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Michelle Obama is ready for her close-up[Denounces 'Whitey']
International Herald Tribune ^ | June 18, 2008 | Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor

Posted on 06/17/2008 7:18:27 PM PDT by txhurl

Michelle Obama's eyes flicker tentatively even as she offers a trained smile. As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range in Montana, she is asked to consider her complicated public image.

Conservative columnists accuse her of being unpatriotic and say she simmers with undigested racial anger. A blogger who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton circulates unfounded claims that Obama gave an accusatory speech in her church about the sins of "whitey." Obama shakes her head.

"You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be," she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: "I mean, 'whitey?' That's something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn't know me. They don't know the life I've lived. They don't know anything about me."

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KEYWORDS: 2008; michelle; michelleobama; obama; whitey
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To: txflake
Has anybody found where either Michelle, Obama, or his campaign have outright denied she said these things? They deny there is a tape, and she said these things in her church, but I haven't found yet where they've outright denied she uttered these racist words and some other stuff.

The rumors are there is more she supposedly said than just "Whitey." The phrase I think that was used was "mouth droping," to describe when the audience heard her supposed rant.

For a person to say publicly it was the "First time she was proud of America," that is pretty outrageouly damning to her character, I don't for a second, with the pastor she's been around, and the circles she runs in, put it past her one bit to have had a "racist rant" at some point in her adult life.

21 posted on 06/17/2008 7:46:43 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Yes, Chef!)
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To: txflake

Maybe she’ll shed a tear, ala Hillary.


22 posted on 06/17/2008 7:47:23 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: txflake

Putting more lipstick on a pig does not make it less a pig.


23 posted on 06/17/2008 7:47:45 PM PDT by Liberty 275
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To: dayglored

Y-T, Y-T, Y-T, Y-T


24 posted on 06/17/2008 7:48:37 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: txflake

So, the anger management classes are over, huh Michelle?

We will see how the plastic surgeons did surgically removing her scowl. It will be fun to see how well they hid the zipper they put on her mouth. I hear they had to graft in some new muscles to make it easier for her to smile when she is seething.


25 posted on 06/17/2008 7:49:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: sirchtruth
Don't be silly. You don't petition, question, inquire of the King. You just be happy the King lets you live. Back up, serf.

Another question I had earlier, how the hell can there be an Obama Presidential Library down the road when nothing about the Obamas is subject to inquiry?

26 posted on 06/17/2008 7:50:59 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: txflake

I could care less if she was poka dotted. She’s a radical left winger with only one thing on her mind...get back at Corporate America and push imaginary racism and guilt down everyones throats. That goes triple for her Marxist husband too.


27 posted on 06/17/2008 7:52:49 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: sirchtruth
Just like you don't question the Kennedys, in case you didn't read the article:

She says she intends to evoke a John F. Kennedy-like idealism and highlight her own journey, but in her commanding cadences, some people — and not just conservatives — hear a lecture. To appeal to voters who may be put off or not know of her biography, the campaign hopes to display Obama as an ordinary American mom.

28 posted on 06/17/2008 7:54:08 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: do not press 2 for spanish

There is not need for a tape that likely does not exist.

Just the Rumor will be sufficient.


29 posted on 06/17/2008 7:55:20 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: sirchtruth

I take this as a denial.........

“You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be,” she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: “I mean, ‘whitey?’ That’s something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn’t know me. They don’t know the life I’ve lived. They don’t know anything about me.”


30 posted on 06/17/2008 7:55:53 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: do not press 2 for spanish

Doubt there is a tape. If there was, the Clintons would have used it already before Barry got the nomination.


31 posted on 06/17/2008 7:55:57 PM PDT by tips up
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To: doc1019

Oh Yeahhh

Tomorrow

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

PRESS CONFERENCE ON OBAMA’S HOMOSEXUAL AND COCAINE 1999 PARTEEEE

w/Larry Sinclair

LIve INternet FEed

still no mention of this on fightthesmears.com .... maybe because it is not a smear but TRUTH.


32 posted on 06/17/2008 7:56:38 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: sirchtruth
Spot on.

Notice how Obama never once says:

"My wife never said that."

or in Michele Obama's case:

"I never said that!"

Just denial about the tape's existence and accusations that her enemies are "liars."

But never once does she say, "I never said such horrible things, so I don't know why you keep asking me about it."

I have also noticed a spike in their photo ops with white people.

Something might be brewing afterall, or perhaps it's just a hoax perpetrated by the Clintons.

I would never doubt the devious plans of Hillary, though.

Hillary's campaign is still "suspended," and that forced meeting at Feinstein's house was interesting.

33 posted on 06/17/2008 7:59:46 PM PDT by Prole (Pray for the families of Chris and Channon.)
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To: SE Mom
Ping!


34 posted on 06/17/2008 8:09:26 PM PDT 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: pepperhead
“You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be,” she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: “I mean, ‘whitey?’ That’s something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn’t know me. They don’t know the life I’ve lived. They don’t know anything about me.”

If you take this as a denial, you must have taken, "It all depends on what the meaning of is, is..." literally to mean something!

35 posted on 06/17/2008 8:10:15 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Yes, Chef!)
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To: mrgolden
>"If the tapes existed Ickeys would have found them and Hill would have used them."

Why now? Why not wait till late Oct? Dodge all the questions, silent running.

I got a bad feeling bout dat beeyatch!

36 posted on 06/17/2008 8:11:10 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Every time a cow farts, a polar bear drowns. ~ Algae)
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To: txflake
What balderdash!

This from a woman who allowed her children to be raised in a racist church?

Under the guise of worship?

37 posted on 06/17/2008 8:14:05 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Prole
Hillary's campaign is still "suspended," and that forced meeting at Feinstein's house was interesting.

Yep, I agree. I just find it incredibly bizaar that Hillary gave up so easily. Maybe those words should be "gave in" so easily. We'll find out how fast that campaign debt goes away.

38 posted on 06/17/2008 8:17:58 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Yes, Chef!)
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To: doc1019

The republicans might be holding back some of Berry’s campaign ending skeletons. They will keep Berry in the race and then drop the bomb on him sometime in September.That would give his replacement only a short period of time to get up and running. It could happen.


39 posted on 06/17/2008 8:19:02 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite)
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To: txflake

I thought George Jefferson’s preferred term was “honkie”.


40 posted on 06/17/2008 8:21:23 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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