blaming of whites for all that has happened to blacks.. they hear anti-American, anti-semetic, anti white comments all the time.. it's even in their bulletin..anti Jewish and pro PLO, who wouldn't be negative and who wouldn't be weird listening to that all the time for 20 years.. On top of that the racist White House would probably have to be painted black at the rate they are going.. thank
God is right that they WILL NEVER GET IN IT.. Obama will be unelectible in a month or so.. breath easy..
Remember Teressa Heinz Kerry?
Submitted on April 10th, 2008 by Chuck_JohnsonTake 2!
By the way, Teressa changed her name back to Teressa Heinz after the election. Here's to hoping Obama doesn't have to sleep on the couch after he loses in '08.
Chuck Johnson is a student at Claremont McKenna College. Feel free to contact him.
Hurtin!
Submitted on April 10th, 2008 by AnonymousMichelle Obama is as polarizing as Hillary Clinton, and if the Blues were smart, they would put her under wraps. She has a negative view on America, a negative view on the future, and I cannot even fathom her as the First Lady, walking into a classroom of young children and spouting her rhetoric of negativism. God help us all if that were to ever happen!