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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.
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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.
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Color has nothing to do with it. Nancy Pelosi is white and she scares the h$ll out of me, ditto Hillary, Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda, Cynthia Mckinney etc. etc.
Michelle Malkin, Cindy McCain, Condi Rice, Sarah Palin etc. etc. don’t frighten me.
Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, John McCain, Alan Colmes frighten me.
Mitt Romney, Michael Steele, Bobby Jindal, Michael Savage, Shawn Hannity don’t frighten me.
Ya starting to see the pattern here of what frightens us? It’s the politics, not the color.
*sniff* Do I smell an lgm sock puppet here?
Come now, surely even you can see the difference between that and “For the first time in my adult life, I’m really proud of my country.” Without further context I might be inclined to agree somewhat with McCain, because of what crypto-communists (read: liberals) have done and are trying to do. If the best you can come up with is “Well, McCain did it too!”, you’re really reaching.
You are aware that if Michelle were to speak openly about socialism, no one would ever listen to her again, yes? (And justifiably so, IMHO.) Converting an entire country doesn’t just happen in one swoop. Even the Bolsheviks were little more than agitators for several years before the Russian Revolution, as were the Nazis before they seized power. Things like that take time, so they take baby steps to keep people unsuspecting of their motives. By the time it’s noticed, it’s too late.
*facepalm*
Trust me..I will not be watching a moment of the Treason Club Reunion, better known as the dem national convention. It is more than my blood pressure can take.
Dear Mary Mother of Jesus! There is no way that I will watch the Denver Debacle so I’m going to pretend that MO will be reading the speech that Michelle just prepared for her. heh
Nope. Sorry. Not nearly as effective as an appetite killer as that mug shot of Helen Thomas MM had posted here awhile back.
Of course, gazing at her picture might kill more that just your appetite
The Obama Anthem.
(If you’ve never heard the Soviet anthem before, here’s a linky for you.)
Well, conservatives have been mostly running this country — mostly into the ground — for the last quarter of a century, and they’ve run the MSM for almost as long, so it’s not hard to get a bead on their policies and philosophy. I even know a few personally.
As for you, I don’t know if you’re sexist or racist. Conservatives in the aggregate, however, have an unfortunate tendency to walk like a duck, talk like a duck, etc…
And, my best to SIL (and all your family). But, if start posting trash about how black people are going to riot if Obama wins (as Mr. Owimpia did), I’m going to suggest that she sit at the other end of the table next Thanksgiving.
Colin Powell? Juan Williams?
Actually, since you said two minority Americans or women, I could name you a dozen or two in my office I dislike politically but respect nonetheless.
I mean really, what’s your game here? I could play this all day.
oh, on the scary deal…
lol, nah, maybe of the dipsticks that can vote pulling the lever for the loser. thats scary, people with no brains being allowed to vote.
Nice job Bill Hemmer! While interviewing MO’s Chief of Staff, Hemmer brought up the “downright mean” comments. The Chief of Staff responded with “out of context” and “spin from the other side.” Hemmer didn’t let her get away with it, and let her know those were Michelle’s words and the backpedal began!
BemusedLib:
Name one conservative
who’s been running the country and the MSM for any period of time. Or are you just so far left that everything’s to the right of you?
just her? both of them scare the hell out of me..either by themselves is a problem but together they represent an extreme danger to this country in more ways than one…McCain can be controlled through Congress, the obamination and “fist-bumping” michele won’t be…
It took several days of watching “Charley’s Angels” reruns to eradicate the vision of that picure from my mind : )
You don’t know if I’m racist, but you’re going to presume I am. You don’t know if I’m conservative, but you’re judging anyway. Liberal through and through. You stay classy!
Again, thanks for playing.
One can only hope that you will not be the one to administer the “English” portion of the test.
So, a woman is only smart if she fits your label of “conservative?” How did you come to the conclusion that it’s normal for conservative women to be smart? As can be seen, even on MM.com and HA.com, there are quite a few “conservatives” that aren’t that bright. My evidence: look at how many times people on these sites use various fallacies when arguing.
Did you read this before you posted it?
Suffice to say, yours should be an interesting measuring stick.
That’s… just… wow…
That effectively describes a huge bloc of Dem voters who pull the lever on election day …. whether they be alive, dead or imaginary : )
Well, if that isn’t something. A Stalinist calling me a Leninist.
I make an effort to respect everyone. But, I had a great deal of respect for Mrs Coretta Scott King. I think she got sucked in by the shysters that took over the movement after her husband was murdered but she put up with a great deal.
And I held a great deal of respect for Jackie Onassis too. She was a class act.
Likewise, I had a lot of respect for Joan Kennedy. Quite possibly I respected her more than Teddy ever did.
I guess that will do for a start. And it wouldn’t be fair to go on about the other former Kennedy wives that these liberal/socialist icons treated so badly.
Yea right. Like you are doing. I saw her in a taped interview today going overboard to the interviewer (CNN?) about how she was so proud of her country. uh huh! The MSM knows she shot herself in the foot before so they are going to aid and abet in everyway possible to make a silk purse out of this sow’s ear.
#8, I laughed out loud at that! It would be wonderful! Would Garrett do it … if we asked pretty please?
You must be from Seattle. Gregoire locked up the dead vote in 2004! Of course, she does look a lot like Skeletor.
Oh yes, every major urban area, every newpaper and major TV networks. All havens of vile Republican and conservative corruption, vice and incompetance.
Just take a look at San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans or Detroit, I tell yah!!
How have we survived the past 25 years!!!
Ahh Michelle (Malkin that is), I just love you!
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It’s almost like I could hear the words coming out of her mouth…
I suppose one could say the same for all the folks voting for McCain out of expediency or sheer willful ignorance as to his obvious shortcomings versus for principle’s sake.
Michelle makes it very clear what we can and cannot say on her blog comment section. Not wanting to jepordize my membership I am totally speachless. However Michelle, you did an excellent job writing mrs. bo’s speach but I don’t think it is as much satire as you meant it to be, there is a lot of truth here.
No, actually from Lakewood, CA. I’ve had experience with imaginary voting though. Someone imagined I was a Democrat and had me registered as such. When I went to vote one year, there I was, listed above as a Republican and below as a Democrat. Took five election cycles to get my Democrat alter ego removed.:)
Gosh! You got me there! Thanks for clearing that up. Whew! Just point me to the line where I sign up for “universal health care”, you know, the kind that puts me on a wait list to see my primary care so I can ask him to diagnose a lump, so he can put me on a waitlist to have an imaging scan, and then on another waitlist to begin treatment — at a center not necessarily within a reasonable distance of my residence, or even within the same state? — you know, that same wonderful “universal health care” that had Belinda Stronach flying under media blackout to California so she could pay for her treatment out-of-pocket, rather than trying to game the system?
Yeah…those conservatives have got it all wrong — hey! bring me on a big helping of socialist tinkering and while you’re at it, biggie size my “universal health care” !!
The only problem is, once the US buys a ticket on the Hilary-Obama “universal health care” train, there’s no where left to fly to .
We are only voting for him because of the alternative. Willful ignorance is voting for a man who will negotiate with terrorist. Expediency is voting for a man who not only support abortion but infanticide as well. Your turn.
You should read her college thesis from Princeton. If that’s what an Ivy League education turns out, I’m not impressed.
Oh, yeah, and she was really angry then too.
Mistaken for a Democrat? I’d rather be waterboarded!
You know how lately there have been all these people saying that we’ve been visited by aliens in space crafts? Well, I’m beginning to think they’re right. Before, I used to look at the liberals in this country and wonder where they came from. Now I know. We’ve been invaded!
I’d say having to choose between the Obamessiah and McCain became a “no brainer” to most convervatives especially when Biden was chosen as a running mate.
Having no viable alternative, we actually have to use our brains to choose between an outright marxist or a liberal who sometimes acts like a conservative. We haven’t ignored McCains shortcomings, unpalatable as they are. Most of us just prefer to deal with his than Obamas. Voting strictly on principles sake will just get us Obama.
Thanks America loving Michelle for allow many of us avoid listening to the grating voice of the scary hate filled anti-American Michelle. I just ate and don’t think I could actually take her without losing the delicious, but simple dinner my intelligent strong willed wife made for us after working all day too. For the record both of the Obama’s scare the living daylights out of our household.
I’m merely writing in my vote this year because I believe neither candidate is worthy. McCain, specifically, has the following flaws: lack of economic sense, to his own admission; failed to understand border security and immigration policy needs; according to Joseph Farah, “[i]n 2004, voters in his own state passed Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship before someone can vote or participate in state giveaway programs. Despite opposition led by McCain, the measure was approved by 56 percent of the vote, with close to 50 percent of Hispanics approving it;” he voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer to the Supreme Court; McCain-Feingold, which was an assault on free speech; his Global Warming rhetoric and policy ideas; his support for NAFTA; his willingness to consider the potentiality of a pro-choice running-mate; and his lack of understanding concerning the conduct of, and the enemy we’re fighting in, the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror, in general.
Now, if you can convince me otherwise that McCain is worthy of the Presidency, beyond the fact that he is not Obama, then I’m all ears.
I believe the challenge was to name women or people of color with actual power that you resepct. All of these women — and who doesn’t like them? — had no real power.
And, for the person who suggested Juan Williams and Colin Powell — these are both (moderate) conservatives. The idea is to be grownup enough to respect the opposition.
As to liberals disrespecting their women, I’m to discreet to mention the first Mrs. John McCain and the first Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
No mistake, but a nefarious attempt to add more democrats to the rolls. Bwahahaha!
I actually considered voting twice, but Lakewood not being Chicago, thought better of it : )
I just wish Michelle Obama had once been addicted to painkillers and stolen money from a charity she was running in order to pay for that habit. Then, maybe I could consider her a real American.
You ever see the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”? back in the late ’50s? The radical shift lefward of the Democrat party began just about then.
Think it was only a movie? Coincidence? I think not!!! : )
amigoneus…have a little pride. George W. Bush has been president for eight years. Or is he not a conservative?
Bemused Lib said:
Okay, I’ll play.
Barbara Jordan.
Janice Rogers Brown.
Admiral Gravely.
I would like to be able to watch these preening Marxists at the DNC talk about how they are going to take our country in a new direction (shudder), but I just don’t think I can stomach it. Just thinking about it makes my blood pressure rise.
Michelle Obama isn’t fooling me with her scripted speech. The real Michelle Obama already made clear her true feelings (America is downright mean, etc.) and who am I to call her a liar?
WarEagle…was it Bush’s “small government” capitalism that led so many to vote for him? And if it was, did you get what you were hoping for?
You’re alwaysright43.
I’m sure Michelle Obama’s speech will provide us with enough material for a year-long comedy stand.
In other news, I have a new post detailing 10 points on how Joe Biden HELPS Obama. You can find it here…
http://romneyveepwatch.blogspot.com/
http://romneyveepwatch.blogspot.com/
I don’t have to convince you of anything. I’ll let you decide who you want to vote for. I was just stating that I am neither willfully ignorant nor voting for Senator McCain out of expediency. Write in whatever you please. I’ve been there. Remember Ross Perot. Me too, and I am not going there again.
Oh wow, the only way to prove that a conservative isnt a racist is to name minority progressives that said conservative doesnt think would ruin the country. Because any minorities that a conservative might support dont count, and conservatives cant dislike a minority based on his or her politics; no, no, the only conclusion there is racism and bigotry! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
I admire Hillary Clinton’s tenacity, but definitely not her politics. Does she count? No? Why? Cuz she = whitey?
FNC commentator Lauren Lake always brings an enjoyable amount of fire to a topic when she appears on O’Reilly… probably doesnt count though. :/
See! You know how to play the game!
If you say, “I respect Eleanor Holmes Norton’s intellect and education, and her commitment to her constituents, but disagree vehemently with her political viewpoint”, that would not be okay.
Likewise, any similar comments you might make about Maya Angelou or Marian Wright Edelman will somehow be dismissed.
Oh, and you’re not allowed to garner respect people of color like Mae Jemison, Larry Elder, Michael Steele, Col West or JC Watts ‘coz they’re conservatives, and therefore, don’t count!
Indeed see how they play the game. BL asked me to name two “minority Americans or women” and I did so. In fact I named three. But she didn’t like the fact that I could and did answer the challenge so the challenge was changed.
Libs believe that they can change the rules any time they don’t like the results.
Hey, I really like Lauren Lake too! And I enjoy reading Debra Saunders columns.
If you’re in the NYC area, try and catch the “Wendy Williams” show — she is a riot!!
Yeah, I don’t think you’re allowed to like and/or admire classy, well educated, accomplished, successful conservative women of color like Sheila Crump Johnson, either.
MO is no SCJ.
I know the Obamessiah’s wife is very important (in her own mind) but I have to change the topic.
Is the Denver Mint off the ground yet? The levitation was supposed to happen at 5 PM mountain time. Please don’t tell me the anarchists failed again!
Speaking of anarchists, are they not betraying their cause by putting together a schedule?
It puts me in mind of a line from the song “Anarchy Camp”
if you see somebody taking charge,
you’ll be expected to beat them
So you’re giving all of your voting autonomy to the Republicans, regardless of whom they put up against the Democrats?
Here’s why voting for principle is more important that voting for someone because he’s not the other guy.
1. 2000: Honestly, how different were Bush and Gore? How large was the workable pool of voters (# of swing/moderate voters?)
2. 2004: How different were Bush and Kerry? I mean, come on, how many liberal or incompetent policy proposals has Bush supported? Did that pool of workable voters increase or decrease in size?
3. 2008: We see that McCain and Obama are very much alike, focusing not on their bases of support, but rather on the lukewarm crowd, the folks who are swayed by cheesy commercials, the ones who really don’t care about politics but want a good show. The far left is alienated, as well as the far right.
2012 prediction: The candidates will be even more alike than they are now, and we’ll once again ask ourselves, “which of the evils should we choose?” The problem though is that the differences will not be as apparent.
Conclusion: Unless we wish to continue down this road, where neither party cares to remain responsive to its base, we must make them realize that we are still sentient beings who vote with our brains and conscience, not out of convenience.
So, if you really do care about the state of this country, you will vote your conscience when choosing a President, and you will vote the bums of the 14% Congress out of office.
So, the Obama fans and Hillary fans will be clubbing each other to death for the next four days. How is that a bad thing???
Changing your own rules? That’s hopenchange™ if I ever saw it.
I named two “minorites” but you didn’t like the answer? I oppose Powell and Williams both on several issues but respect their beliefs anyway. Why don’t they count? Isn’t that grown-up enough for you?
Just curious, which woman/family do you think John Edwards will be watching the convention with??
Two America’s, I get it now!!!!
Really, here’s a quote from the Messiah:
I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.
Bemused in #76 said:
“make you look like a racist” “paranoid wuss” “Mr. OWIMPia”
Like Senator Biden said about Senator Obama, “I stand by my statement.”
Now, call me all the names that you want to. Please reread my post. I did not say “black people are going to riot”. I did say that “supporters” and “racists” will.
If Obama does not win what is your prediction? Orderly protest? LMAO
Will Michelle’s coup de grâce be a quick and resounding “Gawd-Damn Amerika”?
I really wish you’d limit the MO photographs to the wonderful mugshot that you have of her. The sourpuss expression that she has in that photo truly captures the essence of her being.
Besides, she reminds me of Aunt Esther from the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.
BuckeyeSam said:
OOOh, that’s gonna leave a mark!!!
good one
Sorry to have been unclear. When I mentioned Maggie and Condi, I thought that the obvious implication was that I was looking for women/minorities from the other side of the spectrum with real power to whom you’d grant respect — in hopes discerning if you were a blinkered ideologue or a rational person who has different views from myself. I apologize if I expressed myself poorly.
Naming the Bush Administration’s token black guy and a lame journalist whose views differ from your own only by a matter of degree, doesn’t cut it.
JOE BIDEN’s networth is suspect!
http://montaraventures.com/blog/2007/12/12/democratic-contender-finances/
Joe Biden’s networth of only $93,000 ??
WTF?
And this has already been reported for 2007!
Well, that’s just wrong! If the man has been in the Senate for 35 or more years and can’t steal at least $10 million there is just no way he is fit to be Vice President!
Talk about shocking!
send me,
This isn’t high school English class or maybe it is, tell me, are you stuck in summer school? If you don’t like the way I state my points who freaking cares, I know I don’t. I’ll tell ya this much though, mines much better than the above average lib including Barack you read book no doubt so what exactly is your point? Over at the lib sites they like to use single letters in place of whole words, the alphabet when not isolated to individual letters becomes confusing I suppose. You wrote a whole lot of nuthin in response to my post why did you waste your time? Do us all a favor and stop by the gas station as you try to find your way home and let the air out of your head. Oh and I don’t plagiarize other peoples writings, a liberal staple but that’s no big surprise either. Don’t bother to respond I’m not going to read it anyway I’m busy watchin the three stooges but I’m thinking about you as I do.
What a load of CRAP! Powell can’t be the token black guy as Condi is black too the last time I checked. Bush has nominated two African-Americans to the highest cabinet position in the country. But, I guess that doesn’t count to Libs. You get to make and interpret the rules.
There are “minorities” and women all over the Bush cabinet. His appointments have been far more diverse than Clinton.
And Bush has nominated at least two braindead officials in Michael Chertoff and Michael Brown. That’s gotta count for something!
I think that you ask an unanswerable question: if you “violently disagree” with someone about the state of the country, must you respect them?
If you have problems with racism or sexism, you might speak to Obama, who underpaid his women staffers, or the DNC, whose leadership is lily white. BTW, I think Rice has been a bit too weak in her role as SecState.
I suspect they are putting up an inexperience “black” candidate because they will be pulling the strings from behind the scenes. They did this to a degree with Clinton.
That is the realm of the “progressives.”
Are you old enough to recall the Carter years? Are you aware of the admitted political leanings of our MSM reporters? Go tell it to Pinch Sulzberger, who is running his family’s paper into the ground due to the far left direction he has taken that paper. Do you know about the Great Depression, which really qualifies as an economy run into the ground?
On August 25th, 2008 at 4:31 pm, nyk said:
Of course the are going to hide it, but their colleagues in the Congress don’t seem to be able to: Pelosi’s “Fairness Doctrin” rehash, Maxine Water’s commentary on “socializing the oil industry” and the rest, including Obama and Hillary on nationalizing health care.
Either Obama’s “sanitized for your protection” speeches are not going to tell you a single thing about what they really plan to do, or will let be done by a “progressive” Congress. (you might take the time to read a very interesting article on Powerline regarding the effectiveness of socialized medicine. It was posted today or yesterday, and comes from the respected British medical journal, the Lancet.
Ever wonder about the recent rejection of socialism by France, Germany and Italy? Look at their economies and their unemployment rates for starters. Look how Great Britain is going down the tubes due to the kind of socialism that liberals here seem to idolize.
I can think of only one that really scares me, and I married her. Otherwise, you are sinking to the lowest common denominator of liberal criticism.
I’ve had enough of the strong opinionated lib women and their sub standard intellect. I have a family member that is married to a successful conservative and they have two young boys. The stuff that I hear come out of her mouth leaves no doubt that she is an irresponsible mother, she’s dangerous to others around her. She might as well toss her kids out the window on the freeway and save them the misery of a future created by her. I cant even stomach looking at her anymore, Lizzie Borden would make a better mother. The number one reason she is voting for Barack, because he’s honest, he confessed his drug use, yeah that’s it, can you believe it? Like I always say letting the libs have control of anything is like giving the car keys to a one eyed chimpanzee.
That’s it, wareagle, after 35 years all he has to show for is a networth of $93,000. There’s something seriously wrong with this picture. He doesn’t own a house at all? That’d be a networth value right there unless he actually lives in a 6 x 8 shanty house. Oh, my mistake, that would be “O”bama’s half-brother’s shack net worth to consider.
Dimsdale #167 -
Well, the other thing they refuse to talk about whenever “universal health care” is brought up is the inevitable rationalization (ie: denial) of services, cost caps, etc.
My Dad has more (free market) choices about his dog’s health care than he does his own.
This whole BHO nonsense is enough
to make me wanna puke…I find it very difficult real American democrats actually believe in this idiot…he is not only an empty suit he’s an empty headed Marxist. Com on AMERICA, WAKE UP!!!!
Michelle Malkin attacked! More liberal intellect on display?
You just can’t top the “Obama a hole” poster.
I can’t watch the convention. I don’t have the stomach for it, and I don’t think my nerves or blood pressure could take it. Kudos to those who can brave it, I’ll content myself with hearing the aftermath the next day.
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More liberal female intellect. Enemy of the people? Somehow I suspect that Anisa is not really a liberal, but libs will never notice which is exactly the point here, scary.
Oh yes, congratulations all around MM.
Pardon my wheezing. I think we finally have our winners. BO’s new official handle is “Hopenchange,” while his lovely wife will be known from this point as “Aunt Esther.” And if they could take Garrett Morris, headmaster of the school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing with them everywhere they went, that could make the next four years (’cause there wouldn’t be more than that) much more palatable.
I noticed she said her mother staying home with her and her brother was the greatest gift a mother could give, but yet she didn’t. Hmmmm.
I’m scared of strong women, am I?
Hmm, that comes as a bit of a shock to my wimmin parts. Tell me more.
Please keep in mind that I once threatened to jam the 3 inch heel on my dance shoe up someone’s nether regions. And went to Israel during an infitada. And shoved a gang member out of my way when I was trying to board a train. Then tell me I’m a weak, scared little woman because I’m conservative. I dares ya.
This whole convention will be nothing short of a fart-fest to see who can stink it up the worse. Mark my word, nothing decent will come out of it. After all, there is very little , if any, that is decent about the party of deceit.
Michelle Obama said:
Michelle Obama’s preacher for 20 years: Nonononono! Not God bless America…
Yeah, I read your post. Since there was no rioting the last dozen times the D’s punted the election and since white liberals are hardly known for their gun skills, the clear implication is that it’s blacks that will be rioting. Please don’t insult my intelligence.
Regardless, the fact that you’re barricading the door against post-election riots reveals you as a paranoid wuss.
Geez, grow up.
My prediction in the case of an Obama loss, btw, is the usual Democratic circular firing squad, a huge amount of public bitching, continued loss of ground for the middle class and more pointless militarism. Riots — where the heck did that come from? I’m not against propaganda per se, but you should never start believing your own stuff.
Boy that dude is out of his mind. That is the type I would find it hard to restrain myself from opening a can of whoop ass on him.
Win or lose on my part it would be worth it.
How about Senator Kennedy? He went there straight from the hospital for what is likely, his last convention. That was really inspiring to see.
Good posts as usual nyk. The Right’s obsession with Michelle Obama has me wavering between bored and bemused these days.
They’ll be picking her speech apart about 10 mins from now.
Yawnnnnnnnn.
Yeah Cal City Conservative, and these are the people who advocate for freedom, call Bush a fascist, say the Constitution is being trashed. Were all on a prison planet and they are right, we have had to bunker up to combat these lunatics especially since 9-11. That was the last straw for them it sent them over the edge.
michelle obama’s mother sounds just as angry and hateful as her daughter.
mistressjustice said:
Mary Jo Kopechne.
“Uncle Teddy” is pure sleaze. Oh he is so noble, living the rich life, sailing along, having a great time. Sorry, cancer doesn’t change the fact that he is a thoroughly immoral man.
Malkin is a woman of color, who may be considered strong and opinionated by some. Some people here trust her every word. She could probably create her own Jonestown massacre if she wanted to.
Oh shoot it’s 10:30 e.t., it’s time for the silliness to begin. Gotta go.
Peace out.
One word: BARF
Anyone ever ask him how many homes HE ownes?
Just asking.
these democrats and their “politically correct” convention. doesn’t look like any american neighborhood i’ve ever lived in.
That introduction almost sounded like mo-town. wtf?
Oh you mean just like the kind he got? The kind that powerful people with tons of money like him can afford to call up the world’s best surgeons in the world and have them arrange an instant operation at the world renowned Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University? You mean like ordinary people can do?
Yeah, universal health coverage will do that.
NOT.