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Michelle Obama on Being the 'First' at the Table and the Value of Her 'Natural Self'
People ^ | 3/17/2020 | Adam Carlson

Posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:07 AM PDT by simpson96

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has made girls’ education around the world a major focus of her post-White House life.

On Tuesday, she appeared with three YouTube stars in a special on just that, in Creators for Change on Girls’ Education.(snip)

In an exclusive preview, above, Koshy asks Obama, 56, about finding her own strength to be a “first” in her life so far — as the first black first lady and beyond.

“Well it goes back to an education. I came into my role as first lady, I just wasn’t Michelle Obama. My education put me in positions to have jobs where I was able to start my own organizations and manage staffs,” Obama says in the clip. “I was a corporate lawyer, I was an associate dean at an academic medical institution, I started a nonprofit organization, I was the vice president at a hospital. So all those skills, because of my education, lo and behold prepared me for this role of being the first, right, because you sort of get used to being the first. Oftentimes when you’re the first you’ve been the first at many tables.”

“But being at the table doesn’t mean acting like a man, and sometimes I think we get that wrong — we think, Okay we have to shed all of our womanhood to sit at this table,” Obama continues. “But the truth is, what we need is the balance of who we are. What we provide is the balance that isn’t there and that’s a good thing. Yeah, there are differences. They’re not better or worse, they’re not negative or positive. They’re different. And we don’t have to be anything other than our natural selves to add huge value to the table, but we have to believe in that.”

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Her last several sentences sound like such word salad, I almost got dizzy.
1 posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:07 AM PDT by simpson96
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“But being at the table doesn’t mean acting like a man, and sometimes I think we get that wrong — we think, Okay we have to shed all of our womanhood to sit at this table”

BWAHAAHAAAA!!!

{thump}

{roll}

2 posted on 03/20/2020 8:13:46 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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It was simply ABW gibberish. What a NPOW.


3 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:16 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Michelle Obama.

A person who doesn’t matter at all.


4 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:29 AM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing "Coronaphobia", I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: simpson96

First Wookie


5 posted on 03/20/2020 8:14:57 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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Mike’s natural self has a set of balls.


6 posted on 03/20/2020 8:17:01 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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” Obama says in the clip. “I was a corporate lawyer, I was an associate dean at an academic medical institution, I started a nonprofit organization, I was the vice president at a hospital. So all those skills, because of my education, lo and behold prepared me for this role of being the first, right, because you sort of get used to being the first. Oftentimes when you’re the first you’ve been the first at many tables.”

. ..and nobody remembers you actually doing anything at those “jobs”, except tell people how great you are or how you’ve been a victim.

7 posted on 03/20/2020 8:17:55 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Her Natural Self includes a penis.


8 posted on 03/20/2020 8:18:43 AM PDT by libh8er
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Her natural self has a penis.


9 posted on 03/20/2020 8:27:23 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Michelle Obama: First at table, and second, and third and ...


10 posted on 03/20/2020 8:27:31 AM PDT by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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LOL!


11 posted on 03/20/2020 8:32:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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And I got my education at Princeton and Harvard because I was a person of color.


12 posted on 03/20/2020 8:35:50 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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Then-F/L Michele, her mother and daughters in the Moroccan palace. Look at that smile----
Obama gave her $100 million tax dollars "to teach Muslim girls there."
AND GET THIS: The $100 mill is to be held by the Chicago-based tax-exempt Obama Foundation,
to be doled out (cough) "when needed" (cue laugh machine here).

<><> Like practiced con artists, the Obamas set-up this scam earlier---whining about "teaching Muslim girls."

A smiling $100 million Michele----the message that costs taxpayers millions of tax dollars.

13 posted on 03/20/2020 8:39:13 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Her first time at not being ashamed of her country was my first time of being ashamed of my country.


14 posted on 03/20/2020 8:42:35 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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They better have the lobster and fries ready for this flight or some ass kicking is going to go on.


15 posted on 03/20/2020 8:43:10 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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It’s puff piece Friday.


16 posted on 03/20/2020 8:46:00 AM PDT by Luke21
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Excuse me, I think am going to throw up


17 posted on 03/20/2020 8:46:18 AM PDT by Deo et patriae (Make America Great again! rantings.)
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Michelle Obama is so yesterday.I’ll bet that people magazine has not done a cover photo or article about our present First Lady yet.
18 posted on 03/20/2020 8:50:28 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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Her Natural Self includes a penis.

Her natural self has a penis.

Don't give up hope. Someday you could grow one, too.

19 posted on 03/20/2020 8:54:27 AM PDT by x
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Michelle obama big nothing burger


20 posted on 03/20/2020 9:09:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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