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Michelle Obama Touts Her Own Independence: I Made 'My Own Choices About My Body'
weeklystandard ^ | June 29, 2015 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 06/30/2015 1:30:02 PM PDT by PROCON

First Lady Michelle Obama is thankful for her life. At the More magazine Impact Awards at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the first lady credits her good life--and independence--to education.

"Growing up -- and I remind these girls all the time -- I wasn’t any smarter, I wasn’t more talented than they are. But instead of having to work to support my family, or being married off to a grown man and forced to bear children before I was ready, I got to go to school so I could support myself, so I could make my own choices about my body and my life," the president's wife told the crowd at the award ceremony.

"And none of us would ever accept anything less for our own daughters and granddaughters. We wouldn’t tolerate it. We would never accept a life of dependence and abuse for our girls. We would never allow their bodies to be violated or their potential to be squandered. So we have to ask ourselves, why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?

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KEYWORDS: michelleobama; mooch; primadonna
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To: Louis Foxwell
She just slandered every mother under 25.

LOL and she just admitted to being overweight by choice.

21 posted on 06/30/2015 1:40:44 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That was what I thought too.


22 posted on 06/30/2015 1:41:10 PM PDT by livius
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To: tioga

And you do word of the day?

“infer” is something the listener does
“imply” is something the speaker does

/grammarpedant

(no offense)


23 posted on 06/30/2015 1:41:20 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PROCON
so I could make my own choices about my body

Is Michael admitting getting his d!ck cut off?

24 posted on 06/30/2015 1:41:21 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That seems to be the most common response.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 1:42:24 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: PROCON
“Married off to a grown man...”? What is this, an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies?
26 posted on 06/30/2015 1:42:28 PM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: PROCON
We would never accept a life of dependence and abuse for our girls. We would never allow their bodies to be violated ....

But we'll shove birth control down their little throats while ignore studies indicating the pill reduces bone mass.
27 posted on 06/30/2015 1:42:41 PM PDT by neefer (Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That was my first thought, too.


28 posted on 06/30/2015 1:42:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (s)
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To: PROCON

She didn’t marry a grown man when she did get married.


29 posted on 06/30/2015 1:42:58 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: PROCON

30 posted on 06/30/2015 1:44:12 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Moochelle’s third child was probably to be a boy and that is why BO sees the child in every Tom, Dick and Harry (AKA Travon Martin)


31 posted on 06/30/2015 1:45:11 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: fso301

That picture always makes you wonder.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 1:46:08 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Cis-American)
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To: PROCON
being married off to a grown man and forced to bear children before I was ready

Where does this happen except in Africa and Muslim countries?

33 posted on 06/30/2015 1:46:43 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: PROCON

34 posted on 06/30/2015 1:46:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PROCON
...or being married off to a grown man and forced to bear children before I was ready...

One could ALMOST interpret that as a criticism of her husband's religion.

35 posted on 06/30/2015 1:48:53 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: PROCON

“being married off to a grown man and forced to bear children before I was ready”

What the hell is she talking about? Did family belong to one of those sects that broke away from the Mormons or something?


36 posted on 06/30/2015 1:51:33 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: PROCON

The new program is just another excuse for her to travel around the world on our dime.


37 posted on 06/30/2015 1:52:38 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

“...Need eyewash for that wookie’s caboose....”

Her travel costs are high because of all the OVERSIZE LOAD vehicles required.


38 posted on 06/30/2015 1:55:13 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: PROCON

LOL....fake, yet so illustrative!!


39 posted on 06/30/2015 1:57:48 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PROCON

Should have a wide load sign on the thing!


40 posted on 06/30/2015 2:02:12 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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