Durbin says: We’re going to hell! Update: The Obama “baby mama” drama
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate
Breathe a bad word about Michelle Obama and you’ll be cast into the fiery bowels of hell, says Reverend Dick Durbin.
Here’s my hell-baiting Fox segment on Michelle earlier this afternoon.
Quick correction: In the segment, I mention Salon as having published criticism of Mrs. O. I meant Slate. Got my left-wing websites mixed up. My apologies and thanks to Alex Koppelman of Salon for pointing out the error.
I’m sure Salon will make sure everyone knows that they aren’t going to burn with the rest of us.
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Update: Salon is in high dudgeon over a caption that Fox ran during my segment referring to Michelle Obama as Obama’s “baby mama.”
I did not write the caption and I was not aware of it when it ran (the Baltimore studio doesn’t have a monitor). I don’t know if the caption writer was making a lame attempt to be hip, clueless about the original etymology of the phrase, or both. But I do know that it was Michelle Obama herself who referred to Barack as her “baby’s daddy” and has used the phrase “baby daddy” to describe Barack while on the stump this year.
Here’s how she introduced him during his Senate victory speech on Nov. 2, 2004:
MICHELLE OBAMA, WIFE OF BARACK OBAMA: My baby’s daddy Barack Obama. Yeah!
BARACK OBAMA, SENATOR-ELECT, ILLINOIS: Thank you, Illinois. Thank you. Thank you, Illinois. I don’t know about you but I’m still fired up. I am fired up. Look at this crowd. Thank you, Illinois.
Let me begin by thanking all the people who have been involved in this effort from down state to upstate, city, suburb, from every community throughout the state. Let me say how grateful I am to all of you for the extraordinary privilege of standing here this evening.
Let me thank, because I will forget later on, it’s a thankless task, let me thank right now the best political staff that has been put together in this state. They are wonderful. You know who you are. You guys have been outstanding. I appreciate all of you.
Let me thank my pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (ph) of Trinity United Church of Christ, fellow Trinitarians out there. Let me thank all the elected officials who have stood by me through thick and through thin but most of all let me thank my family.
I am so grateful to my nephew Aber (ph), my niece Leslie (ph), my mother-in-law Marian (ph), my brother-in-law Craig Robinson, his wonderful girlfriend Kelly (ph), my sister Maya (ph), my new niece Zuhayla (ph) right there, my brother-in-law Conrad and most of all, most of all, my two precious daughters Malia (ph) Obama and Sasha (ph) Obama and the biggest star in the Obama family until the two girls grow up the love of my life Michelle Obama, give it up for Michelle. Give it up.
See here for a 2004 discussion of Obama’s comments the day after she made them. Sample:
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 03:19 pm:
You’re right Cynique, he hasn’t proved himself. I’m just going by his demeanor thus far, as well as my intuitive feeling about him–and that is how I feel about his potential at this point–I could see him as president. His wife has nothing to do with how I feel either, especially after her “my baby’s daddy” comment. She is a doll (physically), but that comment turned me off!Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 04:32 pm:
Well, I’m sure his wife’s remark didn’t turn off Obama’s black constituency; it was kind of an inside joke. Yes, Obama is very charismatic but you sounded as if you wanted to prove a point by jocking him rather than John Edwards who has, after all, served 6 years in the senate. See, Moonsigns, that how you get in trouble on this sight. LOLPosted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 04:55 pm:
OH FOR PITY’S SAKE Moonsigns, could you have you lips puckered against cyniques ass any tighter??Could you be any more OBVIOUS AND DESPERATE to keep her as an ally? What a freakin joke you are.
Oh you are so right cynique, oh please don’t get mad at me cynique! give it a rest aready!!
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 06:22 pm:
Some blacks may find that “inside joke” to be “funny”, however, I’m sure not all do. To me, it’s a joke that is used only in the company of very, very close friends, not in a public arena with millions of people watching.I have no point to prove to anyone Cynique. There are some people who seem like natural born leaders and others that just don’t. Edwards, in my opinion, just seems to lack a certain something that would propel him into being a tremendous leader. Obama on the other hand, he just seems like he has unlimited amounts of potential and the zeal to follow through–just a basic difference I feel about the men….that’s it.
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 07:36 pm:
You’re entitled to your assessment about Obama, Moonsigns. But, neither you nor I know how many blacks were offended by the comment Obama’s wife made. And, actually, I don’t see why there would be a problem since he is her “baby Daddy.” And I don’t think it is uncommon for black women, no matter what her station in life, to teasingly refer to their child’s father as their “baby daddy.” This ghetto expression has made it into the mainstream of the black idiom, at least in my part of the country which is where Obama is from. Blacks don’t always have to be on their good behavior for fear of making a bad impression on white people. Sometimes they can just “get down” and show that they haven’t lost the common touch. Jesse Jackson does this all the time, as did Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington who once referred to a failing plan as being in “deep doo-doo.” Anybody offended by what Obama’s wife said, should just get over it.
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 08:36 pm:
Though you have pointed out that this “ghetto expression” has “made it into the mainstream of the black idiom” (which I agree), I don’t think it’s safe to say that all blacks accept it. You know as well as I do that not all blacks think alike and that is why I know that, while you nor I can give exact numbers as to just how many blacks were offended, I’m sure there are some out there who were. Again, there are no absolutes.“Blacks don’t always have to be on their good behavior for fear of making a bad impression on white people.”-Cynique
I agree. Do you feel this applies to all races though?
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 09:05 pm:
I’ll be praying for Elizabeth Edwards.
As for Michelle Obama’s “baby’s daddy” comment–I was in room with black people from all over the world when she made it.
A black American couple owned the home I was in. There was a Somali model and her biracial daughter—two Ethiopian couples—two Kenyan men—a black couple from Mississippi, another black couple from Arizona, my black mother from Wash.D.C. and two black couples from Jamaica and one from Aruba, West Indies.
WE ALL LAUGHED “infectiously” when Michelle made the comment…and in that moment….they became REAL PEOPLE to us. The whole room fell in love with them even more than before.
MOON—the only kind of blacks who take offense at a MARRIED black woman calling her hubby “my baby’s daddy”….are the INSECURE ones who have something to prove to “white people”–and usually, those type of blacks wish to BE white themselves.
I find it hard to believe that anyone with any real intelligence would be offended by a Harvard Graduate–MARRIED to her “baby’s daddy”….being benevolent enough and politically astute enough to affirm the realities of so many black women who have no education, no men in their lives or their childrens’ lives and who NEEDED that bit of affirmation/recognition from a sista on high.
Very rarely are single black mothers–most of whom MAKE A WAY OUT OF NO WAY every damned day of the week….given their props.
I know MANY “ghetto women” who hold down a job, go to school, singlehandedly feed and clothe their babies….and BLACK WOMEN in America have been doing this for DECADES.
Without much praise.
I loved Michelle Obama for having the presence of mind and “cultural caring” to use HER POSITION to affirm a ghetto saying.
And I greatly admire so called “ghetto blacks” FAR MORE than I do the black middle class. I love it that OBAMA is so very “Kenyan” and regal and presents himself as a man of his people.
FOR THAT..and because I so love his wife’s grace and class, I will spend thousands to support him.
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 – 11:25 pm:
Well, Moonsigns, as far as I’m concerned this is much ado about nothing since, as we agree, nobody knows how widespread the disapproval was of Michelle’s remark. And who really cares about something this trivial? I think your reference to it says more about you than her. The “baby daddy” reference was no more of a faux pas than some of the things that Kerry’s wife said, or what Laura Bush might say if she could ever stop smiling like an idiot and say anything.Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 – 06:55 am:
Cynique,Beyond this discussion, Michelle’s “baby daddy” comment is not a part of my daily thought pattern. Someone had mentioned it earlier in a thread and that is why I shared my feelings about it.
Laura Bush does say too little, which can be both good and bad. Kerry’s wife said too much. I wouldn’t have minded her hubby for president, but her as the first lady….that would have been something! LOL
Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 – 07:53 am:
Moonsigns,I agree with your contrast of Edwards and Obama. Though both men are unproven as leaders, Obama appears to have more innate Presidential timber.
And, actually, the smarter/better leader in the Edwards’ household is his wife Elizabeth. That chick is smarter than a MOFO!
But really, the “baby daddy” thing is just a joke…between friends.
And when I see you (and other you White people) overreact to something as trivial as that, I can’t help wondering whether you are building Obama up just so he’ll have a higher pedestal from which you can knock him down from.
PS: My wife calls me her “baby daddy” all the time as a term of endearment. And after I received positive confirmation from the DNA tests, I learned to appreciate that.
And more here.
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From “A Brief History of baby-daddies” published in Slate Magazine two years ago:
Celebrity gossips are not known for their contributions to English letters. In tabloids, the copy is breathless, the headlines are stunningly literal, and the “hand-written” photo captions seem to toggle between “Awww!” and “Ew!” But as they zero in on celebrity mating and breeding rituals, the magpies keep breaking new linguistic ground. First they imported the British term bump, a noun used to refer to the protruding abdomen of a pregnant starlet. Then they awarded celebrity couples mash-up nicknames like “Bennifer,” “Brangelina,” and “TomKat.” Now they’ve seized upon baby-daddy and baby-mama, two useful terms that have long appeared in hip-hop and R&B lyrics, and are slowly stripping them of their emotional fangs.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines baby-daddy as “the father of a woman’s child, who is not her husband or (in most cases) her current or exclusive partner.” The baby-mama entry follows the same template with the genders reversed. But some gossip writers have been adopting the first part of the definition and ignoring the second. Salon recently called Tom Cruise “Katie Holmes’ baby-daddy,” even though the couple is engaged. And Gawker refers to Keven Federline as “Britney Spears’ baby-daddy,” even though the couple has been married for more than a year.
…These days, the terms no longer seem “chiefly African-American”—they’re everywhere, the latest bits of hip-hop lingo to gain widespread use. Baby-daddy is the new bling. Online, you can buy “Jesus is my baby-daddy” magnets, tote bags, and beer steins. There is a drink called the “babymama.” Scott Hoffman, the bassist for the glam rock band the Scissors Sisters, goes by the stage name “Babydaddy.” Some of this cultural paraphernalia retains the old, loaded sense of the term: You can, for example, download a “Salty Baby Mama” ringtone so that when people call, your phone will jangle and thrum while a woman’s voice says, “Baby, I know you hear this damn phone ringing. I’m going to beat your ass, as soon as I see you.” But just as often, the connotations are strictly biological. Baby-mama has even made inroads in Japan, where it’s being used on a Web site that appears to sell strollers.
Who knows why these terms became catchphrases? Perhaps it’s just that they’re metrically pleasing: Baby-mama and baby-daddy are undeniably fun to say. But it’s the novelty factor that explains how the words lost their negative connotations. Sure, there are many gossip writers who still use the terms in their original senses (calling dancer Carlos Leon “Madonna’s baby-daddy,” for example) because they’re useful, reducing a complex chain of possessives—Madonna’s daughter’s father—to a nice, comprehensible noun. But it seems there are also plenty of writers who just like the way the words sound and don’t care much about the stigma once attached to babydaddyhood. When news came last week that Anna Nicole Smith may be pregnant, it was no surprise that bloggers immediately began speculating about the identity of the “baby daddy.” It may be a long time before you hear a quaint, old-fashioned “Who’s the dad?”
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Here comes the knee-jerk avalanche of hate mail:
from pearlene_scott@cox.net
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:35 AM
subject Michelle Obama
mailed-by cox.netYou disgusting racist slant eyed pig! How do you like the name calling? Referring to Senator Obama’s wife in your typical way is what the country expects from an ignorant racist pig like yourself. No one wants to listen to your racist rants anymore. May the nightmare that is you be gone soon.
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from HTHS57@aol.com
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:53 AM
subject Michelle Obama comments
mailed-by aol.comYou are reprehensible
The impression you give is having a plastic face, a plastic mind and a plastic heart.
Your stupidity is clearly and abundantly superceded by your nasty nasty mind and heart always.
There is no one home in your body.***
from [redacted at the request of the hate-mailer]
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM
subject TIP
mailed-by msn.comI find your attacks on Mrs Obama disgusting. As someone of mixed race I wonder if your desire to take part in this behavior is due to self-loathing. Do you have issues about your own background and feel that you are somehow made “whiter” by saying these things? Believe me, to the crowd you associate with you are nothing more than the token brown girl with a cheerleader’s vocal affectation. You should be ashamed of yourself, and if you don’t have the grace to feel that way, I am ashamed for you. My tip for you is… start acting like a human being.
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from MsNiana@aol.com
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM
subject Your Fox appearance
mailed-by aol.comI have never taken the time to e-mail anyone regarding comments made in a public forum. However, your Obama Baby Mama comments have triggered something in me that NO ONE has managed to do thus far. It is degrading for a married woman, especially of her stature to be referred to this way, but of course that’s why you found pleasure in doing it. It also has a racist tone to it, which is also way you’ve found pleasure in doing it. For someone who looks like she is in need of racial tolerance, you certainly have a lot of nerve. There are many racist references that I can name when I look at you, many which your so called colleagues at Fox have already uttered behind you’re back, I’m sure. Your politics are your own, but you should be ashamed. How someone as ethnic as you obviously are can find pleasure in contributing to such low class racial speak is beyond me.
from David Medina db999us@yahoo.com
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date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:00 AM
subject tip
mailed-by yahoo.com
signed-by yahoo.comyou like like a asian clown
Let’s not let the facts get in the way!
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It’s not bad Michelle, the Cubs are still in first place so Hell is freezing over. Global warming should offset the freezing so it should be just like paradise.
Michelle Obama looked like Tickle me Elmo the other night in that purple dress (I want to reserve my seat early)
If she out talking and politicing for her B Hussien Obooboo then she better be ready for the heat. It really shows how elitest they are when they want to talk bad about everyone else but noone is allowed to speak bad about them.
Do not speak bad about the royals. They will throw you into the dungeon.
Ha-ha! Michelle is on the campaign trail, busy saying stupid things, ergo…
Note to Michelle O, the Veep is supposed to be invisible for 4 years and that person is an elected official. Guess what the rules are for spouses? Go back to the hospital and shut up. OK, shut up please.
A special ring in hell? Dicky boy would know all about that one.
Slippery slope.
AH comeon Alohaguy, can’t we have MO stick around so we can make fun of her mistakes and rants? Just a little longer?
I dont recall Teresa Heinz-Kerry crying so much when she was criticized for opening her mouth on the campaign trail…
…must be the ketchup.
Geez Michelle cast into the fiery bowels of hell? I’ll tell you right now they don’t want me there they’re afraid I’ll take the damn place over.
How much worse could hell be than present day America? With all our meanness and the price of piano lessons and everybody slaving away for those evil corporations while their children die from lack of health care it may be an improvement.
Sure. But you better hurry before the Democrats pass a windfall humor tax. Then it will cost ya’.
Well if I’m going to hell for crticizing the Barack Obama’s wife, I better bring some sunscreen!
Can anyone answer me this:
What exactly is the Obummers’ problem?
Do they have chips on their shoulders, thin skin or both?
Oh, no, no, don’t worry, Dickie Durbin, the “defender” of all things military, will come to the rescue to tell us how criticizing Michelle Obummer is a “personl attack.”
I’m glad we got that straight. Now does anybody have a binkie, for Durbin and the Obummers, to help make it all better now?
Wow. I am glad Durbin isn’t God. I don’t think the earth would make it till November.
Good job Michelle. I appreciated your calm demeanor.
Yes, if anyone dares speak ill of Mrs. B.H.O. they are “racist” and prove that America is “hateful”. Ooooh, fear the wrath
of the “chosen one” as he will surely smite you down if you point out a single fact regarding his beloveds’ anti-Americanism etc.
Word to the wifey-poo; If you’re on the campaign trail spewing leftist garbage either grow a pair or stay out of the fight. Capiche?
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate?
I musta not hit one for English? Anyone know what this means?
Well, if so, Durbin will be the tour guide…
Lets hope Osama Bin Laden says something against the Obamas, then maybe we can get Sen. TUrbin behind the war on terror.
O/T DO you think the 183rd is being moved from Springfield because of TUrbin’s mouth?
“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” Italian, from Dante’s Inferno, the inscription over the entrance to Hell.
abandon all hope ye who enter…. oh well, Marines don’t have that problem, been there, done that… enjoy the ride south Durbin the Turban and Michelle Obamasama
Goldwater Knight #15 It’s in the graphic in the heading:
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here”.
Oh and your #8 comment–LOL. Very good.
Let’s see, if:
1. Conservatives expose a liberal it’s stirring up dirt.
2. Liberals expose a conservative it’s bringing out the truth into the public.
That’s fair.
/sarc off
MO needs to put on her big girl panties, that is if she can get them back from Obama.
My favorite ref to this phrase BTW: E.M. Forster’s short story The Celestial Omnibus, which makes trips to Heaven and takes a boy there. The bus driver, the boy reports on a return trip, was “Dan someone” and the inscription on the entrance to the bus is “lasciate ogni baldanza voi ch’intrate”: “Abandon all pride…”
“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.”
I thought that’s what is said above the door to the Senate chamber.
As an Illinois conservative, I’ve never been so embarrassed in my state as I have been this year. Durbin’s seat is up this November I think, but despite his Hellspeak I’m sure he’s going to coast to victory, again.
Oh, poor misunderstood MO. But, wait darling dickie to the rescue! I guess BHO was too busy texting Scarlet Johansson.
#23 And above the door to BHO’s campaign headquarters. Dual meaning to be sure in regards to BHO.
Durbin the Turbin is running so true to form. I guess his comments on the US and our troops will earn him a special place in the afterlife.
What Dick so conveniently ignores is the role a family member plays in the campaign. If they are there for moral support and stay away from the issues that should rightly be championed by teh candidate himself, then bringing the family member into the limelight seems to be unwarranted.
But. when the candidate sends the member out there in full battle gear to mix it up on the issues and his or her opponents, then that individual is fair game.
Michelle Obama has attacked other candidates, attacked others on the issues, more than unmercifully criticized and demonized conservatives in general and has all but painted a large target on herself. It is her husband who is responsible for any negative comments leveled against her, for it is BO who condones and encourages her to get into the mix.
Of course, Durbin does undoubtedly have a direct line to the infernal regions, so he may know something the rest of us don’t.
I just got through reading Maureen Dowd’s column:
I won’t link, you can find it at the NYT.
Will anyone be live blogging The View when she co-hosts next week?
Sounds like Durbin and the libs are getting panicky about Michelle Obama showing her true colors.
Take heed! Take heed ye who have rejected the Obamessiah! For the flames of hell shall swallow ye and your family and your ox and your cattle. And the burden of many taxes shall be upon you!
Durbin forgot to finish his statement with this…
“…unless the candidate is a Republican. Then you are allowed to attack their families all you want. You know, have them arrested for ordering an alcoholic beverage and then smearing them in the papers as drunken party girls….stuff like that is ok. “
Hell (no pun intended), we should start hanging these all over Capitol Hill since it is only fitting.
Heh, sorry GK. Didn’t see your similar post on #23
As I said on Hotair, rather than wasting my time responding to a guy like Richard, I’ll just post these two links in the hope that this guy doesn’t get re-elected in my state (gotta love Chicago, Springfield, and East Saint Louis…)
http://www.moveondickdurbin.org/
http://www.sauerberg2008.com/
Yep, fine with me. Then let’s make Dowd Round Three.
Any relation to Deanna Durbin? Otherwise, meh.
#24, He won’t coast to victory if my vote counts for anything. I’m soooooo sorry for my beautiful state, SOUTHERN Illinois.
If only both my senators were absentee right now instead of just one.
The line should have read, ‘Obama’s Punishment’s Mama.’
Okay, where’s my ‘get into hell card?’
Twould be sweeeeeeet having obama go to jail with rezko, and durbin go with helmet head, aka gov.
I don’t know why any right thinking person would want to be an Illinois govenor, they all wind up in jail.
LOLROF while crying over my beautiful state.
They are just made because they don’t have anything bad to say about Cindy McCain. Obama this is politics stop whinning.
Well, at least he’s right about where he’s headed. He should be there in plenty of time to get reservations for B&M Obama, Wright, and the rest of the unholy alliance.
After what Reverend Dick Durbin said about our troops in Iraq I am sure that
Is, or soon shall be, quite familiar with Hell. But these damn Democrats keep trying to limit the debate and way too many Republicans let them as does McCaim.
Michelle Obama is a whiney, complaining, Black Nationalist, anti-Semite, marxist and if Dick Durban can’t handle that tough. And if the Democrats and other weenies want to call me racist go ahead.
At least I am not a traitor, but When In the Course of Human Events is running through my evil little mind at the moment.
They’re truly a bunch of geniuses over at Fox. “Former junkie Cindy McCain” is right around the corner. Unbelievable. And it doesn’t matter if Michelle Obama used that expression four years ago. She’s now the wife of a Presidential nominee. Both she and Cindy McCain deserve to be treated with respect by the news outlets when they’re reporting straight news.
The Obie baby Moma has not always succeeded on her own merit but it seems when recognized for her own merit, as you have done, it is then a diversion. If you can’t stand the heat get out of the baby Moma subculture.
I think you did a bang up job on this subject for Fox Election HQ. They recognize you as an authority on the Michelle Obama quagmire.
The emails make me all gushy inside, I feel the light flowing out of them. They’re just bursting with racial harmony.
Maybe Obama really can bring us together. Maybe he can help us all evolve.
Great segment on Fox MM ! You nailed it on the head.
I wish someone YouTube savvy or maybe the good folks at HotAir would make a video compilation (sp?) of how many times the term “racist” has been used in the DEM PRIMARY just to get everyone in the mindset for the Gen. Election.
It’d also make a great McCain commercial to do a little pre-emptive strike like the Dems are trying to pull now (except it’d be truthful).
Huh, where I went to school the brown and black and yellow girls (as long as color has come into the coversation) ruled. Well I guess if your email address is “greeleystinks”, you have plenty of other issues…
and
Michelle, you’re ethnic? “pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like. ” Can I guess? American? Too easy?
How dare you missy – studying hard, doing well in school, writing books and a column and a blog and being on TV…You’re brown and you’re supposed to be dependent on we liberal white folks who insist on giving you a handout. Next you’re going to tell me you “tested well”…does any of this help your kids?
Durbin doesn’t seem to understand that if Michelle O goes out and makes outrageous statements as part of the campaign that she’s fair game. How is he not seeing that? These aren’t personal attacks and he surely sees that. These are well-deserved political attacks on political statememts made in a political campaign. SO fair game.
Rilassarsi, metti i piedi e guardare i fuochi d’artificio
Taking the sentence as it is, “We’re going to Hell”, I would have to say, for once, I agree with Durbin. He ought to know. He, Obama, and the rest of the Left are leading the stampede. They’re making sure we all get there as soon as possible, with them in charge, of course.
Why do those idiots defend, let alone support someone who despises white folks?
Actually, I think entering the halls of congress actually fills our political partiers with a little too much hope.
They seem to be taken with the idea that they can screw the working class (read: Taxpayer) without fear of repercussions, retire in grand style and live it up in the meantime. The main difference I see, is unlike those of us who “cling” to our Bibles, they cannot justify the hope that is within them.
We are on the road to hell to be sure … but it is the path the political partiers have selected to take us down … not one that we the people travel by our own volition.
As for Cindy McCain and MO … I do not recall seeing Cindy McCain shout out her lack of pride in America, her racially dividing theology or her opposition to any political candidates. I certainly do not support Juan McCain or B. Hussein Obama but if you are going to jump into the fire, you have to expect to get burned. When the spouse actively campaigns … the door is left wide open for both support and attack of their issues.
Just as St. Hillary was the real danger behind Slick Willie, Michelle, the Mad Hatter, is the real danger behind Tweedledum Obama. Slick and Tweedle are both transparently pliable. Remember what they say about an empty drum: they make the loudest noise, but have to be played by someone else!
Luckily the Obama’s will be a footnote in history come November….I am not happy with McCain but I am disgusted with the Obama’s and their media wing of the Democrat party!
We must be in an election cycle because the Dems seem to have found religion again, at least for the time being.
MATTHEW 7:1-5:
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Hey Dick I don’t think anybody who criticizes Michelle is ready to condemn her to Hell. Maybe you should stop doing the same to us…
Is anyone REALLY surprised that liberals would email racist banter to point out as what they percieve as other racist banter?
It is the height of stupidity.
I dont see these same people emailing record companies, boycotting rap artists who use the N word, call women “ho’s” repeatedly, and say all manner of racial, sexist garbage in their lyrics.
These hate mails are awesome though…it shows the studpity of the sender and the mentality that our democrat friends hold.
“You’re a racist…me, not so much. I just like using racial terms to describe you…errr….nevermind.”
Morons.
So is this an example of throwing the Fox caption writers “under the bus?”
Where are the photoshop graphics???
lol j/k
One of your many ‘admirers’ said:
What, exactly is her stature?
She’s a Senator’s wife and
she’s a University of Chicago hospital administrator (appointed to the job after her husband was elected), neither of which confers any special “stature”. Quite the contrary, she is very dependent on a government job and her husband’s rising star. Nothing wrong with that but let’s not exaggerate her importance to the country.
I’d have to agree with Durbin. We are going to hell, or at least a reasonable facsimile here on earth.
Obama is going to win, gang, and he’s going to win big.
If Obama slapped a nine year old child in Times Square at high noon on a sunny day, the press would report it as “Quick-Thinking Obama saves child from nasty Wasp Sting!”
He’s not Teflon; he’s annointed by the MSM. You know, “those with the white teeth and nice hair and small intellects.”
We are in for four years of what can only be called Hell.
Buckle up…
If you follow the link about “baby daddy” in Michelle’s post, you will see that MO used “baby daddy” in an impromptu speech in March, 2008. By my reckoning, the campaign was in full swing. The woman brings a lot of this on herself, particularly when she tries to ingratiate herself with the locals.
Does this fall under the heading of “takes one to know one”? I’m amazed that these people’s heads don’t spontaneously explode from conflicting impulses.
It does appear hell is freezing over this year. Yesterday we had 7 inches of snow at the Brundidge Ski Resort. It was 33 degrees when I crawled out of bed this morning. Have to agree I am happy to see we have “Gorebull Warming” to off set it. As expected any who speak ill of the Obamasiah or his America hating wife are racist, but now on a new twist we are all going to hell. Isn’t that special!
Have you seen the fightthesmears.com website run by Obama’s campaign? The top posting is on the “whitey” comment. Notice how the “truth” is that there is no tape. But does that doesn’t mean she didn’t say the statement.
Keep it up right-wingers. That last time you tried to put so much effort into attacking a candidate’s wife was in 1992. You never learn.
I don’t think most voters care whether or not Barack’s wife is a bi@$%. If this is the way you wanna spend you money on this campaign, Barack will be in great shape. You might want to look at the latest polls and figure something else out. The stuff in the documentary doesn’t seem very fresh and enlightening. People who are up in arms over Michelle Obama, won’t vote for Barack anyway. It’s just an act of mutual frustration masterbation.
Actually, Mistress, given what your party just did to that same woman:
“We were right.”
She was, and is, a nut-job.
If Michelle puts herself out there, she’s not immune from criticism.
If Obama wins, it will be a fascinating real-time study of the collapse of the American democracy. Goodness, mistressjustice, it’s sad you support that.
Not advocating getting into the gutter with Fox or playing the game of name calling, but fair and balanced is also fair is fair. So assuming there would be no outrage if the next time Fox talks about Mrs. McCain, we see captions like:
John McCain’s Ho
McCain Home Wrecker
McCain Sugar Momma
Let your imagination run wild, we could even start a name Cindy contest.
An interesting article on the topic:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
A few passages from the article:
“Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.”
“In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.”
post 23, the sign is above the senate chambers, on the inside, to be read an the way out. Since when should we let facts get in the way? Facts, we don’t need no stinking facts! We need gut-wrenching emotion in the la la land of liberals!! Apathy is what we need. And $10 a gallon gas. Life in the US must get much, much worse before people start to get off their lame butts and press our elected HARD. I’m in for the long haul.
mistressjustice
Kind of like how you liberals have treated laura bush with care and respect? or mrs reagan??? Your ilk have been attacking GOP presidental wives for decades and you cry foul when we do the same for you? HYPOCRITE!!! FRAUD!!!
I will continue to point out facts dispite your false claims of racism. I will not be silenced by your pathetic attempts to create politicaly correct thought crimes. Just because she is black and I am white does not mean she becomes immune to critism for her own words. I refuse to submit to your weak attempts to silence disenting views.
I’m not saying she should be immune, I just think it’s pointless and fruitless, much like in 1992. Some conservative pundits have also urged laying off Michelle Obama a tad.
I COMPLETELY AGREE that she exposes herself to criticism by putting herself out there. I just don’t think it smart to got after her so hard. She’s not running, won’t make any appointments, won’t sign any bills, or negotiate any treaties. You people that dislike her will always dislike her, and many others just don’t care, unless there is something seriously damaging out there.
I obviously disagree here Englishqueen, assuming he wins the election fair and square. American democracy will be in action in November, and we will all make our choice. A fair and honest victory by either man will be fine example of, rather than a collapse by American democracy.
Given MJ’s blind devotion to Obama it wouldn’t shock me given the tone of her last post if she was one of the people who sent in the hate mail linked above. Because I can see by the hate mail linked that those Obama fans must have a great education behind them and are the brightest of the next generation of Americans. /sarc
Slate, unlike Salon, publishes scores of articles with a conservative slant. While it may have more left than right (if not by many), the article criticizing Michelle Obama was written by Christopher Hitchens, who has a mixed political philosophy but has been a fervent opponent of radical jihadism, supporter of the Iraq war, and major critic of the Clintons. To say that even the left is piling on Michelle Obama is disingenuous when you cite Hitchens.
Screw her and the High Horse she rode in on.
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STRAWMAN ALERT!!! BEEP BEEP BEEP.
What in the hell are you talking about? You clearly aren’t talking about anything that I have ever said.
Lastly, no I don’t condone insults on Laura Bush either, and feel free to search my comments on the (SAN FRANCISCO article thread). Hello OVERREACTION how are you today?
Mistress:
I’m amazed that you place such a high level of faith in humans (ie – gov’t). Humans have ALWAYS screwed things up. Your faith is only as good as the object in which it’s placed. I do not place my hope in politicians (or government) DOING anything good for anybody. The historic “good/bad” ratio for government has always been much less than 1. Please learn from history.
I agree. I haven’t had this much fun with stupid rants and mistakes since Joycelyn Elders. (I wonder what MO thinks about teaching sex ed to kindergarteners?)
Ok. This reporter on a lib TV “news” show interviews a lib senator, citing a lib columnist’s article from a lib newspaper.
Where will this rank when placed under the scrutiny of what is fair and balanced under the proposed fairness doctrine?
The negative coverage given to the Clintons over the past months (finally!) shows that it is liberals that do not learn, or very slowy at best. Incredibly, that recent article in Vanity Fair on Bill’s doings was presented as if it were something new or due to his heart surgery. I can’t count the number of columns I have seen in this campaign by liberals criticizing the Clintons for the very same things conservatives have been pointing out for 15 years. Liberals have been willfully ignorant about the Clintons and now express shock and outrage at their behavior. And it is we that don’t learn? Get a clue!
Mistress Justice thinks Cheney may have been the Plame leaker. No clue that Richard Armitage (a State Department official who opposed the Iraq war) told the light in his loafers, confirmed bachelor Patrick Fitzgerald early on that he had told Novak, and Fitzgerald continued an investigation where the mystery was already solved, just to nail someone close to Bush and Cheney.
Hard to talk facts when the only facts people know come through the leftist prism of the main stream media.
mistressjustice:
I am sorry, did I just make you into a victim?? poor baby.
As for obama, you should really study how hitler came to power because there are real comparisons in tactics. (note not policy) Both relied on mass emotional appeal. Both use a scapegoat for the worlds problems. Both promise some sort of utopia at the end. Both use mass rallies to bolster public support. Both have radical backers that stay in the background to start with. Both subscribe to radical ideas that they deny to start with.Both have an almost religous air to thier appeal. Both promise to take thier nations from the (insert scapegoat here) and give it back to the people and make it great again. The next step is to make any critism of them equal to immorality.
If Ms. Obama didn’t campaign publically, and so so many anti-American things, she wouldn’t be an object of attention of conservatives.
Cindy McCain doesn’t spend much time giving stump speeches, complaining about the dark sould of America, or saying she isn’t proud of America.
So it isn’t the same thing.
Michelle Obama’s opinions do matter. We all know a wife’s point of view affects her husband’s decisions. We have plenty of evidence from the past to at least need to consider it. For good or bad, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalyn (sp)Carter, just to name a few, who have had a huge impact on their spouses presidency.
We ignore her bitter racist slant to our own peril. He brings his corrupt Chicago politics with him and that alone is enough to scare me without adding her in the mix.
I just saw the video of the segment. The caption says “Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking on Obama’s Baby Mama”.
So they are paraphrasing what libs are saying. (Maybe some folks are phrasing it that way?) Michelle did not say this or write the caption.
Regardless, FNC should never have put it that way on the caption.
How else could they have phrased it?
“Outraged Liberals: Leave Mrs. Obama alone!”
“Enraged Moonbats: Critics of Mrs. Obama should burn in Hell”
“Liberals: Michelle Obama is beyond criticism”
mistress,
sonofdy does make a valid point. dems have been doing this for years. its nothing new, on either side of the aisle really. its just how it is. Beyond the myriad of reasons why people would go after the spouse (being vindictive, using it to exploit a weakness, pure spite, or whatever), the fact she’s put herself out there for scrutiny and critique is something you’ve admitted she deserves.
but sonofdy (and others) make a valid point that there’s alot of venom that comes from dems in regards to other presidential (and hopefuls) wives.
I dont believe that MO’s comments up to this point have been misconstrued or twisted. The video and audio speaks for themselves. People are going to put their own twists to them, but…she sounded pretty clear about her positions to me. Even trying to be neutral about it, she still comes across as being someone i’d likely be at odds with over a great many subjects. She comes across as elitist, as someone who thinks she’s entitled to everything, and as someone who doesnt have the best interests of our nation at heart.
Again…those are from her own statements.
my 2 cents.
abstractmind,
Thank you for putting it into calmer words. I get really hot under the collar when I am told I can’t say this or that because of some invented rule that only applies to one side. So sometimes I vent. Hey give me credit for toning down what I really wanted to say which probably would have gotten me banned, and possiably sent to the “hottest ring of hell”
When all this “I’m a victim!” and “You’re a racist! crapola gets implanted in the Whitehouse, Obama won’t be just made of Teflon, he’ll be made of Kryptonite! Even Superman won’t be able to touch him. The bad news is, we’re going to Hell in a handbasket! The good news is we’re making good time!
Are you kidding? If Obama gets elected the first thing I am going to do is buy a “impeach Obama” bumper sticker. If for no other reason than to just piss off democrats.
Come, come now; you don’t really think this happened with Gore vs Bush do you?
“Hail to the Chief” will be replaced with “Here come MAC DADDY”
I’m with ajmontana.
Frankly, the less notice we take of her, the better. Let society figure it out, because they will.
Just last week I was enjoying a glass of wine with some young neighbors (late 20’s) here in my hometown (adjacent to the People’s Republic of Santa Cruz), and all four of them said they couldn’t stand Michelle Obama. One man commented, “I can’t stand that *mouth* he’s married to, and wouldn’t want to see her face for four years”, his fiancee agreed, the other couple joined in with their own thoughts of how disagreeable she is. None of them is voting for Obama.
Let me tell you: In this crazy-a** place, that is huge.
Sure thing. It’s easy to get emotional on issues, political or otherwise. It’s things like politics and religion, because both play on emotional context, that can bring both the best and worst out in people.
And venting is good anyway