Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Michelle Obama to tell husband's story
pressdemocrat.com ^ | August 18, 2008 | JEFF ZELENYand JIM RUTENBERG

Posted on 08/18/2008 7:08:51 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

One of the first images that prime-time viewers will see of the Democratic National Convention next week is that of Michelle Obama, who will begin the four-day introduction of her husband, and her family, on her terms.

Like everything else at the meticulously orchestrated gala, that is by design.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; michelle; michelleobama; obama
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-56 next last
Through four nights there will be testimonials from family members such as Obama's wife and his sister who will tell his "very American story," in the words of one adviser, and from party luminaries such as Sen. Edward Kennedy (by videotape), and former President Bill Clinton (live) who will give Obama, the presumptive presidential nominee, the imprimatur of the party establishment. (from same article)
1 posted on 08/18/2008 7:08:52 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Was he born in Hope?


2 posted on 08/18/2008 7:10:05 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

They better hope the teleprompter is working properly or else they may get some of the “facts” wrong.


3 posted on 08/18/2008 7:10:22 AM PDT by jennyjenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

“For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my convention...because lies are making a comeback.”


4 posted on 08/18/2008 7:11:14 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit!" Douglas MacArthur)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
Obama WILL get the Armageddon War started. It is written!
5 posted on 08/18/2008 7:11:32 AM PDT by JackRyanCIA (Get a rush. Drive real fast and take chances!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
Dunn said a goal of the opening night program will be to stress "his American journey to get to this place," emphasizing that "from his background, he has a deep understanding of what American families face." (from same article)

Buttt...errrrrr Osama...er Obama.. don't you get it when are all on an "American Journey", yours is just one story, out of many. E pluribus unum. only yours is errr pluribus uhuhs

6 posted on 08/18/2008 7:12:52 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JackRyanCIA

You betcha. American cities will burn.


7 posted on 08/18/2008 7:14:02 AM PDT by patriot08
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Sen. Edward Kennedy (by videotape) ..yikes... poor Ted videoed in.


8 posted on 08/18/2008 7:15:57 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Combined with a film featuring the candidate in all-American scenes by Davis Guggenheim — the director of “An Inconvenient Truth”


9 posted on 08/18/2008 7:16:34 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Bill Clinton videoed in..haha..


10 posted on 08/18/2008 7:16:42 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

11 posted on 08/18/2008 7:16:53 AM PDT by Daffynition (Public Notice: The answer & trick that everyone is looking for is all the same answer & trick.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RexBeach
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine...

"Barack Obama will require you to work.
[Like Stalin requiring you to work - no making money from "idle capital".]

He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions.
[Ah! Divisions - things that make cultures different, ie, you must give up the values that you deem important.]

That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones.
[Again, no individualism for you, you're required to join the collective.]

That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
[More of the "allow" and force to make you join the collective.]

12 posted on 08/18/2008 7:18:27 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
Hope she can do a little resume enhancement.

We don't want him to be thought of like Clarence Thomas (untested and inexperienced).

13 posted on 08/18/2008 7:20:28 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (And I DON'T want to have to change my name to They'reBack2008!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

I just can’t wait to hear this part of the story:

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/breaking-photo-documents-barry-soetoro-indonesian/


14 posted on 08/18/2008 7:20:45 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
"When he delivers his speech on the last night of the convention, Obama will not be addressing the crowd from a lone lectern at the edge of the field; he will be standing at the 50-yard-line, surrounded by a diverse set of people he has met throughout the campaign. Ten people selected by the campaign from all corners of the country will meet backstage with Obama and be shown to the television audience." (same article)

What no grandstanding Obama , like in Germany...on the stage all by yourself??? I am just shocked! Obama will draw from all corners of American Heritage to show that he is special. Nothing racist in that. (sarcasm)

Obama's Race Card Trump in his Acceptance Speech. Vote for me, I am different, and that is all you need to know.

15 posted on 08/18/2008 7:20:47 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Here we go again. Remake of Carter and Clinton videos promising utopia to all. Of course, omitted is the fact it won’t work and they are liars.


16 posted on 08/18/2008 7:23:25 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DJ Taylor

When was Barack Obama going to tell the electorate about his Indonesian identity and citizenship?

What is the current status of his Indonesian citizenship?

Did Barack Obama travel to Pakistan in 1981 on an Indonesian passport?

Does his birth certificate say Barry Soetoro?

Did he ever legally change his name from Soetoro to Obama?

Is the correct name on the ballot?

Now those are some questions you would like to hear Obama address.


17 posted on 08/18/2008 7:24:04 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: jennyjenny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cNtH1mULo&eurl=http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/


18 posted on 08/18/2008 7:24:51 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
Putin on the Ritz



Penetrating Insights into the Obvious
19 posted on 08/18/2008 7:25:04 AM PDT by MichaelAsher54
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: They'reGone2000

I really laughed when I read what he said about Clarence Thomas.


20 posted on 08/18/2008 7:25:19 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: MichaelAsher54

Good pic.


21 posted on 08/18/2008 7:25:51 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Cicero
Cicero wrote: Was he born in Hope?

Only if Hope is in Indonesia.

22 posted on 08/18/2008 7:26:17 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Is it just me, or is she really grating and unlikable as a speaker?

I mean this despite my obvious bias.

It may be a male thing, but whenever I here Mrs. Obama or Hillary giving a speak I here my Mom telling me to clean my room, my ex-girlfriends complaining about my friends, and my wife when she nags.

I’m not trying to be funny. I seriously wonder if having the two of them speak could backfire.


23 posted on 08/18/2008 7:28:16 AM PDT by Scarchin (Romney for VEEP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExTexasRedhead

That is hilarious!


24 posted on 08/18/2008 7:29:01 AM PDT by jennyjenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

They are going to have to keep MO on a really tight rein. She’s an angry woman. Not righteous anger. Just nasty anger. Her handlers will make her hide that side of he personality completely—it’s gonna be all teleprompters from here on out, nothing spontaneous. All we need is one or two spontaneous moments in front of the cameras when she starts snarling to get the real MO in front of the public.


25 posted on 08/18/2008 7:30:10 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scarchin

Michelle has to be better than Teresa Heinz after cocktail hour.


26 posted on 08/18/2008 7:30:15 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Not by much! LOL

Seriously, something goes down my spine when they get up there and start shrieking.

In contrast, although I don’t agree with them on just about anything, when they are speaking in a quiet “talk show” setting, they don’t bother me and even seem likable (as people folks - calm down!).


27 posted on 08/18/2008 7:33:48 AM PDT by Scarchin (Romney for VEEP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: MichaelAsher54
I liked this one


28 posted on 08/18/2008 7:34:34 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

In storybook form.


29 posted on 08/18/2008 7:37:42 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Excellent.


30 posted on 08/18/2008 7:40:15 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (And I DON'T want to have to change my name to They'reBack2008!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: bmwcyle
I can see it all now the Michelle Obama speech

Michelle " Yes Obama is the son of a Kenyan Goatherder, and that would explain why his breath is as stinky as goats, and his body odor is questionable"

31 posted on 08/18/2008 7:45:30 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
Jan 2007 Barry Soetoro thread
32 posted on 08/18/2008 7:45:30 AM PDT by ASA Vet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Yes, motherinlaw had jungle fever.......


33 posted on 08/18/2008 7:53:58 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Scarchin

Don’t worry-The Dems sent her to charm school.


34 posted on 08/18/2008 7:54:33 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Those are Jesse’s scissors
How did obama get them?


35 posted on 08/18/2008 7:54:59 AM PDT by mouse1 (I'VE BEEN CALLED A REDNECK BIGOT AND I'M PROUD OF IT!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Will Michell be speaking from the podium or from under the bus?


36 posted on 08/18/2008 7:55:03 AM PDT by HardStarboard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cicero

“Great Short Stories of Our Times”


37 posted on 08/18/2008 7:55:54 AM PDT by kempster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

Dismiss this story — Do you really think it will be the truth?


38 posted on 08/18/2008 7:56:36 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
My Barry has had a tough life. First, he was born a poor, black child.


39 posted on 08/18/2008 8:05:15 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (A kid at McDonalds has more real-world work experience than Barack Hussein.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

“the meticulously orchestrated gala”

Featuring fake fireworks, a lip-synching little girl and a nativity scene centerpiece, Obama played by a 20 watt bulb.


40 posted on 08/18/2008 8:07:35 AM PDT by tumblindice ("A republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VeniVidiVici

Thanks for a genuine chuckle.


41 posted on 08/18/2008 8:08:57 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (And I DON'T want to have to change my name to They'reBack2008!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

This should be good!

By giving Michele a central part in his campaign, Obama has made her and her whacko ideas fair game!


42 posted on 08/18/2008 8:10:51 AM PDT by Redbob ("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776
What Michelle might say (and what she really means).

Barack was born a poor black chile. His single Momma (Daddy was a Kenyan polygamist) was on food stamps and welfare (while she studied for a Ph.D., poor underprivileged girl).

He attended a private Catholic elementary school (in Indonesia, where he was registered as a Muslim) and was later sent to Hawaii to live with his (mean American) grandparents (where he smoked dope until he graduated from an expensive college-prep high school).

He went to college on scholarship (and Grandpa and Grandma's largesse) and liked to play basketball (because that's what black men do, and he's a black man, and donnn't you forgit it).

Then he went on to Harvard Law School (through Affirmative Action, Daddy's Harvard alumnus legacy status, and the money of those strange white people in Hawaii) and became the editor of the Harvard Law Review (mostly editing lines of cocaine).

Upon graduation, he became a lawyer (whilst hanging out with unsavory America-hating characters of the extreme left) who eschewed lucrative corporate positions in favor of community service and politics (where he could funnel public monies into the hospital where I work, which subsequently raised my salary for a do-nothing AA PR job to a lucrative $300K, enough corporate salary for the both of us).

Barack is a church-going Christian (who failed to notice that his pastor and mentor was damning his country and his mother's people because he was too busy trying to prove his authentic blackness) and a good husband and father (even though its clear I wear the pants in the family, and pay no attention to that Larry Sinclair).

Barack is just your average all-American guy who has overcome his (white) upbringing (and if you don't vote for him, you're racist...and MEAN) and deserves to be elected (because he doesn't look like the presidents on the dollar bills).

He will bring the country together (in spite of the fact that he has done nothing but divide and conquer since day one).

So vote early and vote often (as we say in Chicago) come November (or me and my girlfriends gonna come to your house and beat you up).

43 posted on 08/18/2008 8:15:13 AM PDT by informavoracious (Drill Here, Drill Now!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

I simply cannot imagine in my darkest dreams this horrid, hate-filled woman as First Lady.


44 posted on 08/18/2008 8:20:25 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: informavoracious

Wow... you have a much clearer version of what Michelle Obama will say, than I do, excellent, excellent.


45 posted on 08/18/2008 8:22:09 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Cicero
Was he born in Hope?

No, he created Hope.

46 posted on 08/18/2008 8:22:26 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: HardStarboard
HardStarboard wrote: Will Michell be speaking from the podium or from under the bus?

Michelle who was not with Obama by the way at he Rick Warren event , is considering being filmed in like Ted Kennedy at the 2008 Democratic Fiasco Convention.

47 posted on 08/18/2008 8:24:49 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Fresh Wind; Cicero
Was he born in Hope?

No, he created Hope.

Al Gore invented Hope.


48 posted on 08/18/2008 8:28:13 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: AmericanMade1776

That wasn’t Racial discrimination she encountered at Princeton. That was a natural reaction to a bleep hole.


49 posted on 08/18/2008 8:28:41 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: massgopguy

“The only lines he edited were those of cocaine”. That is a classic. Watch Howie Carr steal it.


50 posted on 08/18/2008 8:32:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-56 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson