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Michelle Obama says she was held to different standard in '08 campaign due to her race
CNN ^ | May 9, 2015 | Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty

Posted on 05/10/2015 4:47:34 AM PDT by Zakeet

Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she's faced as the first African-American first lady of the United States, saying she was held to a different standard than other candidates' wives during the 2008 campaign because of her race.

Speaking at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Obama told the audience that when her husband was running for office in 2008, she faced questions which she said were not typical for other candidates' wives.

"As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others," she told the class of 2015. "Was I too loud or too emasculating? Or was I too soft? Too much of a mom and not enough of a career woman?"

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"Back in those days, I had a lot of sleepless nights worrying what people thought of me," she recalled. Obama added that she let the criticism get to the point where she would wonder if she was hurting her husband's chances of becoming President, while also fearing what her daughters would think.

The first lady said eventually the only thing she could do to prevent others from defining her was to "ignore all of the noise."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: michelleobama; racism; speech
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To: Zakeet

You bet there was a double-standard...our standards were lowered to the bottomless pits of hell for these corrupt megalomaniac tyrants. No criticism was allowed or tolerated.

I pity the parents and kids at the commencement having to sit through 29 flavor of “woe is me, you don’t know how hard I’ve had it” instead of hearing anything uplifting about their futures.


41 posted on 05/10/2015 6:24:37 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Zakeet

And that standard was that she and her incompetent, inexperienced, lying, socialist, affirmative action mental light weight husband were ushered into the White House on a red carpet by an adoring lame stream media that never vetted them.


42 posted on 05/10/2015 6:31:22 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Zakeet

Does the whining ever stop?


43 posted on 05/10/2015 6:33:34 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

She’s right: we hold her to a lower standard. I don’t expect her to be as neat, refined, and ladylike as Laura Bush. As long as Michell has a bra on and isn’t using the F-word in public, I breathe a sigh of relief.


44 posted on 05/10/2015 6:47:29 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

Oh, SNAP!


45 posted on 05/10/2015 6:50:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick (We're all mad here.)
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To: Zakeet

She apparently doesn’t understand that she had it EASIER than other candidate wives. Barack Obama is our first affirmative action president. I’m absolutely certain he would have never been elected had his skin been a different color.


46 posted on 05/10/2015 6:51:14 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA
mooch-elle is truly a pathetic Worst Lady . She is a pathetic whiner about "race" when she has used "black privilege" throughout her degenerate life to gain position, power and wealth. What a freak. I am surprised she has not forced a law that requires us to bow to her.
47 posted on 05/10/2015 6:54:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Zakeet

And the most oppressive of all, she can’t even open the White House windows. The horror! What a miserable butch.


48 posted on 05/10/2015 6:54:26 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Michelle Obama says she was held to different standard in '08 campaign due to her race

Well, she's been held to a different standard than the rest of us ever since Obama took office - forcing school kids to eat crap while she dines on 5-star cuisine, taking a couple of dozen expensive "vacations" a year, combined with the privilege of taking her cronies and extended family on numerous world-wide junkets at taxpayer expense.

She gets treated like Marie Antoinette got treated before losing her head. Except Michelle won't get beheaded, she and Obie will "retire" to a life of million dollar speeches and taxpayer protection for life.

49 posted on 05/10/2015 6:57:00 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: Zakeet

50 posted on 05/10/2015 6:57:31 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Zakeet
[she faced questions which she said were not typical for other candidates' wives.]  photo omg_zps025f0d44.jpg Just one of the reasons.
51 posted on 05/10/2015 7:02:04 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Zakeet

Having to survive on wagyu and kobe beef steaks and massively expensive weeks of vacations each year is tough. After all, she had to fire a couple of White House chefs.

O woe is her and her state of affairs.

Boo hoo.

Where's my tissue?

So sad.

==

Haven't seen any photo-ops of her at a regular public school lunchroom eating any of the Michelle Obama approved nutrition meals. Not even Michelle Obama would eat that crap she expects the children of the masses to eat.


52 posted on 05/10/2015 7:03:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: hal ogen

She and her husband have had an absolute cakewalk by virtue of their skin color. Candidate Obama would have been laughed out of the presidential election had his skin been white.


53 posted on 05/10/2015 7:06:48 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Zakeet

Of course - every decision in Michelle’s life was due to race. How could it be due to any thing else? Her school grades came down to race, her dating choices - race, where she bought her clothes - race, where she ate - race. FLOTUS - race, bitch - race.


54 posted on 05/10/2015 7:10:45 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Zakeet
Michelle Obama says she was held to different standard in '08 campaign due to her race

I am so very tired of her endless whining and complaining.

We can't get these rodeo clowns out of the white house soon enough.

55 posted on 05/10/2015 7:22:05 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Zakeet

Its tough bein’ a ho from da hood !


56 posted on 05/10/2015 7:25:01 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Zakeet

The standards for political discourse in this country have been set by the left. The left ran all these stories and criticisms.

When will the left stop it’s War on Women?


57 posted on 05/10/2015 7:35:00 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Zakeet

Wait one minute, everyone knows perfectly well that all the scrutiny was about your confusing gender, not your race!


58 posted on 05/10/2015 7:46:31 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Kenton

Maybe it’s the boob belt...


59 posted on 05/10/2015 8:35:49 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

For some reason the “Lowered Expectation” skits from MADTV seem to speak to what America did in electing Lord Foul and his trained.........well you know.


60 posted on 05/10/2015 8:48:51 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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