I’m just scanning sites and blogs peeping the buzz on Michelle Obama. No rhyme or reason to these quotes. Mostly posing as reference and to kinda catalogue. I’m just noting that her quote is sparking a tremendous amount of discussion on the web and talk radio.
As I told this gentleman, I left a brief remark on his site; he has since left me a brief note. Anywho as I have already said oft, she better clarify this remark and quickly or she better lay low for a few weeks. Obama can’t have any more bimbo eruptions.
(link) - “My God, who can sit here and say, ‘I’m ready to be president and first lady?’ ” she asked. But like her husband, she is running on biography, suggesting that her most important qualifications are her life experiences. Daughter of a Chicago city pump operator who had multiple sclerosis, she graduated from Princeton and Harvard and juggles her job as a hospital executive with motherhood and civic work.Mrs. Obama dislikes politics, friends and family confirmed, but not as much as she dislikes losing. Craig Robinson, her brother and the Brown University men’s basketball coach, said his sister did not enjoy organized sports when she was younger because she so hated defeat and even now pouts when a board game does not go her way.
His sister is brainy and warm, he said, but also a force to be reckoned with.“Everyone in the family is afraid of her,” he said with a smile. Asked if Mr. Obama used a nicotine patch to quit smoking, Mr. Robinson cracked up. “Michelle Obama!” he said. “That’s one hell of a patch right there!”
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Vanity Fair quoted this statement, which seems resentful toward her husband and men in general:
“Mrs. Obama has a long history of speaking out about the ways in which men’s choices-particularly their professional ambitions-often leave their wives to pick up the slack, even when they have their own careers. “What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first,” she told the Chicago Tribune in 2004.
“And for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.”
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“I also have a strong disdain for Mrs. Obama. What bugs me is her bitchy attitude. She seems to have adopted a persona similiar to what you might see on a sitcom. On sitcoms, the husband is invariably a bumbling halfwit, whose hijinks are endured by an intelligent, long-suffering wife. Think “Everybody Loves Ramond” or “The Simpsons” for just two prominent examples.
I’ve seen interviews with Michelle Obama where she badmouths her husband, making him seem just as much of a hapless fool as Homer Simpson or Al Bundy. Affirmative Action candidate or not, her husband has a shot at the White House, and she’s going around telling people that he can’t dress himself without her?Damn, woman, show some respect for your man! I really don’t want that America-hating shrew as First Lady”
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(link) - I’m sure it’s hard to campaign and speak frequently without misspeaking or conveying something other than you mean. It’s certainly true with blogging, and public speaking is even more prone to errors. I would also understand a young person like Michelle Obama who might be enthusiastic about American politics for the first time, but she sounded like she really meant this is the first time in her adult life she has been proud of America.
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(link) - As some have pointed out, Obama’s message of hope is based primarily on the assumption that the United States is a miserable country where no one can prosper, succeed, and be happy. His wife apparently feels the same way.
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From Media Matters:
In a discussion of recent comments made by Michelle Obama, Bill O’Reilly took a call from a listener who stated that, according to “a friend who had knowledge of her,” Obama ” ‘is a very angry,’ her word was ‘militant woman.’ “
O’Reilly later stated: “I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama (odd choice of words from Mr. O) unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.”
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