Exclusive: Advance text of Michelle Obama’s speech; Update: Blogging opening night; latest McCain veep rumors
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I have obtained an advance, annotated text of Michelle Obama’s convention speech tonight. As her water-carriers in the press have been reporting, the speech will introduce America to the “real” Michelle and Barack.
(Ok, here’s a bit of the real thing. And the full text is pasted below from Michelle and her brother, Craig Robinson. I was not far off!)
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Good evening, my fellow Barack Americans!
I am Michelle Obama. (Pause for adulation. Frown at insufficient applause. Wait for more.)
I am just an ordinary working mom from an ordinary town. A “civilian” innocent in the ways of politics. Just like you.
(Well, except for my hard Left thesis-writing skills. And my hard-core Chicago family political ties. And my high-powered, $317,000-a-year affirmative action job. And my role in organizing the Woods Fund panel that Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack appeared on together.)
Some have referred to me as Obama’s “bitter half.”
But, really, truly, I am so grateful to be here tonight.
(Well, except for all the burdensome sacrifices I have been forced to make throughout this campaign in pursuit of the White House and my victimization at the hands of those wife-beating racist Republicans.)
I have made these inordinate sacrifices because Barack Obama is a real American, a Barack American, just like you.
Except when he’s not like you.
Because He is special. He is The One, my honey, my babies’ daddy, the soul-fixer we have all been waiting for.
Let me repeat: I am just the simple, ordinary, civilian spouse of The One trying to juggle my daughters’ expensive piano and ballet lessons with Access Hollywood interviews and People magazine photo shoots.
But I do know this: We are living in a historic moment, a moment that makes me prouder than any other moment I can recall in my adult lifetime as a citizen of this downright mean great country.
And I know that you need to celebrate his specialness, uniqueness, and everything he represents. You need to. You must.
(Translation: He’s black and if you don’t celebrate, you’re a bigot or a race traitor.)
Barack cares. I care. As an ordinary civilian mom, I share your concerns about access to health care. And so does Barack.
(As for that dump-the-sick policy at the University of Chicago which has enriched Barack’s countless campaign advisers, well, that is a distraction and a conversation that we don’t need to have because it doesn’t help my kids.)
I’ve warned you before and I will warn you again:
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your division. That you come out of your isolation. That you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.”
That is a threat you can believe in.
Now, please join me in raising the Obama salute before I retreat back into my Cone of Protection from criticism for my public comments:
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Update…
9:31pm Eastern…Ted Kennedy is on stage. “Nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight.” Plugs universal health care coverage. “Yes, we can.”
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Michelle’s prepared text:
As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig.
I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I’ve felt his presence in every grace-filled moment of my life.
At six-foot-six, I’ve often felt like Craig was looking down on me too…literally. But the truth is, both when we were kids and today, he wasn’t looking down on me – he was watching over me.
And he’s been there for me every step of the way since that clear February day 19 months ago, when – with little more than our faith in each other and a hunger for change – we joined my husband, Barack Obama, on the improbable journey that’s brought us to this moment.
But each of us also comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey.
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend.
I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world – they’re the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night. Their future – and all our children’s future – is my stake in this election.
And I come here as a daughter – raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and20me. My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters.
My Dad was our rock. Although he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in his early thirties, he was our provider, our champion, our hero. As he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk, it took him longer to get dressed in the morning. But if he was in pain, he never let on. He never stopped smiling and laughing – even while struggling to button his shirt, even while using two canes to get himself across the room to give my Mom a kiss. He just woke up a little earlier, and worked a little harder.
He and my mom poured everything they had into me and Craig. It was the greatest gift a child can receive: never doubting for a single minute that you’re loved, and cherished, and have a place in this world. And thanks to their faith and hard work, we both were able to go on to college. So I know firsthand from their lives – and mine – that the American Dream endures.
And you know, what struck me when I first met Barack was that even though he had this funny name, even though he’d grown up all the way across the continent in Hawaii, his family was so much like mine. He was raised by grandparents who were working class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did. Like my family, they scrimped and saved so that he could have opportunities they never had themselves. And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children – and all children in this nation – to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
And as our friendship grew, and I learned more about Barack, he introduced me to the work he’d done when he first moved to Chicago after college. Instead of heading to Wall Street, Barack had gone to work in neighborhoods devastated when steel plants shut down, and jobs dried up. And he’d been invited back to speak to people from those neighborhoods about how to rebuild their community.
The people gathered together that day were ordinary folks doing the best they could to build a good life. They were parents living paycheck to paycheck; grandparents trying to get by on a fixed income; men frustrated that they couldn’t support their familie s after their jobs disappeared. Those folks weren’t asking for a handout or a shortcut. They were ready to work – they wanted to contribute. They believed – like you and I believe – that America should be a place where you can make it if you try.
Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be.” And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and settle for the world as it is – even when it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations. But he reminded us that we know what our world should look like. We know what fairness and justice and opportunity look like. And he urged us to believe in ourselves – to find the strength within ourselves to strive for the world as it should be. And isn’t that the great American story?
It’s the story of men and women gathered in churches and union halls, in town squares and high school gyms – people who stood up and marched and risked everything they had – refusing to settle, determined to mold our future into the shape of our ideals.
It is because of their will and determination that this week, we celebrate two anniversaries: the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, and the 45th anniversary of that hot summer day when Dr. King lifted our sights and our hearts with his dream for our nation.
I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history – knowing that my piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me. All of them driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work. The same conviction that drives the men and women I’ve met all across this country:
People who work the day shift, kiss their kids goodnight, and head out for the night shift – without disappointment, without regret – that goodnight kiss a reminder of everything they’re working for.
The military families who say grace each night with an empty seat at the table. The servicemen and women who love this country so much, they leave those they love most to defend it.
The young people across America serving our communities – teaching children, cleaning up neighborhoods, caring for the least among us each and every day.
People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters – and sons – can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher.
People like Joe Biden, who’s never forgotten where he came from, and never stopped fighting for folks who work long hours and face long odds and need someone on their side again.
All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.
That is the thread that connects our hearts. That is the thread that runs through my journey and Barack’s journey and so many other improbable journeys that have brought us here tonight, where the current of history meets this new tide of hope.
That is why I love this country.
And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
It’s a belief Barack shares – a belief at the heart of his life’s work.
It’s what he did all those years ago, on the streets of Chicago, setting up job training to get people back to work and afterschool programs to keep kids safe – working block by block to help people lift up their families.
It’s what he did in the Illinois Senate, moving people from welfare to jobs, passing tax cuts for hard working families, and making sure women get equal pay for equal work.
It’s what he’s done in the United States Senate, fighting to ensure the men and women who serve this country are welcomed home not just with medals and parades, but with good jobs and benefits and health care – including mental health care.
That’s why he’s running – to end the war in Iraq responsibly, to build an economy that lifts every family, to make health care available for every American, and to make sure every child in this nation gets a world class education all the way from preschool to college. That’s what Barack Obama will do as President of the United States of America.
He’ll achieve these goals the same way he always has – by bringing us together and reminding us how much we share and how alike we really are. You see, Barack doesn’t care where you’re from, or what your background is, or what party – if any – you belong to. That’s not how he sees the world. He knows that thread that connects us – our belief in America’s promise, our commitment to our children’s future – is strong enough to hold us together as one nation even when we disagree.
It was strong enough to bring hope to those neighborhoods in Chicago.
It was strong enough to bring hope to the mother he met worried about her child in Iraq; hope to the man who’s unemployed, but can’t afford gas to find a job; hope to the student working nights to pay for her sister’s heal th care, sleeping just a few hours a day.
And it was strong enough to bring hope to people who came out on a cold Iowa night and became the first voices in this chorus for change that’s been echoed by millions of Americans from every corner of this nation.
Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need.
And in the end, after all that’s happened these past 19 months, the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago. He’s the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital ten years ago this summer, inching along at a snail’s pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he’d struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her what he never had: the affirming embrace of a father’s love.
And as I tuck that little girl and her little sister into bed at night, I think about how one day, they’ll have families of their own. And one day, they – and your sons and daughters – will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They’ll tell them how this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming.
How this time, in this great country – where a girl from the South Side of Chicago can go to college and law school, and the son of a single mother from Hawaii can go all the way to the White House – we committed ourselves to building the world as it should be.
So tonight, in honor of my father’s memory and my daughters’ future – out of gratitude to those whose triumphs we mark this week, and those whose everyday sacrifices have brought us to this moment – let us devote ourselves to finishing their work; let us work together to fulfill their hopes; and let us stand together to elect Barack Obama President of the United States of America.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
***
EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY
Remarks of Craig Robinson-as prepared for delivery
Democratic National Convention
Denver, Colorado
Monday, August 25, 2008
Good evening, I’m Craig Robinson and Michelle Obama is my little sister.
Tonight, I don’t want to just introduce my sister, I want to introduce you to my sister. The girl I grew up with. The poised young woman I saw her grow in to. The compassionate mother, aunt and sister- in-law she is. The passionate voice for women and children she has become. And the type of first lady she will be.
Sometimes, when I look at the woman you are about to hear from, it’s funny to think that this is the same person who used to wake me up early, and I mean early, on Christmas morning – because we both had to be up at the same time, in order to open our presents.
This is the person who would play the piano to calm me down before all of my big games in high school.
This is the person who – even though we were allowed only one hour of television a night – somehow managed to commit to memory every single episode of the Brady Bunch.
But when I really think back, I can also see how the person she is today, was formed in the experiences we shared growing up: working hard, studying hard, having parents who wanted more for us than what they had. And always being reminded that in this country of all countries – those things were possible.
Neither of our parents went to college.
My father went to work right out of high school to help pay for his brother’s college tuition.
He worked at the water filtration plant for 30 years.
We lost my father in 1991.
And I know he’s looking down on us tonight, so proud of his daughter, not because of who she married, though he was a big fan of Barack – but because of the hard-working, brilliant woman she is, what she’s accomplished in her own right, the mother she’s become, and the values she’s instilled in her daughters.
My mother Marian is here tonight. She remains our family’s anchor, and the sole reason Michelle was willing to campaign at all was because she knows that Mom is there to help take care of the girls.
When we were young kids, our parents divided the bedroom we shared so we could each have our own room.
Many nights we would talk when we were supposed to be sleeping.
My sister always talked about who was getting picked on at school, or who was having a tough time at home.
I didn’t realize it then – but I realize it now – those were the people she was going to dedicate her life to: the people who were struggling with life’s challenges.
She has continued to follow that passion. She gave up a job in a big law firm to work in her community. With a group called Public Allies, she trained a new generation of community leaders.
She developed the University of Chicago’s community service center – connecting the university to the neighborhood that was blocks away – but often worlds away – from its gates.
< div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">And when I wasn’t happy doing what I was doing – investment banking – she was the one who encouraged me to go back to my first love – teaching and coaching.
And today I’m proud to be the coach of the Oregon State men’s basketball team. Go Beavs!
But she did take something away from that first big law firm job. A young lawyer by the name of Barack Obama.
My sister had grown up hearing my father and me talk about how to judge a person’s character by wha t type of sportsman they are, so she asked me to take Barack to play basketball.
If you’re looking for a political analysis based on his playing, here it is: he’s confident but not cocky, he’ll take the shot if he’s open, he’s a team player who improves the people around him, and he won’t back down from any challenge.
Together, I’ve watched Barack and Michelle strengthen each other. I’ve watched them create a home filled with love, and grounded in faith.
During challenging times I’ve watched Michelle and Barack stand by each other. And I know, they’ll stand by you — the American people=2 0– now and in the future.
So please join me in welcoming an impassioned public servant, a loving daughter, wife and mother, my little sister and our nation’s next first lady: Michele Obama.
End
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“That is why I love this country.”
Yeah, right. You KNEW that line had to get in there, didn’t you?
I couldn’t even stomach 20 seconds of michelle obama. I tried to read the transcript and stop caring by fourth paragraph.
gag
During the video tribute to Kennedy, I kept waiting to see if they would say anything about Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne.
Word is bond, do what you say??? ya right
They’ll do exactly what they say: raise taxes, “take on” (i.e., try to nationalize big oil), socialize medicine… CHANGE America.
They’ll do what they say.
The world as it is and the world as it should be! socialized with the big O’s in the wealthy ruling class?
WOW MO relates BO to Dr. King beliefs??? ya right
so it was MO’s job to suck up to Hillery
I’d rather be water boarded then watch this.
AHH here it is MO ‘LOVES THIS COUNTRY, THE COUNTRY THAT HAS GIVEN HER SO MUCH’
she’s so angry and bitter. just like sistah souljah.
These speeches are hard listen to… it’s hard to stay engaged in what they are saying because the say nothing. Maybe that’s their MO: drone on about nothing, put people to sleep, smile.
ZZZZZZZ… is it over yet.
I would rather be waterboarded than many things, including this.
OOO OOOO OOOOO BO wants to be responsible in Iraq!!!!!!! FOFLMAO
And no response to Obama talking about reparations. Scoreboard me 999 libs 0
BO believes on Americas promise?? Like joe biden maybe?
My gawd is this woman shallow, like sugar glass.
I missed it… when did big A… sorry… big O talk about reparations? I’ve been working too many 14 hour days to pay the taxes these idiots need to exist.
My bull-sh*t-ometer is at 100%.
O cry. and O so fake
BlameAmericaLast said:
But-but-but… but Uncle Teddy is a man of the people…
Yeah, I was inspired, inspired to barf. Is there anything more twisted than to see the wicked portrayed as the righteous? I could barely make it through all the praise they were throwing on him.
Just couldn’t bring myself to watch anymore after that.
See, the difference between a liberal and a conservative is that word.
Liberals expect things to be given to them. Conservatives would rather earn them.
MO is the very first black woman to ever go to collage??? sorry not true
Barffffffffffffffffffffffff!
Hope hope change change! ack!
no substance what soooo everrrrrrrrrr.
at least it was short… sorta
she is done? they did not trust her to talk long did they?
Perhaps you mean amused.
Her brother talked 3 times longer introducing her. LOL
Shut UP Brit Hume… stop praising this moron!
O the all important kiddy shot
She had a really funny facial response after she declared, “AND I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!”
…like she didn’t believe it herself.
This woman was flat out boring and not inspirational at all.
And I heard earlier someone at Fox compare her sense of style to Jackie O.
I. Don’t. Think. So.
Not even close.
Kids are hilarious! haha!
But even as a hater of 95% of the policies BO supports, I must admit that they did a good job humanizing her.
Not admiring her, just like to size up the competitiion….
Using his kids as tools?
I pity the ignorant bunch that buys into this tripe.
Makes a nice accessory, don’t it?
Ahh… really? The little one was just young enough… I dunno. That would be LOOOOW. It did seem contrived at the end.
Damn.
This convention might mean a little if my media Obamater was filled up two months ago.
This is almost like a decrease in the Obama coverage.
No way close, like the enlightning sun vs a boken rock!
I like the saying, but I don’t pity them, it’s their choice to drink the spiked kool-aid to begin with.
they are idiots.
Oh brother, Brit Hume is talking about this going down in the annals of African-American history.
Juan Williams is teary eyed.
Maybe if I had watched her speech I would be
tearybleary eyed.derel3433, your comment is #231 was completely inappropiate.
CNN just called this a connection on values!!!!! Proof the left does not have a clue what a value is! Much less morals or ethics.
I might as well switch to CNN… oh wait, here is Bill Kristol.
I agree with a previous poster: we’re screwed ‘08. The Obama’s are going rebuild the world as it should be…
CNN why we should throw the bums (bush) out!
Dems have never been good at negative campainging!!!
I thought MO was a lier, CNN takes the new emmey for lieing
Dude… I’m losing tons of respect for Brit Hume right now.
In the eyes of Carl Marx!
is that “campaign” carl marx?
Yeah, I can relate. So much for my Lasik surgery last year.
It is weird watching this convention. It is all about hyping Obama – someone that would not win the primary if they had to do it again.
Of course it’s all about hyping Obama, because he has nothing else. No substance, just hype.
The emperor STILL has no clothes.
So “ending a war responsibly” means saying, “we are out of here on such and such a day,” regardless of the status of the country we leave behind? Then Obama is your man.
(For a Democrat, that is true, but most Americans, particularly the soldiers doing the hard work, would like to see that blood and treasure result in a victory, not a repeat of Vietnam.)
If “building and economy” means raising taxes to punitive levels, then Obama is your man.
If “giving every child a world class education” means caving to the teacher’s unions, the children be damned, then Obama is your man.
And I am only half way through “The Case Against Barack Obama!”
pssst. he’s black.
Nice. Then I guess Obama could create his own personal Zimbabwe if he wanted to, right?
Insulting both the hostess and the contributors is simply another example of lowest common denominator Democrat attacks.
Enjoy your night.
Man no wonder Barack stays gone all the time, imagine getting an hour speech every time you come home.
Imagine learning that speech at Trinity church and imagine the lack of moral leadership it took to sit there and let and perhaps even encourage that your wife and children absorb the Rev. Wright hate manifesto.
Wow, there is a lot of hate in here.
To be honest, some of the things you guys are saying reminds me of feelings I have for neocons (not republicans, but specifically neocons).
Can you guys sustain this level of vitriol for eight more years?!? Seriously, thinking about that has to sting, huh?
I guess when I go to Chicago next month, I’ll be able to check out whether Obama achieved for the south side what he insists he’ll do (not work to do) if elected president.
What a load! I bet Chrissy Matthews lost control of all of his sphincters!
A highly sanitized, character rebuilding speech read off the teleprompter (she looked like a deer in the headlights) is completely worthless in terms of finding out who and what they really are.
Say what you may, but the gaffes, negative ads and fully referenced, tell all books will give you the real picture of what they are as opposed to what they want you to think they are.
I guess that is all we can expect from both parties, although if you can remember, the speech Elizabeth Dole gave at the 1996 Republican Convention was a showstopper, with her taking a mike and wading out into the audience, pointing out people important to Bob Dole’s life. No teleprompter, nothing. She just knew what to say and who to point out. Completely impressive. Made Hillary look like, well, Al Gore!
Been to DU, HuffPo or Kos lately? The hatred there makes you want to take a shower (but the water never seems hot enough).
I have analogous feelings for socialists, not Democrats, but specifically the socialist/communist wing of the Democrat party.
The liberals have been doing it for the past 7.5, so we know it is possible, even if only out of spite.
Hmmm, I really didn’t detect any hate here. Distrust and suspicion, sure. Creative, fun, smarmy and snarky remarks, those too. But hate, cmon, that’s weak. It must be hard being you, what with the world filled with big meanies.
she looked “forced” and uncomfortable when she had to say nice things about the US.
Ummm yeah Michelle b. Hussein… Answer: Especially the ones your husband would leave on a shelf at an abortion clinic to die after being born alive….
There’s a political ad for you. Michelles’s voice saying the above quote and then the answer.
And unfortunately, with McCain having already considered pro-abortion VPs, about all that could be added in his favor is, “At least McCain wouldn’t leave the born alive ones on a shelf.”
These people make me sick.
The unemployed man has a car, but cannot afford gas to drive around and look for a job…
If BO wins the Presidency, I’d like to seem him turn it down to go back and help the common folk again.
It’s amazing to watch people cheer as the politicians get up and talk about taking away more liberty and rights from us and turning the national government into more dominating one. 4 years of socialist control, will leave us further dependent on a despot government, running all our lives, through “for the children” and “to punish those evil corporations.” You best believe the terrorists are cheering on the democrats. They know how weak we will become, on the world stage.
One thing I noticed about people like tettes is how anything they disagree with is called “hate” while real hate – generally coming from their side of the aisle – is ignored or dismissed.
And yes, we can keep up our optimism and cheerfulness forever, tettes.
Anyone else notice that in all of the accolades from Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (sp?)and the DNC video, that no mention was made regarding Mary Jo Kopechne’s right to healthcare. We heard several accolades to Kennedy as one who always reached out to the less fortunate, the poor, the sick, etc. I repeated throughout the whole sickening event, the words “…except for Mary Jo Kopechne”!
To see that murderous, bloated demagogue getting praised as a hero, rather than recognized as the spineless piece of S*** he really is, made me sick to my stomach. He better hope and pray that the Creator is as merciful and forgiving as we believe He is.
I’m amazed Teddy Kennedy was there-didn’t the DNC prohibit drinking at the convention? I notice Mary Jo Kopechne wasn’t in the audience.
I didn’t watch. What was the synopsis? We’re all victims?
uh yeah this from someone who uses neocons as a code word for jews
so its ok for you to hate jews.
Irony in her speech: Reaching for and obtaining the American Dream is possible – but not so much if your the McCains and own more than one house.
The Obama’s are for the little people…right….
I don’t believe anything this woman says. She and Obummer “worked hard?” How so? Getting scholarships and jobs based on your race is working hard? How ’bout Obummer actually doing some work in Washington and representing Illinois before jumping the gun and becoming president? I have serious doubts about Obummer becoming president when he hasn’t even outlined what kind of form “healthcare for all” will take.
What’s even scarier is the ignorant, unwashed masses wanting a hand out at the expense of the rest of us who never asked for much, didn’t want much from government or its overbloated, overextended programs.
How about universal preschool, K-12,and College?
Remember Perots comment about the giant sucking sound as your jobs go south…
….I’m hearing a giant sucking sound as my dreams of paying for my own retirement, my kid’s college, etc., go down the drain.
The presidency AND congress? I hope not.
I don’t watch political conventions. They’re kinda like going out on New Year’s Eve — amateur night.
So I missed Ted.
Can anyone confirm that while he was talking about universal (read government) healthcare he told how when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor that he was willing to wait for a several weeks to schedule an appointment and then when one had been scheduled, he went to a hospital in downtown Boston and took the doctor who happened to be on call that day to treat him?
What? That didn’t happen?
Did Michelle Obama lift her speech from The Movie “300’s” Queen Gorgo?
Perhaps the inspiration was drawn from the Queen.
And what to make of Michelle Obama using the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, “Rules for Radicals.”
Here’s what it says, “The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means…The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”
After doing some looking into these two phrases I concluded that they are terms used by community organizers. This is a fundamental principle from which organizers derive their support.
The Two Worlds: “As is” and “should be,” “is” and “ought” is basically the “Two America’s” we’ve heard so much about.
The middle ground between the “is” and “ought” is “tension.” And with tension you can find people to organize.
“World As It Is{—-tension—-}World As It Should Be”
Convenient isn’t it?
Pfft. “Work hard” — the result of entitlements?
“Your word is your bond” — unless that word is “surge” or “present”
“Treat people with dignity and respect” — I guess that’s why his campaign is going after Sinclair Broadcasting over the Ayers ads. Freedom of speech ain’t for everyone, ya know.
Can’t wait for tonight when our little Hillary checks in. Should be fun.
Mistress…if you’re looking for proof, you’ve come to the wrong place.
mistressjustice said:
Newsweek: “At Harvard, she felt the same racial divide [she felt at Princeton]. Verna Williams and Michelle became friends in their first year of law school. She remembers many of their fellow black students worrying that white classmates viewed them as charity cases. But she suggests Michelle was not among them. ‘She recognized that she had been privileged by affirmative action and she was very comfortable with that,’ Williams recalls.”
Newsweek on young Michelle: “She did well in school (she skipped second grade), but she was not at the top of her class. She didn’t get the attention of the school’s college counselors, who helped the brightest students find spots at prestigious universities…. Some of her teachers told her she didn’t have the grades or test scores to make it to the Ivies. But she applied to Princeton and was accepted.“