I'm not surprised that whites have an unfavorable view of Michelle Obama, but it's their problem, not hers.
After all, what is there not to like about Barack Obama's wife. She is attractive, well educated, and family oriented. In fact, Michelle Obama seems to possess all of the qualities white conservatives are supposed to admire.
She has found a way to balance her professional life with her family, and puts family first. She has been involved in many civic activities, and frankly, Michelle is the kind of woman who finds going to her daughter's soccer game a lot more enjoyable than attending a celebrity-studded soiree.
But a recent poll found that Michelle Obama is twice as disliked as John McCain's wife, Cindy, and that "whites" have an unfavorable view of Michelle.
Before you jump on me with both feet, please read the AP report.
One comment from a Republican and church secretary quoted in the AP story about the poll caught my eye: "Cindy seems like she's laid back and not trying to run her husband."
Is that it?
Do these whites see Michelle Obama or a negative stereotype that is often foisted on successful black women....that they are too aggressive and hard to get along with?
If that's the case, there's little Michelle Obama can do in five months to change the minds of people who have bought into the "Sapphire" stereotype.
Unlike her husband, Michelle can't transcend race. She's a beatuiful brown-skinned African-American woman and she's not going to get any points for being half-white. Voters will have to accept her for who she is: a strong black woman
Mary Mitchell is a columnist for the 
The same AP story reports that only one in eight blacks view Cindy McCain favorably. No mention of that in your column. Apparently your race sensitivity knows only one perspective.
It has nothing to do with race or sterotyping.
Michelle Obama came out Portraying herself as an aggressive, Domineering person.
That was Michelle Obama's doing, no one had anything to do with her personality, and how she carries herself in person.
Even with the new make over of her, by the PR department she still has rough and gruff edges, but has been a vast improvement.
It amazes me how women with opinions like Michelle Obama and Hilary Clinton are so demonized in our culture.
If the shoe fits...she should wear it
And no, we voters do not accept Michelle Obama, because she is an unpatriotic ingrate
She is a strong black woman, Mary. That's the whole problem for white conservatives, and it won't go away. I wouldn't worry about them, though, because these are the people who wouldn't vote for Barack Obama if their lives (literally) depended on it - the cut-your-nose-off to spite your face crowd. Their livlihoods probably do depend on it, but they just don't get it.
Lucky for them that the rest of us are going help them out in spite of themselves (before they drag us down the Bush/Cheney neo-con sinkhole this country as been circling in, faster and faster, for the last eight years). The speed of the downward spiral has been getting frightening, but I see a life preserver (and I hope it's big enough and soon enough to help us out of a horror story ending).
Hey Mary, How do your own words, with just one twist, taste? "I'm not surprised that BLACKS have an unfavorable view of Cindy McCain, but it's their problem, not hers." It's almost always about race with you.
It seems quite apparent to me that Senator Obama is doing just fine among whites despite your attempt to question the motives or opinions of white voters about Michelle.
And it's truly pathetic that you pull one article and quote a Republican church secretary and interpret the meaning behind her words. Disgusting! One Republican church secretary's words, intentionally spun by you in hopes of either changing the minds of white voters or fueling some other racist agenda, does not speak for all white voters.
It's really funny. In that same AP article, Michelle is said to be looked at unfavorably by those 65 and up. Why don't you pick on some senior citizens while you're at it? Your article simply makes me laugh at you.
WOW...CAN'T EVEN GO TO THE FIREWORKS SHOW AT THE LAKE ANYMORE, BECAUSE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SAVAGES JUST HAVE TO START SHOOTING INNOCENT PEOPLE. I AM SO EMBARRASSED TO BE BLACK
We expect white people to stereotype Michelle since she is an intelligent,family oriented, beautiful black woman.Thats sad about this country, another strong reason for a CHANGE. When Obama wins this election, Michelle can show her talent and help this country's racial issues.
HELLO MARY,
I VISITED CHICAGO WITH FAMILY FOR THE TASTE AND FIREWORKS SHOW. WE HAD A GREAT TIME UNTIL THE SUN WENT DOWN. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT THIS CITYS BLACK POPULATION IS A BUNCH OF WILD ANIMALS PEOPLE SHOOTING, PEOPLE FIGHTING, PEOPLE GETTING ROBBED, UNREAL. HOW DO YOU STICK UP FOR THESE PEOPLE? THEY COMPLETELY RUINED THE TASTE, GOD BLESS THE POLICE THEY WERE VERY BRAVE, DURING ALL THE SHOOTING AND THEY DEFINITELY DID NOT HAVE THE NUMBERS. THE MAYOR SHOULD LET THE CHICAGO POLICE GO TO WAR OLD-SCHOOL WITH THESE DIRTY ANIMALS AND CLEAN UP THIS CITY
I am awhite, Catholic, senior and I think Michelle Obama is terrific. She is all the things you say she is and I admire her greatly as I do her husband.
Is Michelle Obama proud to be an American Today on the Fourth of July?
The comment that whites don't like Michelle Obama is itself perplexing. How many whites or blacks, for that matter, have ever met or interacted with her, so what's not to like? Since her husband and children obviously love her and know her better than anyone else, stating that someone who doesn't know her dislikes her seems to be prompted by jealousy and beneath the intelligence of the American electorate.
The question, itself, appears to encourage nonsense and to be on the level with the childen's story, "GREEN EGGS AND HAM" by Dr. Suess.
I am convinced that after the black man in America, the most feared person in America is a strong black women, especially by white women. The white women who do not like Michelle, will have to look within themselves to find out why. White women seem to exepct black women to "need" something and when the white women meets a black women who does not need anything from them they are perplexed. The white women then say, "She's to agressive". I know, because I have worked professionally with white women for twenty years. I am a strong black women, who knows her job and if I point out some flaw in there plan or "speak up", then I did not have to "say"it like that or my well though out comment is dimmissed. Needlessly to say I come out on top, because black people are under estimated for their intelligence. "That is why my white female boss over spent that budget, when I kept telling her to check the money. I laughed like hell that day and many others when she failed to listen, but some how she has kept her job.
Cindy looks like she can not stand her husband. They appear to be married in name only, where as Michelle and her husband look like they still have that "loving feeling".
Way to go Michelle, show them that you do not need their approval to be successful!!!!
Gordon Sinclair
Radio Station CFBR 1010
2 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. Thats who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there. I saw that.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
Now,I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on now... you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are right here on our streets in Toronto, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
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Why does it seem that it took a man from a different country to understand how great America is?
If you are one of those people he speaks about, SHAME ON YOU.... if you are sitting there after reading and/or hearing his words going "RIGHT ON"... nice to meet you friend isn't it great to be an American?
I will leave you with one more of my favorites.
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
From:http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2007/01/are-you-proud-to-be-american.html
Free Speech is NEVER Free! Many times it is censored by those politically correct authoritarians who claim the love freedom.
I wonder if anybody will ask Madam Obama the following questions: Were you proud when George W. Bush nominated the first African-American to be Secretary of State? Were you proud when George W. Bush nominated the second African-American to be Secretary of State? Were you proud when Geroge H.W. Bush nominated Colin Powell to the top positions in the US military?
Were you proud when in the 1980s, the most popular program on television for five straight years was the Cosby Show, which featured an entirely African-American cast? Was that a sign of racism? Were you proud that the most watched daytime show in history is produced and directed and run by an African American woman? Were you proud that an African-American woman from Tennessee knocked the venerable Phil Donahue right off television?
Nobody will ask her a tough question. She is now treated like a royal figure. But maybe someday, some reporter will dare to ask the Obamas a question that is not sycophantic.
Larraby on February 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Michelle Obama is from Africa? Wow! I didn't know that. I work with a beautiful African American woman. She was born in Eritrea before legally immigrating to the US and becoming a citizen.
Her race is not "African" - it's the continent where she was born. Just like my "white" associates are North American because they were born here and are not simply "naturalized citizens" of a country (Our country is technically the United States of America, not the entire continent "North America".) My white co-workers' racial designation is "Caucasian". People seem to forget that European Americans were from a continent (Europe) before immigration. I don't get to go around demanding the designation of European American because four centuries ago, my ancestors literally were "European Americans". I am a citizen of the United States of America, born on the continent of North America. My skin color defies my racial designation, and if you must know the truth, I can make people dislike me without ever having to see me - just by virtue of fearlessly voicing an unpopular opinion.
Do I dislike Michelle Obama? I don't know her well enough to have an opinion one way or the other truly, so in that respect, I'd have to say no. I don't dislike anyone until I have good reason. Even so, I can like someone but very much dislike their attitudes and behaviors. And incidentally, I don't have to live in line-item-agreement with anyone to "like" them. If that were the case, I'd hate everyone, including you, based upon this sole opinion piece you've penned. As far as I can surmise, its intent is to belittle those who don't hold your opinion (and if you're really sharp, you'll recognize the irony in my sarcastic diatribe above, but I'll identify it as such for you now, not to assume an intellect that isn't necessarily there). We, the readers, the voters, dare I say We The People are too ignorant to form intelligent, thoughtful, fair opinions without someone using shaming, race-baiting innuendo to "get us in line." Apparently, that's where bloggers are filling a void we apparently survived for hundreds of thousands of years without recognizing as vital to our existence.
Hooray for Michelle Obama for being "a strong black woman". Hooray for any strong human beings. Truly, you are as guilty as all the "haters" for feeling the necessity of praising someone's strength with the qualifiers of "black" and "woman" - as though they are few and far between and somehow more significant than the strengths of any human being.
Yes... I think I have formed an opinion. I don't think I would like you. But despite that, I hope you have a nice day anyhow. I know I will.
This White female admires Michele Obama for her intelligence, grace, dignity, and strength of character. I wish she was the candidate instead of her husband. I'm sick of the bitterness that the press and TV analysts have nurtured during this election year. Enough already!
To start with, I wish that people would stop the focus on race.
Just stop it.
Yes, Michelle Obama is a strong woman. Notice how I didn't say Michelle Obama is a strong *black* woman? In that same vein I would also have to say that Hillary Clinton is a strong *white* woman. Do you see how ridiculous that is?
One of the many reasons I won't be voting for Obama is that every time his wife speaks I get the distinct impression that we'll end up with another "co-presidency" like we had with Bill and Hillary.
I'm not voting for the spouse. I'm voting for the candidate and it is my opinion that the spouse of that candidate has a place - a role to play. Michelle Obama could learn a lot from Laura Bush on that role.
Jermaine Courtney: What the hell does the shooting at the Tatse have to do with Michelle Obama?
I think Mrs. Obama is a wonderful woman and the way she is being portrayed is unfair. It has been stated that black me who date white women do so because a white woman will support her man through thick and thin and a black woman will tuck tail and run. Well, Mrs. Obama is clearly in this for the long hall and that is very commendable. I'm a young woman so I was just a child when Clinto was elected, but I'm wondering if Hilary was portrayed in such a negative light while supprting her husband. Believe me... she didn't get all that "experience" she brags on by being a submissive "typical" First Lady!
Jermaine Courtney: What the hell does the shooting at the Tatse have to do with Michelle Obama?
I think Mrs. Obama is a wonderful woman and the way she is being portrayed is unfair. It has been stated that Black men who date White women do so because a White woman will support her man through thick and thin and a Black woman will tuck tail and run. Well, Mrs. Obama is clearly in this for the long hall and that is very commendable. I'm a young woman so I was just a child when Clinton was elected, but I'm wondering if Hilary was portrayed in such a negative light while supporting her husband? Believe me... she didn't get all that "experience" she brags on by being a submissive "typical" First Lady!
You are correct J Milam, I think the first lady should remain in the backgroung like JFK wife, but we live in a era where the public has a lot to with it.
Mary,
Please stop stereotyping white people. I'm a white Democrat woman and I can assure you most Democratic whites do NOT share the same view of Michelle that conservative Republican whites have of her.
At the risk of stereotyping myself, it just seems that Republican candidates' wives are all cut from the Pat Nixon/Nancy Reagan mold - quiet, deferential to the point of invisibility, shutting their mouths and concerning themselves with looking nice, making White House dinners pretty and gazing adoringly at her Man throughout any public appearance. Pretty Cindy has it down, so she's upheld as the role model. Gag me.
Democratic men tend to choose livelier, more interesting women who are equals and partners - and the Repubs hate it.
They want women to shut up and be ornamental - unless it's someone who sexes it up and eviscerates liberals, like Ann Coulter. Betcha if Ann somehow became a Repub First Lady, she'd be quickly schooled in the quaint arts of Republican ladyhood PDQ.
I do not care for Obamas wife because she was a rude person attacking Hillary Clinton. And she envoked the race card first. And she wrote a poor crazt thesis. And she is now proud for the first time in her Adult life... no ty.
Michelle Obama is being judged, by some of us, by her words and actions. On that score I feel no need to decide if I like, dislike, admire or approve of Michelle at this time. But, in considering Michelle's "finally proud to be an American" remark, I feel we're no longer talking about race -- we're simply evaluating a remark by the wife of a presidential candidate and finding it pretty lame. As for perceptions, we are so quick to fawn over public figures, especially women, if they have nice hair, dress nice and are fashionably thin, etc. It's similar to the Princess Diana worldwide cult of devotion-- She was tall, thin, had great hair, a big wardrobe and millions adored her. She also was not that bright, had multiple partners outside her marriage but was not judged harshly for that; apparently the men who "shagged" her were the real cads. Right. I believe that present day Americans judge their leaders by looks more than many other countries do. Would we elect a totally bald man, or one with a large ink blot on his forehead? Would we support a large, horsey-looking woman (when we do, inevitably, elect a woman president), a black man or woman with very dark skin, or someone of either sex who is noticeably short? I seriously doubt it. And guess what, these discriminatory traits are ones practiced very much within the races themselves. Many blacks may not vote for an African American with skin as dark as, say, that of actor Wesley Snipes. Winston Churchill was fat, bald and homely and ran around his estate with no clothes on -- but he's one of the most heroic figures in history. Let's face it; in the US we make too big a deal of putting family first, not because it's unimportant, but because it's more of a private matter -- even for public figures. I'm an early Baby Boomer, blessed with fine, moral parents, but my parents' generation considered being strong, moral examples to their children a given, not a cause to alert the media. Yes, Michelle Obama is running for public office but I don't really care if she goes to her daughter's soccer games or would rather stay at home and play the NY Times crossword puzzle. This entire idea of a person being a great parent because he or she attends their kids' soccer games, or spends a fortune on birthday parties is what helped create the "Me Generation". Back to Mrs. Obama, what I do notice is that for all her education, she doesn't use proper grammar...There still are some of us left who judge others by their command of the language. In that regard, comparing Michelle to Jackie O is a bit off the mark; Jackie's English was excellent. At least Barrack, last I heard, has stopped saying "most importantly".
Heaven help us. This election has brought out the worst in people. If I hear one more stereotype regarding "whites" or "blacks" I think I'll puke. First of all, there is no such thing as race -- period. It's a term wholly constructed by modern society that is designed to divide folks and promote supremacy. As long as we hold on to it, we're owned by the concept and the divisions it sews regardless of color.
Second, Michelle Obama is getting the same treatment every strong political wife has gotten. Wrapping race around it undermines that reality and prevents society from examining and breaking free from gender stereotypes. You keep all women (and men) from breaking free from stereotypical roles by insisting that it is race rather than gender that is restraining her. So many folks can't even acknowledge that the US needs to come to grips with gender expectations and those same gender stereotypes and expectations hold down men too. We need to learn to allow people to be who they are instead of who we want them to be or expect them to be -- once we do that we free everyone, men, women, and children of all colors to pursue happiness and find their place in our society. Now, isn't that what the great American Experiment is really all about?
Hiding behind skin color again! If I were to say everyone MUST be nice to me, and like me, and approve of everything I do, just because I'm a white woman you would call me racist. Yet, if we white women don't wholeheartedly approve of everything Obama ,were still racist? The majority of Americans aren't as shallow as you've accused. The reason so many people don't like Michele Obama is because of the things she says and does. Not to mention what her husband is trying to do to this nation.
J Milam,
There is nothing that you could possibly point to that remotely indicates a ' co-presidency'. Just name one thing.
I honestly think this article is in really bad taste. I am one of those that is not fond of Michelle Obama for a number of reasons which I would be happy to share. I frankly do not know Cindy McCain since nobody let's her speak. I dislike the fact that Michelle speaks all the time for her husband. I also disliked it when Bill Clinton did the same for his wife. He is not running for office and neither is Michelle. What is really annoying is that both spouses talk too much and get into trouble and then the candidates have to defend their comments. Barack really upset me when he asked everybody to lay off his wife. If my husband was running for office and I decided to stump for him with my voice and opinions, I would feel very offended and frankly very weak if my husband felt he needed to come to my rescue. I guess I would have to disagree then that Michelle is a strong woman since she is only a strong woman when she is allowed to say anything without defending her very own words. I also think that Michelle needs to stop lecturing the voters as if they have until now been casting their vote for all the wrong people and for all the wrong reasons. See Mary, it has nothing to do with race.
Pressing4truth. I can answer for Michelle, yes she was proud of all the appointments and events you mentioned. She never said that she was not proud to be an American, she said REALLY proud which refers to previous times. By the way, who are you or anyone else for the matter to determine when and why a person feel a sense a pride? You just don't get it. We, blacks and whites view our history through different lenses. Whites just do not understand that and never will. Michelle was proud when her dad who had MS would go to work every day to support their family. She was proud when her brother graduated from Princeton. She was proud, when her neighbor graduated from the the eighth grade and she was proud that for the first time in her adult life, it seemed that America was truly voting for a man who happened to be black because they were focusing on the collective issues, coming together, black, white, asian, latino and native american. I got to tell you Pressing4truth. I was really proud of my country that night Senator Barack won in Iowa because this was a glimpse of the perfect union our founding fathers wrote about. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. Michelle saw her country like many in the black community treat her husband as an equal and vote for him because they truly believed in him and did not hold his race against him. That was one of her proud moments. Live with it and if you want to use this against Barack then so be it. You were just looking for an excuse anyway.
Like Michelle? Not a clue as I haven't met her. I question her decision making from what little I have seen. Most significantly raising children in a church that preaches hate to other races. Other than that I haven't seen enough about her to know.
I know she made a statement about being proud to be an American for the first time when her husband declared his nomination. She's kind of old to not have had a reason to be proud of being an American before that.
What did the poll say about blacks opinions of McCains wife?
If M.O. is strong and tough, good for her. If she has been stereotyped and experienced prejudice I can relate to her very well.
As a white male over 40 I am the most hated demographic in America by virtually every minority in America. I am personally responsible for: lack of jobs, weak welfare system, horrible race relations, lack of medical care for the poor, and every other problem in our society.
And shockingly we both belong to the same society. But, 2 different cultures.
Like her I am proud. Proud that my culture has unlimited amount of neighborhoods and cities that are safe, clean, and where parents are focused on the family.
The only difference between me and her. She has made millions off the people she is "supporting" while my taxes continue to increase to pay for a culture that has less concern for human rights than Idi Amin.
What's not to like?
- Her friends are powerful Chicago elite.
- She elected to send her kids to a "hate whitey" church.
- She has made a ton of money doing what, not sure.
- Her husband can do no wrong in the public eye.
- She has helped some Americans see clearly how blacks truely feel about the white person.
- She has opened up the eyes of many to the hatred of America by many in her culture.
What can you not like about a person that has such high values and patriotic to her country.
NOT.
One minute Michelle is a successful career woman with a $200K job then the next she is a house wife. Make up your mind?
"In the AP-Yahoo News poll, whites saw Cindy McCain positively by 17 points, while one in eight blacks like her."
As long as this "writer" continues to spew one-sided stories against white people and ignoring the real issues in the black community, white people will continue to roll their eyes at the real issues we face.
Ms. Mitchell...you are your own worst enemy and you do NOTHING for our community!
Unfortunately, some blacks in the city of Chicago were in attendance at the Taste of Chicago with the intention of harming rival gang members. As the sun went down, these gang members begin shooting at one another with disregard for the many innocent by-standers downtown. However, some people on this blog have asserted that it is all blacks in the city that should be rounded up by a mob and vigilante justice sought. One "black" person was so distraught at the events at the Taste that he/she stated that it was shameful to be black. (How many white students were ashamed to be white after the killing of college students at NIU? How many Asians in this country wanted to trade in their social identity after the massacre of Virginia Tech students by a troubled Asian?) Another observer on this blog commented that the city black population is a bunch of wild animals that are shooting one another. Imagine that, an entire group of people blamed for the actions of a few--guilty by association, or should I say skin color. Fortunately, many people do not think this way, and the people that do are isolated and can only utter such non-sense anonymously. And for the law-abiding "black" person that feels embarrassed when a few idiots commit atrocities, I wonder if you realize that many blacks are not committing crimes. Additionally, I hope you recognize that “blackness” is a social construct and that you could adopt another identity.
Michelle is too negative. She has scolded Americans and denigrated Hillary. (Yes, I am a Hillary supporter and thus not forgetful of the Obama slurs against the Clintons.) She tells us all that we should sacrifice for our country by volunteering and helping others. OK... where is HER community service? I cannot find where she contributed anything to the welfare of others without getting paid. (Same with Barack.) They do the opposite of what they tell others they should do.
Whereas, Cindy McCain has been working with the world's unfortunate for decades... yes decades. She founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT) which provided MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. (She led 55 of these missions over seven years.) She is now involved in Operation Smile, CARE, and the HALO Trust as well as her own family trust that contributes to these and other organizations. (Note: The Obamas contributed to their church, and are really lean in charity work.)
P.S. Cindy became addicted to opioid painkillers that she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs. She also suffered a near fatal stroke in 2004. She knows first hand about trials and tribulations. Ironically, Michelle has instead led a "charmed" life... which might explain her lack of empathy for others.
Michelle Obama NOT attractive. Take a closer look at her. Her face looks distorted!
i am hispanic and i have never seen a beautiful black woman, much less a beautiful african woman.
I don't like or dislike Michelle Obama. I am a strong, sometimes aggressive woman and I know that makes many people uncomfortable so that's not what I am having trouble with. I agree with the previous person. I think Michelle is going to be another Hilary and not a first lady. Inspite of all that, I will probably vote for Barack Obama because I have never voted republican for a major office and I don't plan to start now. I just wish some people would start looking at the issues instead of focusing on race.
to DWAYNE JOHNSON and JERMAINE: Relax ! Despite what you might think, we Whites do NOT put all African-Americans into the SAME category. Like us, there are good and bad in your community, also. But yes, perhaps a higher percentage of bad is in your communities future, because of 3 reasons. 1) 70% born out-of-wedlock birthrate, 2) 50% high school drop-out rate, 3) the influence upon your young by the music and entertainment industry. With the vile hip-hop lyrics which preach hate, violence, profanity, and disrespect of your women. And you do notice your activists (civil rights leaders, civic organizers, journalists) do NOT go after them with the same enthusiasm as lets say a Don Imus. Reason: The industrys financial contributions. They've bought the activists off.
BTW, my neighbors are Mexican-Americans. There mad. Because when there is a drive-by shooting in their community, Mary Mitchell says its the parents fault. When there is a drive-by shooting in the Black community, its the bad police's fault. She never blames an African-American parent(s). But does a hispanic.
To John:
Not true. I invite you to scan the archives.
Mary Mitchell
I am person who is very proud of what Michelle Obama has accomplised in her left, as of right now she needs to be seen not hard. Everything that she says is under a microscoop, racist/replublicans Fox news(Hannity and Korl Rove) loves when she opens her mouth, and people by into what they are talking about. The people that believes everything fox news talks about are mostly the uneducated, those whose live in small towns, that cling to there guns and religan; and who bought into the Bush/replubican scare tatics.
As an african american women, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO PROUD of Michelle O. It is in black women to be aggressive, so deal with it!!!!!!!!!!!! Cindy McCain is a non-issue from where I sit. You can't possibly stand the two side by side and compare, that's like trying to compare Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush. Two totally different generations and experiences. Give me Michelle anytime. I love the picture of her hugging Barack from behind. Girl you Go!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's for a moment pretend that all the candidates and their wives are of the same ethnic background. I still don't like M. Obamma. She's as mean as her view of our country. When I see her and Obama together, I just see a repeat of Hillary and Bill. Both lawyers, both agressively power hungery and both offensive in one way or another. Don't bet for a moment she won't have a solid vote with Obama if he wins the presidency and she's made it clear before her "makeover" and "handlers" got a hold of her that she is not proud to be an American. Sorry for Michelle, but she showed her true colors way early in this game and I don't for a minute think she has rethought her opinions, shes just been told what to say now.
Are you kidding me with this garbage? In one of the polls it shows whites have an 18% unfavorable view of Michell yet 8 out of 10 blacks like her. That means 20% of black dislike her. More blacks dislike her then whites.
Poll also shows that 30% favor Michelle and 27% favor Cindy. Hmmm sounds like more favor Michelle. It goes on to state the 35% have an unfavorable view of Michelle to 17% for Cindy. that means 35% of the polls have no opinion for Michelle and 56% for Cindy. That to me are very important numbers. Alot of people have yet to form an opinion of Cindy. Could it be that we know very little about these ladies? Michelle has also been a little out spoken and perhaps people heard this and made there decision. Cindy has been more low key and people have yet to make any opinion.
Any way this race baiting colum I thinks is rediculous. We don't know much about these ladies but because one is black we have to make something out of nothing. What a shame!
Hi
Commenting on the Michell O. story. Yes, she is a nice lady (BTW, I am VERY PALE WHITE, Educated, 39, suburbia guy)... You say "Unlike her husband, Michelle can't transcend race. She's a beatuiful brown-skinned African-American woman and she's not going to get any points for being half-white. Voters will have to accept her for who she is: a strong black woman".. Tell, me, is she beautful BECAUSE she is black and you as well OR is she pretty becasue she is pretty. If I ever saw an article stating Unlike her husband, Michelle can't transcend race. She's a beatuiful cacasian-skinned American woman and she's not going to get any points for being half-black. Voters will have to accept her for who she is: a strong white woman"... WHAT message are you sending? I read your articles many times on the train to work and sometimes I wonder... do you write because you are black promoting blacks regardless of the whites out there OR do you write an objective article because you are a jurnalist
Michelle is NOT being stereotyped ! I'll tell you who was stereotyped: The people of West Virginia. Now they were stereotyped. The ONLY primary race where CNN and MSNBC and NBC actually kept broadcasting captions underneath the picture. That 17% of West Virginians went to college. CODEWORD: Poor uneducated White HICKS..............No other state primary had captions underneath. So whose kidding who.............Want to be across the board then mention the drop-out rate in the cities....Disgusting what they did to the people of West Virginia.
As a black woman with, I think, a stronger personality than Cindy McCain's, Michelle has more challenges/obstacles before her--but Dr. Tantillo ('the marketing doctor'), who has a blog on branding, makes an excellent point that her best path to success is in refining her presentation while still being true to her core brand components. "She and her staff needs to identify those things about her brand that are central characteristics and rather than ignore them (she didn’t mention her career in law once on The View) show why these characteristics are central, why they matter and, ultimately, why they are positive."
He also draws important lessons from former first ladies: "Voters will accept first ladies on their own terms as long as those terms are expressed clearly and honestly. Jackie Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt were two of the best-loved and respected first ladies of all time and neither one shared much everyday experience with the bulk of American voters. But what they did have were personal brands that seemed authentic."
Granted, as a black woman, Michelle's situation is not quite as simplistic--but even so, her race can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage, as Obama's has been.
Here's a link to Tantillo's full post on the topic: http://blog.marketingdoctor.tv/2008/06/20/brandover-advisory-2.aspx
I wonder how much Michelle Obama pays her "live in nanny?"
I admit it - I have stereotyped Michelle Obama as a SOCIALIST.
By her friends, (Ayers, Dohrn, Wright) long term religious association, (Marxism mixed with theology) her husband's bundlers, Pink Code for example who loves Hugo Chavez...
and her own words, "Some will have to give up a piece of their pie, so others will have more."
Since socialism isn't a race/color - I can say it - I don't like her or her friends views!
(Chavez is a favorite of Ayers too)
On July 5, 1776 African American slaves (over about 95 % of the blacks in America) were still a species of property while their free colored brethern were second class citizens subject to legally sanctioned racial discrimination. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and James Monroe were all slave masters. Eighty nine years later after the civil war although African Americans were no longer slaves, it would be another 103 years before legally sanctioned racial discrimination was eliminated. Hearts and minds of some have been slower to change. Yet, many African Americans loyally served in the military of a country that did not love them,
Laura Bush killed one of her high school classmates in an automobile crash. Cindy McCain was the "other" woman, a beer baroness, a former drug addict and a former thief. O ne could imagine how Michelle Obama would be treated if any of these facts were true about her.
Michelle Obama is a strong independent woman of character and achievement. Her only main "problem" is the same one that her husband shares. They were both born with a permanent sun tan. Michelle is also a woman in a country that does not like women like her. Beyond that their rags to riches story is one of triumph and hope. Only in America is it even possible. What more could any one want?
I read Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis paper. The grammatical errors and juvenille writing style showed me that she is merely another affirmative action baby. She ain't that smart. Her shabby reasoning regarding Barrack being black enough because he could get killed (by some evil Whiteys) going to the gas station is the only stereotype in play here.
He's going to lose, and his nasty low IQ ghetto wive will be part of the reason why.
Michelle Obama, like her husband and Hillary Clinton, is a rabid socialist. People don't like to talk about that. Leftists don't like to use the S-word. The word brings to mind the communist regimes of Soviet Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and China. Instead, they have simply taken a respectable word, that word being "liberal", and attached the principles of socialism to it (the same thing having happened with Republicans more than a century ago).
I could care less about her being black or a female. What I can't stand about her (and her husband) is that she is an unapologetic socialist. The things that come out of her mouth when she opens it are frightening. It is ironic that this entry came out the day before Independence Day. I saw many articles in various newspapers and magazines about the principles that guided our Founding Fathers (more specifically, those Founding Fathers responsible for the inclusion of the those articles and amendments that provide for a federal republic and protection of individual rights). Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, John McCain, George Bush, and all of the presidents before him either know little of the ideas that guided our Founding Fathers or simply choose to ignore them.
I am a white male in my late 20s and I hate (to the extent that I can hate a person whom I have never) Michelle and Barack Obama.
Oh, and by the way, why would you reference a person who posts things like this:
Much that goes on in the hearts of white Americans is a mystery to me. They do not think like me. What follows is my take on those in the broad middle in 2008. Some are better than this, but some are far worse:
All white Americans are racist. The truth is you cannot grow up in America without becoming racist - no matter what colour your skin is. Blacks are racist too.
Whites seem to think that so long as they do not join the Ku Klux Klan and do not use certain words they are not racist. They are blind to their own racism because it does not affect them.
White people barely think about black people. It is like in those television shows where everyone is white except the judge. Most live in an all-white world, like on “Friends”.
Most do not even see themselves as white - they are just people. After all, they do not speak English with an accent, eat special foods or observe strange holidays. Everyone else does, but not them!
White people generally give each other the benefit of the doubt, but they do not extend it to blacks.
To me, Cindy McCain looks like a battered woman.
It's sad that the first ladies, and potential first ladies, who are most popular are the ones who appear to conform most closely with the stereotypical "First Lady." Even Hillary did much better in opinion polls when she hewed more closely to the first lady's traditional role. I like MO precisely because I see the potential to further modernize the role, and am cooler to Cindy McCain because I feel less confident she would, or could, do that.
Why would anyone think that Michelle Obama would be a co-president in the white house? She does not speak on policies. She talks about her family life and her husband. And, let's just say she were to be a co-president in the White House, would she be the first?? What about nancy Reagan with her penchant for using the horoscope to organize her husband's schedule and to make decisions. Get real!!
Let's be clear here: There is a very GOOD chance that Michelle Obama will end up in the White House as your first lady. you might as well start letting it sink in.
So, you've stereotyped whites into liking all people who watch soccer games, are family oriented, work hard, etc... white people should therefore like Michelle Obama?
It's ok for you to stereotype white people? I don't get this entire column. I can't even begin to point out the errors, biases, and inaccuracies in this column- it would be longer than the article itself.
I truly believe that Mrs. Obama is filled with hate; it is just in her.
Here's the problem. Back in the day it was ok for the black folks to say yesem, no sir and no mam. It was ok to sit back and wait on the white folks to eat and if you were lucky, get's what left.
Do you honestly think a white woman is going to feel proud or hold her head high to a black woman? Do you think white woman will ever feel comfortable addressing Michelle as "Madam President"?
Times are changing people, either "Get Right" or "Get Left"!
These same ridiculous xenophobes who claim Michelle Obama is the antichrist laud with great praise that husband-stealing, home-wrecking, botox-infused victim of McCain's verbal spousal abuse, beer baroness Barbie, with her pill addiction, proven online recipe piracy, and elitist luxury property tax evading ways. Like her blabbermouth of a husband, with all those speeches and stuff, all Michelle is just tall, thin, and evenly tanned! Nothing more!!! America doesn't need to be like France, with a former supermodel First Lady!!!! And, in case no one mentioned this, Michelle is black! BLACK!!!!
These same intolerant bigots herald Cindy McCain as the patron saint of ReThugniCon family values, epitomizing the time honored faux-Biblical virtues of right wing white womanhood. All despite the fact that Cindy carried on an illicit extramarital affair to get into this abusive marriage with McCain while his first wife was at death's door in the hospital after a car accident that left her permanently disabled and disfigured. All their venom brims from Michelle's not being alabaster enough in complexion, silky bottle blond enough in brain faculties, or Alaskan Huskie blue-eyed enough for their nationalistic tastes. That, and Michelle is well educated, accomplished and successful by her own right, very intelligent, thinks brilliantly for herself, has her own wellfounded opinions, and is interestingly outspoken. Yeah, I know - HOW DARE SHE!!! How dare Michelle Obama NOT post stolen recipes from FoodNetwork.com on her Senator Obama's campaign website as her own family's hand-me-down recipes, just to appear to be some twisted psuedo-Christian femmebot performing some warped prescription of womanly duties, just to assuage the meaningless unforgiving scrutiny of these tunnel-visioned, talking-points driven right-wing religio-fascists voting GOP for the last six election cycles!
I love Michelle. She's adamantly refusing to parrot the PC lines that banally engratiate her to these old racists coots and idiots, which, in and of itself, is to be PRAISED! She's going to make a terrific first lady! Michelle already has the audacity of courage and character needful to opnely confess that there have been those times when this nation has behaved SHAMEFULLY, times wherein she could not possibly be proud of godless, cruel America. Yeah! Hell YEAH!!! Like when we milked global sympathy from 9/11/2001 to justify invading and continuing to occupy two Middle Eastern Muslim countries that posed no threat, all in the guise of capturing an illusive villain (Where is Osama bin Laden, and why has he never been listed on any agencies' MOST WANTED list?) too many accounts say is already dead (since October 2001). Then we accepted the lies that we were liberators, we were going to be greeted with flowers and candy, and, the biggest lie of all, the oil, the real reason we were there, was going to pay the bills for this poorly planned fiasco. Whoa---kay! If we're not ashamed of that murderous madness, we certainly ought to be!!!
In that, I join her! I can't be proud that America has all but become everything we beat Hilter down for in WW2. Right now, the only thing for which I can be proud of America is that America is finally trying to put the divisive differences of ethnic heritage in our society on the back burner to elect the most qualified man in this election to the Presidency. The truth is I am not the only American who hasn't been proud of America since Reagan slept through Bush41's first two terms. That so many more not-so-proud Americans have joined me and Michelle in seeking to turn this nation around is why Obama has so many leads over Gramps in most of the polls recently taken. These days, I live with the consolation that on the 20th day of January in the year of our Lord 2009, President Barak Hussein Obama will be their 44th President of their United States of America too! Not just my President! Queue maniacally gleeful laughter of JOY!!!
Obama 2008!!!
So where do middle White America develope their views on what and who Black women are.......1st you look at the local media electronic and printed. What Black women make the news and how are they portrayed? Let's look at the local electronics like "MAURY" and "JERRY SPRINGER" Black women are shown to be loud, aggressive, immoral, ignorant (did I say LOUD), overly permissive.....you must understand that some of these shows are the only contact that alot of White people might every have of Blacks.....Then you look at how young Blacks in the HIP HOP Life describe and portray Black Women, now find out who is the fastest and largest growing number of inmates in the USA? Who is the fastest and largest growing HIV infected group in the USA, Who has by percentage heads the largest single parent household, if you live in Chicago, all you have to do is look out your window and Black women in just passing will have you shaking your head in surprise or disgust. God forbid if any are push in front of a live media coverage.....before its over you swear that they were a plant to discredit the entire race. Ms Obama like other sucessful Black women have an obstacle that is near impossible to overcome, so long as little Black girls keep grabbing up little White dolls to play with, this will continue to be persistent in the American society.
I don't get it.. Michelle Obama seems like a pleasant woman. To me, she has never appeared to be the way that so many of you are describing her. I know that perception is usually all the public has to go on when asked about someone's personality, but come on, how many people on this blog have actually met the woman? How do you know she's trying to "run her husband"? Seems to me that Michelle Obama has broken pretty much every stereotype regarding black women in this country. Maybe that's the problem. There's nothing bad to say about her, so people have to make things up. Black women in this country have it harder that ANYONE else, and that's including black men. For the most part, even sucessful, educated, progressive black men are beginning to be accepted in this country (on the surface at least). But it seems like a black women can do everything that this society says she is supposed to do to be considered a "worthy" member or whatever, and then they get criticized for being "too strong". Forget about the fact that often times, they've done all of this on their own, without a support system. For black women, they're "darned if they do, darned if they don't". Even Oprah was looked upon as being "too strong" at one point. Now, before someone jumps at this, I'm not saying that other races don't have it hard (especially the women), but I personally feel that black women have it the HARDEST. And I don't know about the rest of you, but being a black man, I run into ALL kinds of black women. And I'll leave with this: I'll take the "strong" ones over the "not so strong" ones any day of the week.
DENNNIE, the comment you made about black women was very domb. I guest you haven't seen the nasty, stank, gangbanging, $2.00 hocker latino women on the southeast side of chicago.
When Michelle Obama made the comment she was proud of her country for the first time, I understand where she is coming from. I think a lot of blacks understand. Rememeber slavery and the lenchings. Remember when the black troops came home from ww1 and ww2, they did not come home to the same welcome home party that white troops came home to. When blacks were intergrated into white schools, it took a long time for them to be accepted by their white classmates. When blacks marched downsouth for equel rights, dogs where turned loss, and water holes powerfull enough to brake windows and bones were turn on them. In old movies blacks played butlers and mades. King and Malcom X were killed. Did you ever hear of ploice brutality. Hank Aaron recieved threats because he was going to break Ruths home run record. The NFL refuse to hire black head coaches, and let a black QB run the offence. Cops get to beat black men on tape and get off. And there are jobs who hire illigel latinos before they hire blacks, as a manager for sevral companies I have seen it happen. There is a hip hop song by DMX, he says "my mother my father I hate them, but I thank god that he made them".
White people put youself in black people shoe, and tell me how would you feel.
"Michelle Obama NOT attractive. Take a closer look at her. Her face looks distorted!"
Dennis - that's funny...I thought I was the only one who thought that till a buddy of mine happened to be over when they cut to a shot of her and I mentioned it. He's a surgeon and is convinced she had some sort of work in or around her mouth - when she makes certain expressions, you can tell she had something done.
Not sure if I consider her attractive or not...I just know she can kick Barrack's a** when needed.
Ms. Mitchell, this link is for you to peruse when having time. It is not for you to post - unless you want to - but to view how many people who commit serious crimes we never hear about. Yes, there are some black and brown faces in this photo array, but NEVER the consistent photo array of whites blasted across the network airwaves, to give viewers another perspective of euros who commit heinous crimes. Black people faces are always there, but not white people.
Question! Question! Question to the white women!
How do white women feel about Asians, Latinas, East Indian, Middle Eastern or Arabic women who enuciate their words correctly and are dating white men.
I see quite a few white males with Asians and Latinas female mostly and they have that westernize attitude nailed down perfectly. I am just wondering if white women feel threaten by these women as well? Come on ladies it is blantantly obvious, but I don't know the pulse of white women on this.
Please do tell.
Mary, you don't really have to convince me (your reply to me), you need to convince my neighbors. You know darn well there is much friction between African-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Mary, can you really blame them. Especially after those racist comments Alderwomen Emma Mitts and (former) Dorothey Tillman made. Hey, when your looking for something to write about, maybe an article directed to them in a passionate and positive manner wouldn't hurt.
PS: Mary, the John who says Michelle is full of hate is a different John then me. John and I need to differentiate somehow.
Why is it always about race with you? Only racists are obsessed with race, especially when he or she (in this case you) likes to demonize Caucasians. You are an evil, EVIL hate monger.
I must commend Pressing4Truth for a very thoughtful and honest post. You demonstrated a very welcomed level of integrity, intellectualism and honesty. Thank you.
How come you never mention the black animals who disrupted events such as the taste? Oh I get it those African American animals are oppressed you're full of ....
Racists are enablers of hate and promote division. People of color are the most racist. People of color blame the “white” man and the “white” system for all their troubles. That is how Obama is “touching” so many people. He is feeding on the mentality that the government can and should take the responsibility away from the people. Let the government tell you how to raise your kids, it is not your fault your child didn’t graduate from high school. It was the schools fault, they should have made your child do their home work, or study. It is not your fault that your child broke the law when he/she shoplifted that shirt or cd, it is society’s fault for not setting up a system to give them what they want. Nobody should have to earn what they need or want, it is their inalienable right to be given what they want.
The majority of people who do not like Michelle Obama do not dislike her because she is black. (By the way, Black people are not “African-Americans”, they are black. White people are white, not European-Americans.) I can honestly say that I do not like the way she talks down to people. How she said Barrack will “demand” and “make” me do the right thing. I do not agree with her beliefs on how this country should be managed. I do not agree that the majority of Americans are stupid or ignorant, and that we need Barrack and the government to make sure I am taken care of. I do not like that she attended and supported and allowed her children to be indoctrinated on the message of the hate filled, militant propaganda spouted by Rev. Wright. I do not like her because I do not agree with her politics.
I think Ms. Mitchell is the worst kind of racist. She is using her position to continue to promote bigotry and division. She is preying on and taking advantage of ignorance. Instead of trying to allow each person to learn and understand so they can develop their own opinion, she uses race to pummel and manipulate people who do not agree with her. Ms. Mitchell is the perfect American, color doesn’t have anything to do with it, and she feels that she knows what is best for everybody. She has reached the level where she does NOT have any issues in her life, so she is the example or better yet the standard that everybody should strive to emulate. Her life is so perfect because she is so much smarter than everybody else, that she can now spend her energy on making sure our lives are as good as hers.
I prefer a person who understands that they do not know it all, that they do not know what is best for me. I like a person who minds their own business and lets other people mind theirs. That what might be good for me, might not be good for you. I like earning what want and need. I like that I am able to overcome the hard times, it makes me much more appreciative of the good times. I do not like somebody trying to make me feel guilty because I am white. That being white is a crime. I do not like it when people assume they know how I feel or what I think or what my beliefs are after looking at me and not getting to know me.
To all the people who lump all white people together and all the people who lump all black people together, you are the most ignorant racist people on the planet. Your audacity and arrogance to believe that you alone hold the truth is beyond comprehension. Understand, you’re the reason why people have racist views. You are not the solution, you ARE the problem.
Oh and the militant type who have posted, I like the way you point out the history of black Americans. I didn’t know that only black people marched, that only black people “forced” freedom and equality of laws to be passed.
I vote for less government. I vote for a fiscally conservative and social moderate. I do not vote based on gender or color. I read the information, I listen to their points and ideas, I then develop my own opinion and then I vote for the person who fits more closely to what I feel is right. WOW! Can it be that simple?
Stop the scare tactics and race mongering. Present the facts and allow people to vote appropriately.
(By the way, Black people are not “African-Americans”, they are black. White people are white, not European-Americans.)
Stop the scare tactics and race mongering. Present the facts and allow people to vote appropriately.
Posted by: Jerry | July 11, 2008 05:36 PM
Hi Jerry, you couldn't wait for the re-start of this blog to continue your hateful ways. Black Americans can be African Americans if they see fit to be. STOP TRYING TO CATERGORIZE US.
Just as you stated Jerry, "I prefer a person who understands that they do not know it all, that they do not know what is best for me."
Now that is a scare tactic Jerry, when trying to tell others how to identify theirself.
Happy Hating Jerry....lol, and quit contradicting yourself....*lol
"Black women have an obstacle that is near impossible to overcome, so long as little Black girls keep grabbing up little White dolls to play with, this will continue to be persistent in the American society. "
ebone - the REAL problem is not with black girls grabbing white dolls. the REAL problem is black girls grabbing black boys and getting pregnant...and never seeing the black boy again.
Solve the REAL problem first...the rest will follow.
Both Michelle and Barack Obama along with Mary Mitchell have played the "race" card throughout this entire presidential race.
The hate of Whitey is evident...Michelle especially plays this and frankly has done it going back to the speech she gave in 2004 at the annual Rainbow Coalition.
If anything, she and Rev. Wright along with Obama brought to the surface why so much hate remains and grows in the hearts of blacks. Blacks are daily being endoctrinated by their hate-mongering, hate-America ministers. Michelle not being the slick and scheming politician like Obama, has difficulty hiding her true feelings.
No amount of coaching and attempting to soften her image will remove the memory of her many on-the-road campaign speeches highlighting her hate of America and her government first socialist views.
Michelle alone steoreotyped herself. She like Obama, has a long-range plan. Don't be surprised if she too doesn't pull off the Hillary-run-for-the-senate using the White House as a jump start.
How can you possibly respect a woman, a highly educated woman, (no matter what race she is), when her husband wins a seat in the Senate and she introduces her husband as "MY BABY DADDY..." Should we expect the same if he wins the presidency???
VERY VERY SAD!! NO CLASS!!!
Michelle Obama has no one to blame but herself for the way most Americans, in the general public, veiw her.
She acted the way she did. They can't blame that on Hillary Clinton. Everything wrong obama has done since he started his campaign he some how fostered off on Hillary. Now he is doing the same with McCain.
Mitchell Obama instead of being grateful for all the benefits she has gotten from this country she has the nerve to say she is not proud. I am proud of America even tho the MSM has given obama godlike status. She should get down on her knees and thank the people who settled this country, fought for this country and prevailed. Not make fun of them. But then those that reap the benefits are usually the ones who complain the most.
Dear Mary Mitchellon,
If you like Michelle so much then ask her to release her SAT and LSAT scores. Also, ask her husband to do the same.
WHY DON'T YOU RELEASE THE RACISM FROM YOUR LIPS!
AND GOOD MORNING TO GOOD MORNING!
PHIL SMITH JR seems to object to my request for Michelle's SAT and LSAT scores. I would advise everybody to read Michelle's Princeton Thesis available online. I provide a typical passage below. One has to ask for Michelle's standardized test scores after reading her Thesis.
"By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."
"The same AP story reports that only one in eight blacks view Cindy McCain favorably. No mention of that in your column. Apparently your race sensitivity knows only one perspective."
WELL SAID.