Posted on 04/10/2013 6:42:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Michelle Obama Invokes Slain Hadiya Pendleton to Enter Gun Debate
By Mary Bruce
Apr 10, 2013 Invoking the memory of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, an emotional first lady Michelle Obama today delivered a passionate and personal plea for stricter gun control laws and additional resources for the nations youth.
Hadiya Pendleton was me and I was her, the first lady told business and community leaders in her hometown. But I got to grow up and go to Princeton and Harvard Law School and have a career and a family and the most blessed life I could ever imagine.
And Hadiya, well we know that story, she said. She went to a park with some friends and got shot in the back.
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That's not as politically expedient b/c the parents were gangsta'.
No, Moochelle, she wasn’t you.
She still had potential!
She doesn’t even know this girl. She never even met this girl. How can someone cry for a person that he/she doesn’t know or has ever even met?
Even though a lot of terrible things happen in the world (just read the newspaper or watch the news), I don’t think that I have ever cried for someone I didn’t know. I might feel sad or upset, but I don’t actually shed tears.
People like Michelle Obama that cry for strangers are phony attention-seekers with self-serving agendas. Plain and simple.
If anyone thinks differently let me know where I am wrong on this.
With all that great education, you would think that Moochell might have picked up a little proper English.
Hadiya Pendleton was me and I was her, the first ladysaid.....
Sounds like a good trade to me. Sad the younger of the two is no longer alive, had she been we might have been able to “save” her from being corrupted like Mooooooooooochelle is.
However, third term and after birth murder is just fine with this pos.
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