First Lady Sparks Frenzy At London All-Girls School

The perfect First Lady.
I LOVE YOU MICHELLE !!!!

How wonderfully uplifting!

The Obamas are hugely popular in the UK, probably more than the USA, because the British appreciate class and intelligence more. The Obamas serve as inspiration to many people in England. Desptie the UK having a superior education system compared to the USA, there is a real problem with social mobility in the UK. Despite a higher percentage of ethnic people going to University than the US, there is far less ethnic representation in positions of power. Many highly educated ethnic British head to the USA for greater opportunity and the Obamas symbolise more than anything in America.

To bad she didn’t tell them what
she really feels and thinks, i.e.,
for the first time in my life I am
proud of my country…..then take
questions and explain to them just
what she meant by that statement.
She couldn’t tell the truth about
that either.

MONET, what she meant was, she was proud of seeing all Americans regardless of race, age etc, be really involved in the political process and actually support an African American.
We may love our country but no one can be always proud of what the governments does, any government,in any country, including America.

Great way to represent the USA! Thanks for being an intelligent and caring symbol of our nation.

It makes me so proud as an African American to know our elected president garners so much respect and adoration, in another counrty. To bad so many of my fellow Americans are still whining over this magnificant time in our country.
Right on President and Mrs. O. You make me want to be a better citizen.

for the person who’s still complaining about that proud of country line.
i’m guessing you didn’t grow up in the South Side of Chicago as a black girl in the 70s and 80s, have your freshman college roommate not want to room with you b/c you were black, be discriminated against, etc.
She obviously loves her country, but the discrimination she and a lot of other people used to have go through is not something any one with a sense of conscience should be proud of.
The enduring and amazing promise of America is that it is constantly bettering itself and living up to its founding doctrines for all of its people.

What a wonderful blessing to America First Lady Michelle Obama is!

“Right on President and Mrs. O. You make me want to be a better citizen.”-Winnie
So does that mean that you didn’t want to be a better citizen before? As an American you should want to do that regardless of who is president. And the differences in opinions are what make this country great. We don’t all have to agree on evrything.

So does that mean that you didn’t want to be a better citizen before? As an American you should want to do that regardless of who is president. And the differences in opinions are what make this country great. We don’t all have to agree on evrything.
Posted by: m | Apr 2, 2009 1:07:43 PM
Maybe Bush’s 27% approval rating was the real downer. You’re right, we all don’t have to agree on everything but the trashing of the Constitution, (spying on American citizens) the attack of a country that hadn’t attacked us,(Iraq) and the economic mess that we’re now in is what had many Americans angry over the last 8 years is why many of us are now more encouraged. Also, the fact that our President and First Lady have garnered such positive attention here and around the world has us all feeling better about ourselves and our country. Those of you who didn’t vote for Obama had every right, just don’t expect the rest of us to share your feelings of dejection.

It is good to see that citizens of other countries are so excited to see our president and first lady. Unfortunately some citizens within this country fail to see the opportunities this adoration brings.Symbolically the position Barack and Michelle have shows the growth and possibilities that America has.Regardless if you agree with their policies or not, recognize and learn to appreciate the hope and faith that has been restored in America’s reputation to lead and inspire the world.

Gotta admire a woman that feels comfortable and looks good in jeans, sweatshirt, and ballcap, plus the latest fashions. It seems that President and Mrs Obama both are comfortable in their own skin and that makes them popular and easy to be around.

I’m a pretty serious guy but when I read things like “Throughout her visit, the girls cheered and clapped loudly for her and many wiped away tears.” I can’t help but swell up with pride at our new First Lady.

I am going to be sick . . .

“Maybe she can explain why her and her husband threw those dirty voucher kids out of their private school?”
You really are incapable of any honesty aren’t you?
The voucher program has funding thru 2010 though it must be renewed when the next budget is passed.

“The Constitution has never been more trashed than what is/has been happening since your “new God” has been elected. Spying on American citizens: if you have nothing to hide..why worry about it”
I love how right wingers scream that Obama is destroying the Constitution and in the very next breathe claim spying on American citizens is just fine.
I’m not sure which is more dumbfounding, the ignorance or the hypocrisy.

I see nothing wrong with the Queen and the First Horse hugging.

The wingnuts are clearly suffering from low, low esteem. Imagine,.. drifting in an ocean w/no where to go… but cyberspace.

Ryan C –”I love how right wingers scream that Obama is destroying the Constitution and in the very next breathe claim spying on American citizens is just fine.”— I don’t claim that spying on American citizens is just fine… What I DO claim is that it didn’t happen.. There is a huge difference between what was going on and “Spying on American citizens” as the liberal media liked calling it…
The government used existing PHONE RECORDS (not ease dropped conversations) to determine if a particular number was calling or being called by a number on the terrorist watch list. If and ONLY if the hot numbers showed up on the records, were taps requested through the FISA courts. If you were not calling aor being called by known terrorists, then NO ONE was listening to your conversations.
But, I will say that Obama’s firing of private industry CEOs and replacing them with appointees (Like at AIG and GM) is constitutionally questionable. And the 90% tax on bonuses paid to AIG employees that was recently passed is in DIRECT violation of article 1 of the constitution..

“I don’t claim that spying on American citizens is just fine…”
Your quote
” Spying on American citizens: if you have nothing to hide..why worry about it.”
” What I DO claim is that it didn’t happen.”
Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the National Security Agency to monitor without a warrant the international (and sometimes domestic) telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds or thousands of citizens and legal residents inside the United States.
In a speech Tuesday morning, Gonzales said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which bars wiretaps on Americans at home without a court warrant, did not prevent the NSA program.
“It is simply not the case that Congress in 1978 anticipated all the ways that the president might need to act in times of armed conflict to protect the United States,” he said during his speech at Georgetown. “FISA, by its own terms, was not intended to be the last word on these critical issues.”
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt

“If you were not calling aor being called by known terrorists, then NO ONE was listening to your conversations.”
The Senate Select Intelligence Committee is looking into allegations from two U.S. military linguists that the government routinely listened in on phone calls of American military and humanitarian aid workers serving overseas.
“But, I will say that Obama’s firing of private industry CEOs and replacing them with appointees (Like at AIG and GM) is constitutionally questionable.”
Interesting considering that AIG CEO was fired last Sept. His replacement was elected by the board of AIG.
And GM, the CEO was asked for his resignation which he tendered. The COO is slotted to take over as CEO.
“And the 90% tax on bonuses paid to AIG employees that was recently passed is in DIRECT violation of article 1 of the constitution.”
You should really read up on ex post facto law and how it effects that bill instead of regurgitating Glen Beck
In the 1994 opinion United States v. Carlton, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that retroactive tax laws did not violate the constitutional prohibition on ex post facto legislation, provided their retroactive application was “supported by a legitimate legislative purpose furthered by rational means”

If you watch videos of the event, you can see her recoiling at the site of a Muslim girl in a head-covering

I am a bit older than Michelle but I can explain perfectly what she meant by her statement about being proud of her country now. She meant that we all know that for 400 years in America, African Americans were considered inferior and forced into slavery! That is nothing to be proud of, believe me! In the 1960′s during the Civil Rights Movement, African American children were beaten, hosed and had dogs sent in to attack them and tear them limb from limb if need be! That is nothing to be proud of, and I was there, scared to death that grown up White people were going to kill me! That is nothing to be proud of! The assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK, Medgar Evers, The Chaney group, the little girls in the Birmingham church, were nothing to be proud of!The continued institutional racism via laws that are still on the books from the Jim Crow Era of segregation that I grew up in, was nothing to be proud about! The Tuskeegee Syphillis Experiments on African American men who were not infected and were infected for the study, is not something to be proud of!
Hopefully, you understand that all the ugly, hurtful things, that have been done to African Americans is nothing to be proud of, and because there have been few and mostly forced changes in this country regarding race relations, often times, things go on that we cannot and should not be proud of! Get It! By the way, we are not proud of the way that financial matters have been attended to here either! Not proud of that at all!

it is a shame and disgrace to have our country represented by those two.

Thanks so much to the lovely girls from EGA leaving comments on this site! I’ve enjoyed seeing video of Mrs. Obama’s visit to your school.
YOU GIRLS ROCK! Go EGA!!!

What’s with the eyebrows? Give me a break!
Frenzy over what? Is Michelle going to tell the children how proud she is to be an American?

omg! I cannot believe that people saw something in this to complain about!! are we so bitter, so divided by politics that we can’t just say that was a nice thing! ….such a schizophrenic message we are sending to the world….we elect him and then when he and his wife does something positive we criticize them….but then again it use to annoy me when people said bad things about the Bushes….i still miss President Bush, many thought he was an idiot but i think that he was real…but people couldn’t look past his politics…I find President Obama too measured…his actions all seem thought out and not real but Michelle seems real and emotions before analysis…
whoever is POTUS & FLOTUS I support but it warms my eyes with happy tears to see how Michelle is embraced!!

Judging by some of the ugly, insulting comments directed at the First Lady on this site, it’s obvious a small but vocal minority are bent on tearing down a decent, caring woman in a twisted effort to defend their own political ideology. Thank goodness it’s Michelle Obama’s message that resonates with young people and not the hatred and bigotry on display here.

Michelle Obama’s dress made her look like one of the cartoons on the Wizard of Oz. Yesterday, she looked like the cleaning lady when she was with the Queen and then broker protocol by putting her arm around the Queen. She’s such a fool, so inappropriate. She never had class and it is showing. Has anyone noticed how she concentrates on the black community even in London? She’s a disgrace to our country and looks like a total fool. Those of you who think that she is wonderful, you can keep her.

Ellen, you people are constantly projecting. It’s become so sad. I wonder what you people would think if Obama were the one that raised a drug addict or pregnant teen. She’s what you will never be, civilized. A woman who came from a working class background achieved more in one day than you ever will in your miserable life.

It has been a long devastating 8 years and we can finally be proud of our President and First Lady. Like many of us knew throughout the campaign and have come to know into the early days of this presidency, Republican ideology is as worthless as a sack of condoms in the Vatican. As many UK reporters have noted, the Obama’s took London by storm. The right-wingers have no recourse but to spew their rage and underlying jealousy – oh, for the repugs to be able to claim a leader like President Obama.
Republicans are making themselves irrelevant as noted by many of their comments on this site. The Republican Party is destroying itself, becoming a regional party, and a party without leadership. Note that most of their posts only put down our President and beautiful First Lady. They have no leaders to quote or to feel proud about. No leaders that make them feel so good inside, to instill in them the pride of country, to make them proud on the world stage. They are left with McCain, Palin, Rush, Sean, Billo, and Beck. Now who would not be angry about that?

It seems that the better the First Lady Michelle Obama is doing the louder and nastier the comments from the right wingers and disaffected Republican shills. I think she and her husband are doing a good job restoring the image and reputation of the United States after the disaster of the last eight years.

Posted by: anonymous | Apr 3, 2009 5:53:57 AM
“It is embarrassing” – no, it’s not.
Check out the British newspapers’ web sites. The Brits are not insulted, in fact they are charmed by our First Lady. The Obama’s gift of a rare signed Richard Rodgers songbook with an iPod with show tunes was extremely thoughtful. Oh, and also google Richard Rodgers – he is an American treasure and many Republicans like his songs too.