1. She's a bitch

Danyal at 6:58PM on Jun 18th 2008

2. danyal,

here's a thought: nothing mrs. obama has done warrants your calling her a b***h. so how about you stretch yourself intellectually and offer something substantive to the comments section. you know, a constructive criticism on the merit of mrs. obama's television appearances, speeches, etc. i feel confident in presuming that you don't know this woman, so calling her out her name doesn't bode well for you.

EMT at 7:15PM on Jun 18th 2008

3. I think Michelle was an excellent host. She was charming, and put the "proud of America" comment to rest. She said REALLY proud. That means somebody on the Repub side cheated on the clip once again. It may not be completely apparent yet, but each time the Obamas appear on TV as a guest, the audience's understanding of them increases...and their numbers go up. I do not think a Swift Boat attack will be effective this time out. They seem immune to them.

Zip at 7:28PM on Jun 18th 2008

4. Ah, Danyal...Substitute YOUR name for "she" in your comment.

boredwell at 9:02PM on Jun 18th 2008

5. Danyal it is people like you that criple this country.Michelle is to intelligent for you,so we will just ignore your bitch comment ,now we know what you are. the comment was uncalled for and i hate to hear some one call another woman a bitch or for that matter anyone that word should not be used to bescribe anyone. so more power to you michelle i wish you and your family all the best.

Jonie at 9:18PM on Jun 18th 2008

6. 1. She's a bitch

Danyal at 6:58PM on Jun 18th 2008
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Really? So, how long have you known her?

Patty at 9:33PM on Jun 18th 2008

7. I made it a point to watch the view this morning because I wanted to hear what Mrs. Obama had to say. I found her to be a delightful woman, who seems very grounded and very intelligent. In my opinion she handled herself with dignity and grace, and very approachable.

Patty at 9:46PM on Jun 18th 2008

8. Charming, Mrs.Obama! Nevermind, that the View has the ugliest bunch of hosts I've ever observed!

LuLu at 11:22PM on Jun 18th 2008

9. Hey, Ada when she rants about whitey, you must think it's about someone else...not you. I don't know. You look kinda whitey to me.

Judy at 11:29PM on Jun 18th 2008

10. Mrs. Obama needs to be educated as to how and act like a First Lady. She is no Jackie Kennedy, Laura Bush nor Hillary Clinton. She's an educated woman, but does not show. She talks about how poor her family was and what they had to give up for her college and well as her brother, when they went to school on student loans, which she and Senator Obama had to pay. I give them credit for that. If you don't think she is a racist after her remark about being proud finally of her country, read her thesis from Princeton. She at this point is not First Lady material.

Elizabeth McGuirk Hanna at 6:02AM on Jun 19th 2008

11. 30 minute on the view, in a prepped and prepared media commercial cannot make up for a lifetime of racism and "Black Power" mentality. I also fall into a minority group. I practice inclusion and understanding...without getting PAID for it! This country can do without Mr. and Mrs. Obabma this term. I'd like to see if he can vote fewer "presents" in Congress. If you are thinking that I am a racist, I'd just like to say I'd vote for Colin Powell in a heartbeat!

KitCumbie at 8:48AM on Jun 19th 2008

12. Michelle Obama is a very strong, intelligent, beautiful, classy wife and mother. I look forward to her being our First Lady.

Terri at 10:16AM on Jun 19th 2008

13. How easy is it to "charm" the regular people on "the view" ?, who are so far left. I'm sure if she had taken a"dump" on the table, they would agreed that it didn't stink!

pat at 11:25AM on Jun 19th 2008

14. McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

iynaroc02 at 11:47AM on Jun 19th 2008

15. She is as big a phony as her husband. They had to hire a bunch of people to change her image because anyone who has seen who she really is and believes in is not very impressed. Along with her husband and children she sat in a bigoted, hateful, anti-white, anti-jewish, anti-american church for 20 years. she has commented on several occassions that she has never been proud of her country and that it was a mean country. she has been called the most bitter millionaire in America. She wrote a paper that could be considered racist in college. For the most part the women on the View are some of the biggest most leftist people in Hollywood and I wish they would keep their stupid political opions to themselves. I wonder if Cindy McCain would have sat in a church like that for 20 years how they would have reacted to her. Michelle Obama like her husband is a fraud, all you have to do is look at the people that surround them. We have racist, terrorist, crooks, anti-Jewish, and anti-americans. The liberals have given these people a pass on everything they do. If you say one word about them the liberals cry like a bunch of babies and call you a racist. Yet who sat in a racist church for 20 years, that is OK with some of you. they play the race card really well just like OJ's defense team did, He got away with killing 2 innocent people and if you remember there were people cheering that he got off of killing 2 innocent white people. We seem to have a lot of hippocrites in this country. We have had terrorist and terrorist groups basically endorse these people, wonder why. To have to hire people to change her image should tell you all you need to know. Are we this stupid in this country that we can not see through these people into what they really are like. God gave most of you a brain I hope you will use it.

sam at 11:50AM on Jun 19th 2008