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James Woods Issues Perfect Reality Check to Michelle Obama for Her ‘Forever First Lady’ Remarks
Conservative Tribune ^ | MAY 5, 2018 AT 7:51AM | BY CILLIAN ZEAL

Posted on 05/05/2018 1:07:33 PM PDT by ethom

Michelle Obama may have plenty of people applauding her decision to dub herself “forever first lady.” James Woods is not one of them.

In a perfect reality check on Wednesday, Woods tweeted that Obama needed to “(p)ump your brakes a tad” when it came to coronating herself the permanent first lady of the nation.

Obama made the remarks during a College Signing Day event for high school seniors earlier in the day at Temple University in Philadelphia, according to the Washington Examiner.

“We need you all to be successful,” Obama said.

She recounted her own journey from Chicago to Princeton and said that doubt was normal.

“We have such high hopes for you. See, I am not one of those doubters. I know that you have everything it takes to succeed,” she said.

“I know you are me, and if I can be standing here as your forever first lady, then you can do anything you put your mind to.”

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Completing this poll entitles you to Conservative Tribune news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Obama’s comments attracted both plaudits and scorn on social media. James Woods — rather unsurprisingly — was in the scorn camp.

“With all due respect you aren’t our ‘forever First Lady,'” the conservative actor tweeted.

“No one is, nor should anyone be. Pump your brakes a tad.”

James Woods ✔ @RealJamesWoods With all due respect you aren’t our “forever First Lady.” No one is, nor should anyone be. Pump your brakes a tad.

10:55 PM - May 2, 2018 30.8K 12.6K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy This isn’t the first instance that the Obamas have seem to have hallucinated that they’re somehow still in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., although it may be the most galling.

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To say that you’re “forever first lady” — is firstly to insult the current first lady. It’s also to insult everyone that’s been in the unofficial role, as well as anyone who will ever be in the unofficial role, at least as long as Michelle Obama is still alive.

Maybe she’ll even pull a Kim Il Sung — the man who still eternally “rules” North Korea 24 years after relinquishing de facto control of the communist state via the mechanism of death — and be your “eternal first lady.” Given the tenor of this statement and the ease with which it flowed off her tongue, I wouldn’t exactly put it past her.

The fact that Michelle made the remarks with the Trumps in the White House is hardly surprising, given the enmity between the two families — although it does yet again suggest that the Obamas don’t quite understand the reality that they’re gone.

However, does the former first lady not realize that she’s essentially trivializing every other living first lady? It’s a rare day that I find myself putting in a word of defense for Hillary Clinton, but she, along with Laura Bush, Rosalyn Carter and Melania Trump, is implicitly being told that she’s on a different strata of first ladies, one clearly lower than Michelle. This is to say nothing of the implied insult to future first ladies or the fact that she made the remarks less than a month after the death of Barbara Bush, which seems like awfully inopportune timing.

James Woods, as he so often is, is the voice of sanity here. Michelle’s indulgence of the fantasy that the Obamas will never really leave the White House may be red meat for the liberal base, However, this is something a real first lady — well, former first lady — would be profusely apologizing for.

We’ve heard no apology thus far and I don’t expect to hear anything out of Michelle in the near future. While one hopes she takes James Woods’ advice and pumps the brakes on her ego a tad, it seems somewhat improbable that the actor is on her news feed. A man can dream, though.


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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

She’s a queen alright. A trans queen.


21 posted on 05/05/2018 2:07:31 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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To: ethom

I think that Michelle Obama is talking in code here.

A dog whistle for her leftist base.

That she and her husband will continue to attempt to overthrow the President.


22 posted on 05/05/2018 2:19:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ethom

I think that Michelle Obama is talking in code here.

A dog whistle for her leftist base.

That she and her husband will continue to attempt to overthrow the President.


23 posted on 05/05/2018 2:21:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

Moochelle, like her ‘ol man, has never had a private-sector job. They have no private-sector accomplishments. They have been lifetime parasites.


24 posted on 05/05/2018 2:31:16 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Useless eaters


25 posted on 05/05/2018 2:41:12 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: ethom

“”However, does the former first lady not realize that she’s essentially trivializing every other living first lady? ””

She has unlimited ego and arrogance, no shame and no one ever tells her that she’s wrong. How could anyone even posit that question?


26 posted on 05/05/2018 2:53:36 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Safetgiver

Thank you, all help appreciated.


27 posted on 05/05/2018 3:06:05 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yes? It was a great line until I mangled it. Thanks I would have been trying to remember who said it all night.


28 posted on 05/05/2018 3:07:27 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: SERKIT

*PUKING*
GROSS!!!!


29 posted on 05/05/2018 3:20:33 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: SERKIT

Now that is just plain gross.


30 posted on 05/05/2018 3:21:58 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: ethom
Forever First Lady?

Elena Ceaușescu probably thought the same.

31 posted on 05/05/2018 3:26:30 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ethom

I guess she considers herself royalty Queen Michelle, maybe she is jealous she married a President not a prince.


32 posted on 05/05/2018 3:33:42 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: Slyfox
How did Moochie get through Princeton?

It's dumbfounding isn't it? But as a topper, she got into Harvard Law.

33 posted on 05/05/2018 3:41:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

Queen “B” for sure, but that’s about it.


34 posted on 05/05/2018 3:42:58 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: ethom

Woods is great.


35 posted on 05/05/2018 3:44:29 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Blue Highway

I just can’t get over the ego. Who would even think such a thing much less say it?


36 posted on 05/05/2018 3:46:18 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Rummyfan

only ten people are competing in the traditional way, grades and competitive writing.

Sort of like life: 20% pulling the cart for the other 80% Prepares them early to know who their masters really are...

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37 posted on 05/05/2018 3:56:40 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ethom
the only thing bigger than that thing's ego is it's azz... maybe it's mouth
38 posted on 05/05/2018 3:58:53 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

Here, I found a clip of it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oF9TDkZEKGg


39 posted on 05/05/2018 4:00:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

She’s an idiot.


40 posted on 05/05/2018 4:03:40 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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