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Michelle Obama trashes Trump: 'That is not who we are'
politico ^ | June 3, 2016 | NICK GASS

Posted on 06/03/2016 1:00:19 PM PDT by PROCON

Michelle Obama offered a scathing, barely veiled critique of Donald Trump on Friday as she delivered her final commencement address as first lady, warning graduates of City College in New York that while their diverse backgrounds are to be celebrated, they should beware of those who "build up walls to keep people out."

"They seem to view our diversity as a threat to be contained rather than as a resource to be tapped," Obama said. "They tell us to be afraid of those who are different, to be suspicious of those with whom we disagree. They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate. As if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress."

Invoking her travels as first lady, Obama remarked that she has visited dozens of countries over the last seven years. "And I have seen what happens when ideas like these take hold. I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation, leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished, how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: grifter; michelleobama; moochie; swine; trump
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To: PROCON

Barry and Mooch....and Bubba...and Chelsea...

All campaigning for Hillary.

Why can’t Hillary campaign for herself? She says she isn’t a good public speaker...which is odd because she gets paid $250k per speech behind closed doors.


41 posted on 06/03/2016 1:14:44 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: tet68

The coming melt down of the Liberal Left is going
to be frightening and violent.

They are NOT going to go quietly into that good night
without lashing out one last time with everything they have left.


42 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nea Wood

If the Mexicans were voting Republican, the Democrats would be loaded them into boxcars to ship back.


43 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:17 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Billthedrill
Water buffalo? That's just plain libel. The water buffalo is a useful beast of burden. Or....

Not fair, I know, both have better style sense than the Mooch.

44 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:19 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: PROCON

An indignant, clueless, ugly to the bone racist.


45 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:38 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: PROCON

She is so pathetic.

She could have rented a 2BR apartment in DC but that would have been the honorable thing to do.

She WANTED to live in luxury,in a house that she says was built by slaves..

The hypocrisy is absolutely astonishing.

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46 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:46 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BenLurkin

“...Don’t see any reference to Trump there though...”

Are you being serious with this comment???


47 posted on 06/03/2016 1:15:50 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: PROCON

Hey Mooch! You and I are not the same of anything. I share nothing you with you. Nothing!


48 posted on 06/03/2016 1:16:11 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: yuleeyahoo

I am uneasy that the trajectory appears to be...diversity==>multi-culturalism==>ethic cleansing==>genocide.


49 posted on 06/03/2016 1:16:23 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: PROCON

From a woman with over 15 personal “assistants”


50 posted on 06/03/2016 1:17:11 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: NorthMountain

I particularly found the following amusing:

“I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation, leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer.”

Is she talking about Trump? Sounds like she is describing her husband.


51 posted on 06/03/2016 1:17:15 PM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: PROCON

Is this the same woman that 7 years ago said she hated her country? Now all of a sudden she is a patriot. Lol.


52 posted on 06/03/2016 1:18:06 PM PDT by kempster
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To: PROCON
Well FLOTUS, I can't believe people support the witch who said something like this, “This is the first time in my life I am proud of America.” That's NOT who we are.
53 posted on 06/03/2016 1:18:09 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: JBW1949

If you saw references to Trump in there then please point them out to me.

Maybe i read it too fast.


54 posted on 06/03/2016 1:18:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Covenantor

Everytime i see one of those i think “yup. Shoot that three times and then retreat”


55 posted on 06/03/2016 1:19:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

Somebody should let the Cincinnatie Zoo that one of their silverbacks has excaped and is making speeches at loonyversities...


56 posted on 06/03/2016 1:19:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: PROCON

I am so sick of these pukes trying to tell us “ who we are”

THEY are not who we are ....


57 posted on 06/03/2016 1:22:44 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: BenLurkin

“...should beware of those who ‘build up walls to keep people out.’...”

Who has repeatedly claimed he’d build a wall to keep ILLEGALS out???


58 posted on 06/03/2016 1:23:49 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: PROCON

The Mooch should know...she is not who WE are!

Bringing up “slaves” is really not current events you fat, black hearted whore!


59 posted on 06/03/2016 1:24:19 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: PROCON

This is exactly who we are!


60 posted on 06/03/2016 1:24:39 PM PDT by Eddie01
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