Posted on 05/25/2008 2:36:43 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
ON THE website of the Tennessee Republican Party is a short video in which residents of Nashville talk about the pride they feel for their country. One man, for example, mentions his esteem for the First and Second Amendments. A Vanderbilt graduate student says he was proud when Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall - "and I was prouder when it came down." A young professional woman extols the "academic and job opportunities that women have in this country." A police officer named Juan says he is proud of having immigrated to the United States, learned English, and become a citizen of this "land of opportunity and the best country in the world."
The video makes its point by alternating these upbeat comments with clips of Michelle Obama telling two different audiences in February: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country." In an understated press release announcing the video, the state GOP welcomed Mrs. Obama to Nashville and remarked: "The Tennessee Republican Party has always been proud of America."
One would have to have skin of microscopic thinness to take offense at so gentle and indirect a critique. No surprise, then, that Barack Obama took offense, reacting as if his bride had been slimed by slurs akin to those that enraged Andrew Jackson when he ran for president. (During the campaign of 1828, supporters of John Quincy Adams maligned Jackson's mother as a "common prostitute" and mocked his adored wife, Rachel, as a "convicted adulteress" and a "strumpet.") In an interview on ABC, Obama growled that Republicans "should lay off my wife," and described the inoffensive Tennessee video as "detestable," "low class," and reflecting "a lack of decency."
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Any spouse of a presidential candidate is fare game.
This General Election is going to get ugly based on what I have witnessed so far and unfortunately Sen McCain is going to get held to the highest of standards while Sen Obama will get a free pass based on the fact the MSM is in his corner.
But ONE of them (not counting Michelle) is going to be sitting in the oval office making important decisions everday.
If Obama wins little Marxist Michelle will be the one giving him the marching orders ,,, count on it.. she is definitely fair game..
I wonder how long it will take for the obamas to become offended at this article since the title implies that she should be “hunted” down?
“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 zone . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed.”
No further comment needed...
mrs. b. HUSSEIN is many things....but fair....she is NOT!!!!
SCARY isn’t it?
The question isn’t about three unelectables but rather will the damage done be so severe that it can’t be undone when they are finished
I think one alternative is much scarier than the other.
Hear Hear.
It’s an old Commie trick, act outrageously, then when you are called out scream “Provocation! Provocation!”
Poor Obamao is going to have toughen up a bit, if you send the wifey out to give policy speeches, there will be consequences for mistakes are mistatements, or even speaking one’s mind and coming off like a leftist hate america firster.
Bill Clinton too?
Look for Michelle Obama to run for president in 2016.
Exactly. It's not a question of who is the best candidate, it's who is the least worst, who will damage the nation the least. With McCain, we know Democrats will work AGAINST almost anything he does, thus keeping damage to a minimum, whereas with Obama or Clinton, we can expect maximum support from both houses for anything they do and maximum damage as a result.
Reminds me of the comment they used to make about the Socialist Worker's Party. "Vote for the Socialist Worker's Party. You'll work and they'll party.
He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism.
He can have my cynicism when he pries it from my cold dead hands.
Where the heck IS Michelle? (sniggle sniggle snort koff!)
Assume the position, Michelle, here comes a piece of mah pie!
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