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blueyes101
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Michelle Obama's comment on Monday in Milwaukee: "Let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
Words like these will not help your cause. Even if they are taken out of context, to me they show the plight of many democrats...... Always looking at this country as a glass half empty.. Instead of a glass half full.
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| Feb 19 @ 6:21 PM |
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MusicMonster
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I thought that was in extremely poor taste as well. And it goes hand-in-hand with other statements she has made. It speaks for her own level of arrogance, and that is considerable in my view. Some try to say she's just a strong, independent woman. However, I believe she's a rash woman with a clear narcissistic streak.
Remember, she's also the one who said "Either elect my husband now, or we won't be giving you another chance"!
Realistically, if she isn't going to control what she says in public, she should probably do her husband a favor, and go home and watch his campaign on television.
But that has nothing to do with any party philosophy. Not everything is partisan-based. That's just her own persona.
-MM 
(eduted fer speiling eror)
[Edited on 2/19/2008 6:38 PM]
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| Feb 19 @ 6:29 PM |
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Say_Yes
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Realistically, if she isn't going to control what she says in public, she should probably do her husband a favor, and go home and watch his campaign on television.
Bill may need to do the same. It seems that he has had a bad case of foot in mouth disease of late himself. Neither spouse is doing more good than harm of late.
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| Feb 19 @ 6:39 PM |
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iam7545
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Just another rich elite liberal trying to pander and act poor, What an ignorant thing to say.
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| Feb 19 @ 7:03 PM |
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MotownManiax
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Just saw a video of the comment....sheesh, they'll need full PR mode for that one....lol.
I'm sure it wasn't the first gaffe by anyone connected to this campaign (meaning all the candidates), nor the last. But elections shouldn't be won or lost by a few ill-timed remarks in stump speeches. If it does get to that point, no one will pass the presidential election process (especially as long as they are now).
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| Feb 19 @ 8:53 PM |
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blueyes101
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She also said something like, " black America will soon wake up ".
I assume to mean, here is your token black man to vote for, please get your ass in gear and get in line.....
It should be................... here is my ideas for the future, EVERYONE who shares them, please consider me for your candidate for President of the United States of America..
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| Feb 19 @ 9:07 PM |
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MusicMonster
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Say_Yes said:
Bill may need to do the same. It seems that he has had a bad case of foot in mouth disease of late himself. Neither spouse is doing more good than harm of late.
I agree.. He has made some pretty significant blunders out on the campaign trail. If he's going to stay out there he too needs to tone it way down, and to assume a secondary role, as opposed to a primary one. I believe he's trying to do that after some of the faux pas' in other States. But perhaps still not enough so.
Bill Clinton has more in the way of credentials however than does Michelle Obama, at this stage, but that still doesn't eliminate the harm such activities can do to a compaign.
-MM
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| Feb 19 @ 9:24 PM |
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arieann
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I saw her in an interview. She looks so, unsomething. I cant describe it. She was slouching very bad. I was not impressed with her at all. She does not seem to be first lady type. I know there is no first lady type, but most women would have been more presentable to help their husband, I would think.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:32 PM |
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Jankia
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Maybe shes been brainwashed and thinks her country is Africa? 
 Then again,she isnt blonde. 
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| Feb 19 @ 9:35 PM |
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iam7545
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maybe MSNBC will have a spouse Debate!
Michelle VS Bubba!
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| Feb 19 @ 9:41 PM |
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SunBabe
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Princeton and Harvard and an impressive resume'...she's no dummy, by any means.
MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA'S BIOGRAPHY
* MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA - THE EARLY YEARS
Born on January 17, 1964, Michelle Robinson was raised in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Shore.
Of note is that she shared a "bedroom" with her brother, but it wasn't much of a bedroom. It was actually the living room with a divider down the middle. Michelle's father died in 1990 two years before she married Barack, but her mother is still alive and living in the same one-bedroom apartment, protected by a burglar-proof wrought-iron door and secured windows.
After high school Michelle Robinson majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating with cum laude honors in 1985. From there she attended Harvard where she earned her law degree in 1988, one year ahead of her husband-to-be, Barack, whom she hadn't met yet but attended the same law school.
* MICHELLE AND BARACK MEET
After graduating from Harvard, Michelle accepted a position at a downtown Chicago law firm. In 1989 she was asked to mentor a summer associate from Harvard name Barack Obama. According to reports, Barack didn't have much interest in corporate law, but did have a lot of interest in Michelle.
Apparently Michelle Robinson initially brushed off advances from Barack because they were working at same firm...and he was an intern and she higher up the law firm's foodchain as an associate. But love prevailed and they were married on October 18, 1992.
Interestingly Barack and Michelle waited almost seven years before having children. Their first daughter name Malia Ann Obama was born in 1999 with Natasha (often called "sasha") following two years later in 2001.
When asked about what made her fall in love with him she replied "for the same reason many other people respect him; his connection with people."
Even though her husband is the center of attention, Michelle has zero concerns about fidelity in their marriage. She told Ebony magazine in March 2006, "I never worry about things I can't affect, and with fidelity . . . that is between Barack and me, and if somebody can come between us, we didn't have much to begin with."
* MICHELLE'S ROBINSON OBAMA'S CAREER
Michelle's impressive resume includes: Former associate dean at the University of Chicago; a member of six boards of directors including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and Tree House Foods; and Vice President, Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. In this position she was responsible for all programs and initiatives that involve the relationships between the hospitals and the community as well as management of the hospitals' business diversity program.
* MICHELLE OBAMA'S INFLUENCES ON BARACK'S POLITICAL CAREER
Michelle's professional relationships were helpful when her husband in 2004, then a state senator, ran for the United States Senate, where he faced a primary dominated by some of the Democratic Party's most powerful political families.
In this 2004 race, Obama had the support of influential black business leaders, some of whom had closer ties to his wife than they did to him. According to Newsweek, a former boss of Michelle Obama's, a powerful black woman Valerie Jarrett, chair of the Chicago Stock Exchange, served as finance chair of Barack Obama's U.S. Senate campaign.
* MICHELLE OBAMA: THE MOM & WIFE
After Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack and Michelle choose to keep their children in Chicago, where Michelle continued her career as well. "We made a good decision to stay in Chicago so that has kept our family stable," Michelle Obama told the Chicago Tribune. Every Sunday the family attends services at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
According to reports, Michelle has mastered being a mother, career woman and the wife of a politician. When Newsweek magazine trailed her in 2004, the reporter could not help but notice a to-do list for her two daughters Malia and Natasha that included time for "play." She is in bed most nights by 9:30 and rises each morning at 4:30 to run on a treadmill. This level of discipline and organization helps her manage her public and private pressures with poise. In New Yorker magazine Michelle noted that the life of a political wife is "hard and that's why Barack is such a grateful man."
But there's more to it. "Barack didn't pledge riches" Michelle explains to Newsweek. "Only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he's delivered." http://www.squidoo.com/michelle-obama-pictures-biography
Maybe shes been brainwashed and thinks her country is Africa? That was pretty "ethnocentric" crude and uncalled for! PS Africa's a continent, NOT a country. 
And she's NOT blonde 
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| Feb 19 @ 9:43 PM |
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Jankia
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If they do I'm sure it would be a private behind closed doors debate iam.
She wouldnt even have much of a chance to inhale.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:45 PM |
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iam7545
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sunbabe - the USA has been very good to Michelle Obama. She should be grateful. Her comments were out of line.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:47 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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If I ignore you disgruntled people...will you just fade away into your sunset???
taking a statement out of context and adding your slants to it to support your agenda is just pathetic...(imho....)
the video....
[Edited on 2/19/2008 9:48 PM]
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| Feb 19 @ 9:47 PM |
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SunBabe
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The USA has been very good to ME...and I understand EXACTLY what she meant.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:49 PM |
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lefthandedluckie
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I saw on the CBS Evening News where the wife of John "I Sold Out My Country" McCain got into the fray with a comment like Obama's wife. I believe her's was I am proud to be alive!!!!......I will need to googler this later to confirm!!
Isn't she John's 4th or 5th wife as I am unclear as to how many he has beaten and run off over the years! This of course is because he was so sorry for selling out our country to the commies! 
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| Feb 19 @ 9:49 PM |
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Jankia
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Oops! Sorry,I forgot GH,she isnt a republican.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:52 PM |
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SunBabe
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Who give a flyin'... frog WHAT political party she is! She's being attacked because her comment is being sensationalized, taken completely out of context.
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| Feb 19 @ 9:54 PM |
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iam7545
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More slime! Cindy is his second wife - they were married in 1984 -
SLIME~!!
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| Feb 19 @ 9:58 PM |
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lefthandedluckie
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"Slime", huh? This link will take you to some real McCommie Slime!
McCommie Slime
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