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The Bubble Wife
IBD ^ | May 20, 2008

Posted on 05/20/2008 6:19:59 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: Barack Obama puts the little lady off-limits, imposing a new double standard on presidential politics. At least Hillary didn't say, "Lay off my husband."


Whatever else we've thought about Michelle Obama, we've never doubted that this outspoken Princeton- and Harvard-trained lawyer was capable of fighting her own battles. But now her husband says no. Pick on her and you're going to have to deal with him. As he told "Good Morning America" this week, "Lay off my wife."

How manly. How chivalrous. How hypocritical.

Both spouses of the leading Democratic contenders have been active on the stump, occasionally making news. Bill Clinton riled up the Obama camp early on with comments such as his claim that Obama's anti-war record was more "fairy tale" than reality. Obama's minions jumped all over him for once comparing Obama with Jesse Jackson. Clinton can give as good as he gets, and no one treats him as an innocent victim. That's how it should be.

Michelle Obama has stirred up some criticism, too. Republicans have not let her forget that she told a couple of audiences in February that she was "proud of my country" for the first time in her adult life. That line reinforced the impression that, for someone who has achieved so much, she is strangely disaffected and angry. "America's Unhappiest Millionaire," she was dubbed in National Review after one of her grim stump speeches.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; crybaby; michelleobama; obama

1 posted on 05/20/2008 6:19:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The obamas put her in the race. No one is allowed to respond to her after she interjects herself?
2 posted on 05/20/2008 6:22:04 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Kaslin
"..Barack Obama puts the little lady off-limits.."

Barack doesn't get any say about that.

3 posted on 05/20/2008 6:24:02 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Kaslin

He’ll be shoutin’ it from da rooftops after they drop the “Hate Whitey” bomb on him. No wonder Billary is stayin’ in da race, boss.


4 posted on 05/20/2008 6:24:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: Kaslin

If you’re on the stump for a candidate, then you are fair game.

Whether you are Chelsea, Michelle, Teddy, John, or whomever. Once you take the mic to endorse, you are officially a member of someone’s posse and open to politics...


5 posted on 05/20/2008 6:25:22 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Add a little Larry Sinclair to the dance repertoire.
6 posted on 05/20/2008 6:25:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Kaslin

Hussein is proving to be a joke.


7 posted on 05/20/2008 6:27:23 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Voting for McCain, not because I want to, because I have to.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Hussein is proving to be a joke.

And hopefully this joke isn't on us...

8 posted on 05/20/2008 6:29:25 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Kaslin
How manly. How chivalrous. How hypocritical.

How sexist? Add that to "sweetie" and his grandmother and a patern emergers.

9 posted on 05/20/2008 6:29:59 PM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Kaslin
Michelle Obama has hit menopause and she is pissed at everything. So what's new?
10 posted on 05/20/2008 6:34:29 PM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: Kaslin

I WISH I had been offered the advantages from which she benefited. She has said she was surprised to get into Princeton with her test scores. I guess she wasn’t thinking about the affirmative action, again, from which she greatly benefited.


11 posted on 05/20/2008 6:39:38 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye
Her thesis is so poorly written, I wonder how she managed to graduate.

Really. I wrote a Princeton thesis in 1977. Could do much better work now, but if I had produced the mess that she submitted, I'm sure my advisor would have flunked me.

12 posted on 05/20/2008 7:20:00 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
Her thesis is so poorly written, I wonder how she managed to graduate.

If what I've seen of her thesis had been submitted as a term paper at my rural Oklahoma high school in the fifties, she wouldn't have passed.

Our teachers actually graded on grammar, spelling and punctuation. I doubt there would've been much credit given for the content, either.

13 posted on 05/20/2008 7:32:23 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: bmwcyle

I don’t think Michelle’s anger is new. Her Princeton “thesis” shows she’s been angry at least since her college days. The frown on her face seems permanent.


14 posted on 05/20/2008 7:39:39 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." ~~Michelle Obama, 2008

She sounds just like Mao's wife Jiang Qing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing

Jiang Qing was the harpy b!tch from hell, the leader of the "Gang of Four."

WIki: Around the time of Chairman Mao's death, Jiang Qing and her proteges effectively controlled nearly all of China's institutions, including the media and most of the government's central organs. As a result, she is often put in the same rank as Empress Wu Zetian, Empress Dowager Cixi, and other women, as a female ruler of China. However, Jiang Qing's political success was limited, and she was arrested in October 1976 by Hua Guofeng and his allies, and was subsequently accused of being counter-revolutionary. Since then, Jiang Qing and Lin Biao had been branded by official historical documents in China as the "Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-revolutionary Group," to which most of the blame for the damage and devastation caused by the Cultural Revolution was assigned.

15 posted on 05/20/2008 7:59:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Travis McGee

VERY scary.

..............
Awesome video:

The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.


16 posted on 05/20/2008 8:18:25 PM PDT by cyberella
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To: okie01
It's a very poor performance. I can't think of anybody I knew at the time who produced anything that bad. It's just deficient in every way - style, content, spelling, etc.

It was a bit harder in those days to correct typos and misspellings, because we didn't even have IBM Selectrics yet, no computers, nothing but correction fluid which always flaked off after awhile. But it looks like she didn't even try!

17 posted on 05/20/2008 9:16:21 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Kaslin
Time for a reality check, Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas:

1. Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, when you run for the highest office in America, you don’t get to set the tone of the discussions and set the limits about what is said about you, and you have an open field with your opponents to say any lies you want to say.

2. When you send your millionaire, loud mouthed, Black racist, spoiled America Hating B$tch of a wife out to knock America, the other candidates and to campaign for you. She becomes a legitimate target of how America feels about her and her bitter comments about America.

3. Last but not least, when you say this bs about leaving your Bitter wife out of the campaign, there must be something really bad that she has done. So are you trying to preempt the disclosure of what else she has done, said or worse?

Put some ice on it and stop your whining, you thin skinned elitist bastard!

Or should we say: " Stop your Whining, you thin skinned Elitist Liberal Sweetie Bastard?

18 posted on 05/21/2008 7:58:52 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S.to Blame for 9/11")
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