The first lady tried to enlist “Families for Obama” at an event with tickets starting at $500 a pop at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Friday.
The pool reporter estimated that there were a couple dozen kids in the audience of about 350, and Michelle Obama spent much of her speech talking to them.
“I mean, I can’t tell you in the last election how many grandparents I ran into who said, I wasn’t going to vote for Barack Obama until my grandson talked to me, until my great-grandson talked to me, and talked about the future he wanted for this country,” she said.
“You can get out there with your parents. You guys can knock on doors. I had one young lady who brought me a petition — she’s already working. You can convince wrong people. Sometimes we don’t listen to ourselves, but we will listen to our children.”
That petition was handed to her by a Code Pink activist who bought a ticket and handed Obama a “no war on Iran” with a purported 20,000 signatures. The antiwar group said the signatures included Gloria Steinem.
The first lady spent much of her speech talking about the standard campaign themes of fairness, touting the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, healthcare reform, education and killing Osama bin Laden.
“And let’s not forget how my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices,” Obama said. And let’s not forget how, for the first time in history, our daughters and our sons watched three women take their seats on our nation’s highest court. And we are now feeling the impact of those court decisions and what effect that will have on our children’s lives for decades to come — on their privacy and security, on whether they can speak freely, worship openly, and, yes, love whomever they choose.”
For a cool $38,500, a family of six could get a photo with the first lady at the event.
The Obamas and their friends will have no trouble in certain parts of the country in getting great-greatgrandparents and great-great-greatgrandparents to vote Obama.
Unless she means voting “the Chicago way” (being alive is not required).
As great-greatgrandparents and great-great-greatgrandparents tend to reside in cemeteries, they would be voting the Chicago Way.
Priceless: “You can convince wrong people.”
–happy them.
My daughter has two great-grandparents still living. One is 100, the other is 98. Neither of them would vote for OZero for love nor money.
And my response to my great grandchild?
You’re out of my will.
Did Michelle tell the sweet kids the nice story about Barry’s last visit to see his Grandma in Hawaii ?
Teach your great-great-grandmother to suck eggs…
For a cool $38,500, a family of six could get a photo with the first lady at the event.
Michelle Antoinette Superstar!
How much for a piece of cake?
If the $500billion cut from Medicare didn’t tick them off enough…
I object to your reference to “no ad hominem attacks”. That is in the eye of the beholder and if someone is characterized as an idiot, who are you to say that is not a fact. Or a socialist. Or out of their mind. Or evil. If it is true – an truth is not relative regardless of what people think – how is that an ad hominem attack? If your desire is to keep things “civilized”, you had better give your head a shake. For how should one deal with someone attempting to destroy others? Discussing rationally? How does one have a rationale exchange with ignorance? This is political correctness taken to the extreme and if you are looking to score “brownie points” with the Insanestream Media or progressives, man you guys need some therapy. The best antidote to progessivism is blunt, square up push back and ridicule with a firm dose of vitriol. Playing nice is fine with an honest broker, not with a dishonest and conniving one. And so when one is referred to as falsus turpis pinguis sus, if it is objectively true, how is it ad hominem? It is harsh, but it is the only way to combat those who wish to destroy us.
Sir Charles,
You appear to be exactly the kind of person who has no business engaging in civil discussion.
THIS used to be called indoctrination…..
Let me get this straight,children know more about politics than their elders?And what would qualify them to know more?
life experience…………..NO
education………………..NO
watching mtv……………..NO
listening to their brainwashed peers………..NO
listening to their teachers………………..NO
singing songs of praise to the democrats dear leader?………..NO
listening to rap ‘music’,…………………………………NO
spending their parents money and not working………………..NO
common sense…………………………………………….NO
ect.,ect.I think I’ve made my point
I got this in my email this morning. This looks like a good place to share it….
Son moving out……..
Two men were having coffee when one of them said: “Last night my son just walked into the living room and said, ‘Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, rent my room, throw all my clothes out the window, take my TV, stereo, iPhone, iPod, and my laptop. Please give my jewelry to the Salvation Army. Then, sell my car. Take my front-door key away from me and throw me out of the house. Then disown me and never talk to me again. And don’t forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to my brother.’”
The other man said: “Wow, he really said that?”
“Well, he didn’t put it quite that way. He actually said, ‘Dad, I’ve decided to work for Obama’s re-election campaign.’”
Life lesson for the youngsters telling an adult how to vote…”Shut your trap you little twit, let me tell you why Obama is a unprecedented disaster.”
My children and grandchildren already know the score. Obama gets a big NO WAY from all of them.
Communist Party indoctrination always starts with the children, and the Obamas are skilled practitioners of that craft.