The Many Faces of Michelle
Remember when Michelle Obama stood before a crowd in Milwaukee and said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country”? The date was February 18, 2008, and the moment her quote reached my ears I knew she and I would not get along. In one fell swoop she had dismissed the inherent greatness of this nation, our brave military personnel, and the accomplishments of prominent black public figures like Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Ultimately, her words betrayed a sense of entitlement. As an aspiring member of the upper echelon of the ruling class she could not be “really proud” of her country until the spotlight shone on her; until journalists and television personalities praised her “style,” and fawning crowds applauded her elocution. Therefore, the truth is that Renee Martin of Globalcomment.com was on to something when she worried that people were going to see Mrs. Obama as an “angry black woman.” Mrs. Obama came across as both angry and haughty.
In addition to just now becoming proud of her country, which is also my country, Mrs. Obama stands side by side with her husband in criticizing corporate America although they “are [both] products of corporate America,” according to Paul Ibrahim. “Both launched their careers in corporate law,” and Michelle went “on to serve on the board of TreeHouse Foods, Inc., which supplied most of its pickle and pepper products to Wal-Mart.”
Isn’t it just like a liberal to make their fortune in a given economic sphere, corporate America in this case, before coming out against the very avenue they used to make their fortune, as if to ensure that their esoteric surrounding doesn’t become overcrowded with commoners? And that’s just what Mrs. Obama is doing when she calls on women to turn away from lucrative careers and serve others instead (as if those who have a lucrative career won’t also be able to serve others).
I can’t stand Michelle Obama either but this article is snarky, mean and pointless (much like the author’s speciality – a Ph.D in MILITARY HISTORY???).
You mean Michelle Antoinette MacBeth?
The article has merit no matter what the education rank of the writer. The media, esp. magazines in their last gasp effort to stay afloat, are trying to make Michelle Obama lily-white: rather, they try to show her as some delicate creature we all should admire like a delicate lily instead of treating her like a human being. And comparing her Laura Bush is stupid. Both have their traits good and bad.
And for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my ability to recognize angry black women like Michelle Robinson Obama who’ve enjoyed the largesse of Affirmative Action.
She hasn’t “been transformed” in to anything.
The PR has just been adjusted.
When, oh when, will the media catch on to the handy little practice of perceiving what they’re looking at? Are we now to be treated to endless iterations of “the new Michelle”. Yuk.
She’s still “an angry, black woman”. She’s just adopting obama’s earlier lesson to act nice around the white folks(as he reported about himself in one of his autobiographies).
Lolo thinks Military History is pointless. This tells me everything I need to know about Lolo.
I’ve never been proud of Michelle.
I ask : Would she have been seen anywhere near that soup kitchen if the cameras and media weren’t there ? Did she volunteer at all before she became prominent ?
These are rhetorical questions : We already know the answers.
I’m guessing none of you have ever met an “angry black woman”. It might be fun to watch you stain your delicates if you did. MO, is a politician,s wife, period. They’re all the same no matter what skin color.
Gary, I invite you to come down to my neighborhood and ask the first woman you see how fast she can pick a bale of cotton. That would be one for funniest home videos.
So have they filled the $300,000 a year patronage job she left when the campaign started? I remember reading that the position was eliminated right after she walked out the door. I would like to hear her explain what she was doing that was so critical that it was worth $300,000 a year in wages, but was immediately unnecessary once she left.
Ms. Obama’s thesis can be found here. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
It reads more like a high school senior’s paper than a Princeton Senior’s thesis.
Dave,
If I ain’t afraid of Palestinian terrorists, I ain’t afraid of no one. And stereotype much, you jackhole? Unlike you, I’ve apparently been raised to respect people and to not offend them by asking them blatantly racist questions….
Michelle Obama annoys me. Be angry and bitter, lady. That way I can get a good laugh out of the President and the First Lady.
Dave,
With all due respect there is a world of difference between Laura Bush and Michelle Obama. I never heard Ms. Bush come close to being a grievance merchant and believe me, it would have been widely reported and snorted at if she had.
I would like to like the First Lady. And I think there is a chance that she could win quite a few of us over in time.
But….
Michelle Obama treated the British Prime Minister’s sons as disgracefully as her husband did the PM himself.
And I will never forget her arrogant and lunatic statement that President Bush’s stimulus check was only good for buying a pair of earrings:
http://trackacrat.com/category/michelle-obama/
This is sick and pathetic. I understand that conservatives are intimidated by powerful women, but calling the first lady of the United States a ‘witch’ is just disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
As opposed to the Botox frozen Zanax glazed gaze of Laura Bush . . . a perfect example of the good conservative wife . . . seen and not heard . . . standing by her man even when he beats her . . . silently oppressed by the weight of a dispassionate spouse and a pair of kids whose only real commitment in life is to avoid the life other parents.
#10 Dave . . . You’re right on the money . . . and don’t expect any response from these pantywaists around this board. As for you Gary Ogletree, how fast can you lure a young boy into your truck with candy? You’re a disgrace, all of you. I hope Obama takes everything you have and gives it to a bunch of young black kids and illegal immigrants down in South Central LA. You don’t deserve to be citizens of this country.
Don’t have to just “hope” on that one. It’s the “change” you can believe in.
I agree some of the remarks from commenters are racist, but the point of the article is well taken. MO IS an angry women (forget her race, who cares) and she and BO are arrogant, believing themselves to be “better” than the rest of us. Maybe it’s not racism but it sure is elitism. And yes, the media has fawned all over her.
one of my own:
I tell you what’s disgraceful. Your notion of justice that involves a government seizing a private citizen’s belongings as punishment for freely speaking thoughts that you happen to disagree with.
But that’s pretty much par for the course with your crowd isn’t it? And the fascists are who again?
Steve P:
I agree that this thread is on the petty side but I want to take exception to your canard that conservatives don’t like strong women. Conservatives loved Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin who are both strong women.
If anybody is afraid of strong women it’s you progressives. You are so PC p—y whipped that given your first opportunity to hide behind a male minority candidate you immediate unveiled your suppressed rage against any woman of power. Your caricatures of both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin as Dominatixes were nothing more then a manifestation of this fear and loathing of strong women.
I feel sorry for you guys because PC has rendered you incapable of enjoying the company of a woman who is your equal.
God, if only I could become wealthy by doing nothing.
Barry and his wife are so terrible I can’t believe our nation has sunk to this level.
Their faces are plastered all over magazines and media…reporters trip over themselves to write gushing, embarrassing tributes to this pair of nothings…who have done nor said absoulutely nothing to justify where they are now.
Teleprompter and buff arms, indeed.
We could have found a better minority couple to put into power in Washington, if that’s what was necessary to unite the nation.
We’ve been had.
if i have to choose my fashion sense from michelle obama…then forget it…….she has graced every mag cover lately with flowery stories about how magnificent she is……………hogwash…….rosalyn carter was the biggest buffoon we have had as a first lady but at least she was who she was…a sourpuss who showed no warmth to anyone…i’d rather at least have honesty like that than all the fake nonsense with the obamas and the slimy media…………………these people arent anything special….she is an angry black woman camouflaging as a woman for all the people…….and he is the empty suit i thought he was during the campaign………….they havent changed…….the media is just bs’ing us…………as usual…
Come on people! If Oprah deems her fabulous enough to share the cover of O! magazine, then shouldn’t we all bend a knee to her also? I mean really, her fashion sense, that winning smile, the Mary Tyler Mooreish hairstyle. What’s not to love? BLECH!!
She is one ANGRY woman. It shows on that mug of hers.
Let me tell you, I have encountered plenty of angry, black women in my day. White women are usually the blunt of their wrath. They are so programmed to be victims and use that as justification for any real or imagined injustice. Their deep-seeded self-loathing is scary.
Michelle Antoinette is as slick as her husband. She can be angry, aloof, serene — whatever the moment requires. In her “listening tour” of federal agencies, she has already brought back the “little girl from the South Side of Chicago” and acknowledged the “struggles” of federal civil service employees.
She’s stoking my schadenfreude. All I want to know about is how she fares at the end of four (or fewer) years in the White House, disgraced and irrelevant, while the positive, competent, genuine, patriotic Palins outshine her and gain respect and affection that she could only dream of.
I do think Lady MacBeth is appropriate. I’m also starting to think she wear’s the pants in that family.
I submit to you the real Michelle–before the stylists and the hype:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/10/exclusive_michi.html
16 OOMO
I hope Obama takes everything you have and gives it to a bunch of young black kids and illegal immigrants down in South Central LA.
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Now, you’re a college freshman, taking some mandatory PC drivel?
He’s going to take everything YOU own, or your PARENTS own. (and how will they pay for your college?) He’s also going to destroy business, so if and when you actually graduate from college, and are ready to go job hunting, THERE. WILL. BE. NO. JOBS. for your sorry butt to find.
Medea goes to the White House.
They can try to make over this ugly, angry, no class woman all they want, but it ain’t gonna work. She’s a harridan, and I hope the Great Obama is getting an earful night and day. I know who I would bet on as really running the show at the White House.
P.S. I note the recent picture of some of Obama’s paternal relatives who visited the White House. You know, those African, mostly Muslim relatives that Obama never wanted to mention during the campaign, including his half brother Obongo, aka Roy, the Luo tribal activist and Muslim who favors Shari’a law, and who says the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.”
I wonder if Obama’s paternal grandmother, who proudly kept telling reporters that she was present in the delivery room to witness Obama’s birth in Kenya–until they shut her up–was invited too. Wonder if the illegal alien aunt and welfare recipient showed up as well.
Nice to see that Jimmy Carter wasn’t the only president to have a whole passel of broken down, trashy relatives hanging around.
#9 Davey
re: angry black women
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I’ve worked with many black women just fine. I’m grateful I only had the misfortune once to work with *an angry black woman* – with a hispanic boss who thought she walked on water. Oh, she could give bully lessons (she was also a thief and a malicious two-faced liar.) – but I digress.
After another manager forced her out of our dept, I had a black woman from third dept., who’d visited ours previously, come up to me and ask, “where’s the witch?” (she was more blunt. She also thought the witch deserved anything bad that happend to her.)
re: Dave
Sorry for the typo.
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Even Geraldine Ferraro thought the dem’s were being a bunch of misoginysts in how they treated Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin during the campaign. Considering her political background, she should know – she’s been on the receiving end as the first female VP candidate – by dems.
Leave the wife out of it.
There are serious issues to debate, and PJM will lose its credibility with tripe like this.
Hey, a role model, this is what she is – remember Blagoevich’s asking for a cushy job for Patricia in a corporate board, something like Michelle go?
Inspiring, ain’t it?
“And comparing her Laura Bush is stupid. Both have their traits good and bad.”
I wish you would inform us, Lieberman Dem, of a bad trait of Laura Bush, rather than just tossing that comment in and expecting us to accept it.
Wow – this is probably the least intelligent column I have read here and the posts are divided between the ignorant and the racists
IN MY MESSIAH”S WHITE HOUSE, MIICHELLE HAS MANY FACES:AND EACH ONE COULD STOP A BULLDOZER!
“Wow – this is probably the least intelligent column I have read here and the posts are divided between the ignorant and the racists.”
Fair observation, so which one are you?
I always admired Laura Bush and never understood why those on the left felt a need to be critical of her. I guess because she was married to George.
As for Michelle, I have no doubt we’re not seeing the “real” her. And, this whole charade about her all of a sudden caring so much about military families? Please. Whatever. As long as she doesn’t embarrass her husband, which I don’t think she’d want to do, or the country, carries out her FL duties with grace, and keeps her mouth shut about her racist issues with America, I’ll be okay with her.
The book she’ll write after Barack leaves office should be interesting, though. I’m sure the old, racist Michelle will return. It will be a huge seller.
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Actually, taking a good look at a man’s wife (or a woman’s husband) says ALOT about the kind of person THEY are.
It won`t be long before Michelle will be out `speechifying` about the horrors of capitalism and spuring the masses on to `group think`. That`s all commie`s know how to do. This type of thinking dominates their very existence.
Michelle Obama, Maxine Waters, Evelyn Norton Smith etc., coming soon to an Oprah show near you……..
This is the first time in my life that I am disgraced about the first lady.
I was creeped out when she was hovering over that little girl at the State of the Union Address that wasn’t a State of the Union Address.
Now I’m hearing that Andrea Mitchell is naming her one of the most powerful woman in the world next to Hillary Clinton???????
Oh! and wonderful President Obama celebrating International Woman’s Day while out of the other side of his mouth want to have a relationship with the Taliban who burn little girls schools to the ground.
The Obama “performance” poll news reports are mystifying.
Every report from the msmedia tells us Obama’s still more than wonderful by 65%-75% of Americans.
Yet, in the past few days, I’ve seen a number of on-line polls with large participation (30k – 50k) showing Obama is rated a grade “F” by more than half. One is by AOL; another is by MSNBC. None of these or similar ones ever make it to “Breaking” news, or any news by MSNBC, NBC or any mainstream medium.
Wow. This article was kind of offensive, but no more so than the Renee Martin article you linked to. What a factless, citationless piece of ignorant drivel. Seems no one can talk intelligently about Michelle Obama, not even angry black women.
Ain’t it amazing that Steve P. Can criticize Hawkins’ use of “witch” to describe Michelle Obama and then other leftists defend Steve P.’s position by commenting on Laura Bush’s “glazed over” look? It is a perfect example of the duplicity Hawkins claims to see in Michelle Obama.
P.S. Laura is right on – there are plenty of angy black women and enemy number one is white women. They act like white women are oppressing them into next year (when white women do more for them than probably anyone on the planet) and ignore the way black men treat them. If they spent more time directing their anger at their real enemy, black men (who admittedly treat them like dirt, abandon them and their families, drive them into poverty, etc. – that is why they are so angry), they just might find happiness.
lmao.
She is so unclassy and mean looking. She’s an anti-American, bigmouthed, conceited, condascending witch. Barbara and Laura Bush are probably laughing their azzes off at the big he/she. What a piece of work she is.
9. Dave—Down South where I live we have many angry black women. Michelle Obama would fit right in with them! Rude, condescending and thinking she too good do certain things because it’s beneath her and that whitey owes her for some reason!
It seems like I can not pick up a magazine these days without Oprah or Michelle Obama on the cover. I do not believe we have seen Michelle unleashed and would be horrified by her “real nature ” it’s most likely more racist than the pastor. On that note* I had hoped having a black first family would ease racism but I do not think that the blacks will ever get over it and never admit to WHO sold them out in the worst way. I was at Kroger recently and could not find my card (for sales) I asked the cashier who was black if I could borrow one. She told me NO! Well… if I was a sistah or a brother,it would’ve been NO problem!!! A guy behind me said, you are welcome to use mine. To which,I replied,it’s a good thing someone offered or I would’ve left $200.00 worth of groceries in this basket & walked out! but you know if I had complained to the store manager,nothing would have been done because the race card,comes out,quickly!
I’m sure I’ll get attacked for my view points but it’s the truth and I’m not trying to be politically correct. I’m sooooo tired of that B.S!!!!!!!! Equal rights not special rights-
I’d also like to add that we need to specify, Angry Black American Women, for accuracy’s sake. Non-American and foreign born black women are not like this at all. This is a cultural thing, not a race thing. American Black Women are the only ones who are angry and ungrateful.
With the exception of foreign born black women who are heavily influenced by the victimhood, greivance culture of American Black Women, of course.
Mz. Attitude, I feel your pain. Many Blacks are the new racist. Racism is wrong & hurtful. The race card is nothing but being,whiney,lazy & a useless human being. A waste of space.
Nice to see that Mr. Hawkins has tossed out the same rotten old red meat to the pack. I mean, if you spend your whole life holding a grudge over what someone said that you don’t like, that is so petty and small minded. This is Hannity level rheoteric, repeating the same old trivial garbage ad nauseum: “She said this, he said that, I am so insulted!”. It reminds me of some old drunk crank at a bar whining about how everyone in the world shafted him, and he is going to get back at them all. But I guess that is what the common and base BASE thrives on, with their Limbo educations. Guess what, who cares, she is his wife, with no official office.
50. Prevost1580…An incident today: While leaving a store with double doors I held the first set of doors open for a woman, she walked through without a word. We got up to the second set of doors….she let it slam in my face! I don’t think I need to say her race.
But I will say that I have met some very wonderful black women. They are hard working middle class and I’m glad they are my friends. I’ll ask one of them tonight if we should call them “happy black women”. Or how about “anit-Michelle Obama”…
BTW: they don’t like the angry black women or the affirmitive action workers because they say they give all blacks a bad name.
“I invite you to come down to my neighborhood and ask the first woman you see how fast she can pick a bale of cotton.” How about instead we ask you how fast you gathered up the straw for your fallacy?
Great piece. Looking at the posts, it’s amazing at how all the “open-minded liberals” can be so bothered at an article that is based upon her own words or the words of those who nearly worship her. I looked back through the article after reading some of the posts and Hawkins hasn’t twisted anything that Michelle Obama or those in her ever ready press group have said about her. Why is it that the left cannot bear an honest examination of itself? How can a group who was so absolutely hateful to George W. Bush now act perturbed over the fact that Hawkins has pointed out the “sycophancy” surrounding Michelle Obama?
I agree with you totally. It’s a barf bag for me how the written press swoons all over her. This is a Hollywood script designed for her and we are forced to watch for the next 4 years.
Don’t you mean the many faces of “FUG”? Michelle oozes hatred and anger which makes her even uglier than her genetic material has already cursed her with. The misanthropic, whitey hatin’ biotch receives disgusting, oozing blind-as-a-bat compliments from the ‘Laudatory Left’ media. It’s nausea inducing.
FUGGEDY, FUG, FUG, FUUUUUUUUUUG!
That’s MY opinion and I stand by it. You don’t like MY opinion? So what? Have your OWN and don’t attack mine as if you think that’s going to change anything. ;p
I noticed that Michelle even graces the cover of The New Yorker this week. This whole Michelle thing seems to me to be getting out of hand. Because she’s tall and thin, she looks great in clothes, but I still think her face looks mean.
P.S.–I forgot to mention that a recent news report also said that Michelle’s mother had moved into the White House. Oh, joy!
#10. Ozzie, it was just a way of contributing to Obama’s campaigns.
#48 Rachael
Barbara and Laura Bush are gracious ladies (beloved by the SS agents on their details) who are probably very saddened by the behavior of the current occupant of the position of “first lady”.
Delia says: “The misanthropic, whitey hatin’ biotch receives disgusting, oozing blind-as-a-bat compliments from the ‘Laudatory Left’ media. It’s nausea inducing.
FUGGEDY, FUG, FUG, FUUUUUUUUUUG!
That’s MY opinion and I stand by it. You don’t like MY opinion? So what? Have your OWN and don’t attack mine as if you think that’s going to change anything. ;p”
Delia, the best part about right-wing wingnuts like yourself is that, just like Rush Limbaugh, we don’t even have to attack you. All we have to do is hold up your own words in front of average, non-crazy Americans and watch them cringe in disgust. Then we just get to sit back and watch the Democratic Party grow as a direct result of your hate and ignorance. So, thanks for your help.
We “lazy, mean…complacent” Americans were roundly dissed by Michelle at various points during the Obamas’ (way too long) 2 year run for the White House.
(At one point during the campaign, Michelle referred to Americans collectively as “complacents”, incorrectly using the adjective as a noun. But I digress…)
So what about now, Michelle, sweet pea ? Are we cool, yet ? Geez, with that enormous crowd of “advisors” and the colorful cast of babbling appointees inhabiting your husband’s White House, it looks like you’re rather steeped in incompetence these days. A few very mean souls in there, as well.
Totally inappropriate article. tastelessly toned and titled. empty of substance and I assume the writer is auditioning for a right wing parallel of the View.
Disagree with people on substance by all means. Leave alone their looks, ditch the name calling (you called the First Lady a “witch?”–what planet are you on?) and the other stuff that this article mentions.
if this is the best some people can muster, no wonder Obama won. he’ll win again too. (1) Someone who shows the wisdon of an intelligence test for voting thinks her face “looks mean.” (2) Ms. Attitude, who seems to be the Al Sharpton of this thread, thinks people are rude to her because of her race. Be assured Ms. Attitude, there are lots of rude people of all races. White people refuse to hold the elevator, go slow in the fast lane, sometimes won’t let me into traffic, and even cut in front in the Starbucks line sometimes. And I’m white. Gosh, maybe they’re just rude! (or maybe you should walk faster.) (3) Prevost 1580–is that the first time you’ve encountered the mentality of someone with a little power? Wait till you go to a government agency and don’t have ID or a checkbook–white or black they’ll make you wait and I assure you it won’t be because of your race.
This article ought to be deep sixed and the author ought to be spanked or given a long time out.
ONE OF MY OWN
#16
HEY – ITS YOU WHO DOESNT DESERVE TO BE A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY !!!
The fact remains that now the MSM HAS to slober all over Michelle and her husband the Teleprompter Reader. They keep propping them up because they know that their luster is fading. When NEWSWEEK is now publishing articles about Obama’s ineptitude….the bloom is off the rose. We all know why Oprah has her on the cover. That is pretty obvious. Oprah is well, Oprah. Full of herself, always pontificating, flitting from one “new thing” to another to cash in on the dim bulbs that watch her show. It becomes easy to see why she and Michelle Obama became such good friends.
Michelle definitely does not measure up to the likes of either Bush First ladies. Not even in the same league.
HLH
You missed my point, because you too are petty, small minded and mean! That is the same reason I despise crap like this no matter who the target is. It has nothing to do with liberal or conservative, you little dittohead. It is a cheap personal attack full of spite and emotion and lacks any depth, just like you.
Mrs. Obama is a racist bigot. She would do well to study the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln.
AThinkingPerson:
Come on…the MSM slobbered over Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, and while the banks and our jobs were going south because of NAFTA and despite the alphabet agencies in D.C., we got Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. No one ever said most journalists were smart. They are all sycophants hoping to bask in the glow of people more attractive or successful then themselves. Even the so-called “hard-boiled” ones are the same. You have to read, you know, to appreciate stuff like the money supply, job loss, etc. Most journalists are simply not serious people or all that smart. Superficial in coversation, ignorant of history–why do you think they are journalists?
But don’t let the stupid people people make you bitter: and leave Oprah alone: she seems nice enough and has made millions providing entertainment to millions, and donated millions. What’s wrong with that? Yeah I wish she was on the right but she strikes me as totally reasonable and in the middle if left leaning. You seem to confuse her entertainment personae with her private life: I am sure she is as grounded as anyone else if not more so.
The bottom line though, is that this article is a menaingless piece of fluff; mean-spirited and lame it offers nothing to the national debate. Its petty at best and reprehensible at worst.
28 ked5 . . . THERE.ARE.NO.JOBS.NOW thanks to that idiot Bush. You conservatives would be a lot more believable if you tried to think of solutions rather spending all your time avoiding accountability. Everybody does stupid things now and again, it’s just that your no and again lasted 8 years.
18. GordonStands: . . . the fascists are YOU . . . AGAIN. I suggest you take Chuck Norris up on his offer to serve as President of Texas. Good times down there. Of course, the day after Texas secedes from the US, Austin will secede from Texas.
17. katablog: “MO and BO are arrogant, believing themselves to be “better” than the rest of us. Maybe it’s not racism but it sure is elitism.”
News flash: Only people who feel inferior to everybody think this way.
Evil little Mouse: Do you doubt the mistreatment of blacks during the early part of the last century? Probably not. So why do you find it hard to believe that the blacks are now mistreating the whites? Especially now that we have a President who really does hate the middle class whites and wants to wipe us out. He is what they have been waiting for. Come on down to the South it has gotten a lot worse since he was elected.
I miss Laura Bush already. And Vogue calling her ‘prim’ is like calling an apple red. Laura’s a librarian from West Texas- she’s supposed to be prim. And as FLOTUS she was the picture of grace for 8 years.
Michelle’s not in that league. Too many axes to grind.
And let’s stop with the ‘angy black woman’ stuff. Michelle’s angry, sure- noting her skin color does nothing to improve any argument.
Fascinating reading about Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis:
“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”
To which I say: Michelle, hanging out with white liberals was your first mistake. Of course they couldn’t see past race. They are incapable of thinking of people as individuals. How tragic that you formed your hateful opinion of America based on unpleasant experiences with hypocritical white liberals. Your immature thesis is proof that they did not hold you in enough regard to speak honestly. They probably thought this was the best you could do.
And while we’re speaking candidly, Michelle, you really do look ridiculous going sleeveless in winter. You think showing your arms make you look strong? Wrong. It makes you look idiotic. Michelle, you have an incredible opportunity to set an example for young girls and women by the way you conduct yourself. If you think that means making some weird fashion statement you are as shallow as you are confused.
And if you don’t understand that the white liberal media ignoring your blunders isn’t a repeat of the Princeton treatment, you haven’t learned a thing. Just as with your childish thesis, they probably think this is the best you can do. Well I believe you can do better.
64. Steve P.,
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXFxbx1Y4M
I’ve read a few comments here about angry black women targeting white women. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I’ve met some scary-@$$ women — white and black — and you deal with them just the same. Show you have a backbone, listen to the point beneath the anger and address that. The same way with an angry man. I’ve had a man jump out of his car at a toll booth to march over a couple of lanes and fight my husband. I got out of the passenger side and addressed him, “Sir, please get back into your call.” Please and Sir were enough. He looked at me, all 5 feet of me, and turned and got in his car. I’ve dealt with scary women in the workforce too. Show respect, but show you have a spine.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Michelle. Sorry.
Sorry, typo. It was “please get back into your car.” Sorry.
Ms Attitude: I don’t doubt there are people on both sides of the color fence that dislike the people on the other side. Its wrong, defeatist and stupid to embrace their peculiar world view. I assume you agree.
As for things in the south, I must have missed the many articles about blacks chasing whites out of the south or being mean to them. Seriously, from where I sit, blacks are cops, soldiers, lawyers, whatever and I don’t recall one of them running off to the USSR with secrets or serving in the Taliban like John Lindh.
I am sorry if I don’t seme sympathetic, but it seems from this site that people are racialising incidents like Al Sharpton does: rude people that walk thru doors without saying thank you are all of a sudden racist if they are black, but if they were white they’d just be rude; Michelle Obama on the cover of magazines and some people here are losing their lunch. Why? Its just like Jacki Kennedy infatutation.
And I say again this article is tasteless and trite.
oomo
My daughter, along with two nephews, got very cushy ($56K- $100K)jobs last year – UNDER Bush. However, now under bambi – their employeers are no longer hiring.
Michelle Obama is full of hate,but willing to take the plush life of first lady for sure.
Evil Mouse….You give Oprah much more credit than she is due I’m afraid. Ratings and paycheck do not translate into honorable and altruistic characteristics. And to lump Michelle Obama into the same category as Jackie O and Princess Diana? That’s quite a stretch to say the least. She pales in comparison to those legendary ladies. She married a community organizer who has command of a teleprompter and can follow orders from Madam Speaker that I will fondly refer to as “President Pork” in my newly updated vernacular.
She earned my lack of respect when she admitted that she wasn’t proud of America until her husband was elected. That was all I needed to hear. She can wave her toned arms from Vogue to Harpers Bazaar for all I care. It doesn’t elevate her one iota in my eyes.
Never forget one has to earn respect and admiration.
AThinkingPerson:
Well at least I’m not the Evil”little” mouse anymore.
Oprah is a shrewd businesswoman, a supporter of things other than herself (schools), and I would rather have her on a jury trying me for a serious crime than lots of other celebs with no brains. I know of nothing she has ever done that is dishonorable. Your antipathy (and mine) to flaky entertainers in general and the media that worship them should not stop you from seeing that Oprah is a good person–even if she may not vote the way I do.
Michelle Obama may be differed with on a lot of items (I was appalled at the “for the first time I am proud” too),but this article went far beyond (or under) that and was totally tasteless. Whatever MO is, she seems to be a good mom, a supportive spouse, and while I may not meld with her politics, she is the FL and deserves more respect than this article showed. After all, when the CEO we didn’t vote for shows up, his wife still is entitled to courtesy if not respect. This article failed to show any courtesy: calling her a “witch” was beyond the pale.
BO may use a telepromter but so did Ronald Reagan and he was sometimes lost wihout it too. If one is oppsoed to Obama, let it be on substantive grounds, not whether he uses a teleprompter. (Bush could have used a teleprompter!)
Oh…I detested the mania over Diana: there was one person I thought didn’t deserve any admiration. (I sympathesized with the Queen)
Good one. Michelle Obama is being treated like royalty by the very country she wasn’t even proud of a year ago. I’ve always been proud of my country.
#33 ardsgaine,
I’d leave the wife out of it if Barack would, but unfortunately he’s made her part of his political career. Don’t even think of adopting his disingenuous swipe that families are off limits.
#6 CharlieSays:
“Lolo thinks Military History is pointless. This tells me everything I need to know about Lolo.”
..the name “lolo” tells me all I need about Lolo.
#12 MK, I can see that one thing you are afraid of is learning how to read.
I love reading conservatives whine about hate. Some may have actually faced it but I doubt they’re the ones throwing the word around at anyone they disagree with.
#74 one of my own writes:
“I suggest you take Chuck Norris up on his offer to serve as President of Texas. Good times down there. Of course, the day after Texas secedes from the US, Austin will secede from Texas.”
..buh-bye! Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
I remember Michelle Obama from my Princeton undergraduate days. She always walked around with a scowl, always associated only with other African-Americans, always wound up at the Third World Center — a place for grievance mongers. Looks like she was the smart one. I will duplicate her attitude and begin doing as she has done.
.81 Evilmouse says …
“”"she seems to be a good mom, a supportive spouse, “”"
omfg. So a Klan member that takes his kids to klan meetings every Sunday is a good Dad to you? She dragged her kids to the first national church of hate whitey for her ENTIRE MARRIAGE.
THAT is good parenting for a leftist.
Lesson learned.
I agree with you all that the definition > angry black women < needs to be clarified. I have met black women NOT from America and they were the most wonderful ladies and the guys are sweet too
As a matter of fact a young AFRICAN ( from AFRICA for real ) woman that works at a local Wal-Mart makes me LMAO! she is too funny! and btw! her & her brother can’t stand the self entitled,racist,black Americans. Now I realize that we can not generalize but most blacks in America are still carrying a chip on their shoulder. I may have my differences with the Obamas but you can’t say that they talk or act,ghetto. I do think Michelle unleashed could be worse than that pastor friends of their’s.
From Mrs. Obama’s Princeton thesis, by way of FLMom: …”Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.” Um, if you say so, Mrs. Obama. But please try to raise the girls not to care as much. The late, great Buck O’Neal is my role model here.
It would be one thing in their favor if either one of them demonstrated a single jot of gratitude for what this country has enabled them to accomplish. I’ll hold my breath for that. I’m sure it’s coming.
I was at dinner tonight, sitting at the bar with a friend. A “black” woman sitting next to my friend interrupted our discussion to tell me “it is not Obama, but President Obama”—I was being disrespectable!!!!! Excuse me! This clueless idiot has wiped out my life savings, cost my my job and only wants to support the “welfare” class!!! He has yet to earn my respect. It is not given because of a title…Obama needs to understand that. Each day if falls lower and lower in esteem. I find nothing redeeming about this man. He is a fraud. He is liar. He is a racist. He hates America. He is an embarrassment to our country. The man has not substance or honor.
OBAMA — A MONUMENT TO INCOMPETENCY!!!!
I have never voted based on skin color….in 2008, America did and we got THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!!!!
So BO was raised by white ppl but married a racist. It’s obvious what’s going on in this country.
I listen to this one radio station because I looove the music but I just can NOT! believe the racist remarks about white ppl and how whites are keeping the black man down ( shaking head ) I’m soooo tempted to call in and point out these racist remarks.
she has bigger guns than her stick husband. did you see the comic book of Obama getting out of his suit with a blue shirt and a red O. reminds me of a obama uberman. Denzel with a Barry face. pure scifi. steve p is lolo
Michele Obama – If only she didn’t refer to Barack as “my baby daddy” Argh ! How ignorant and ghetto sounding ! I bet all the well bred politicians at cocktail parties around the world spat out their caviar !!!
Dave,
“#12 MK, I can see that one thing you are afraid of is learning how to read.
I love reading conservatives whine about hate.”
You can’t even tackle a simple written sentence. Go crawl back to HuffPo or whatever hate-site you frequent; they’ll forgive your grammatical travesties as long as you can spew the line.
Hawkins, I liked the article. I wonder if Michelle’s pretentiousness rubbed off on Obama or visa versa. Either way both of those pompous ass-holes are the perfect pretentious, gruesome twosome.
Where did all the haughtiness come from?
Steve P.
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What’s fascinating about reading the liberal responses here is that, just like many of the Liberal callers to Rush, Hannity, Levin, and the local talk radio programs, they show absolutely no sign that they have read/heard and comprehended the meanings of the words presented. They react purely to surface appearances and never bother to try and understand what is truly meant. Is there something in the Liberal code that prohibits doing research and studying a topic in depth, or fron interpreting a statement in context?
Steve, I challenge you to find one thing that Rush has said that demonstrates your accusation of “hate and ignorance.” Of course you have to take his statements in context, which would be against the liberal code, and you may have to put forth some effort to understand why he says what he says. Your statements certainly tell me that you haven’t a clue as to what Mr. Hawkings is trying to say.
90. Войска ПВО: Good god, have an original thought, will ya?
You know the worst of all of this? Whether in four or eight years these do-nothing, have done-nothing parasites leave our public house they are going to be in such demand from every corporate board, foundation, etc. that they are going to command multi million dollar salaries each and that’s not even talking the book(s) they will undoubtedly write. They are still relatively young and will be living the rest of their lives in style and wealth. And for what again?
I find it hilarious that the only thing the MSM can find attractive about MO is her ‘Sculpted Biceps’.
Seriously?
Biceps.
Hawkins failed to mention that the hospital that gave Michelle a six figure raise when her husband was elected to the Senate received a seven figure earmark from her husband within months and that the services she provided for her $300K were so vital that the day she officially resigned they were folded into the duties of someone else. Although she was successful in some respects, one of her first accomplishments was finagling a lucrative contract for a company run by the father of one of Barack’s bigger contributers.
P.S.
Barack even admitted that authoring an earmark to the place that employed his wife looked bad and he thought, if he had it to do over again he would have had Durbin do it.
#1 LOLO :So you think military history is pointles? LO LO LOINTELLIGENCE!
Paul of Alexandria whines: “Steve, I challenge you to find one thing that Rush has said that demonstrates your accusation of “hate and ignorance.” Of course you have to take his statements in context, which would be against the liberal code, and you may have to put forth some effort to understand why he says what he says. Your statements certainly tell me that you haven’t a clue as to what Mr. Hawkings is trying to say. ”
Paul, get a clue. This has nothing to do with Rush. This has to do with Mr. Hawkins calling the FLOTUS a “witch” simply because she is liberal, opinionated and black. It is shameful and pathetic to attack the wife and family of the president. It is the mark of a racist coward and not of a real man by any stretch. Real men don’t engage in such behavior.
For all the macho John Wayne movie tough talk cons are famous for, most of the time they actually sound more like some some catty miserable old women running down a more successful rival!
“Will:
Michelle Obama is full of hate,but willing to take the plush life of first lady for sure.”
Reminds me of some proverb about a pot calling the kettle black.
Just fyi. I absolutely, HATE! The Huffington post. I’ve never encountered such, hateful,vile ppl. Of course these ppl are the ones who worship the Obamas. So sad-
Is there something in the Liberal code that prohibits doing research and studying a topic in depth, or fron interpreting a statement in context?
Yes.
The Liberal Code demands that once you’ve made the affiliation to (…the set of assumptions, the worldview, the…thinking (using the term loosely…) then you defend the thing to the death.
Lockstep allegiance is all that’s required from today’s “liberal”, or, as Hillary likes to say, today’s “progressive”.
A very small number of actually functioning neurons is all that’s required. Some say Liberalism is a kind of…
Mental Disorder
I’m kind of an old fashioned type of guy and prefer the First Lady of the United States to be more elegant and classy then hip and sexy. Laura Bush, to me, seemed to be classy, elegant, graceful with a sense of refinement and gentility. Michelle O. just seems, to me anyway, to be a hard, cold and bitter woman. I’m betting that Barry doesn’t do or say very much that would piss her off.
48. Rachel:
“She is so unclassy and mean looking. She’s an anti-American, bigmouthed, conceited, condascending witch. Barbara and Laura Bush are probably laughing their azzes off at the big he/she. What a piece of work she is.”
This is a TYPICAL reaction from some Pajamers. It conveys deep jealousness towards an accomplished woman. They just don’t understand blacks. It’s a foreign culture to them. They consider themselves superior.
With your spelling, Rachel, you couldn’t pass a third grade spelling test. Readers are laughing their “azzes” off YOU.
Laura & Barbara Bush were typical Republican wives. Now you’d better learn about Black culture, which happens to be part of your country, if you’re aware. And also Hispanic, Asian, East European, and American Indian cultures. Your dear USA is a different country now. Enjoy your ‘Q, tacos, sushi, strudel and corn . . .
#110 HORACEnot WELL and#110 STEVE URINE Ah,the many faces of Michelle Obama,sounds like a poem doesn’t it, unfortunately there is nothing poetic about her;consider her many grimaces:There’s the poverty pimp hospital administrator scowl;the rabid, resentful,america-hating snarl;the sardonic grin as she realizes,that she is a talentless affirmative-action beneficiary,of liberal guilt ridden charity;the Evita Peron “concerned” look. so useful when pandering to hispanic welfare-dependent voters.Her most interesting expression however, must be her look of triumph,and contempt for servile libs, as she enjoys the fawning lickspittling ,of her self-appointed defenders like Horace and Steve.You missed your calling boys: Have you considered a job as lavatory attendants?
VIVO 116:”jealousness”? What is that? retardese, for”jealousy”? You have the nerve to attack Rachel’s spelling, while mangling the language like that? One can see you are a government school graduate :simultaneously arrogant and ignorant:a perfect Ohole voter!
I didn’t read the article. I’ve always thought relatives of political figures didn’t deserve media attention unless they actually engaged in politics, like Hillary’s abortive health care plan.
If you want to put them in People magazine, fine. They aren’t news.
#77 Fl Mom
“And while we’re speaking candidly, Michelle, you really do look ridiculous going sleeveless in winter.”
I thought the rest of what you said was good, but are you really concerned because she went sleeveless in the winter? Being from Florida and all where bikinis in January are a common sight, it seemed such a strange thing to say. I think the white shoes and matching purse rule was overturned a long time ago.
The Obamas bother me because they seem to think it is their duty to completely contrast the Bush’s as if we need exaggeration to see how much better and cooler they are. While Laura Bush sat in a chair and read to the little children, she gets down on the floor and hugs the little ones to the admiration of the media. While President Bush seemed awkward and fumbled words, Obama speaks eloquently (from a TelePrompter) and oozes cool to the admiration of the media. It almost as if they want to show that their invention is so much better than ours and the Obama’s are willingly obliging them. I picture some in the the media saying to each other: Now isn’t that better, see…we did good this time.
I want to think she’s a nice good woman but something bothers me about her as if they are both an invention rather than real.
It conveys deep jealousness towards an accomplished woman. They just don’t understand blacks. It’s a foreign culture to them. They consider themselves superior…Now you’d better learn about Black culture, which happens to be part of your country,
Total hogwash. Competency and intelligence have nothing to do with the flavor of melanin in an individual’s skin.
For the record, Michelle Obama is not a particularly accomplished woman and her husband is not particularly an accomplished man. What they’ve accomplished is to sell a rather vapid program of ch-ope to the willing and the easily confused.
It’s only idiots like the Reverend JWright and Jesse Jackson that like to keep the notion of some giant black/white dichotomy alive and well.* They do it for fun and profit, personal enrichment and self-aggrandizement. Other “blacks” (eg Morgan Freeman) like to say the culure they belong to is American culture, not black, not white, not orange, not green or purple.
*For example, JWright’s mentor James Cone teaches in the tenets of Black Liberation Theology that unless you believe in a Black Jesus, you cannot be a true Christian.
This site is a magnet for racists
Black Jesus ?? hee-hee-hee !!!
Shoot, everybody know Jesus was born in a “manger” – not in no “crib”
122SHADOW: This site is a target for excrement throwers who hide in the shadows due to cowardice.
I love the disconnect between conservatives who insist that racism is a figment of our imagination but ASSUME that all black people hate whites. Seriously, movie theaters don’t project as much as this site.
Some people writing here seem to have been severely brainwashed in their various eddu-ka-shun-al endeavors, having the purveyors of academia infuse “identity politics”* into your brainwaves.
(*black/white, young/old, Muslim/Christian, rich/poor, male/female…ad infinitum, ad nauseam)
Enlightned people of any coloUr, age, faith, sex (et al. and etc.) go for principles, principles that transcend any and all of these alleged and endless “differences”. Differences, BTW, that the Democrat party heavily relies on reinforcing in order to keep its mission alive.
PETE: I love the disconnect between liberals who assume that their anuses, are figments of their imagination,and assume that they can,t defecate,and wind up being filled with sh**t.They really ought to lay off the hallucigenics!
127. I’m sorry, did you have a point in the middle of that witless response? Again, why exactly do many conservatives seem to simultaneously argue that racism is not a big deal in our society yet also place a not so subtle threshhold for African-Americans to PROVE that they don’t “hate white people”.
OMG, just read Michelle’s thesis . And this is the work of a four year Princeton education??????? I thought Princeton was Ivy League where only the very, very brightest were enrolled.
I was a high school teacher for many years. I would have been delighted to read this in high school as written by a very bright student. But, Princeton???
BTW, do they teach punctuation at PU?
I have not ever…experienced a moment where I was not proud of my country.
I am now, however, quite astonished, for we have elevated our experiment with affirmative action to the level of national disgrace. I fear this recklessness will not end well.
OMG, just read Michelle’s thesis.
I found it unreadable and tedious going.
Since Michelle took it upon herself to lecture me during the campaign as to the kind of American I am, she earned my eternal scorn. The tripe she wrote for Sr. Thesis at Princeton doesn’t in any way shore up her credibility.
Princeton educated Blacks and the Black Community
Mrs Obama is a product of the racial policies of America of the 1950s and rightly so bcause America believed and practiced terrorism and apartheid against people of African ethnicity.
Read the books people! She is a classy lady who speaks her mind and that is what America should be about but no! They have become intolerant in spite of their white privildege. So much for elites without roots who depend on the putting down of other to uplift themselves.
I read about the Obamas and they are just plain Americans and are not like the Bush aristocracy. Barak Obama, I see him as more of an immigrant because that is his background despite his European ancestry (Irish).
Despite his bi-racial origin, I realize he is black according to post racial politics in the minds of white people but above all he is American to the core.
In Obama we trust! I hope he delivers us from the Bush deficits made so courtesy of the Republicans, the War but the Conservative allowed but now they are trying to blame Obama.
That is not family values!
In her speechifying during the campaign, Michelle (arrogantly) told her impressions of Americans as mean, lazy…complacent.
(so which one are you rebpureblood, maybe all 3 ?)
Her sundry observations caused so much dissension and criticism that she was taken off the campaign trail and went home to Chicago to play supermom for many months, while Barack soldiered on without her.
It’s hard to relate Michelle to the racial trials of the 1950′s in America, since she wasn’t born until 1964.
During the campaign, her husband told rich élitists in San Francisco (“aristocrats”, pureblood) that those poor Pennsylvanians clung to guns & religion, and Barack was all over the map on his views of shutting down “dirty” coal plants. But those clingy Pennsylvanians and coal industry Ohioans both put their states in Barack’s column in the Nov. 4 general election.
It really is very hard to underestimate the stupidity of today’s American voter.
When I first read Ms. Obama’s thseis about 6 months ago, I couldn’t believe it was that of a college student. It was more funnier than I would have expected.
I need a new keyboard, I meant ‘thesis’.
tanstaafl
You betcha,
You have first person experience!
Horace, you’re going to have to get a little more substantive if you’re going to engage in serious argument.
Just repeating “I like this guy” (Barack)in various ways and permutations does not cut it.
That’s what’s scary about the vast majority of Obamatrons that voted for this George Soros’ candidate. (maybe you can tell me where Barack’s $750 million campaign “war chest” came from, since most of his supporters are currently waiting for a check in the mail to cover the mortgage and the car payment)
Y’all seem like foot soldiers in an army of Useful Idiots.
It’s lucky this isn’t a Christian nation as one reading these comments realizes how ugly some Americans can be.
PETE: Witless? Not to the other nonlibtards here;as for you well,libtards lack senses:common,humor, and others (tto much drug abuse.
“johnnyrebpureblood”
heheheehehhahahaaaaaha
“one of my own:”
Bitter, table for one…
#137 Tanstafl: It came from george soros,and similar left-wing plutocrats who fancy using him as their sock puppet.
Michelle Obama is a beautiful strong woman. Calling her a “witch” is disgraceful, although I’m sure there are plenty of folks in the pagan communities who would see that as a compliment.
A Doctorate in military history. I guess that means Hawkins has studied military history but was too much of a coward to actually enlist.
#143 Pat J. You’re right;”witch” doesn’t do her justice,she’s just plain ugly, inside and out,..and mediocre as well,like her hubby,see my post# 117.Your comment on Hawkins being a coward because he didn’t enlist after his military history doctorate, marks you as as another OVTARD (Obama-voting retard),So by your logic a A Phd.criminologist is someone who studies crime, but lacks the guts to be a criminal.No wonder you think Michelle is” beautiful”.
It is so difficult for me to accept that Michelle is our Fist “Lady”! Comparing her to our past First Ladies is like comparing apples to oranges. I did not vote for, and do not like change! Please, Michelle, stop wearing low cut tops (recent trip to London)! Something needs to stay consertative…at least let it be the way you dress! By next election, Americans will be screaming for a consertive Reagan-Like Leader! God help us!
Military history is worthless. A PhD in military history is even more worthless–hilariously so, in fact. A turgid, poorly written conservative editorial completely unrelated to military history, written by someone dumb enough to pursue a PhD in military history? That may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.