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Michelle Obama says America is entering a time of hopelessness
NY Times ^ | 16 Dec 16 | By WITW Staff

Posted on 12/16/2016 12:09:55 PM PST by SkyPilot

With fewer than 40 days remaining as first lady, Michelle Obama is continuing to reflect on the legacy she and President Obama will leave after having occupied the White House for the last eight years. In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey, the first lady addressed the election outcome and suggested that the U.S. is entering a time of hopelessness.

“We are feeling what not having hope feels like,” Obama told Winfrey in response to a question about whether President Obama had achieved the “hope and change” he promised while campaigning in 2008. As she often did while campaigning for Hillary Clinton, she didn’t mention President-elect Donald Trump by name. But she alluded to the contrast many in the country are feeling since he won the election last month. “We feel the difference now,” she said, noting that her husband had succeeded in keeping his campaign promise of fostering hope. “Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept,” she elaborated. “And Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believed that … what else do you have if you don’t have hope? What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”

Those are philosophical questions that the nation will no doubt begin to grapple with in earnest over the coming months. And they’re not the first contemplative remarks the first lady, who has earned a special place in Americans’ hearts, has made recently. Last week, she reportedly left White House staffers in tears after a heartfelt thank you speech at a holiday party. And in an interview that appears in the December issue of Vogue, she expressed mixed feelings about leaving the White House...

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hope; michelle; obama; thevaporsdemshazthem; trump
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Just go away, you horse hair wig wearing, Sharpie drawn eyebrow entitled shrew.


1 posted on 12/16/2016 12:09:55 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Three seconds late. Loser!

:-)


2 posted on 12/16/2016 12:10:47 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: SkyPilot

Michelle has the vapors.


3 posted on 12/16/2016 12:10:59 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SkyPilot

She hopes that to be true.


4 posted on 12/16/2016 12:12:01 PM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: Mr. Douglas
My thread is better and will get more replies.

:>)

5 posted on 12/16/2016 12:12:03 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Drango

They are monitoring the comments on that site. I tried to leave a juicy one and it’s not showing up.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 12:12:29 PM PST by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: SkyPilot

Well, that goes without saying.


7 posted on 12/16/2016 12:12:34 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: SkyPilot
WHO CARES??

Freepers - stop posting this stuff. We're trying to recover from eight years of this crap...

8 posted on 12/16/2016 12:12:59 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: SkyPilot

If she thinks she has it bad, she should remember we had to endure her and barky.


9 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: tuffydoodle
The NY Slimes will not allow comments on articles where they know the Obama's will be exposed.

They are consistent about that.

10 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:23 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

And Barry is on TV right now, proclaiming America is better off now, than 8 years ago on every level.

Get yer stories straight.


11 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:34 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: SkyPilot

Wrong, Mister Moochie—the end of hopelessness begins when you and OSwishy GTFO of the White House.


12 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:34 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: SkyPilot

Mrs “I’m proud of my country for the first time in my life” is losing ‘hope’ because she and her family will no longer get to spend $1.5 BILLION dollars on themselves every single year like they have for the last 8 years- Yes folks, that is how much they have spent on themselves every year- that works out to $12 BILLION dollars (or more- the report was a few years old- they very likely spend even more now) for 8 years


13 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:48 PM PST by Bob434
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To: SkyPilot

I believe he’s taller than his husband, the president.


14 posted on 12/16/2016 12:13:51 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: SkyPilot

Yeah, Moochelle, it started in 2008 when 1/2 of America was dumb enough to fall for the constant stream of lies from your Manchurian Candidate husband.

That’s when hopelessness in America began.


15 posted on 12/16/2016 12:14:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Bob434

People are hopeless because they won’t be able to attack cops anymore, bully Christians and steal everyone else’s hard earned insurance.


17 posted on 12/16/2016 12:15:41 PM PST by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: Jim 0216
It's the headline at the top of the page on Drudge, so it is part of the national conversation.

But I think articles like this are very useful. They serve to remind everyone of what horrible people the Obama's are, and how slavish the enemedia really is.

The Obamas are truly delusional. Not one normal, moral, hard working person in America will be sad to see them go.

18 posted on 12/16/2016 12:15:47 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

We should all practice a little empathy as the dispirited Obamas become migrants, roaming between their 9,600 sq ft rented manse in Kalorama, and their new homes in Kalifornia and Kailua

What will January 20 bring? Beans and franks instead of 3 roasted meats and 7 kinds of pie? A personal staff of 20 instead of 120? Having to walk their own dogs and scoop the poop? It’s all just too sad to contemplate


19 posted on 12/16/2016 12:16:58 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Mr. Douglas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APgK-b9Nlgc


20 posted on 12/16/2016 12:17:16 PM PST by EEGator
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