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Entries Tagged ‘Michelle Obama’

Malkin and Fox: Flip-Flopping Racism in Action

Dear Michelle Obama, we’re watching your back. You betcha we are.

As I predicted, the pathetic whisper campaign of the nearly-hysterical Republicans to frame Michelle Obama as bitter, militant, angry, female and above all, BLACK is now reaching fever pitch. Yesterday’s little gem came from Fox News, via Michelle Malkin. (Pssst, Malkin. Did you [...]

We are Women, not Wedges

The New York Times has an article today about the strategy the Obama campaign intends to employ going forward, particularly with efforts to turn states that traditionally vote Republican blue. The first steps are putting a full-court press on states like Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio.
All in all, an excellent strategy. However, this [...]

Michelle Obama Speaks on Fear

Wow, Michelle Obama dug down into her soul to get to this point, I can tell.
She called on another supporter, whose voice quivered and broke with barely contained emotion as she explained how important it is to her, personally, that our country change course. She explained that she had just returned from Oregon where she [...]

Obama to GOP: Lay Off My Wife

See, sexism isn’t reserved for Hillary Clinton alone. Michelle Obama gets her share of it too, and the Tennessee GOP attack ad is just the beginning. Evidently, Michelle Obama isn’t entitled to speak on her own without it being twisted into the most obscene meanings ever. Barack Obama, during an interview on Good Morning [...]

Larry Johnson, Sen. Clinton, and Gutter Politics

What do you get when you put a former CIA operative and the trailing candidate for the Democratic nomination together?
A steaming, rolling pile of shit. I debated about whether to even write about this, but I think it’s important to talk about the bigger implications of the politics of personal destruction that sleazeball Johnson [...]

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Thinking Out Loud: Public vs. Corporate Service

In February, Michelle Obama made the following remarks at a day care center in Zanesville, Ohio:
“Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that [...]