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Michelle Obama trashes Trump: 'That is not who we are'
politico ^ | June 3, 2016 | NICK GASS

Posted on 06/03/2016 1:00:19 PM PDT by PROCON

Michelle Obama offered a scathing, barely veiled critique of Donald Trump on Friday as she delivered her final commencement address as first lady, warning graduates of City College in New York that while their diverse backgrounds are to be celebrated, they should beware of those who "build up walls to keep people out."

"They seem to view our diversity as a threat to be contained rather than as a resource to be tapped," Obama said. "They tell us to be afraid of those who are different, to be suspicious of those with whom we disagree. They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate. As if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress."

Invoking her travels as first lady, Obama remarked that she has visited dozens of countries over the last seven years. "And I have seen what happens when ideas like these take hold. I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation, leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished, how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: grifter; michelleobama; moochie; swine; trump
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The Mooch also opined:

"And graduates, it’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves.."

Incredible

1 posted on 06/03/2016 1:00:20 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

If it bothers her so much maybe she should just MOVE OUT!!


2 posted on 06/03/2016 1:01:25 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PROCON

Says the woman married to the alien.


3 posted on 06/03/2016 1:02:11 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: PROCON

She seems to be worked up about something.

Don’t see any reference to Trump there though


4 posted on 06/03/2016 1:02:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

F her


5 posted on 06/03/2016 1:02:28 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
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To: PROCON

michelle....... you were


6 posted on 06/03/2016 1:02:45 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: PROCON

STFU, Michael. Go diddle your wife. Nobody wants your opinion.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 1:03:15 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: PROCON

Good Lord. How much longer do we have to listen to this cow lecturing us?


8 posted on 06/03/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PROCON
"They tell us to be afraid of those who are different, to be suspicious of those with whom we disagree. They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate. As if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress."

She's describing the leftist agitators and Mexican invaders that rioted at a Trump rally ...

9 posted on 06/03/2016 1:03:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: PROCON

“build up walls to keep people out.”

Like the walls around the White House?


10 posted on 06/03/2016 1:03:54 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: PROCON

It sounds like she’s back to not being proud in America. This from a person who would have never have been admitted to an Ivy League schools apart from affirmative action.


11 posted on 06/03/2016 1:04:34 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: PROCON

I am tired of racist leftist low lifes lecturing people who stand up to them.


12 posted on 06/03/2016 1:04:54 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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I don't give a flying crap what Wookie parasites have to say. Isn't it time to pick up the phone and have another million dollar vacation (from what I don't know) on us?
13 posted on 06/03/2016 1:05:56 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (We have leaped off the cliff toward madness and we are still falling...)
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To: AppyPappy

We have to “keep people out” her statement is absurd.


14 posted on 06/03/2016 1:06:05 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: PROCON

Like anyone should care what obama’s false- front- female bleats? For goodness sakes! How low obama’s dragged America


15 posted on 06/03/2016 1:06:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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some text
16 posted on 06/03/2016 1:07:00 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: AppyPappy

She can’t stand her life in a house built by slaves, surrounded by a wall. Something tells me, even NOW, she is not proud of her country.


17 posted on 06/03/2016 1:07:01 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: PROCON

Slaves didn’t build my f’n house. I worked hard for it. Snoop Dogg is absolutely right. Focus on today and how we can make a better tomorrow. GO TRUMP!


18 posted on 06/03/2016 1:07:21 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: PROCON

The departure of this ill-mannered and ill-tempered water buffalo from the American consciousness is one of the great side benefits from the upcoming election. Don’t go away mad, dear, just go away.


19 posted on 06/03/2016 1:08:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PROCON

Listen, you crabbie, wide-assed, Wookie, YOU’RE not who WE are.

Ask me, or at least 100 million other Americans, if we give a rat’s ass what you think about ANYTHING. Guaranteed that the answer is, “No!” - so shut up and just go away.


20 posted on 06/03/2016 1:08:58 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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