Posted on 06/04/2008 8:07:52 AM PDT by milwguy
With "2004: A Year Of Critical Choices for Inclusion and Growth" as its theme, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund held its 33rd annual conference in Chicago.
The six-day conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers also marked the 20th anniversary of Rainbow/PUSH Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 U.S. presidential campaign--the first serious bid by a Black American for the nation's highest office
The conference also featured several workshops including "Hip Hop Fusion" to educate America's youth about their civic and adult responsibilities--from voting to job hunting to money management. The workshops also exposed the youth to some of the nation's top decision makers and leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at findarticles.com ...
I think there are probably several occasions where Michelle said some naughty things and probably more than one were video taped. I mean, we’ve already seen several from her the way it is.
More rumors regarding this event at link below (site appears to be a Hillary backer).
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-on-michelle-obama-rant-tape.html
Where can I send my donation?
No video=no evidence.
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/06/do-we-still-have-journalists-in-this.html
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When a rumor about a tape of Michelle Obama ranting and raving at Trinity first hit the blogs, we wondered if there was any truth to it. So, we just used Google to try as best we could to piece together her public schedule for the last few years, cross referencing that with the other clues that started coming out about what Michelle supposedly said, and who was with her when she said it. We just looked for times she was in Chicago before the national media would have been paying any attention to her (so, basically, everything prior to Barack Obama’s speech at the DNC Convention in 2004: logic dictates she would be less inclined to rant and rave in public after she and her husband had a national profile). The break came when it was noted on the blogs that Michelle made her remarks with Mrs. Farrakhan at a panel discussion at Trinity. Having that, another Google search turned up the Jet magazine article, a trip to the Library to check out the microfiche of that issue got the photo of Michelle and the other panelists (with all their names), a Google search of those names all together got the schedule of events for the 2004 Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference, and that schedule ultimately led to the rest.
We have no idea if we are right, because we’ve never seen the tape. But, we don’t understand why a journalist couldn’t get the tape of Michelle’s panel discussion to check if she does, in fact, rant and rave on this panel the way it’s been described.
It doesn’t seem to need a Woodward or Bernstein: just someone who knows how to use Google and who can sit down with a pad of paper and figure out when Michelle Obama would have had an opportunity to do something like this. Once that is known, journalists just need to get the tapes from her appearance at the 2004 conference to see what she said and how she said it.
Do we still have any journalists in this country?
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I think you meant ‘7/26/2004’ next to the Jet link above, yes?
I can’t figure out why the identity of the two women at the end of each row left off. Weird...
Details of The Michelle Obama ‘Whitey’ Tape
Still no tape ...as yet...
I admit that I am obsessed with this story. I got of a case of insomnia last night and I was following the posting on Hillbuzz blog
http://www.hillbuzz.blogspot.com/
Also, Larry Johnson reproduced the post.
There is a web tool that I want to share with Freepers called waybackmachine It searches web site archives. The URL is
I went did an archive search on UTCC.org (obama church) and found nothing on the event in question.
Rainbow/PUSH does make reference to this event back in the 2004 archive and corresponds to JET story.
I am a little sleep deprived today, but I think some enterprising Freepers can perhaps develop further information using the archive tool.
There is a lot of smoke, let’s see som fire!
I see one is identified at the beginning and I misread the other. Nevermind...
What if the comments were made when no official taping was in progress, and the tape is from a conference attendee's camcorder? This would explain why it has not leaked out, since those getting a "peak" would have only that, no hard copy themselves.
Still looking for the appearance by Michelle on this meeting roster- HOWEVER- Barack appeared here- wonder how we can hear the tape of HIS speech?
http://web.archive.org/web/20040811233750/corona.tpsgi.com/rpc/Conference_Schedule.htm
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11:00a.m. ~ 4:00p.m. Conference Registration
11:30a.m ~ 1:30p.m.
SHERATON BALLROOM 1-5 Plenary Session Running Back to Back
Leadership Meeting
20th Anniversary of the Rainbow Coalition and the Run for President
Co-Chairs:
Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
State Senator Barack Obama
Senator John Edwards
Governor Howard Dean
Congressman Richard Gephardt
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Congresswoman Corrine Brown
Mr. Marc Morial, President, National Urban League
~snip~
Here you go
12:00p.m ~ 2:00p.m.
SHERATON BALLROOM 1-7 Womans Luncheon
M.C.’s: Cheryl Burton and Karen Jordan, ABC 7
Keynote Speaker: Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Special Guests:
Shoshana Johnson, Retired United States Military
Michelle Obama, University of Chicago
That was on Sunday.
Thanks:)
Rush saying now- he thinks there might BE something to the tape since Hillary didn’t concede last night..
Yeah I am tuned into Rush too.
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