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Michelle Obama is ready for her close-up[Denounces 'Whitey']
International Herald Tribune ^ | June 18, 2008 | Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor

Posted on 06/17/2008 7:18:27 PM PDT by txhurl

Michelle Obama's eyes flicker tentatively even as she offers a trained smile. As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range in Montana, she is asked to consider her complicated public image.

Conservative columnists accuse her of being unpatriotic and say she simmers with undigested racial anger. A blogger who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton circulates unfounded claims that Obama gave an accusatory speech in her church about the sins of "whitey." Obama shakes her head.

"You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be," she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: "I mean, 'whitey?' That's something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn't know me. They don't know the life I've lived. They don't know anything about me."

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2008; michelle; michelleobama; obama; whitey
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Michelle will be guest-hosting The View tomorrow morning.
1 posted on 06/17/2008 7:18:28 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: pissant

Michelle ping.


2 posted on 06/17/2008 7:20:12 PM PDT by txhurl (paranoid to post anything)
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To: txflake; rockabyebaby; whatisthetruth; lightman; dynachrome

Is there a tape, or isn’t there a tape of “Whitey”? Does anyone know?


3 posted on 06/17/2008 7:21:21 PM PDT by do not press 2 for spanish
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To: txflake
"You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be

skin deep? Sounds like the same woman who wanted "scratch his eyes out" when told about some comment Toon made about BO. And that's documented beyond the point of denial.

4 posted on 06/17/2008 7:23:13 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: do not press 2 for spanish

If it were true, we would have a gazillion copies all over the Internet by now.


5 posted on 06/17/2008 7:25:15 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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To: txflake

George Jefferson ping


6 posted on 06/17/2008 7:25:38 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: do not press 2 for spanish

Who cares? There is plenty wrong with Obambis policy.


7 posted on 06/17/2008 7:26:56 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: do not press 2 for spanish
Well, the Chicago Tribune seems to think so.

Excerpt:

'Whitey' Fails to Wound (Whiteys are also dumb)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031498/posts

From Sunday.

8 posted on 06/17/2008 7:26:58 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: doc1019; do not press 2 for spanish
>> Is there a tape, or isn’t there a tape of “Whitey”? Does anyone know?

> If it were true, we would have a gazillion copies all over the Internet by now.

Yep.

Not that that stops some people from fantasizing about it. I say it doesn't exist. I don't know, that's just my opinion.

9 posted on 06/17/2008 7:27:49 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: gusopol3

Get ready Michelle.

That is, for what you and your husband are going to say when the tapes come out.

Your husband threw Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Fleger under the bus. In your case, he’ll have to eat the football and take the sack.

There won’t be any wiggle room on that one.


10 posted on 06/17/2008 7:27:58 PM PDT by detch
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To: txflake
"I mean, 'whitey?' That's something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn't know me. They don't know the life I've lived. They don't know anything about me."

I already know far more than I want to.

***

I wonder...does anyone know when Tiger Woods became proud to be an American?

11 posted on 06/17/2008 7:28:54 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (" ")
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To: detch

Soros might have been the highest bidder for the tape, and it would be a good insurance policy on his bought puppet President too.


12 posted on 06/17/2008 7:31:55 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: dayglored

This “whitey” tape story is going to pop up on FR like clockwork from now until November, and maybe after that.


13 posted on 06/17/2008 7:33:16 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: detch

Guaranteed -

If the tapes existed Ickeys would have found them and Hill would have used them.


14 posted on 06/17/2008 7:33:45 PM PDT by mrgolden
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To: the invisib1e hand

Michelle is going on the offensive tomorrow, as her husband will be under some scrutiny at the National Press Club.

Both Larry Sinclair and the organization who had his polygraphs administered will be speaking from 3:00 - 5:00p, in separate rooms.


15 posted on 06/17/2008 7:34:54 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: dayglored

If it does exist, now would be the time for Obama followers to bring it out. Would give the Obama camp months to either excuse it (by whatever wordsmithing it would take), or bury it in some McCain scandal.


16 posted on 06/17/2008 7:35:29 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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To: do not press 2 for spanish

Doesn’t look like there is. But if there is a tape it just became more damaging with this denial from Michelle.


17 posted on 06/17/2008 7:37:28 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: txflake
That's something that George Jefferson would say.

Exactly. And Michelle takes her cue from Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther. Different show.

18 posted on 06/17/2008 7:37:52 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: LiveFree99

I’m auctioning my copy off at the Jan. ‘09 Freepathon. ( If BO’s elected, that’s gonna be over in about 6 hours, even without a whitey tape)


19 posted on 06/17/2008 7:39:11 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: txflake
As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range

something appropriate about that observation.

20 posted on 06/17/2008 7:39:41 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (" ")
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