Posted on 04/03/2009 12:04:42 PM PDT by lewisglad
During an address Thursday at a London school, First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowd she was from "the real part of Chicago," echoing controversial comments from Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign describing small towns as "the real America."
In remarks before the all-girls school, Mrs. Obama spoke of growing up in urban Chicago, an upbringing she said was an unlikely one for a future First Lady.
"For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady," Mrs. Obama said, according to press reports. "I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. I was raised on the South Side of Chicago — that’s the real part of Chicago.”
Mrs. Obama is in Europe this week accompanying President Barack Obama as he attended the G-20 summit in London.
Her comments don't sit well with Republicans, who point also to criticism directed at former Sen. George Allen, Virginia Republican, who stumbled during his 2006 re-election campaign by making a racially-charged remark against a rival campaign worker of Indian descent, to whom Allen said "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."
"The First Lady's comments are stunning," said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. "Given the unrelenting Democrat attacks against both Governor Palin and former Senator Allen, one would hope that the White House would be willing to offer up a clarification of what exactly Michelle Obama meant when she made this comment."
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He would feel right at home doing “community organizing”
in Kenya!
Point taken—JFK was bad enough, but his death put LBJ in-and that was the beginning of the end.
Yeah, that was a great series.
My dad wasn’t Italian, and was 50 lbs lighter than Tony, (and wasn’t in the mob)but otherwise, apperance and in some ways personality-wise, he was a dead ringer for Tony.
BTW—it goes without saying to others who didn’t see the episode-the neighborhood in Newark was no longer Italian—it had become “vibrant” with “urban flava”
PS to Doc—Is Little Italy in Cleveland still good? I bet it’s still in decent shape-sure hope so. I hung out there a bit 9-10 years ago—Mama Santa’s Pizza—that’s living....
One more thing—I know the place is a sewer of political sleaze—and they have what seems to be 100 square miles of some of the worst ghetto I ever hauled a$$ through with my gun on the front seat next to me, ready to go.—But Chicago is in many ways one of my favorite cities—I’ve met many great people there-the food-the bars, the cultural amenities etc. and so much more. I love NYC— and there’s no place like it-but Chicago is pretty damn close.
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