Posted on 03/22/2014 5:51:15 AM PDT by maggief
BEIJING — On a visit that was supposed to be nonpolitical, Michelle Obama delivered an unmistakable message to the Chinese on Saturday, saying in a speech here that freedom of speech, particularly on the Internet and in the news media, provided the foundation for a vibrant society.
On the second day of a weeklong trip to China with her two daughters and her mother, Mrs. Obama spoke to an audience of Americans and Chinese at Peking University, and in the midst of an appeal for more American students to study abroad, she also talked of the value for people of hearing “all sides of every argument.”
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“My husband and I are on the receiving end of plenty of questioning and criticism from our media and our fellow citizens,” she said. “And it’s not always easy, but we wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.”
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that’s rich, she doesn’t believe what she is preaching, she is just trying to pix off the Chinese
Is this from The Onion?
“Michelle Obama Speaks Out”
She doesn’t speaks out,
but just reads a text, prepared by someone else, on a teleprompter.
Just like that sissy clown she calls “husband”.
Such a couple of nullissime nobodies.
The New York Slimes, happy to cover for the extravagant spending by Team BO.
HEY Slimes, if Freedom of Speech is so great, and Obama CARES do much about it, why are they using the IRS to hinder conservative political speech????
Is that Photoshopped or is her caboose really in the next Chinese province?
Wailing to the world.
Good lord, she has a big hump on her butt
Ironic considering the obama handlers would like to treat the Tea Party the way the Chinese govt treats Falun Gong
Beijing hotel workers already ‘fed up’ with Obama entourage in 3400-square-foot, $8,350-per-night suite inconveniencing ‘pretty much everyone’ – and the first lady’s mother is ‘barking at the staff’
Michelle Obama, her daughters and her mother Marian Robinson are staying in a sumptuous presidential suite at a Beijing Westin hotel
Mrs. Robinson has been ‘barking at the staff since she arrived,’ a hotel staffer said, adding that ‘we can’t wait for this to be over’
Secret Service agents are monopolizing elevators and booting high-paying guests from their rooms to occupy a block of space near the first lady
Both front and back doors of the hotel are blocked off, with Chinese and U.S. security agents screening everyone who enters
Ordinary Chinese describe Mrs. Obama and her family as kind and gracious, but hotel staff are ‘fed up’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586367/Beijing-hotel-workers-fed-Obama-entourage-3400-square-foot-8-350-night-suite-inconveniencing-pretty-ladys-mother-barking-staff.html#ixzz2whTjRdXz
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bulletproof butt shield?
omg. what is that thang?
I thought I read that there would be no media coverage on her trip, wishful thinking I guess.
I’m sure she has come out against universities that don’t want conservative speakers on campus.
Yeah,right !
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That was shown after it was photo-op’ed, the before shot didn’t fit in the picture.
The sad thing is that she seems to think she represents us. She is not elected, does not speak for us, and when the President is not overseas on a trip and she is not with him she should not be speaking for America in any way. Who planned and approved this multi million dollar bash for granny,the kids and this loudmouth?
I have never seen a picture of this woman that she doesn’t look angry. Every picture on this trip she is beaming with delight. She is home.
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