nationwide! And let... 
the games begin!
Posted on 02/20/2008 11:24:19 AM PST by HD1200
MILWAUKEE -- Michelle Obama made two separate remarks in Wisconsin on Monday declaring a new pride she has felt in her country -- comments that today came under oblique attack from another would-be first lady, Cindy McCain.
At a midday event on Monday in Milwaukee, Obama said, "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
A few hours later in Madison, she made a similar point, although with some adjustments to her language:
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country -- not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
Press reports, including on this blog, initially confused the two events (my note: Probably INTENTIONALLY!)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
Notice that the world "really" is missing from her first speech.
Cindy has two sons in the military and an ex-POW husband...and Michelle? What has her husband done for the country, other than running around inflicting his empty speeches on it?
The problem wasn’t the difference between proud or really proud. The problem was “For the first time in my adult life”. Leave that part off and the statement in either form (proud or really proud) is perfectly acceptable. Apparently that’s what they don’t understand.
Link to where just FOX NEWS has a video of BOTH speeches:
Michelle Obama is ‘Proud’ of Her Country
by FOX News Political Team
Click here to compare the two statements by Michelle Obama on being proud of the U.S.
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/19/michelle-obama-is-proud-of-her-country/
I agree, but people defending what she said are doing it soley on the second speech where she prefixed proud by the word “really” and then they parse what she meant. These people refuse to even acknowledge the first speech made in Milwaukee.
Is this another one of those "Lesser of Two Evils" trick questions?
I would bet that Barak took his wife into some remote room and told her a few things. Like “listen you dumb *****, you’re going to cost me the election with your stupid remarks. At least fake being proud of your country”. Her statement might cost Obama two million votes in the general election. If Obama has any brains, he’ll try to muzzle her and keep her offstage.
I do know of one Republican who had Bambi eyes, that did a complete 180 when she heard Michelle say this..
Gave her enough pause to actually take a second look at what Obama really IS.
LOL Not exactly.
Interesting.
In the olden days when the liberal big-city newspapers and “big three” networks thoroughly controlled the selection, spin, and dissemination of the daily news, Democrat scumbags like Michelle Obama would have gotten away with this deception just as surely as Dan Rather would have gotten away with his forged National Guard memo.
Thank God those days are gone forever.
nationwide! And let... the games begin!
No......not really
Perahps, but remember this is the guy who disses people for wearing an American flag lapel pin and refuses to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem. In his Hyde Park and Cambridge circle, that's normal, even a cause for admiration. But Americans notice things like that. With nothing else to go on, they will make their decisions based on these kinds of perceptions. Once again, this will be an election where "character counts".
must have been a very uninformed GOPer to start with
anyone who pays attention knows Obama is a Mau Mau
guilty whites are enamoured with him
ever notice how most of the bigtime black political demigods are mixed race
coincidence?
/s
Obama wouldn’t dare do that, she’s his political meal ticket- without her, he’d have been chased from South Side politics as “too white” and “acts white”.
This is how they really feel, both of them.
This statement made me decide to vote for McCain and to actively support him.
This will go well with the photo of Obama refusing to salute the flag, and make a good commercial.
More disgusted, than uninformed. Emotional, not inattentive. Sick of the slice and dice politics since the Clintons came on the scene.
the kind of voter that can turn an election on its head
Proud vs really proud. Hmm. Little difference to me. It’s the “for the first time in my adult life...” part that bugged me.
I think the whole thing is meaningless grasping at straws. Sort of like arguing who has the biggest mole on their rear.
I agree. Wasn't Hussein elected to the Senate? Give me a break.
That comment (made TWICE) was a glimpse at the cynicism and dislike for this country that she REALLY,,,yes REALLY,,,,has.
After all,,,,hasn't Hussein boasted that "WORDS DO MATTER"!!! (I HOPE they REALLY do)
Really? Wow, hadn’t heard that much about her.
“listen you dumb *****”
She would have knocked him on his skinny black ass if he would have said that. That woman scares me.
Not to mention those weirdo eyes. And the little fact she would be a convicted druggie if juan had not illegally fixed it.
On MSNBC it was explained Michele would not apologize for the remark because EVERYBODY ON THE CAMPIGN ARE TO AFRAID OF HER TO ADVISE HER THAT THAT IS WHAT SHE SHOULD DO!
If those days were truly over, J. S. McCain wouldn't be running away with the Republican nomination, Hildebeeste wouldn't be a Senator, and Barak Hussein would be utterly unknown.
google cindy mccain and drugs
Some women just throw ashtrays at their hubbies. (smirk)
A black gal called Air America this morning (yeah, I listen every now and then) on this topic. The host framed the pride line as not being what Ms. Obama really meant, but the black gal, to his dismay, said it’s exactly how she feels — no pride in America until now with Obama.
I agree. I have been proud of my country since I was old enough to know what a blessing it is to be born in America.
Anyone, who just realized what a blessing being an American is- is highly suspect to me.
Was that on Bill Press’s show? I think I heard that; I was actually trying to get thru to his show to play the “moderate democrat having had it with the far left antics of my party and voting mccain role” just to offset the liberals that call and say they are republicans voting for obama!
Yes, it was. Press got incredulous with her. He learned a bit today.
It's getting worse with today's school kids & the anti-American bilge they're subjected to now.
Well, google Rush Limbaugh and drugs
She may look weird, but so does John McCain.
Guess this election I’m voting for not becoming a TOTALLY socialistic country.
I will grit my teeth and vote McCain, but I won’t be singing Cindy’s praises like I did Laura’s.
Her statement is revealing of just how unAmerican Democrats are. I fear for our Nation if we end up with Mr. & Mrs. Obama in the White House. In 8 years we will all be learning Arabic and reading the Koran.
It’s hard to find an African American who isn’t mixed race.
Obama, Harold Ford Jr, and Colin Powell come to mind first.
Jesse Jackson is fairly mixed too.
Those are the only 4 I’ve ever seen touted or that have run for national office.
I find it ironic.
Course Obama claims he’s not the black candidate which is laughable.
That is precisely why he’s getting the votes he’s getting.
Blacks voting skin and liberal whites voting guilt or looking to feel morally superior to regular bigots (whom they see everywhere).
Like many freepers do when they play the race card. Wonder how many of those will vote for Obama when no one is looking. He’s right up their alley.
Really?
How about this one?
seriously....down in the rural deep south, there are more pure African blacks than not...deep ebony or jet colored
You may be right about why people are voting for him. But in a world where demographic and psychographic identity is continually analyzed and dissected for everything from dishwashing soap to presidential candidates none of that comes as much of a surprise.
But do we REALLY care what color a person is?
He did teach community activists to plunder taxpayer dollars by taking advantage of their perceived victim status.
Has to count for something.
Oops. Fixed it.
She hasn’t said one thing about the US before the year 2007 that would make her proud to be a citizen of the greatest nation in the history of mankind that has placed her amongst the most privliged of the elite in this country.
I never thought that I would see a spouse of a presidential candidate who was more of a narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her.
the world sure does and the Democrast sure do.
Western whites are the only ones expected to be colorblind.
I'd be all for it but I'd have to be a sucka to fall for it yet.
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