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1. #1
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:17 am, DesertLover said:

   Go Michelle … about time Fox started having you on more frequently … been a long dry spell …

   You were great on Hannity last night and on F&F this morning … look forward to seeing you on Beck later today …

2. #2
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Take care Michelle, sell millions!

   Alright Doug! What’s on your mind today?

3. #3
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:30 am, Marshall Russ said:

   Good job on Hannity last night. Glad Alan isn’t there to throw the obligatory, liberal whining into the facts. Was a time when you would have been on Bill O’s program but, I guess that won’t happen….

4. #4
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:32 am, mattymatt10 said:

   Ughhh…substitutes.

   Hurry up and get this book tour over with!

5. #5
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am, cowtrail said:

   Your book must be selling well. I purchased it but just received a notice from Amazon that there was a delay in shipping, they will now ship it out. I can live with a couple of days delay, but not much longer, LOL

6. #6
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:49 am, granite said:

   I ordered it a few weeks pre-publication.
   Should be getting it today or within the next few days.

   Michelle, keep on keeping on.

7. #7
   On July 28th, 2009 at 8:54 am, BayStateRepublican said:

   Great job on Hannity last night. Looking forward to the Amazon.com box. Safe travels on the book tour.

8. #8
   On July 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am, tarpon said:

   Give ‘em hell, Michelle. They deserve it.

   You’re a great American.

9. #9
   On July 28th, 2009 at 9:16 am, timbudd said:

   Enough.

   Your book goes a long way to making this a reality.

10. #10
    On July 28th, 2009 at 9:28 am, Truesoldier said:

    Great job Michelle, I know you will great on the interviews today.

    Hopefully you will have enough time to pop in and comment on the Gang of Six in the Senate Finance Committee that claim to be near a deal on health care (God help us all).

11. #11
    On July 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am, James Felix said:

    Imagine my complete lack of surprise when I hopped over to Amazon to order a copy and found a bunch of one star reviews, all of them from people who hadn’t read the book and all filled with racism, sexism and general unhinged-ness.

    The tolerant left strikes again.

12. #12
    On July 28th, 2009 at 10:16 am, DBNinKY said:

    Congrats on the book, MM! I can’t wait to read it and know it’ll be a great success!

13. #13
    On July 28th, 2009 at 10:23 am, pianoman said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am, James Felix said:

    Imagine my complete lack of surprise when I hopped over to Amazon to order a copy and found a bunch of one star reviews, all of them from people who hadn’t read the book and all filled with racism, sexism and general unhinged-ness.

    The tolerant left strikes again.

    Most of those “reviewers” also rubber stamped the same trash on other conservative authors. Good luck with the book, Michelle…count me among your loyal readers.
    And, it’s very nice to see you on my TV screen again!

14. #14
    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:23 am, fluffy said:

    Did I become an Achievatron by purchasing a copy?

    When are you coming to Greater Boston / southern NH so I can get my copy autographed?

15. #15
    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am, lgm said:

    Somebody get MM a shrink! A person with that much bitterness and jealousy, with such a massive inferiority complex, should be in the psychiatric intensive care ward.

    It’s a good thing when a country is run by its best and brightest. We don’t need the director of FIMA to be just a friend of a friend, or high Justice Department officials hiring and firing US Attorneys who graduated mid pack at Bob Jones University.

    Question for MM and the rest: is the Obama administration more corrupt than the one it replaced? Are cabinet members protecting war profiteering companies (Rumsfeld, Cheney)? Are high rolling rundraisers getting direct access to regulations (Abramoff)?

    To date, what are the most corrupt actions of the Obama administration?

16. #16
    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am, b-cat said:

    Question for MM and the rest: is the Obama administration more corrupt than the one it replaced? Are cabinet members protecting war profiteering companies (Rumsfeld, Cheney)? Are high rolling rundraisers getting direct access to regulations (Abramoff)?

    To date, what are the most corrupt actions of the Obama administration?

    She just wrote a BOOK about it. Available at bookstores today. Go buy a copy.

17. #17
    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:49 am, nbarry said:

    Great to see Michelle back on prime time, as lovely as she was formidable. My main concern is that I hope she didn’t write the book too soon, before even more scoundrels emerge from the woodwork.

18. #18
    On July 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm, no2pcbs1 said:

    this administration has set a standard of corruption that might never be surpassed. being unethical,fraudulent, deceptive and down right slime is what defines zero and his lackeys. the sheep of course will never see this as the blinders are firmly in place.

19. #19
    On July 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, baboyako said:

    nbarry: No need to worry – I’m sure she planned for a trilogy.

20. #20
    On July 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, DBNinKY said:

    In just six months the administration has extended the banking bailout into a whole-sale takeover of the US financial industry, securing for itself stock ownership in some banking sectors; it has handed the US auto industry over to unions; it has plans to take over the US health care industry and thereby drive out private insurers; it has raised taxes on tobacco and plans to do the same with energy and small businesses, in essence dictating use through taxation; it has spent billions and borrowed trillions to reinvigorate failed social programs and short-term employment activities, but to little effect judging by recent employment stats and gov projections, and that’s just some of what has taken place.

    MM’s book will be a breath of fresh-air in this atmosphere of systemic takeover -

21. #21
    On July 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Salt said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am, lgm said:

    Somebody get MM a shrink! A person with that much bitterness and jealousy, with such a massive inferiority complex, should be in the psychiatric intensive care ward.

    Are you still playing psychologist? Are you qualified for that?

    It’s a good thing when a country is run by its best and brightest.

    How is Timmy Geithner doing?

    We don’t need the director of FIMA [sic] to be just a friend of a friend…

    We just need a couple dozen more czars, right?

    BTW, what is FIMA? Did you mean the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

22. #22
    On July 28th, 2009 at 1:01 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    If LGM thinks this country is now being run by the “best and the brightest”, there is no point to discussing anything further with him. Try, just try, to get informed by reading Michelle’s book – you incredible putz!

23. #23
    On July 28th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, CyberCipher said:

    For lgm, anyone with an IQ that is higher than the Green River killer’s score of 82 qualifies as America’s best and brightest.

    My collie says:

    LGM, why don’t you try to raise yourself to a higher standard? — you know, like the one that us dogs use.

24. #24
    On July 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm, corkie said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am, lgm said:

    war profiteering companies

    I love that term.

    Do people really think such entities still exist?

25. #25
    On July 28th, 2009 at 1:17 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    It’s a good thing when a country is run by its best and brightest.

    True, but we have Obama and Biden.

26. #26
    On July 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    war urban “housing” profiteering companies

    Fixed it for you.

27. #27
    On July 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pm, zorro said:

    All hail the Achievatrons!

    Have some fun up in NYC, hope the family is with you. I’m not a betting man but I’d wager that Hannity’s and Beck’s ratings will record an unexpected mid-summer spike in viewership! Congratulations again.
    Z

28. #28
    On July 28th, 2009 at 3:09 pm, James Felix said:

    It’s a good thing when a country is run by its best and brightest.

    The best and the brightest? How exactly are you quantifying that? Can you show me some record of scholorship from these people? Can you, in fact, show me anything at all that differentiates them from every other hog at the beltway trough?

    Or are you judging by their results? They clearly don’t understand economics, they cling to ideas that were invalidated 20 years ago and on foreign policy they alternate between being a laughing stock and acting like America is a jailhouse b!tch.

    Question for MM and the rest: is the Obama administration more corrupt than the one it replaced?

    Is that really the bar you want to set? You’re saying “we’re not any worse than the people we spent 8 years comparing to Nazis and Pol Pot”.

    Are cabinet members protecting war profiteering companies (Rumsfeld, Cheney)?

    A question about “war profiteering” is one I can’t even take seriously.

    Are high rolling rundraisers getting direct access to regulations (Abramoff)?

    Um, yeah.

    To date, what are the most corrupt actions of the Obama administration?

    Off the top of my head?
    1) Dismissing charges of blatant voter intimidation against the NBPP
    2)An appallingly widespread belief that the tax code doesn’t apply to them.
    3) Continued coziness with ACORN, including an attempt to turn over the census to them
    4) Billions in stimulus funds lost to waste, fraud and abuse
    5) Transparent attempts to intimitate the IG corps.

    When you value party over principle it leads you to say some deeply foolish things. That’s lgm in a nutshell.

29. #29
    On July 28th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, rightisright said:

    Like some of us have been saying on here since the election “it’s going to get ugly folks”…”lock ‘n load”.
    Due be prepared for the worst, it is coming, depending on the 2010 elections if it gets that far.

30. #30
    On July 28th, 2009 at 10:59 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#21):

    How is Timmy Geithner doing?

    A heckuvalot better than Paulson, who was brought in to clean up the mess left by previous Bush incompetents.

31. #31
    On July 29th, 2009 at 3:19 am, Kingfish said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am, lgm whined his talking points like a good wittle obamatron:

    Somebody get Barry (Jug Ears) a shrink! A person with that much bitterness and jealousy, and with such a massive inferiority/Narcisstic complex, should be in the psychiatric intensive care ward.

    FIFY

    It’s a good thing when a country is run by its best and brightest

    .As qualified by? And as you are so fond of saying, doesn’t pass the smell test. to quote your golden calf..” uh, i believe er a lot of people agree with this uh somewhat generally a lot of ,uh people agree on this…

    We don’t need the director of FIMA to be just a friend of a friend, or high Justice Department officials hiring and firing US Attorneys who graduated mid pack at Bob Jones University.

    Thank you for the contribution of your outstanding constitutional and governmental knowledge dipwad. In the first place, it is FEMA as in Federal Emergency Management Agency. While not specified in the Constitution, it is a government agency. Not sure how Federation of Islamic Medical Associations enters the equations math man (look it up). The U.S. attorneys serve at the President’s pleasure. You know what that means? He can fire them if he wants to. Besides, why not bemoan the legal careers of the U.S. attorneys fired under Bill Clinton? Look it up

    Question for MM and the rest: is the Obama administration more corrupt than the one it replaced? Are cabinet members protecting war profiteering companies (Rumsfeld, Cheney)? Are high rolling rundraisers getting direct access to regulations (Abramoff)?

    and

    To date, what are the most corrupt actions of the Obama administration?

    Both of these topics were eloquently answered previously by the poster “James Felix”, so I do not need to further elaborate.

    As they say in the pastures, “Look before you step into the Bull $hit you are peddling” and at least come prepared with more than your inane preteen taunts.

32. #32
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:07 am, Salt said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 10:59 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#21):

    How is Timmy Geithner doing?

    A heckuvalot better than Paulson, who was brought in to clean up the mess left by previous Bush incompetents.

    You find yourself in agreement with many fiscal conservatives in your distaste for Paulson’s policies, particularly TARP.

    However, you offer nothing to show that Geithner is making any difference at all. It’s just more of the usual Tu Quoque and this time it’s flat as we didn’t like Paulson anyway.

33. #33
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:19 am, corkie said:

    On July 28th, 2009 at 10:59 pm, lgm said:

    A heckuvalot better than Paulson, who was brought in to clean up the mess left by previous Bush incompetents.

    Paulson was brought in to clean up the mess? What mess was Paulson brought in to clean up?

34. #34
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:48 am, Salt said:

    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:19 am, corkie said:

    Paulson was brought in to clean up the mess? What mess was Paulson brought in to clean up?

    The sub-prime mortgage/toxic asset mess… You know, the one linked to Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and President Clinton’s drive to increase homeownership that went further than the economy could ever support.

    I figure we should continue to name past presidents in honor of lgm. Where do you think we’ll stop? Jackson? Adams? Heck, we can go all the way back to Hanson but it won’t change the fact that the ball is in President Obama’s court now and his only answer thus far seems to be to increase the size of government and to increase spending.

    Cash-for-Clunkers… The federal government has now become a late-night infomercial, but liberals still want to wail about President Bush.

35. #35
    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#34):

    The sub-prime mortgage/toxic asset mess… You know, the one linked to Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and

    Hmmm. Somebody was President during that time, and in charge. I just can’t seem to remember his name or what party he was from. Did he take responsibility for the mess that he failed to prevent during his watch? Please tell me.

36. #36
    On July 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, Salt said:

    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, lgm said:

    Hmmm. Somebody was President during that time, and in charge. I just can’t seem to remember his name or what party he was from. Did he take responsibility for the mess that he failed to prevent during his watch? Please tell me

    Sure, so long as you’re willing to tell me which party resisted regulations on Fannie Mae in 2004.

    Rep. Barney Frank: “I do not think we are facing any kind of crisis. That is, in my view, the two government sponsored enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis…I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury…I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing and to set reasonable goals.

    Rep. Maxine Waters: I have sat through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. [sic] …These GSEs have more than adequate capital for the business they are in: providing affordable housing. As I mentioned, we should not be making radical or fundamental change… If there is anything to fix or improve, it is the [regulators].

    Rep. David Scott: …affordable housing goals for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae require that 50 percent of units should be built for low-and moderate-income home buyers, and 20 percent for very low-income families… Yet, from 1998 to 2002, African-American home ownership rates only rose from 45.6 percent to 47.3 percent, less than 2 percent compared with the white average increase from 72 percent to 74.5 percent, huge gap remains. Clearly, the mission of Freddie Mac, and especially Fannie Mae, is to close that gap…

    Rep. Gregory Meeks: …I have to go to another hearing, I will try to be just real quick… I am just pissed off at [the regulator] because if it wasn’t for you I don’t think that we would be here in the first place. …we are faced with is maybe some individuals who wanted to do away with GSEs in the first place, you have given them an excuse to try to have this forum [to change the] mission of what the GSEs had, which they have done a tremendous job… There has been nothing that was indicated is wrong, you know, with Fannie Mae… The question that then presents is the competence that your agency has with reference to deciding and regulating these GSEs.

    Rep. Artur Davis: A concern that I have… is you are making very specific… broad and categorical judgment about the management of this institution, about the willfulness of practices that may or may not be in controversy. You have imputed various motives to the people running the organization… That sounds to me as if you have gone from being a dispassionate regulator to someone who is very much involved and has a stake in this controversy… And I will follow up on Ms. Waters’s point because I think it is very well taken: Her observation is that the political context surrounding your investigation was that serious doubts were being raised about OFHEO… In fact, frankly, doubts were raised about your leadership of OFHEO. And all of a sudden, the response to that is to produce an enormously critical report.

    “I think the responsibility the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
    -President Clinton

    …and where are Franklin Raines and James Johnson now? Economic advisors to President Obama.

37. #37
    On July 29th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#35):

    Rep. Barney Frank … Rep. David Scott … Rep. Gregory Meeks … Clinton … Franklin Raines … James Johnson

    Yeah, but I can’t seem to remember the name of the guy who actually was in charge. What was his name again?

38. #38
    On July 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, Salt said:

    On July 29th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, lgm said:

    Salt said (#35):

    Rep. Barney Frank … Rep. David Scott … Rep. Gregory Meeks … Clinton … Franklin Raines … James Johnson

    Yeah, but I can’t seem to remember the name of the guy who actually was in charge. What was his name again?

    Perhaps you’re having difficulty remembering the difference between the executive and legislative branches. It’s understandable considering many Presidents also seem to forget the difference.

    However, since you want to play the “say the word Bush” game, I admit to being strongly opposed to his TARP solution. As a fiscal conservative, there was much with which I disagreed with President Bush on economic policy. It should be noted; however, that President Bush did attempt to reform the GSEs many times during his presidency.

    You have this crutch of trying to play gotcha and rest all the ills of the country on President Bush. I concede that there are many who do the same regarding President Obama. However, as rational, thinking beings we both know that neither individual could possibly carry all of the blame. Of course, when blaming an individual fails or proves silly, you’ll blame the other party while turning a blind eye to your own party’s culpability, right? This is a point that typically damages your credibility here. I know that you don’t care about what conservatives think, but on the other hand you often pretend to have some sort of moral high ground because you’re a liberal (and despite the fact that you started your original comment with an ad hominem on Michelle). You cannot expect to be taken seriously when you avoid the topic of the thread and rehash yet another tu quoque defense.

    The Democrats have control of the House, the Senate, and the White House. How long are you going to cling to this “Bush Bad!” mantra before you accept that the Democrats have all the power they wanted for “change” yet what we have seen thus far are either grabs for more federal power and spending or continuations of the previous administration’s policies.

    You really don’t like Bush. We get it. Repeating it over and again lends nothing to the discussion of what should be done now. It becomes rather sad when it’s the only counterpoint raised.