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Video: Obama’s Wife Plays Race Card on ‘60 Minutes’
Hot Air ^ | 2/12/07

Posted on 02/12/2007 12:20:24 PM PST by areafiftyone

VIDEO IS HERE

Chicago Tribune:

The heavy presence of security around Obama was also a silent reminder of the change that took place with the announcement. Michelle Obama, the candidate’s wife, acknowledged it in an interview to air on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” in which she was asked if she fears for her husband’s life as a black candidate.

“I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that . . . as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” Michelle Obama said in the interview, set to air Sunday night. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

Well, I’m sure glad I’m white because that means I won’t be shot while “going to the gas station.” I forgot about that unwritten rule where only black men can be shot and no one else.

(h/t Randy)


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; obamagasm
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To: LWalk18

He wouldn't know. My point was that being in the circles he has been in in the past 15-20 years, and living where he has probably lived, and by the way he conducts himself (which I assume is the way he has for some time), I doubt that a cabdriver would have any more concern about picking up Obama than he would picking up me. I understand what he was alluding to -- the experience of a lot of blacks who can't get a cab to pick them up, justly on unjustly, because they are black or because of where they live or because of where they might want to go. There was a big controversy around here a few years ago on that very issue. Cabbies were getting shot and robbed in black neighborhoods and other drivers refused to go there. I ran into that myself recently, when I called for a cab to pick me up in my more-or-less white neighborhood on the southside, and the driver hinted that his company didn't usually go "that far south."

I really doubt that Obama has run into this recently, and I think he was trying hard to establish his credentials in the "black experience" which a lot of blacks evidently think he lacks.


101 posted on 02/12/2007 12:59:49 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (NoBama)
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To: MichiganConservative
Wasn't there a white person or two shot by John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo while at a gas station?

They were at a gas station. Mrs. Osama said "going to a gas station". Big difference.

102 posted on 02/12/2007 1:00:04 PM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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To: paulat

Take a chill pill man...


103 posted on 02/12/2007 1:00:05 PM PST by John123 (Dick Morris predicts Hitlery will be the worst president ever... I will now light myself on fire)
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To: John123
Take a chill pill man...

No.

104 posted on 02/12/2007 1:01:04 PM PST by paulat
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To: ProfoundMan
Is it worth the rental?

No. I saw it on cable once, it was Tim Robbins characterizing a conservative politician with every cliche that a liberal moonbat sees in conservatives.

105 posted on 02/12/2007 1:02:09 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: paulat
She never said ANYTHING about the race of a possible shooter...

She implied, of course...the trick is to plant the seed inside of people's heads without having the words actually come out of her mouth.

Undoubtedly you've heard that if he's not elected, it just means that America isn't "ready" for a black President. I don't need to have anyone explain to me when I'm being called a racist...and I don't need to be told when someone is playing the race card.

106 posted on 02/12/2007 1:02:59 PM PST by gogeo
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To: nuve9

Why did you feel it necessary to demonize Laura Bush to make your point about Ms. Obama??


107 posted on 02/12/2007 1:03:36 PM PST by altura
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To: nuve9
Hel-lo? Who may I ask did I demonize? I simply said I didn't think Mrs. O was as classy as our Laura. My opinion. So sue me.
108 posted on 02/12/2007 1:03:40 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: PA-RIVER

> get shot at a gas station....

This will never happen once Obama is elected and Citgo runs all our gas stations.

Or, perhaps, with Al Gore as Sultan of Energy, there will be no more gas stations.


109 posted on 02/12/2007 1:04:03 PM PST by mbarker12474 (United Methodist Church: Empty Your Wallets. Empty Your Minds. Last One Out Close the Doors.)
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To: paulat
Take a chill pill man... No.

Are you sure? They come in both black and white...

110 posted on 02/12/2007 1:05:34 PM PST by John123 (Dick Morris predicts Hitlery will be the worst president ever... I will now light myself on fire)
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To: paulat
Do you think you're clever with statements like that?

Why, yes, he is...that's the perfect response to Obama's Abe Lincoln/Bro schtick.

111 posted on 02/12/2007 1:05:52 PM PST by gogeo
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To: gogeo
I don't need to have anyone explain to me when I'm being called a racist...and I don't need to be told when someone is playing the race card.

...and I don't need to be told when someone ISN'T playing the race card. I can see that for myself.

112 posted on 02/12/2007 1:06:44 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

If she wasn't playing the race card, then what was the purpose of "as a black man?"


113 posted on 02/12/2007 1:10:07 PM PST by gogeo
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To: gogeo

The main thing I don't like about the woman is the guy she seems to be supporting for President.

It has nothing to do with color, that's just ridiculous. He's a liberal and too mixed up with Muslim thinking no matter how much he would deny it.


114 posted on 02/12/2007 1:10:07 PM PST by altura
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To: areafiftyone

Did they think to ask her, "Shot by whom?". Another black man, of course. But she would not dare say that.


115 posted on 02/12/2007 1:10:18 PM PST by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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To: altura

I'm not demonizing her, all I said is that she has a very Joker-like static smile and doubted the validity of that rumor of her selling drugs in her younger days. That's in no way a judgement, just an observation. Honestly, I respect my elders and think Mrs. Bush is probably the sweetest woman in the world even if I don't agree with her husband. It was a response to everyone saying Mrs. Obama is not "First Lady" material. As if there were such a strict standard for this type of thing.


116 posted on 02/12/2007 1:12:46 PM PST by nuve9
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To: areafiftyone
"as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” Michelle Obama said in the interview"

If a black man is shot at a gas station (or anywhere else in the USA) odds are he was shot by another black man..... trying to make it sound like yet another indictment of racist Amerikkka just shows how low these socialists will go.
117 posted on 02/12/2007 1:14:56 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: gogeo
If she wasn't playing the race card, then what was the purpose of "as a black man?"

Stating fact isn't necessarily "playing the race card."

If I say, "75% of black kids are born to unwed mothers," I am NOT "playing the race card."

118 posted on 02/12/2007 1:17:22 PM PST by paulat
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To: derllak
"I've never seen her until today. She looks bitter. Not "First Lady" material in my opinion."

Perhaps she should get in touch with Mrs. Kerry and get some pointers on how to act in public over a bowl of gin soaked raisins.

It's tough for Democrats, -no matter who they are- during campaigns. They have to act normal 24/7.

119 posted on 02/12/2007 1:19:34 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: nuve9

I sincerely hope you don't make any 'observations' about me.

But have a nice day.


120 posted on 02/12/2007 1:19:41 PM PST by altura
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