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Michelle Obama: No tension with husband's aides (People paint me as "some angry black woman")
CBS News ^ | January 12, 2012

Posted on 01/11/2012 5:24:26 AM PST by maggief

(CBS News)

Michelle Obama said depictions of friction in a new book, "The Obamas," between her and former top aides to her husband, President Obama, aren't true.

In a wide-ranging interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, the first lady also said that some have tried to portray her as an "angry black woman" since Mr. Obama first announced he was seeking the presidency.

" ... I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and-- you know? But that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I'm some angry black woman."

"The Obamas," written by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, reports that there was tension with former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual and with former presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

But Mrs. Obama told King that simply wasn't so.

"Rahm is -- and Amy, his wife, are some of our dearest friends," Mrs. Obama says. "Rahm and I have never had a cross word. He's a funny guy."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angryblackwoman; jodikantor; mantoinette; michelleobama
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To: Responsibility2nd

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81 posted on 01/11/2012 6:48:38 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cuban leaf

So true. Most black people tend to view things in terms of race because that’s what gets ingrained to them from their own ‘community’. Compound that with their ‘white enablers’ (their ‘Plantation owners’, white Democrat politicians), and you have molded a very captive, indoctrinated, and subservient class of voters unable to move off the Liberal-racist-thinking plantation.


82 posted on 01/11/2012 6:58:56 AM PST by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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To: manc

When you don’t know a person, all you have to go on is their race, their sex, their manner of dress and, if watching the person “in person”, their mannerisms and the way they move.

As a salesman, I would always treat women differently than men, at least at first. But it was very “slightly” different so as not to “tip my hand”.


83 posted on 01/11/2012 6:59:35 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cripplecreek

Imelda was Miss Philippines and a hero, an icon who was adored by the Philippine people.

The comparison is with out any basis


86 posted on 01/11/2012 7:04:53 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: maggief

No questions on why she has a problem with white irish catholics?


87 posted on 01/11/2012 7:12:06 AM PST by italianquaker ( Mr Obama inherited an AAA rating and made it AA, thnx Resident Zero)
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To: cuban leaf

understand what you’re saying.


88 posted on 01/11/2012 7:16:21 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Her notes are kind of funny.

And - really - there is a bit of truth to them.

She is undoubtedly an affirmative action student at Princeton.

When people in that intellectual demographic meet a black person - we sort of quickly try to figure out “which type” they are. There are a few basic groups: 1. normal smart kid who happens to be black, 2. Smart black kid fully indoctrinated in black racism, and 3. Not very bright, and usually also fully Black Racist indoctrinated.

Type 2s are sort of shunned - really - does anybody need to listen to that? And type 3s are sort of handled differently - because when you are 20 IQ points ahead of someone - it is really easy to embaress them - so they sort of get the “that’s nice dear” approach. Nobody takes them seriously. (In a room full of IQ = 125+, a 110 is really obvious. They don’t get the same jokes, at the same speed, etc.) (Imagine a room full of Ann Coulters, with Moochelle.)

She didn’t belong there - and then is shocked - when she “feels like an outsider”. She got in on race - then whines that anyone notices.


89 posted on 01/11/2012 7:19:31 AM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: maggief

Keep your wig on, Mickey!


90 posted on 01/11/2012 7:20:35 AM PST by tumblindice (Rew Scromney)
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To: manc

Unfortunately, I think so...
and throw in “women’s magazines” too...they are full of Obambot worship, “green” living, the “cause” of the week and how to raise your kid into a limp-wristed OWS “advocate”.
Any time someone I meet quotes something from a “morning TV show”, I write them off...


91 posted on 01/11/2012 7:24:36 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Russ

Don’t forget working in her garden....NOT!


92 posted on 01/11/2012 7:25:47 AM PST by matginzac
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To: bert

Cleaning out the treasury and fleeing the country was an endearing trait. LOL


93 posted on 01/11/2012 7:26:41 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: maggief

The descriptor left out ‘worthless’......


94 posted on 01/11/2012 7:34:08 AM PST by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: maggief
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95 posted on 01/11/2012 7:34:20 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: manc

You could be right...
I have a friend who teaches kindergarten in a public school which is predominately black and she is white.
She has a horrible time keeping order and teaching because the kids are disrespectful, undisciplined and “warehoused” there by their parents; she truly believes because she is white, these kids are disrespectful and that they learn it from home. Add the fact that the administration won’t support her and the “rules” favor the disrespect, she wants out of her contract asap. The union reps won’t let her go...hmmmm.


96 posted on 01/11/2012 7:37:27 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Eldon Tyrell

“She is undoubtedly an affirmative action student at Princeton. . . . She got in on race - then whines that anyone notices.”

Agreed.


97 posted on 01/11/2012 7:43:27 AM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: newnhdad

Angry black women are everywhere...so much for the Obamas solving our race problems.

http://www.koinlocal6.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=3175177

This was on the news in Portland yesterday. A very pretty white girl attacked by 3 black girls on our mass transit.

“”I’m shocked... I was honestly confused, shocked. Why are these people doing this to me when I literally did nothing towards them…? These kids must have so much anger in them that they feel like they have to take it out on someone who’s innocent,” Buckland said.”


99 posted on 01/11/2012 7:44:51 AM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: maggief
(People paint me as "some angry black woman")

Well.....if a person is presented with a shoe, then chooses to loudly announce that it fits.....

What a foul woman Moochelle must be. In every picture I've seen, she always looks like she smells something bad.

100 posted on 01/11/2012 7:52:43 AM PST by wbill
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