Michelle Obama offered the following as a non-explanation of her remarks about not being proud of her country ….
Asked by WJAR-TV if she would like to clarify her comment, Obama replied that she has been struck by the number of people going to rallies and watching debates, as well as record voter turnouts.
“What I was clearly talking about was that I’m proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process,” she said.
“For the first time in my lifetime, I’m seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven’t seen and really trying to figure this out - and that’s the source of pride that I was talking about,” she added.
OOooohhh. Okay. She misspoke. She meant she’s never been proud of the POLITICAL PROCESS in this country. Wow. How silly of everyone to think she meant what she said and said what she meant.
She made these prepared statements in at least two speeches. She said it deliberately as part of her speech. She is a Princeton and Harvard trained attorney who has had a successful career. Attorneys make their careers as masters of language. Attorneys are never careless in how they word statements and/or questions. Yet, she misspoke these carefully prepared statements.
Typical of the LearJet Liberals to whom she was gearing her speech, its not cool to be proud of her country. Its also cool to hang around in their mansions and discuss how horrible the United States is for being an ‘empire’ and imposing its will on the rest of the world. She knew exactly who she was talking to and she knew what they like to hear. Communism is what they imagine to be the utopia form of government. Never mind its failed in every country that has ever tried it. She is Ive League educated, after all. She knows exactly what the intellectual elite expect from their politicians.
And even worse, how dare we expect her to actually have enough respect for the common people’s ability to understand the English language to own up to her own comments.
If I didn’t know better I’d think she thinks we’re all stupid.
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Michelle Obama responds, Plus she has some ‘comforting’ words…
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Too bad there’s nothing to really go postal about!!! Now we are picking our noses to find something to point our self righteous fingers at! I am
Too bad we have nothing to really go postal about! Now we are turning over pebbles looking for dirt. As a black woman I know what Michelle means.
We all really knew what she ment, BUT, we must find fault. Put a cork in it!
Grow up and look at the world for real.
He or she without ever making a mistake cast the first stone!
She meant what she said you could tell by the way she said it.
Maybe you could do a little more investigating and find out who edited out the “Really” from her statement, giving her statement an obviously different meaning. Some news service, you are writing smear articles based on an edited version of what she said. What a joke…, you owe your readers and the Obama’s an apology and retraction equivalent to the amount of times you have aired this “story”.
Whats she had to be proud of? This country doesnt treet black people right and never had. its about time somebody stood up and said it like it is.
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Why don’t you just STFU until you know what your talking about. You just don’t like the idea that a black woman is smarter than you.
My, oh my, what a literate, cogent, rational set of defenders Mrs. Obama has.
/sarcasm off
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I don’t think that what Michelle Obama said was right or even good for her husband’s campaign. It would have been fine in my opinion to express that idea to friends but not to her country. It was too much a blanket statement encompassing every campaign for every politican because she did not state only a few. How does she feel about the Robert Kennedy or about the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr? They wanted equality for everyone in America. She’s old enough to remember them. Black rights is what she was referring to anyone can see that though she later states she meant something else. I also think she meant equality for women would be nice. The fact that Hillary Clinton is running also shows there is a change going on. I hope Michelle Obama not forget how important women’s rights are elimination of glass ceiling, equal pay etc. which is so similar to what minorities are demanding.
America has some serious issues to deal with that are not just on foreign policy or the economy and one of most evil unrelenting problems in this country is RACISM. The negativity especially from possibly the next presidents’ wife shown by Michelle Obama will not help us it will only divide us more.
People being disrespectful with each other online will hurt us all. My mistakes have a ripple effect and reach people I never though I could hurt. So will yours. Think how many people you talk to in a day. Do your inner prejudices (I said prejudices not racism) show? Do you have more patience for another black person or another Latino than for that white girl? Are you rude to white people because you cannot or will not forgive things that happened to another person of your heritage at the hands of completely different white people? Do you dislike her because she is wealthy and black? Do you automatically assume every person of a particular race feels a sense of entitlement to the things the world or our country offers?
As far as Michelle Obama being a communist I have tried for years to figure out what people mean when they say that a Liberal Democrat believes in a Communist Dictatorship. I still haven’t the foggiest idea how they could even be considered similar. Socialism isn’t even the same as Communism. It only was according to the Russian dictators. I am sure Michelle Obama is not a Soviet. Does she have money? Most likely if there is any money left after campaigning. Only the wealthy can really afford to run for president because it is so costly. I am glad she has money, lawyers frequently almost always work 60-70 hour weeks and they have a lot of useful knowledge that they use to help people with who could not have helped themselves. so she probably earned it. Yes they charge too much but with a lot of education a lot of professions can it doesn’t make her bad. Many Republicans are wealthy there are even some that own so much in oil that there is a lot at stake for them in Iraq.
Is the US imperialist? Well other than China who is the other major Superpower? Yes we have gone into other countries and taken over setting up our own government and working the people long hours while paying them barely enough to live on. Indonesia I believe and elswhere.