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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With all due respect you arent 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 arent 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 isnt the first instance that the Obamas have seem to have hallucinated that theyre somehow still in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., although it may be the most galling.
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To say that youre forever first lady is firstly to insult the current first lady. Its also to insult everyone thats 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 shell 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 wouldnt 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 dont quite understand the reality that theyre gone.
However, does the former first lady not realize that shes essentially trivializing every other living first lady? Its 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 shes 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. Michelles 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.
Weve heard no apology thus far and I dont 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.
She’s a queen alright. A trans queen.
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.
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.
Moochelle, like her ‘ol man, has never had a private-sector job. They have no private-sector accomplishments. They have been lifetime parasites.
Useless eaters
However, does the former first lady not realize that shes essentially trivializing every other living first lady?
She has unlimited ego and arrogance, no shame and no one ever tells her that shes wrong. How could anyone even posit that question?
Thank you, all help appreciated.
Yes? It was a great line until I mangled it. Thanks I would have been trying to remember who said it all night.
*PUKING*
GROSS!!!!
Now that is just plain gross.
Elena Ceaușescu probably thought the same.
I guess she considers herself royalty Queen Michelle, maybe she is jealous she married a President not a prince.
It's dumbfounding isn't it? But as a topper, she got into Harvard Law.
Queen “B” for sure, but that’s about it.
Woods is great.
I just can’t get over the ego. Who would even think such a thing much less say it?
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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She’s an idiot.
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