Posted on 02/23/2008 1:18:18 PM PST by OnRiver
Speaking at a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday, the day her husband was about to win his 10th straight primary victory over Hillary Clinton, she said: "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."
That would be a jarring statement from anyone who has paid any attention to what this country and its citizens have accomplished, endured and overcome in recent decades. It is not just the conservative bloggers who are denouncing her remarks. Even some Democrats winced, and Michelle Obama can be sure her words will come back to haunt her husband this fall if he is the Democratic nominee.
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Speaking at a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday, the day her husband was about to win his 10th straight primary victory over Hillary Clinton, she said: "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."
That would be a jarring statement from anyone who has paid any attention to what this country and its citizens have accomplished, endured and overcome in recent decades. It is not just the conservative bloggers who are denouncing her remarks. Even some Democrats winced, and Michelle Obama can be sure her words will come back to haunt her husband this fall if he is the Democratic nominee.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, insists that her comment was taken out of context. "What she meant is that she's really proud at this moment, because for the first time in a long time, thousands of Americans who've never participated in politics before are coming out in record numbers to build a grass-roots movement," Burton told USA Today.
That may be what she meant, but that is not what she said and that is not what people heard. As her husband can tell her, words do matter, and Michelle Obama, who was educated at Princeton and Harvard Law, needs to choose hers more carefully.
Very liberal paper...short and sweet....lot of good news coming from Florida today...don’t you think..
Yes. I’m glad the story hasn’t faded from view. I think we can count on Queen Latifa to blabber even more stupidity in the future. You can tell who wears the pants in that family.
And it’s NOT what she meant, either.
Bill Burton should be ashamed for letting any Obama speak without safely having David Axelrod’s text on teleprompter!
She didn’t user the word, “really” in the original quote. “Really” got added in by the MSM to help mitigate damage.
The fist day she said:
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am proud of my country."
The second day she said:
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."
Obama supporters and apologists use the second "really proud" quote to parse her words to disguise her true intent and to put her comments in a favorable light.
Then they ignore the fact that the phrase is part of a prepared speech, given at least twice, when they claim she was just speaking excitedly and off the cuff.
She is a bitter, shrewish, anti-Ameerican racist with a chip on her shoulder the size of Oprah Winfrey's ego.
But she and Barack are the liberals new communist messiahs and any criticism of them is treated as outright heresy.
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Excellent rollup of facts. Thank you!
Michelle Obama 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 radical, narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her. But in the liberal Hyde Park ghetto that she lives in in Chicago, attending cocktail parties with her coterie of liberal U of C academics, Black South Side DemonRat pols, public sector sinecures, NGO flacks and liberal Sun Times columnists, EVERBODY she knows thinks and feels this way.
The ascendency of BHO is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtered by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deciever who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Spread the word!!!
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