just aren't used to strong women!
Posted on 08/22/2008 4:05:59 PM PDT by Zakeet
What's wrong with Michelle Obama?
Not a thing.
Too often, the media depict black women like me as gyrating hoochie mamas, someone's baby mama or dirty crack addicts.
Michelle Obama strikes a pose not seen enough: an accomplished, confident, proud black woman. (And get a load of those arms!)
That seems to scare some people.
OK, she slipped by suggesting she'd never really been proud of her country until her husband's candidacy took off. But the reaction went way over the top. Republicans tried to smack her down. Her husband's campaign aides wanted to perform the equivalent of a personality transplant.
It is said that people are most afraid of what they are least familiar with. And most people don't really know Michelle Obama. Like most politicians — and politicians' spouses — we know only what we read about her or see on TV.
But to be frightened by her, by the idea of her as first lady? That's just downright silly.
Seriously.
She was a darling of the media and campaign crowds when her husband, who calls her "my rock," started running for president. Barack Obama's advisers viewed her as his "secret weapon." In Iowa, aides started calling her "The Closer" because of her ability to win people over. After one speech in Muscatine, half of the mostly undecided crowd signed supporter cards on the way out.
But stumbles were inevitable.
[Snip]
But what if, deep down inside somewhere, Michelle Obama really is angry.
What's wrong with a little anger?
Black women have a lot of reasons to feel that way, and she, especially, for some of the things that have been said about her and her husband.
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Darlene Superville? Wow!
She could be any race, any ethnicity, any size, and have arms to die for but there is one thing that is absolutely, completely and unequivocally wrong with Michelle Obama
SHE’S A DEMOCRAT, A LIBERAL, A LEFTIST,
ANTI-CAPITALIST, ABORTION SUPPORTING,
MARXIST.
That’s what’s wrong with the woman.
“What’s wrong with Michelle Obama?”
Bluto: (belch) WHAT ISN’T?
When is the last time someone wrote something like “it’s ok if Condoleeza is a little pissed... she’s black.” Good grief.
Reminds me of what a pastor said about men wearing suits that a murder looks like a choir boy in them.
If we can take away anything from this writing, its that its author took high school Psych 101.
Such analysis!
I suspect there are some choice pieces of verbiage that they know they will face late in the campaign; hence, they are inoculating themselves against it by removing her as a spokesman of any kind.
She's really pissed off, has a racial chip on her shoulder, and is quite happy to let the world know.
AP Michelle Obama fluff piece. Figures.
I was waiting for Darlene’s “Oh My G#d... She’s so kewel!”
Pride comes before the fall. Perhaps she should consider humility.
It is said that people are most afraid of what they are least familiar with.
Nicely erected straw man. However, it's not fear of her because we are unfamiliar with her. It's her militant attitude that is a turn off and would be a turnoff regardless of her ethnicity.
Black women have a lot of reasons to feel that way, and she, especially, for some of the things that have been said about her and her husband.
Yup, the sense of victimization. She's justifiably angry because whitey has kept her down and denied her the opportunities everyone else has. Give me a break.
Michelle Obama is just plain bitter, pure and simple. That quality dooms her as first lady. Who wants to see a bitter first lady? Not me.
In that cover pic, Michelle looks like she’s about to pop some caps in somebody’s butt
OMG! Soooooooooo many adjectives, so little time!
Darlene obviously majored in “Women Studies”, but how did she get a job at the AP?
now the focus is on arms?
What happened to bodacious ta tas?
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