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Michelle Obama in Denver: Barack is candidate of change
Rocky Mountain News ^ | July 16, 2008 | David Montero

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: co2008; michelleobama; obama; yobama
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She's daft. The left controls education with the exception of private and parochial schools. They screwed up health care with Medicare, Medicaid, Chips and blocking tort reform. Acorn's demands helped to bring about the subprime loan housing crisis. The watermelons gave us our energy predicament.

Hat tips to Michelle Malkin and Rick Moran for helping me find this story.

1 posted on 07/22/2008 11:08:19 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

...change we can ill afford!


2 posted on 07/22/2008 11:09:19 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: neverdem

Change...that’s a good slogan. I’m surprised Obama hasn’t been using it.


3 posted on 07/22/2008 11:09:22 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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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?

4 posted on 07/22/2008 11:10:26 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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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."

Most. Idiotic. Statement. Ever.

5 posted on 07/22/2008 11:11:32 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: GSWarrior

Republicans should agree that this election should cause change. We can change Congress by electing more Republicans.


6 posted on 07/22/2008 11:11:44 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: george76; jan in Colorado; colorado tanker; coloradan; dljordan

Heads up!


7 posted on 07/22/2008 11:11:45 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: SumProVita

This comment certainly sizes it up. NOBAMA for me!!


8 posted on 07/22/2008 11:11:56 AM PDT by Sadie5
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To: neverdem

Change and hope, hope and change...blah blah blah.


9 posted on 07/22/2008 11:12:20 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: neverdem

Change.....hope......errr..........ummmmm.......change.....yeah....and hope.....YAY!!!!


10 posted on 07/22/2008 11:14:11 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: neverdem


11 posted on 07/22/2008 11:14:12 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
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To: neverdem

12 posted on 07/22/2008 11:14:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: Lizavetta

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.


13 posted on 07/22/2008 11:14:59 AM PDT by GOPyouth ("Change that works for Him!")
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Change...that’s a good slogan. I’m surprised Obama hasn’t been using it.

It's actually "Change You Can Believe In".

Which, I'm wondering why some Phtoshop guru hasn't already taken those signs carried by the people in the background of Obamma rallies, and changed them to "Change You Can beLiedAbout"
14 posted on 07/22/2008 11:15:54 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Lizavetta

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.


15 posted on 07/22/2008 11:16:43 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: neverdem

And by “change”, she means “business as usual”.


16 posted on 07/22/2008 11:16:50 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: Sadie5

I think it sizes him up for everyone....though some, who cannot think clearly or who are ill-informed, are not aware of it.


17 posted on 07/22/2008 11:22:04 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

LOL! What a comparison!


18 posted on 07/22/2008 11:26:26 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: neverdem

“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!...


19 posted on 07/22/2008 11:27:01 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: adorno

20 posted on 07/22/2008 11:28:53 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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