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Michelle Obama - We have to fix our souls - our souls are broken [AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT]
Hugh Hewitt Show & Michelle Obama at UCLA ^ | Friday, February 15, 2008 | Michelle Obama & Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 02/17/2008 7:45:14 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee

Hugh Hewitt: ...got Fred and Mort next hour, got Larry Kudlow next hour, but I want to start with presidential politics - actually first lady politics - to get you in the mood for this.

You know, Michelle Obama is really kinduva remarkable woman. She's very, very forceful on the stump. She is a, ah, extraordinarily charismatic bundle of energy and intellect.

And, ah, she says interesting things.

Things that make you say, "Huh?"

She talks a lot about change.

But there's a lotta change agents of the twentieth century, like, ya know, Che, Mao, Fidel, Pol Pot - ya know, all sorts of change you don't want.

So where is she on the "change" spectrum - from the people who just want to, ya know, change your shirt to those who want to change natural law?

Well we got a speech from Michelle, ah, Barack from two weeks ago at UCLA - I've been waiting for a time to deconstruct it with you.

And, ah, Michelle Obama - did I say Michelle Barack? - Michelle Obama, and, ah, let's just take a few listens here.


Cut Number One, Michelle from two weeks ago:

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #1:

In 2008, we are still a nation that is too divided. We live in isolation, and because of that isolation, we fear one another.

We don't know our neighbors. We don't talk. We believe that our pain is our own - we don't realize that the struggles and challenges of all of us are the same.

We are too isolated. And we are still a nation that is still too cynical.

We look at it as them and they as opposed to us - we don't engage because we are still too cynical.

Hugh Hewitt: This is the two Americas stuff. Look, I know my neighbors, and I like 'em.

And, and, ah, there've been times when they've needed help, and, ya know, we don't socialize, but they give a call, or we give a call to them - I know my neighbors.

I have a big church community of which I'm a part. I went out with some great church friends last night - people who have known my wife, the fetching Mrs. Hewitt, for 40 years. We went to, ah, down to, Orange County, to the, ah, performing arts center, to hear a great Broadway singer, Faith - I can't remember her last name now - she was great - from Guys and Dolls. We had a great time. Ya know, I know my neighbors, we have community. I don't know what she's talking about.

It gets worse - you know, this whole divided, us/them, two countries, marxist stuff.


Here's Cut Number Two.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #2:

Don't get sick in this country - not here. Americans are in debt not because they live frivolously but because someone got sick. And even with insurance, the deductibles and premiums are so high that people are still putting medication [and ?] treatments on credit cards.

And they can't get out from under.

I could go on and on and on, but his is how we're living, people, in 2008.

And things have gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime - through Democratic and Republican administrations - it hasn't gotten better for regular folks.

Hugh Hewitt: You know - things have gotten progressively worse, during the greatest economic expansion in history, during the greatest explosion in the availability of technology and education.

What is she talking about? I mean, this is radical stuff.


And it gets worse - Cut Number Three.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #3:

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another - that we cannot measure our greatness in the society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these.

That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done - that is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that.

That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls - our souls are broken in this nation.

Hugh Hewitt: Lemme tell ya', whenever someone from the government comes to you and says, "We have to fix your soul," be VERY afraid.

Governments cannot fix souls.

In my world view, Christ fixed souls. Other people have different world views, I understand, but no one believes - outside of the hardcore left - that government can fix your soul.

I mean, a higher power, I guess - if you want to be non-denominational about this - might fix your soul. The Father of the universe might fix your soul.

But not government.

Not Barack Obama. Not Michelle Obama. None of it.

Not George Bush, not John McCain, not Mitt Romney - no one can fix your soul.

That's scary stuff.


And it gets worse - Cut Number Four.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #4:

If we can't see ourselves in one another, we will never make those sacrifices.

So I am here right now because I am married to the only person in this race who has a chance at healing this nation.

Hugh Hewitt: Wow. The only person in this race who can heal the nation.

I am - I, I'm a little bit stunned.

Modesty is not, ah, not in, ah, large supply over at Team Obama.


Cut Number Five.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #5:

The first major decision he had to make in his life, after college - "Do I go to Wall Street and make money, or do I work for the people?" - Barack worked as a community organizer in some of the toughest neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago.

Helping young mothers find their voice and their power - folks who had a reason to be cynical because government had forgotten them long ago.

There is no one else in this race who can claim that kind of commitment to people on the ground. No one.

And I would think in a nation like ours, -

Hugh Hewitt: Stop, stop, stop. I'm sorry.

John McCain spent six years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. That's commitment.

Tough neighborhood in [the] south side of Chicago? I'm sure it was. It's not as tough as the Hanoi Hilton.

Mitt Romney spent two and a half years, in France, going door-to-door for his religion. That, that is a tough series of neighborhoods, to go to France, and knock on doors, and say, "I'm a Mormon, I'd like to talk to you." In 1968. Lovely place to be in France.

Don't give me - you know, you go to [the] south side of Chicago and you're a community organizer because you intend to go into politics. And you're building a resume.

Don't give me this stuff. I'm, I mean, this's starting to - time to strip the bark off of this rhetoric.


Cut Number Six.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #6:

Barack, as Oprah said, is one of the most brilliant men you will meet in our lifetime.

Barack is more than ready. He'll be ready today, he'll be ready on day one, he'll be ready in a year from now, five years from now - he is ready.

That is not the question. The question is: What are we ready for?

Wait, wait, wait - because we say we're ready for change, we say we're ready for change, butcha see, change is HARD.

Change will always be hard, and it doesn't happen from the top down.

We do not get universal health care, we don't get better schools because somebody else is in the White House. We get change because folks from the grass roots up decide they are sick and tired of other people telling them how their lives will be - when they decide to roll up their sleeves and work.

And 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 - uninvolved, uninformed...

Hugh Hewitt: Wow!

As, as Dwayne just said, it's beginning to sound like General Zod, ya know, "Bow down before Barack."


One more cut - Cut Number Seven.

MICHELLE OBAMA, CUT #7:

We have young kids all over the world who are looking to this nation, and they are trying to figure out who we are, and what we wanna become.

We have a chance, not just to make history, but we can change the world.

We can change the world - yes we can, yes we can, yes we can, yes we can, yes we can...

Hugh Hewitt: Wow, wow, wow.

So that was your first, ah, taste, of, ah, Michelle Obama rhetoric.

You probably haven't heard that, have you? You probably haven't seen that, did you? You probably didn't know that, could you?

Because the Media hasn't been tellin' ya.

What an all-encompassing, government-expanding, pervasive and soul-changing theory of people.

Whew!

Coming right back, don't go anywhere...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; chebama; dncfalseprophets; falseprophets; gooniegoogoo; marxism; nobama; obama
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To: EternalVigilance

But don’t you know, self image, self esteem, is all the fad nowadays ;)


41 posted on 02/17/2008 8:11:42 PM PST by Twink
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To: Fred Nerks

Is she wearing a bathrobe?


42 posted on 02/17/2008 8:12:35 PM PST by 6SJ7
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To: ruination

And thats the problem I have with Michelle,Barak and their church which “rejects middleclassness”Its sheer hypocrisy and it really hurts their crediblity in the same way the Clinton’s claim to being so pro-Black is torpedoed by their living in a nearly all white town in suburban New York.


43 posted on 02/17/2008 8:12:49 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

***We have young kids all over the world who are looking to this nation, and they are trying to figure out who we are, and what we wanna become.***

No, Michelle, the young kids all over the world are looking at us and they are trying to figure out how to BE LIKE US.


44 posted on 02/17/2008 8:12:50 PM PST by kitkat
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To: Fred Nerks

For a family with the Obama’s means,that house you have pictured is actually quite modest.


45 posted on 02/17/2008 8:13:52 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Theodore R.
I didn’t read all that, but Michelle is right. And let it begin with SHE!

You don't have to read all of it; you can listen to it in the background while you work on something else:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEdMH8VHwGE

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2056263/6487318

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3335264438614927798

http://boss.streamos.com/download/townhall/audio/mp3/9e3a08aa-ad84-46cf-8492-6aff289bca42.mp3


46 posted on 02/17/2008 8:14:54 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
We don't know our neighbors. We don't talk.

What neighborhood do you live in? Bet it isn't anywhere near the po' folks.

We believe that our pain is our own - we don't realize that the struggles and challenges of all of us are the same.

I believe that our future is the result of our hope for change in a brighter America. See how you can use so many words to say nothing? Making stuff out of nothing at all, to paraphrase the old Air Supply song.

Don't get sick in this country - not here. Americans are in debt not because they live frivolously but because someone got sick. And even with insurance, the deductibles and premiums are so high that people are still putting medication [and ?] treatments on credit cards.

Choices suck, don't they, Momma Bama? When's the gubmint gonna set us straight? Maybe Americans should stop wasting their money on entertainment, high-tech gadgets, and living beyond their means. If you have a full-time job, health care--if even partial--isn't hard to find or afford. Government isn't the answer.

That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls - our souls are broken in this nation.

I'm glad you mentioned that. We're currently working on a proposal, should Obama win the presidency, regarding a new cabinet office--the Department of Healing. So far, Oprah's the frontrunner for cabinet Secretary.

Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed...

Never? Sounds like a promise--or more accurately, a threat. Gotta love monarchy.
47 posted on 02/17/2008 8:15:52 PM PST by Das Outsider ("Fools are paramount in politics..."--Kenneth Minogue)
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To: Twink

The cult of self is destroying America.

Those who worship the True and Living God, the One upon Whom our liberty depends, had better stand up and stop them before it’s too late.


48 posted on 02/17/2008 8:18:08 PM PST by EternalVigilance (In America, the people are sovereign. McCain, Obama as ministers? Has the king lost his mind?)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
The DMV line for a soul repair:


49 posted on 02/17/2008 8:20:38 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: 6SJ7

now you LISTEN TO ME!

50 posted on 02/17/2008 8:20:54 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
now you LISTEN TO ME!

That is just frightening! She even has the index and middle fingers raised together, as if to give some sort of twisted benediction.
51 posted on 02/17/2008 8:24:04 PM PST by Das Outsider ("Fools are paramount in politics..."--Kenneth Minogue)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

well Michelle...one could start by removing support for infanticide (the Obamas believe babies who survive abortion should not receive medical treatment -but should be allowed to die post-birth).

Then one could remove support for partial-birth abortion...

After those two barbaric atrocities, we could move onto the rest of the slaughter of millions of babies.

That would be a good place to start don’cha think?


52 posted on 02/17/2008 8:30:28 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: Das Outsider

Ditto to everything you said.

And it does sound like a threat. I happen to like my life the way it is. Informed and involved. I just don’t want to keep paying for those who won’t and want the government to make it all better. Geez, these people are stupid.

I know my neighbors. We talk all the time, lol.

Americans, most, can pay for their own healthcare. We just can’t all pay for the latest fashion fads or high tech devices. Or vacations. Or cars. Or whatever.

Socialism at its best. Geez, when will people wake the hell up? I bet her speech engergized the masses of idiots.


53 posted on 02/17/2008 8:34:22 PM PST by Twink
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To: Das Outsider
That is just frightening! She even has the index and middle fingers raised together, as if to give some sort of twisted benediction...

Michelle was a follower of Jeremiah Wright's 'church' - they were married there...

I'm curious now, just how much has she influenced his 'white supremacist' stance, he looks like such a light-weight in his wedding photo. (That's his mother between them.)

Methinks he's a sponge, easily infuenced by anyone. His muslim stepfather, his Luo Kenyan tribal-kin, his Alinsky marxist orientation, his usefulness to Soros, his wife's personal ambitions.

Perhaps there really is no REAL Obama, he's just a vessel others have manipulated!

54 posted on 02/17/2008 8:38:22 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Glad to be of service!

This needs to be broadcast far and wide. If the voters don’t snap out of their Obama-induced trance, this couple might just end up “fixing” our souls for the next eight years. Fixing them into the ground, that is.


55 posted on 02/17/2008 8:38:27 PM PST by Deo volente
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To: PJ-Comix

“DUmmie FUnnies PING List” might be interested, although, sadly, the subject isn’t very funny.


56 posted on 02/17/2008 8:41:07 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee; Beckwith; george76; jan in Colorado; Candor7; SunkenCiv; blam; ...

FYI. Michelle Obama speaks. Images, videos.


57 posted on 02/17/2008 8:44:07 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Wasn’t she on Trumps “Apprentice”?


58 posted on 02/17/2008 8:48:50 PM PST by beefree (AMERICA BLESS GOD)
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To: beefree

I live ‘downunder’ - never saw the program.


59 posted on 02/17/2008 8:53:12 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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 - uninvolved, uninformed...

ALLOW! ALLOW! what's he gunna do? Send those who don't 'push themselves to be better' to re-education camps?

60 posted on 02/17/2008 8:59:26 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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