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First Lady Of Gaffes
IBD ^ | February 29, 2008

Posted on 02/29/2008 5:31:39 PM PST by Kaslin

Election '08: After revealing she had never been "really proud of my country," Michelle Obama damns business as "the money-making industry." By contrast, she says, the Obamas are in "the helping industry." Bad omen.


Visiting a day-care center in Zanesville, Ohio, America's would-be first lady advised the assembled women not to "go into corporate America."

"Become teachers," she counseled. "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 choice, as we did, to move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."

No disrespect to teachers and nurses, but there are problems with those remarks.

First, when she says "move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry," she speaks volumes. Apparently, well-paid people in all kinds of profitable fields are, in the Obama worldview, just idle, scheming splinter-collectors who help only themselves.

On the other hand, the social workers who make sure the cash flows from the various elements of the massive government bureaucracy are the great and noble helpers.

However, the oil CEO who invests billions of dollars of his firm's profits in the research and development of new technologies that bring hitherto unreachable deposits of fuel to the cars and homes of millions of Americans is very much in "the helping industry."

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: michelleobama; never; neverproud; neverreally; neverreallyproud; obama
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1 posted on 02/29/2008 5:31:41 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

She really needs to shut up.


2 posted on 02/29/2008 5:33:54 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Kaslin
Stupid old crow...where does she think “helping ‘industries’ “ GET the money they love to selectively give away?
3 posted on 02/29/2008 5:34:00 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! ALLLLLWAYS!)
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To: Kaslin
they're socialists. Markets are the material hope of mankind.

You can freaking quote me, 'cause I made it up.

and how dare they call her the "first lady" of anything. Why is everyone tossing around rhetoric like that and laying down as if that's a foregone conclusion?

4 posted on 02/29/2008 5:35:18 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: bannie

Simple, take it away from greedy kapitalists


5 posted on 02/29/2008 5:36:10 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee!)
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To: Jorge
She really needs to shut up.

No, Horhay, I rather think she needs keep on saying what's on her mind. Let her have her say. Let it be shouted from the housetops.

Before it's too late.

6 posted on 02/29/2008 5:36:24 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: Kaslin

For our sake, I hope they don’t wire her jaw shut....


7 posted on 02/29/2008 5:37:59 PM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: Kaslin

The Ta Ray Za Heinz Kerry of 2008.


8 posted on 02/29/2008 5:38:15 PM PST by johniegrad (Virtue advances as testosterone retreats.)
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To: Leo Carpathian
‘Em are Those!

She may be as abhorrent as Herself the Vile and Putrid.

9 posted on 02/29/2008 5:38:45 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! ALLLLLWAYS!)
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To: Kaslin

Socialism is an ugly thing even when espoused by a delusional liberal.

Naturally Obama’s Mama hasn’t a clue, most token quotas don’t realize where their good fortune came from.

They believe the government generates revenue.

A depression is where this country is going to see itself shortly.


10 posted on 02/29/2008 5:38:50 PM PST by Shirerwasright (Liberalism continues to erode the foundations of America)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Agreed!

Let her create all kinds of material for us.

Sounds like the next TeREHza Kerry already.


11 posted on 02/29/2008 5:38:59 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: johniegrad

scumbags


12 posted on 02/29/2008 5:40:25 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

“I rather think she needs keep on saying what’s on her mind. Let her have her say. Let it be shouted from the housetops.

Before it’s too late.”
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Spot on. I can only hope that she becomes even more comfortable on the campaign trail so she espouses more of her real opinions that she otherwise keeps guarded. I suspect she has many more socialist tendencies.


13 posted on 02/29/2008 5:41:42 PM PST by AlternateEgo (Fred Thompson for the Supreme Court)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Adam Smith’s invisible hand chopped off by islamics.


14 posted on 02/29/2008 5:42:13 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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To: Kaslin
"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005, when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962.

Michelle "The linebacker" Obama's contribution to containing healthcare costs.

Regards

15 posted on 02/29/2008 5:43:33 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll just say that on the Political Compass website, I come out only a few ticks to the immediate left of Milton Friedman. Needless to say, I’m scared to think what will happen if the Obamas get in the White House.


16 posted on 02/29/2008 5:43:51 PM PST by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Jorge

She is an entitlement queen. This is just obnoxious and insulting.


17 posted on 02/29/2008 5:44:09 PM PST by Pinetop
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To: Jorge
She really needs to shut up.

To the contrary...this should be very illuminating to people to know what is really in her mind. I hope she keeps talking...she's the best hope the gutless GOP has!

18 posted on 02/29/2008 5:44:57 PM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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First Elizabeth, now this twit. Who cares what she thinks? Its the husband we need to worry about..

Peruse this youtube for what Obama really is...

19 posted on 02/29/2008 5:46:54 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Pinetop

And a priviledges hypocrite. They made around $900,000 last year.


20 posted on 02/29/2008 5:46:57 PM PST by Jorge
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