Barack Obama: ‘You Don’t Want To Get Between Michelle And A Tamale’

Mediaite.com ^ | 05/06/2011 | Colby Hall

[OldDeckHand]

El presidente de los Estados Unidos Barack Obama observó la celebración mexicana del Cinco de Mayo ayer con una fiesta grande. Durante su discurso a los asistentes, el presidente hizo una broma a costa de su esposa, Michelle Obama, y su predilección por los tamales. Miralo en el segmento de más abajo. (Apunte de sombrero a Jim Newell de Gawker)

VIDEO AT LINK

[Castigar]

“...worse yet to get between hilary and a taco...”

OUCH!

[paulycy]

I just picked a pic from the interwebs. I looks to me like a piece cut from a larger tamale. If not, no biggie.

I'm originally from Los Angeles. I've been eating tamales for over 50 years. I know what they are, I've even helped make them myself by hand on occasion. I've had them in the campos in rural central virginia.

In any tamal you have the cornmeal, you have the filling, you have the optional mole on top. This one was probably wrapped in a corn husk, cooked, taken out and cut.

Mabye not. Maybe it WAS a casserole. Same ingredients. YMMV.

[shotdog]

My experience with Babelfish tells me that this is definitely not a Babelfish translation. It reads as an original. sd

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[GSWarrior]

I propose the phrase "between Michelle and a tamale" be introduced into the vernacular--to replace "between a rock and a hard place."

"Everything is going wrong for me these days. I'm between Michelle Obama and a tamale!"

[Allegra]

Don't get between The Mom and Allegra and

[Ancesthntr]

If I said that about my wife and ANY kind of food, I’d become fish food faster than Bin Dying.

I must say that I really feel sorry for what Barry has to deal with when he gets home - lard-assed Wookie’s don’t take too well to being made fun of, much less in public.

[proud American in Canada]

Don’t forget the many truly awful things she has said about him, too

Didn't she say he smells? You're right.

[grumpygresh]

When will the insults fly back to 0bama? I wonder how he will handle this?

[Disambiguator]

Is that a chili dog, or some kind of mutant falafel?

[beelzepug]

“between Michelle and a tamale”

That’s great. I’m planning to use that as soon as an opportunity arises.

[TheMom]

Amen to that Sister!

[Deaf Smith]

I'll bet that she eats them husk and all.

There was of a pic of Carter eating through the husk of one during a stop Fort Worth in the 70's.

[Iron Munro]

Read it in English:

Obama warns White House party crowd: 'You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale'

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yeah, that was the one that immediately came to mind. But I think there have been others, too.

[Bruinator]

Hmm James Coney Island.

[Indy Pendance]

I can’t speak Spanish, but I read and hear it almost perfectly.

At one time, I was an engineer traveling to Queretero on a
monthly basis staying for weeks at a time. I was eating lunch at the factory cafeteria, and the locals were telling jokes about some employee, and I got it, I laughed with them and they realized, I was here for them and understood their language, even though I was lousy speaking it.

Everyone was stunned that I got it. It was a cultural moment for everyone. We don’t want to transform them, we want them to figure out their path to freedom.

The kicker was, they all wanted the same freedoms America offered. They are the young nationals supporting freedom in Mexico. I felt for them. They are fighting a HUGE battle, much worse than we are.

There is a side of Mexico people don’t know about, the patriots. Only they are a small, a tiny minority. That’s the pity, but, they’re out there, struggling to apply our freedoms to their country. They are good people. I’m glad I got to know them.

[VRWCmember]

oh I agree. That was composed in Spanish.