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Michelle Obama Charms 'View' Co-Hosts
Here's the first twenty minutes of Michelle Obama's eagerly anticipated appearance on The View, which we just watched over on Salon's Broadsheet. Talk about a slam dunk. Even if you're not as besotted with the Obamas as we are, you have to admit, she worked that TV show for all it was worth.
Everyone there seemed enchanted by her, even conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who Michelle made a point of saying nice things to, like: "This girl is solid. She's got great kids. She's a great mom. She's funny. I can disagree with her on a whole bunch of points, but we can come together tomorrow." They fist-bumped, too!
Obama also praised both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. She talked about sending a thank-you note to Laura, who stood up for her about the "proud of my country" line, which the View crowd talked about it great detail. Whoopi had the clip played and pointed out how the quote had been taken out of context. What Michelle had said was that that was the first time in her life she'd been REALLY proud of her country and its political process, not that she'd never been proud of her country before.
Obama expanded on the point: "Of course I am proud of my country. Nowhere but America could my story be possible. I'm a girl who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, my father was a working-class guy who worked his shift all his life, and because of his hard work he sent not just me but my brother to Princeton ... I am proud of my country without a doubt."
PLUS, she told cute kid stories, talked about why she doesn't wear pantyhose, and gently complained about Barack's failure to do household chores.
Does anyone really think she's a liability at this point?
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Reader Comments ( Page 2 of 2)
16. 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