Fish Don’t Fry In the Kitchen, Beans Don’t Burn On the Grill

The lies the right have come up with this election cycle is beyond the pall. But then again, they are Repubs.
But she’s right, what is this, 1972? LOL!

dr john wrote:
She led a life of privilege and it’s not enough.
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You either have been living in a cave or are slow.
Michelle Obama grew up very poor in Chicago. Her father, despite having a serious medical condition, worked everyday to give his children an education. She worked very hard to get through college, all on her own merit.
Learn some facts before you post. Otherwise you just seem slow and foolish.

Michelle did not grow up very poor – that’s as much a fairy tale as Barack’s underprivileged background. Michelle’s late father, Frasier Robinson, was a city pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain. Her mother, Marian, is a former Spiegel’s secretary. She grew up on a tree-lined street, not in a tenement. While it wasn’t the very best, it was far from being the very worst. In fact, her mother still lives in Michelle’s childhood home, so there must be something she likes about it! Her father’s salary was in the $40′s during the 70s which isn’t bad at all. Furthermore, she went to the best colleges this country has to offer and hasn’t stopped complaining about having to re-pay her student loans. And the prices of her daughter’s private lessons. And… oh this woman goes on and on with the complaints. She’s disgruntled and has a huge chip on her shoulder!

Heh…will she ever look bad when the GOP releases that video. Then we’ll know her, right? I don’t doubt for one second that she said that. She and her husband did attend a Black Liberation anti-white church for 20 years. That fact alone makes Michelle’s “whitey” rant probable.

Yes, it is 1972 in terms of an electoral college landslide loss for Democrats

gEVILl: Check today’s and yesterday’s polls at realclearpolitics. I think if there is a landslide brewing it is in Obama’s favor. And the uglier the fight gets the larger the margin of victory will be.

how long does it take for the gop to manufacture this alleged tape? because if they had it we would have seen it and heard it more than the rev. wright…obviously they can’t argue issues because their ideas are far inferior…rock on

Hey Brian,
those “polls” that drudge is pumping comes from a College. Obama is not leading Florda or Ohio. PA is tight.

It seem as though the Republican smear tactics are’nt not working this time. The Republicans are much better at smear than the Democrats..and they have been using it very effectively to win the last two elections. The Republican smear is based on the premise that a lie told often enough would make believers out of the gullible and before there were a lot of Gullable people who would buy anything the Republicans sold..but somehow it seem as though the tactics are’nt working this time..I can imagine the Republican smear team sitting up late at night trying to figure out more lies,innuendos,propoganda and smear they can come up with..but Obama knows how to respond..what a smart man and a smart campaign team..not like the Kerry team who stood back and allowed the lying swift boat smear team to do its diry work without a response..I say good Obama! Good! The Republican smear team’s back is against the wall..they are wondering “What shall we come up with next!..and they are frustrating Rush Limbaugh,Sean Hannity and the little lady on the view. They are frustrated because nothing’s seem to stick with the Public. I say Good Obama for responding quickly to the Rublican smear team. Vote Dems 08!

Landslide Obama…
Up 4 in Florida
Up 6 in Ohio
Up 12 in PA
Up 3 in Michigan
States Clinton supporters said Obama could not win…wrong
Obama’s red states
Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina…
Obama’s purple states
Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, NH, Iowa, Wisconsin…
Pending on AA turnout
Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana

“It seem as though the Republican smear tactics are’nt not working this time.”
This is a wonderful example of the suspension of disbelief. No one has used words that are anything other than directly from Michelle Obama herself. She wasn’t proud of this country until her husband ran for President.
No one made her say it, and no one is misquoting her.
Citing properly a quote is not a smear. Closing your eyes to her words is denial.

Vanessa – You’re obviously living in a dream world (and you’re not familiar with regional demographics) if you think Obama will carry all the States you mention in your post. I live in the Southeast and given the direction my State (GA) has gone in the last 10 years, there is NO WAY Obama will take it in November. My husband is from MS and let me tell you, it won’t happen there either. Listening to the MSM or putting too much emphasis on a single voter group (AA) to carry the day is naive. He may still win the general election, but don’t expect the small pockets of blue voters (like me) to overcome the conservative red machine in the Super-South region of this country. Just a little reality check for those with their heads in the clouds. It will take action and work to get him elected, not idealistic thoughts and words alone.

If the tape is in the hands of the Republicans, it will cool its heels until September at least. A slow drip of comments and extracts from her thesis will make their way into the media and the media will try to spin them away. However, after the shellacking of Hillary Clinton, the public will be wise and tired of the spin. That creates anti-spin and that will give stories about Michelle Obama momentum. In a very tight race, that can do the damage intended to the Democratic presumptive.
Obama dished it out. If he can’t take it, that’s too bad.

There are teams of “public relation experts” working on Michelle Obama’s image.
But comparing Michelle Obama to Jackie Onassis Kennedy and Barak to JFK is laughable! There should be a law against such a farce. I hate to say anything nasty about another human being. However, I find Michelle Obama to be a very ordinary woman. I accept for who Michelle Obama is. I know she’s somewhat grumpy, moping, feisty and arrogant. Michelle definitely is no Jackie as much Dan Quale was no JFK. Jackie Kennedy had a high birth, aristocratic upbringing, elegance, dignity, poise, wealth, education. She was kind and compassionate; artistic and literary. She had other evolved sensibilities and many shining attributes about her. Michelle Obama has shown few of those attributes. Michelle Laverne Robinson Obama is very different. She is light years away from the beauty who Jackie Onassis Kennedy was! I feel to compare them to one another for political expediency─ a perversion. Michelle and Barack are furthest I can think of from such American icons like Jackie and JFK. Now the same people in the media establishment trying hard to prop up Barack and Michelle to the pantheon of American icons! People have to learn to accept what Barack Obama and Michelle Obama for who they are. Most people accept Barack and Michelle for who they are; but you don’t have to lie about them and compare them to Jackie and JFK. We were all made equal. Michelle and Barack are products of very different times than Jackie and JFK’s. Ironically, there will never be another Jackie or JFK, as they were products of their time and era. That world has vanished forever; just like air-travel nowadays. Just like Hollywood stars these days are less classy or glamorous, unlike in the days of Ingrid Bergmann and Humphrey Bogart. We live in much more “just” and democratized America. But And we must accept it for what it is. We have to accept what we created move on. Hence, no matter what you do or where you are, try it make it little better and little more beautiful than you found it. Our corrupt media people think they can manufacture American heroes at will. Remember Bush Administration tried to “make up heroes” like Jessica Ryan?

“apparently false”, Jake? et tu?

nancy,
This is 2008, not 1960. Michelle Obama is an intelligent accomplished woman who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth, unlike Jackie Kennedy.
Michelle Obama is a much more relevant role model for todays girls than Jackie.

She got into schools she didn’t deserve to get into,
Wrong. Princeton is one of the most difficult schools in the country to get into. Michelle Obama is an extremely smart woman.
she got jobs ONLY because her husband was a politician
She got her first job at a major law firm before she even met Senator Obama.
and she makes a load of money ONLY
because her husband is a US Senator.
And what do you base that assessment on? More of your “I’m just makin’ it up” mindset?
And she’s married to a guy who has not ever taken a single position which required guts in his entire life.
Oh really. Running for president as the first biracial candidate in American history doesn’t require guts?
How’s that not privilege?
It’s not privilege. It’s hard work.
And maybe you should start reading more….

FIRED UP
Get a grip. Thinking Americans don’t fear a powerful black woman. We do fear (and have every right and reason to fear and oppose) someone who ascribes to a racist theology in a position of power.
Read James Cone. Listen to Jeremiah Wright. Then ask yourself, with all the options available, why did the Obamas chose this theology and this church? Racism is wrong, without regard to the color of the racist.
“There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: ‘How can we become black?’” –James Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation

P.S. Um, yeah, and I REALLY think that if we are going to compare potential First Ladies and the lives they have led, I will take Michelle Obama’s resume over Cindy McCain’s every time.
Funny how all that drug innuendo everyone was throwing at Obama has magically vanished – couldn’t have anything to do with Cindy McCain’s status as a former addict and thief could it? Of course not.

FIRED UP
You are right, I don’t have concrete proof as to what Michelle or Barack actually believe.
But if someone choses and maintains a church for 20 years, it is logical to conclude that they find belief and inspiration in its theology and Barack has said as much about Trinity and Wright.
Perhaps you think the Obamas had a different motive in attending Trinity? If they did not connect with the core theology of the Church, then what was it? Was it the Church’s good works (as sometimes suggested by Obama supporters)?
Funny–Cone criticizes the “orientation of white theology toward defending dominant class interests..” He says this is why “white theology…in its efforts for social good does not go beyond the kind of modernizing reformisms (sic) that only shore up the status quo.”
What motive would you find sufficient to overcome the objections that they should have felt in response to the racist and hateful message of Trinity, Wright and Cone?

“..Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers…”
That is news if it can be substantiated. That would be the second time the stage managing of his events proved embarassing because they contradict his admission.

Thanks, Fired Up, for your dissing Jackie Kennedy, who was no role model at all. That breathy, fake Marilyn Monroe voice was just too much. Both Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain are strong women, and while Cindy might have inherited wealth, she has done a lot of good with it, unlike Jackie, who seemed to live to spend money.
What worries me is that men of all races and political persuasions seem to be afraid of strong women. I don’t know why, but it sure is nuts, isn’t it?

The campaign that successfully smeared the president that has done more for civil rights in this country in decades and the candidate that has worked aggressively for Blacks and Women throughout her career shouldn’t be surprised.
Hey Jake do you think perhaps the Obama campaign is talking in “racial coding” picked up on a subliminal level?
Perhaps we are all wondering if 20 years exposed to Rev Wright (the George Jefferson of the puplit) had any effect at all on the Obama’s..
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Yes, Michelle, and you’re no George Jefferson. He never pretended to be somebody he’s not. That’s what made HIM likeable.

It sounds like a black exploitation Hollywood movie or show. Anyone who knows black people knows we don’t even USE that kind of slur.
The Republicans need to meet and develop relationships with enough AAs that they can figure out how we really sound when we talk to each other and other people.