Posted on 07/22/2008 11:08:18 AM PDT by neverdem
Michelle Obama was both personal and policy-driven while speaking to a crowd of about 150 who paid from $1,000 to $10,000 to sip wine, eat dinner standing up and hear her talk.
She got the laughs - telling a story about how Barack Obama had asked her out - but she also got solemn silence when she painted contrasts between her husband and his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain.
"We have one candidate who essentially is telling us every day that the world as it is is just fine, that what we've been doing for the last eight years is fine," she said Wednesday. "Stay the course. Don't make too many changes. And then we have this other candidate - Barack Obama - who is saying every day that the world as it is is not right. It's not good enough."
She proceeded to paint a dark picture of America, going through a list of areas in which she believes the nation has been underperforming - education, health care and the economy - under President Bush.
"I wish we had time to be divided," she said. "I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did. Because if we had time for that, then things wouldn't be so bad right now. Instead, we're in a place where another four or eight years of the world as it is will devastate the life of some child."
Tom Kise, spokesman for McCain, disagreed.
He said McCain has a plan to grow the economy by making it easier for small businesses to expand - the backbone, he said, of the nation's economic engine.
Michelle Obama also threw out some red meat for Democrats who oppose the Iraq war, saying it was time to end a conflict...
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Hat tips to Michelle Malkin and Rick Moran for helping me find this story.
...change we can ill afford!
Change...that’s a good slogan. I’m surprised Obama hasn’t been using it.
I heard that Senator Effin' Kerry has three Purple Hearts. Is this true?
Most. Idiotic. Statement. Ever.
Republicans should agree that this election should cause change. We can change Congress by electing more Republicans.
Heads up!
This comment certainly sizes it up. NOBAMA for me!!
Change and hope, hope and change...blah blah blah.
Change.....hope......errr..........ummmmm.......change.....yeah....and hope.....YAY!!!!
Ya know...now that you mention it, I think I heard about that once. I believe private citizen Nixon was somehow acting as commander in chief, thus sending Kerry into Cambodia.
It’s not even intelligent enough to be idiotic. Or intelligible, for that matter. But when one is part of a campaign based on mindless platitudes (Hope! Change!), it’s par for the course.
And by “change”, she means “business as usual”.
I think it sizes him up for everyone....though some, who cannot think clearly or who are ill-informed, are not aware of it.
LOL! What a comparison!
“She proceeded to paint a dark picture of America”.....
That may be, but Michelle my Belle I sure as hell don’t want your hubbies socialist solutions!...
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