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Michelle Obama Fumbles on Defense
Loved ones often know us better than we know ourselves - and, unfortunately, often say things about us that we wouldn't say ourselves. I've devoted a couple posts (here and here) to Michelle Obama's speeches on behalf of her husband - and the growing evidence of Mrs. Obama's "spoiled, privileged, yet unsatisfied and ever-resentful temperament," which has produced views which are "not-so-subtly anti-American."
Mrs. Obama's most recent foray into the political wilderness is in response to the unexpected excitement caused by her husband's unfortunate condescension of bitter, gun-totting, Bible-thumpin' country bigots in Pennsylvania. Michelle, by way of defending her husband, imparted such gems of wisdom and revelation as:
We live in isolation, and because of that isolation we fear one another.
Because Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that. That before we can work on the problems we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual; uninvolved, uninformed.
Clinging to their guns and gods, their antipathy to people who aren't like them and free-trade, the uninvolved, uninformed, broken-souled xenophobes of the United States unknowingly yearn for a great awakening by their pastor-president, Barack Obama. Or so the Obamas seem to see it. I wonder how many Americans share their sentiment.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 8)Lee2:39PMApr 14th 2008
I am just a typical white person that enjoys my right to own a gun and I live in a small town....but, I certainly do love my life!
Obama's are racist to me and anti American!
Jeanne2:40PMApr 14th 2008
Michelle's problem is that she has a penchant to tell the truth!
ANN2:45PMApr 14th 2008
MRS. OBAMA IS HIS BIGGEST PROBLEM!!! SHE IS DEFINATELY A RACIST! SHE WAS SHOWN ON TV GIVING THE BLACK PANTHER SYMBOL! THAT IS FRIGHTENING. I BELIEVE SHE WOULD AGREE WITH THEIR MINISTER 100%. SHE APPEARS TO THINK SHE IS BETTER THAN EVERYBODY. I FIND HER A VERY OFFENSIVE PERSON, AND I PRAY SHE, NOR ANYONE LIKE HER WILL EVER BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE! IF OBAMA WINS, McCann HAS MY VOTE TOO.
Peggy2:52PMApr 14th 2008
If Bill Clinton made these remarks they would be the headlines all over the media for the next two weeks. Let's see if anyone on network or cable news even mentions them since they might show a negative view of the media darling.
tired of racial issues2:55PMApr 14th 2008
Michele states our souls are broken...that we need to fix them before other things can improve. What is that about. Are only thise who listen to Rev. Wright with unfractured souls? She may live in isolation, but most Americans do not. The elistest are those who live in isolation, afraid to expose themselves to the real world. Michele speaks the Obama's true feeling towards Americans. She needs to speak out more clearly, so that her words can be divulging of the true Obama's thinking on America and the change he wants to bring to those who supprot him. SCAREY...yes. Vote Hillary. We know what we are getting with teh Clinton's...but no not what the Obama's really stand for.
PARMA233:02PMApr 14th 2008
Is there no end to these two people? I don't live a isolated life and I don't live in fear nor do I want a man that has Rev Wright as his spiritual advisor to go anyplace near my soul. The audacy of this womann to tell me I'm uninvolved and uninformed. You can look foward to a lot more of Michelle thoughts about how we should be living. I for one do not want her or her husband in my life
JOHN3:15PMApr 14th 2008
Trinity United Church of Christ
Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the 'Trinity United Church of Christ'.
It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their Web site, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is America even mentioned. Notice too, what color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church? Does this surprise anyone?
Doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over his Muslim upbringing. This guy wants to rule America while his loyalty is totally vested in a black Africa !
I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV and newspapers. This is why it is so important to pass this message along to all our family and friends. To think that Obama has even the slightest chance in the run for the presidency is really scary.
beebop3:25PMApr 14th 2008
God. I cannot wait for the two of them to disappear from the national scene. You couldn't have created characters this full of themselves if you were rewriting The Great Gatsby. I certainly don't need either of THEM to improve me or my life. And people thought Kucinich was nuts? Yeesh.
deborah.dalton3:26PMApr 14th 2008
Thank you, Michelle...If Obama can't paint himself into a corner, you're right there to push him all the way in and bury his head in the buket of paint.
The only people I fear AND WANT DESPERATELY TO ISOLATE MYSELF FROM in this country are Senator Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
We are not a perfect country. That is completely true. But we are not nearly the anarchic BS they are trying to frame us as. This is right out of the play book Obama used to "community organize": make people feel bad about themselves and their world, and then the grand savior can fly in to make it all right again.
What BS.
Get out now, Obama. You are so over...
Katherine3:27PMApr 14th 2008
I think it's DISGUSTING how people keep defending racist, and bigoted, and demeaning comments that Barack, Michelle, and all the rest of his crap associates say to Americans.
Michelle is PROJECTING again. WTF is she talking about? Uninvolved? uninformed? Broken souls? She keeps placing her inner self on other people. And she keeps seeing Americans through her mean miserable eyes. Of course she sees the worst in America and it's because she has mean world syndrome.
I think she is a miserable bitter racist FOOL.
This is like two weeks ago when she said America is "ignorant." Or when she called America "downright mean."
I can't take these people!!
Why do people keep defending them? What they say is NOT truth! May be truth to YOUR mean spirited bigoted head.
STOP defending their bigotry. It's UNAMERICAN and it's wrong. Barack Obama is unelectable. He's unpresidential. Barack Obama needs to drop out.
Katherine3:29PMApr 14th 2008
Obama even has racist and bigoted crap in his books. NO Problem! It's COOL.
Pastor Wright says G*D DAM* America, US of KKK, and white people put the AIDS virus in black neighborhoods--it's COOL. Italians look down their garlic noses, and Natalee Holloway was just a white girl that gave it up! Ya, and screw America and Israel--COOL.
Farrakhan endorses Obama, and he's the one who says white people should give black people the whole dam* country, white people are the skunks of the earth, whites are potential humans--they just haven't evolved yet, and Hitler was a great man and Judaism is a gutter religion, and also, America needs to be burned down. COOL!
New Black Panther Party endorse Obama, the same people who on the Anit-defamation league's list of extremists racists and bigots and anti-Semitic anti-Americans. These guys agree with the sentiment that white people should be exterminated. COOL!!
HAMAS terrorists published in Trinity Church's "Pastor Page"--Ohhh--lol, you know those silly guys who suicide bomb Jews and Americans in Israel every other day? COOL!
Obama works with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground who killed people and bombed the US Capitol and Pentagon and over 20 other places. COOL!!
Obama's Tony Rezko steals millions and lets thousands of poor blacks and hispanics live in horrendous conditions in his slumlord apartments without heat in freezing Chicago winters...COOL! Oh, and it was only in Obama's district that he got away with it? WAY COOL!!
Tony Rezko gets his millions wired from Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi who stole millions in the Oil for Food scandal and was best friends and business partners with fellow Baathist Saddam Hussein. Saddam even killed his bother but that didn't even bother Auchi--Saddam was the MAN. Obama got his money from the Saddam Hussein regime? COOOOOL!!!
Obama campaigned for his cousin Raila Odinga in Kenya who is responsible for 300,000 displaced people and 1,200 Kenyans killed, including ethnic cleansing of Christians who were set on fire in churchs and macheted in the streets? COOL!!!
I LOVE the OBAMA's!!
They bring so much hope and unity!
Joe3:32PMApr 14th 2008
Michelle may feel that my soul is broken, but I know one thing, my eye, ears, and brain are not broken.
DerKirSto3:37PMApr 14th 2008
I am really sick of others telling me how I think. I know how I think and do not appreciate being lumped together with others who do not think exactly as I do.
Davidg3:42PMApr 14th 2008
"We" do not live in isolation...Michelle Obama does.
D. L. GRAHAM3:48PMApr 14th 2008
"GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN!"
"I never have. But after seeing her hit unfairly with just the same stuff for years, it just encapsulates the last three-plus months of her campaign which I can only describe as a furious descent into nonsense and self-parody. Part of it makes me want to cry. But at this point all I can really do is laugh." (Source: Josh Marshall)
Being an "Independent" and with "no dog in this fight", it would seem to me that Josh Marshall should be just a little bit beyond crying or laughing about what the Clinton's and Mark Penn are doing to his "Party!"
Now, the Republican's see (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton more as an ally, against her own opponent and her own party, she act's like she started out as a Republican. One Miss Spoken Statement after another, "It'd depends on what the meaning of "IS," is. While (R-AZ) US/Senator John McCain, defines himself as the "New Face" of the Republican Party, the "Maverick". The "New Republican, not afraid to take on his own party, to bring "CHANGE", and John not only knows what the meaning of "IS", is but will tell you just what it "IS" all about, and just how it "IS" now going to "Change" under his administration.
Josh Marshall should be angry, about the Clinton, Penn Campaign of “Blitzkrieg”, win at all costs and tactical use of the (“The Bradley & Limbaugh Effects),("Tanya Harding Knee Cap"), (D-IL) US/Senator Barrack "Barry" Hussein Obama and strong arm the Democratic party Credentials Committee to seat the Michigan and Florida "Pledge-delegates in mass as Clinton delegates, and muscle the "Super-delegates too "Coronate" a Co-Clinton-Presidential nomination of former Impeached President (CEO)Snowman Slick Willie William "Bubba" Jefferson Clinton, and (COO) (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane-Rodham Clinton, stealing the nomination at the convention this is as hard as hardball gets and recognize this potential gambit for what it is: a cynical, selfish hijacking of the democratic process.
That will have an unimaginably damaging acrimonious ending wreaking havoc tearing the party apart. Throwing away the party's chances of victory and stigmatizing the Democratic Party among Black-African-Americans "White Entitlement". And young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20 years to recover from the traumas and bloodletting of the (1968) “The Whole World Is Watching” Democratic National Convention, in “The Windy City” of Chicago, Illinois.
When (R-AZ)US/Senator John McCain takes the oath of office after the Clintons have torn the Democratic Party apart, its would seem that Josh may really have a hard time laugh, cry, or just anger, maybe he might want to read up on the (7) stages of grief.
"Good Grief Charlie Brown, how did we blow this one?"
Isabella Ardolino3:51PMApr 14th 2008
Michelle's problem is that her malady of "Foot n' Mouth disease is as bad as her husbands. Was she actually trying to make a point?
Katherine3:54PMApr 14th 2008
Ya ok, go to a separatist church for 20 years then come on out saying that people live in isolation.
These people don't even *know* they are offending people. Totally clueless.
Imagine them with us for four years. IMAGINE ALL THE WHOPPER messed up things they will say and do.
Oh man, for the love of our country, Barack, please drop out.
mrbline3:55PMApr 14th 2008
Why do I feel like I am watching a sit-com?
Our clumsy but lovable hero trudges through mishap after mishap, while the stuck up snotty villain we all love to hate schemes to make everyone hate him and make everyone see how much of a loser she thinks he is.
Just when it seems she may actually bring down our hero, he smiles and demonstrates that, imperfect as he is, his heart is sincere. We all go "awwwwwwwwww," then laugh as we watch the villain go into meltdown over yet another failed opportunity.
Tune in next week, and we'll get to see it all over again . . . at least until the viewing audience gets bored and the ratings drop.
I guess when the writers settled they found work with the national news, which is why we still don't have new episodes!
Mac3:56PMApr 14th 2008
Mrs Obama, my, my, my, what wrath have you sown. Obama says to the Mrs: Baby, baby, look, if we gawn to win the White House, you gonna half to shut yore big mouf. Every times I make headway wif these jimmy cracker boys--you gotta sit there wif you in the hood look on yo face, that snarl like you caught jus rabies from the masters staff and that foot stance like someone just shoved they foot up yo can. Jus shut yor mouf, zip it, can it, stiffle it, put a smile on yor face and spray it wif glue and keep it like that and maybe wif a little luck we'll win this thing and get Hillary to mow our grass and stand in our yard at night wuf a latern in her hand and a jockey suit on--Ahhhhh baby can you jus see that! Huh ? Can you, can you!?
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LINDA2:17PMApr 14th 2008
These two people are showing themselves as ones who should not run this country.I say two because he is greatly influenced by her. I was going to vote for him but not now. If he wins the Democratic ticket-- McCann is looking better. I don't trust him.