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Michelle Obama: 'Prison-Like Elements' to Being First Lady, 'But It's a Really Nice Prison'
Weekly Standard ^ | 2 July 2013 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 07/02/2013 6:02:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan

In Tanzania, Michelle Obama joked about the "prison-like elements" of being first lady. "[B]ut it's a really nice prison," she said. "You can't complain."

Seat with Laura Bush, Michelle Obama said that wives of presidents "have probably the best job in the world, because while our husbands ... have to react and respond to crises on a minute-to-minute basis, we got to work on what we're passionate about. ... I have just found it a very freeing and liberating opportunity. ... [Laughing] There are prison-like elements, but it's a really nice prison. You can't complain. There are confining elements ... While people are sorting through our shoes and our hair ... whether we cut it or not ... We take our bangs and we stand in front of important things the world needs to see. And eventually people stop looking at the bangs, and start looking at the things we're standing in front of. That's the power of our role," according to quotations provided by Mike Allen.

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


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KEYWORDS: bushafricatrip; laurabush; michelleobama; obamaafricatrip
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What's with this royal we she uses?
1 posted on 07/02/2013 6:02:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Highest priced steaks and highest priced luxury vacations.

Yeah, life can be rough.

All are equal, but some are more equal than others. — George Orwell


2 posted on 07/02/2013 6:04:45 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Rummyfan

And the phoniness continues.


3 posted on 07/02/2013 6:05:54 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Rummyfan

A prison furnished and paid for by us.


4 posted on 07/02/2013 6:08:58 AM PDT by Viennacon
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Bitch, bitch, bitch.

When will be the first time she's happy?

5 posted on 07/02/2013 6:09:19 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

So give her early parole and get her, her mother, her children and her incompetent husband OUT of the People’s House!!! GO!!!


6 posted on 07/02/2013 6:09:23 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Paladin2

Hopefully never.


7 posted on 07/02/2013 6:10:16 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Viennacon

paid by us but closed to us because of them.


8 posted on 07/02/2013 6:10:54 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Rummyfan

She certainly has a way with words hasn’t she. Must have enhanced her lexicon, and foot-in-mouth being around Biden.

She, and her husband are embarrassments to this Nation. I hope those that voted for them are damned ashamed of themselves now.


9 posted on 07/02/2013 6:13:14 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Shove it, Michelle.

Your husband is an uneducated narcissistic cretin and you wanted someone who did as little work and has as little talent as did you.

You married well, you ignorant sl**.


10 posted on 07/02/2013 6:13:46 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Prison?! You can leave ANY TIME you like Michelle. Go on. Get the hell out! :p

Yeah, didn't think so. Liar.

11 posted on 07/02/2013 6:14:42 AM PDT by Casie (democrats destroy)
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To: Rummyfan

Drowns her sorrow in Dom Perignon. Prison-like is not good enough for her.


12 posted on 07/02/2013 6:16:12 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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The first b*tch can spend hundreds of millions of dollars jet setting around the world on her shopping trips but they can’t find the money to keep the WH tour operating? Hell, if she skipped just one day of her spending tour the WH tours could operate for a decade. But no, she thinks only of herself and her personal pleasure.


13 posted on 07/02/2013 6:19:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah,right. When did her incompetent husband ever react on a minute to minute basis. Certainly not Benghasi.


14 posted on 07/02/2013 6:20:15 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
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To: Rummyfan

Yo, Mooch, no one buys your angry whine any more.


15 posted on 07/02/2013 6:21:05 AM PDT by Amagi (Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

exactly, concerts, vacations, banquets, taking family on our dime but the military bases can’t have a fireworks show, cuts to military, OUR white house is closed while they dine there on our dime.

I would like to know why the hell the GOP is not making more of this and get away form this pathetic amnesty.


16 posted on 07/02/2013 6:21:19 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: rockinqsranch

trust me if I;m in a parking lot, in a gas station and a car comes near me with an Obama sticker I say something to make them embarrassed


17 posted on 07/02/2013 6:22:18 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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If only Laura Bush would have stood up and decked her......
18 posted on 07/02/2013 6:23:35 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Rummyfan

No one can make you ‘happy’.

No situation can make you ‘happy’.

Not even the life of a Queen can make you ‘happy’.

Fulfillment, joy, and satisfaction are the products of a Spirit led life.


19 posted on 07/02/2013 6:24:23 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Rummyfan

You can walk out the door anytime, Mooch and call a cab.


20 posted on 07/02/2013 6:26:23 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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