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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: Twink

It is absolutely terrifying. The effect these people have on the crowds reminds me of “Triumph of the Will.”

I hope nobody flames me, but I am about to send Clinton a check after hearing that, just to get these people out of the race.


81 posted on 02/17/2008 10:13:32 PM PST by John Robie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You are fortunate you are still connected to some people,Freedom.As I get older,I find people less and less worthy of my time regardless of political affiliation.
As for Michelle,I really don’t think she is evil,at least not like Hillary is evil.


82 posted on 02/17/2008 10:14:58 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Maybe the country gets its soul back when it stops killing the most innocent.


83 posted on 02/17/2008 10:15:07 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: puroresu
My thoughts exactly. Obama seems to be a better shyster than Clinton. I find it hard to understand how "activism" makes one uniquely qualified to be president. Does that mean that this guy is presidential material?



Obama and Hillary are the cream of the Democrat crop, and they are both grifters.
84 posted on 02/17/2008 10:17:23 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: Fred Nerks

http://bp3.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/R7hBFxVC_eI/AAAAAAAAE2Q/CBfr-EmnxEk/s1600-h/080217-obama-audacity-2.jpg


85 posted on 02/17/2008 10:33:36 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TigersEye

You read this? I am thinking we are so screwed....I am also disliking that Oprah more & more each day.


86 posted on 02/17/2008 10:35:07 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Out, damned spot......OUT)
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To: okie01
"She's a black Hillary Clinton."

Oh yes, she certainly is. She may even be worse. The totalitarian personality in action.

87 posted on 02/17/2008 10:35:07 PM PST by Irene Adler (')
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To: Fred Nerks
just how much has she influenced his 'white supremacist' stance,

Did you mean "black supremacist"?

88 posted on 02/17/2008 10:37:15 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: John Robie

I have friends in Texas (repubs voting in the dem primary) voting for Obama just to push hillary out. They’re hoping for a nightmare dem convention and I understand that. But I really think he’s more dangerous.

Seriously, who would attack him and get away with it? If he’s the nom, no one could attack him without being labeled a racist, imo.

People are fainting during his appearances. Like some rock star and that’s weird but come on a politician, lol. That’s scary imo. This may be our next POTUS.


89 posted on 02/17/2008 10:39:55 PM PST by Twink
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To: Tired of Taxes

Whoops!

(I’m an aussie, guess that’s no excuse!)


90 posted on 02/17/2008 10:41:03 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: george76

91 posted on 02/17/2008 10:42:25 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: doug from upland

It would certainly be a start.


92 posted on 02/17/2008 10:42:55 PM PST by Twink
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To: jan in Colorado
Fred, is it possible...? She is even worse than Barrack Hussein Obama? Frightening stuff!

Hey, she's even more ambitious and dangerous than Hillary!

93 posted on 02/17/2008 10:46:08 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: jan in Colorado

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1972093/replies?c=54

Perhaps there’s no REAL Obama...


94 posted on 02/17/2008 10:49:53 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: jan in Colorado
slight correction:

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 POURED THEIR SLIME INTO!

95 posted on 02/17/2008 10:53:56 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Twink
I have friends in Texas (repubs voting in the dem primary) voting for Obama just to push hillary out. They’re hoping for a nightmare dem convention and I understand that.

If they want "a nightmare dem convention" then it is imperative that they vote for Hillary - she's slipping fast in the polls, and has fallen well behind Obama in Texas.

In fact, if they want a GOP win in 2008, then they better vote for Hillary.

As things stand right now, McCain loses pretty badly to Obama.

Now that could change, especially if McCain has the gonads to go after Obama on some of this messianic-leninist stuff, but I don't think that McCain is willing to go there.

96 posted on 02/17/2008 10:56:55 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

97 posted on 02/17/2008 10:57:25 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Thank you for your good research. It is interesting how the Obama’s have adopted the spiritual tone of a cult leader. They are appealing to a voter without religion who is hungry for spirituality even if that spirituality is a fraudulent manipulation. These are the same type of people that Jim Jones persuaded to take that trip to Jonestown, Guyana. These are the same New Age cultist, Marshall Appelwhite and Justin Spaid who convinced their followers of Heaven’s Gate to take a walk down the Santa Monica Pier to catch a ride on the mother ship.
98 posted on 02/17/2008 10:57:45 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: Albion Wilde

There is a scary, supernatural spirit in there.


99 posted on 02/17/2008 11:01:56 PM PST by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee; Twink

I agree. Try to convince them to vote for her. It will at the very least damage the party and send the process to the convention. Clinton is also weaker in the general. Plus she would be less dangerous if she were to be elected.


100 posted on 02/17/2008 11:02:26 PM PST by John Robie
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