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Re: Feels Like The First Time

V Hanna — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:29:15 -0000

About a weeks ago I blogged CNN when they were placing Michelle Obama on some kind of a pedestal. After watching her speak in the Oprah (concert???) with the Kennedy's I came away feeling that she made americans feel down-trodden by bringing us down to a point where only Barrack Obama (the messiah) could bring us to a point of salvation. I did not care for her then and I certainly dont now. I have not gotten on the Obama movement, he did not impress me in the beginning and certainly disgusts me as this campaign goes on. I ask with despair--What has happened to our country. If a black gets in the white house then all whites in american will be led to feel less than. This is a racial campaign. Bill Clinton did not cross the line its all about race as race will be in the white house more than anyone cares to experience. When Michelle talks about despair in this nation she is talking about her race and her happiness comes because she thinks Obama can restore the wrongs against blacks for years. Thats why she is happy..............Get real America

Re: Feels Like The First Time

Steverino — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:39:06 -0000

I watched the news last night, and they had Ms. Obama on the screen. She said, "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country". She later said "really proud", but not at the first time she spoke.

You can spin "really proud" any way you want, it won't change what she said or meant.

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Bogey — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:35:14 -0000

more than we do, but free health care, free education on a much superior level than ours, and they travel the world in the summertime (while taking a week or so during winter in Caribbean.

I see them all over. They're always laughing and have lots of costly euros in their pockets.
while I have little time and worthless dollars in mine.

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PhDiva — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:19:11 -0000

Cindy McCain is former drug addict and thief who stole drugs from her own charity. She also pursued a relationship with McCain while he was still married to his first wife. Why don't we see blog entry about that? This whole blog is a cheap shot at the spouse of a candidate. White conservatives are really thrilled to have an excuse to attack the potential Black first lady. They would never trash former addict Cindy McCain.

Re: Feels Like The First Time

SuperO — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:23:17 -0000

HHere's the video that captures the original speech where she said "I'm proud", then later on added a spin of "I'm really proud" to make it sounds nicer.

Cat's out of the bag :)

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Lup the Lup — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:05:20 -0000

Truly ad hominem.

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unclesmrgol — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:45:46 -0000

Don't need to. Some of us majored in the hard subjects, and took sociology courses because they were needed for the core.

They were sort of like twitching a finger to pass.

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jr565 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:24:15 -0000

Dodge

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gary fouse — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:07:03 -0000

A few days ago, I wrote a post on Michelle Obama and her remarks made in a speech at UCLA. I commented that her remarks about her country and the American people were negative in tone. I also pointed out a few of her statements which I felt were appropriate for criticism. What was not in that article was Michelle Obama's comment a few days ago in front of a Wisconsin audience, a comment that has caused even more criticism.

In this speech, Obama told her audience that it is only now-for the first time in her adult life-that she has felt proud of her country (adding that it is not just because her husband "has done well", but that she sees a "hunger for change" in the American people.)

Excuse me?

Already, Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Axelrod, has attempted to put a spin on this, claiming that Mrs Obama's words were not well formed and misunderstood. I'm sorry, but that doesn't wash. The words were very clear. Michelle Obama attended Princeton and the Harvard Law School. She is a professional woman in her 40s. Articulation is not one of the lady's weaknesses. When you add this comment with the comments made at UCLA, as well as previous negative comments about life in America, then a question arises in the public's eye as to her attitude toward her country.

Cindy McCain's reaction was simple and to the point; she stated publicly today that she has always been proud to be an American.

Many people who know Mrs Obama are jumping to her defense and insisting that she is, indeed, a patriotic American. That may be so, but I think it is incumbant for Mrs Obama to come out publicly and clarify her remarks. It is not in the Obamas' interest to let this question linger or grow. Michelle Obama is two steps away from the White House as our First Lady. If her pride in her country is open to question, I don't think she and Barack are going to make it.

gary fouse
fousesquawk

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SaipanDrunkenSailor — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:55:23 -0000

"Proud" and "Really Proud" are pretty much the same things, so I wouldn't go wetting your pants over her pathetic attempt to backpedal here, while the millionaire downtrodden "keep it real".

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SaipanDrunkenSailor — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:52:23 -0000

I was there a couple of weeks ago and a father on meth threw his son off of a highway overpass.

Anyone who thinks drugs should be legalized should take a look at what meth does to people.

And Europe? Unsustainable. The people there now are living off of what their ansestors built. They are not building anything for the future it will surprise me if Europe is even recognizable in 50 years.

I've traveled there extensibly so that I can see it before it all tragically goes away.

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nightjar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:43 -0000

LOL That's some offer there yompkee. I think I'll pass. I would never disagree with my hero Teddy Roosevelt.

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L217 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:23:55 -0000

The Obamas are not members of a black separatist church. They belong to Trinity United Church of Christ. The church is mostly black because it happens to be located on the South Side of Chicago, which is predominantly African American. I attend a mostly white church in the same denomination on the North (mostly white) Side. That doesn't make me a white separatist. And where do you get the idea that Congregationalists reject "middle class values"? That's just silly.

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Del_Dolemonte — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:06:24 -0000

What year were you first eligible to vote? And which Republican did you vote for?

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BurfordHolly — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:54:05 -0000

Capt' I'm glad to see you are using the qorrect quote where shes says she's "really proud."

Now there are edited videos where the sound on the word "really" is blanked out.

Yep, the clips are being doctored. This may be the "really" important story.

I would not be surprised if it's some of Ron Paul's Stormfront fans.

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Yompkee — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:48:34 -0000

I point out you are using a quote that has nothing to do with what you were arguing, and you call it baited nonsense. Must be nice to be so obvliious to truth that you can just ignore it. At least it's relative, right, at least in your world?

Your argument was that Roosevelt was a Republican in 1918. He was not, evidenced by the same article you cite in your rebuttal. Hope that didn't leave a mark.

Tell you what. I'll admit to being wrong to thinking Roosevelt was still in the Bull Moose Party in 1918 if you admit that everything else you wrote was wrong, as I think this acurately refelcts our discussion. Agreed?

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Sadie Burns — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:48:03 -0000

Actually, Michelle Obama didn't say "really proud" when she spoke that morning. She said "proud." In the afternoon, when she spoke again, she changed her words to "really proud." This, in & of itself, could be overlooked, but when you look at how often Obama doesn't hold his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, his refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel, his church's creed claiming Africa & nowhere mentioning America, then what emerges to me is someone who doesn't love America. What is particularly disturbing to me is that Obama states that his church minister is his mentor & very close friend, yet his minister & church gave an award with a special ceremony hailing Louis Farrakhan as a great man, making a video hailing him & referring to the "great Mohammed." If my church celebrated a militant Muslin who calls people of another race evil devils, hates Jews, etc., I would find another church. It amazes me that Mel Gibson, an actor not seeking the presidency, was so chastized for his anti-semitic remarks, yet Obama is an active member of a church for 20 years who praises Farrakhan as a great man and he's seeking presidency. Please everyone, spread the word.

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BurfordHolly — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:22:33 -0000

Try Al-Anon

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nightjar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:54 -0000

Your first two points were baited nonsense. And my argument is the same. Roosevelt in 1918 was not a member of the Bull Moose party. I don't know, but maybe because it no longer existed on the national level. Lieberman, I believe, calls himself an independent democrat or some such. Actual dems call him something else.

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Ben Boychuk III — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:45:48 -0000

How long, I wonder, before the Obamas decide -- like Jimmy Carter before them -- that the problem with America is Americans?

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Del_Dolemonte — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:36:56 -0000

"Europe is a theme park. Without tourism, they'd be in serious trouble. "

Why is that? Liberal social policies.

For an example of Europe in the US, look to the site of one of today's primaries, the state where Obama was born. It's been in total Democrat control since I lived there in the mid 1960s, and is one of the most corrupt, politically, states in the US.

And look at Honolulu's far-left judicial system-their State Supreme Court makes the one in Florida that tried to give Gore the election in 2000 look like a bunch of pikers. As a result of their wacky rulings, Hawaii now has perhaps the worst "ice" epidemics on the planet.

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Del_Dolemonte — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:31:15 -0000

Does this mean Michelle wasn't proud of America in the 8 years between 1993 and 2001? Very interesting...

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Del_Dolemonte — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:25:37 -0000

How much do the Euorpeans pay in income taxes?

Re: Feels Like The First Time

nightjar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:07:07 -0000

Quoting = hijacking?
And try not to think so much.

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quickjustice — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:50:56 -0000

Ward Connerly said that he had made a financial contribution to Obama, not because of his politics, but because his political success means the end of racism in America.

Connerly also said that in the general election, he'll vote for, and support, the most conservative candidate.