Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Michelle Obama: ‘People with power are trying to quiet the voices of people they disagree with’ [barf alert]
The Hill ^ | 10/28/2025 | Ryan Mancini

Posted on 10/29/2025 7:51:08 AM PDT by simpson96

Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday said women need to stand up against those who might seek to silence them.

In an interview with People magazine, Obama reflected on her life and explained how she embraced entering her 60s. She talked about how her father raised her to be proud of her height.

“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,” Obama said. “I don’t think that work ever stops for women, particularly women of color, because sometimes you don’t always hear it back.”

“Women today, we’re facing a time now, where people with power are trying to quiet the voices of people they disagree with,” she continued. “And I think now more than ever, it’s a time when we have to fight to remind ourselves that we matter, that we count.”

At no point during the interview is Obama quoted mentioning the current president. The former first lady discussed the pressures of being in a role that was a “job, non-job” from 2009 to 2017, and how even her style choices were political. Obama said she “liked the fact that, in hindsight, people identified with what I was wearing.”

“Because if I wore something and it could sell out, that meant that most women could afford to buy it. And I thought that’s a good thing,” she said. “I wanted the people of America, all people of all races, of all political persuasions, to be able to connect with me.”

In analyzing her life now, which includes dinner dates with the former president and keeping herself healthy, Obama said she’s putting herself first.

“This is the first time where every decision that I make is for me,” she told People.

Former President Obama was more explicitly political during a recent interview on the last episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, criticizing President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into his home state of Illinois.

“If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, ‘You know what? A lot of problems in Dallas, a lot of crime there, and I don’t care what Gov. Abbott says, I’m going to kind of take over law enforcement, because I think things are out of control,’ it is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded,” Obama said, referencing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antivax; bigmike; checkyourpackage; covid; covidcensorship; getbehindbarry; maskmandates; transviolence

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-44 next last
“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,”

A quote for the ages from Big Mike.

1 posted on 10/29/2025 7:51:08 AM PDT by simpson96
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: simpson96

Charlie Kirk was unavailable for comment.


2 posted on 10/29/2025 7:52:31 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

“I need constant validation. And even when I get it, it’s not enough.”


3 posted on 10/29/2025 7:52:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

Michelle’s Big Book of Empty Woke Slogans


4 posted on 10/29/2025 7:53:00 AM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

So not unexpectedly, the POS wakes up every day and lies to itself...


5 posted on 10/29/2025 7:53:18 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
"every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy"

Keep f***ing that chicken, Mike.

6 posted on 10/29/2025 7:53:32 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,”

Said every LGBTQ(whatever) ever.


7 posted on 10/29/2025 7:55:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ( Covfefe! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

The Obamas did this all the time. General Motors and Chrysler are Exhibit A.


8 posted on 10/29/2025 7:55:55 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

The Wookiee just screams at them ,LOL


9 posted on 10/29/2025 7:57:48 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
Michele's husband sicced government agencies on companies like Yahoo!, forcing them to install backdoors into their systems so that the government could monitor users.

Obama and his co-conspirators should be sitting in prison cells for the rest of their lives.

10 posted on 10/29/2025 7:58:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
"“I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,” Obama said."

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."--Stuart Smalley

11 posted on 10/29/2025 7:59:57 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

the date is incorrect on this article- it should read 2009


12 posted on 10/29/2025 8:01:44 AM PDT by God luvs America
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

ABW pukes up hateful bile for their minions to lap up. A very disturbed entity. 😵


13 posted on 10/29/2025 8:06:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
You stupid, intolerant, bigoted witch! For the past at least 35 years, liberals have silenced me due to CONSERVATIVE commentary. You and your ilk are so hypocritical that there are not words to describe it.

YOU and your husband from hell have had anyone who disagreed with you silenced...at work, in schools and even in public. You and that useless man are so evil due to DOCUMENTED things you have done to harm this nation. Both of you should be tried for treason and hanged by the neck until dead.

14 posted on 10/29/2025 8:06:31 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: T.B. Yoits
Obama and his co-conspirators should be sitting in prison cells for the rest of their lives.

No sir! That man and his co-conspirators must be brought to trial for treason (literally trying to overthrow our government and install a totalitarian one) and hanged/shot/executed.

15 posted on 10/29/2025 8:08:20 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
You mean, like, the J6 protestors?

"Physician, heal thyself."

16 posted on 10/29/2025 8:08:22 AM PDT by LouAvul (Galatians: proof that dispensationalism in any form is false doctrine. Salvation is only in Jesus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96
Ah, the socialist word/phrase game. She is telling people the truth, just doesn't mean it the way you think she means it.

And regarding Barry's Texas comment...'How would Fox News have responded?'. Tell me, Barry, how would the rest of the "media", whose reaction you don't seem too concerned over, have reacted?

17 posted on 10/29/2025 8:10:11 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tench_Coxe

“Doggonit People Like Me!”
.
Big Mike will go Down in History!
.
for What I have no idea.


18 posted on 10/29/2025 8:11:13 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

OMFG!


19 posted on 10/29/2025 8:11:25 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

NEVER SAYS SHE IS A “MOTHER”

I STILL WANT DNA TESTS ON BOTH THOSE KIDS.


20 posted on 10/29/2025 8:14:35 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-44 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson