Posted on 12/16/2016 12:09:55 PM PST by SkyPilot
With fewer than 40 days remaining as first lady, Michelle Obama is continuing to reflect on the legacy she and President Obama will leave after having occupied the White House for the last eight years. In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey, the first lady addressed the election outcome and suggested that the U.S. is entering a time of hopelessness.
“We are feeling what not having hope feels like,” Obama told Winfrey in response to a question about whether President Obama had achieved the “hope and change” he promised while campaigning in 2008. As she often did while campaigning for Hillary Clinton, she didn’t mention President-elect Donald Trump by name. But she alluded to the contrast many in the country are feeling since he won the election last month. “We feel the difference now,” she said, noting that her husband had succeeded in keeping his campaign promise of fostering hope. “Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept,” she elaborated. “And Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believed that … what else do you have if you don’t have hope? What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”
Those are philosophical questions that the nation will no doubt begin to grapple with in earnest over the coming months. And they’re not the first contemplative remarks the first lady, who has earned a special place in Americans’ hearts, has made recently. Last week, she reportedly left White House staffers in tears after a heartfelt thank you speech at a holiday party. And in an interview that appears in the December issue of Vogue, she expressed mixed feelings about leaving the White House...
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Actually, Moochie...
This is the most hopeful AMERICANS have been in the last eight years.
Liberals, on the other hand... well, ... there are Americans, and then there are Liberals.
I wonder what will be the legacy we leave BEHIND?
Watch out Grumpy Cat!
I picked up an “I vacationed with Obama” shirt while in Martha’s Vineyard a year ago.
“Barack ain’t never gonna let u go back to tha way you wuz b4!”
I think that man will begin running for president in 2020 on the day after he leaves office. I believe that is permitted under the constitution. Whether he gets any traction is up to us.
Wow!!! Shows his true character. He really looks angry. He didn’t even walk over there to see what was wrong.
January cannot come soon enough.
Just the opposite.
We finally have some hope.
No, you cow, we are coming out of 8 gears of hopelessness.
Sorry, Moochelle, we are entering an era of hope with Trump.
Guess you don’t understand that.
No first lady has ever said anything so cynical and so partisan as what she said, the people demand an apology.
I was thinking just that - I’ve never heard a first lady spout off as much as this broad. And everything she says is completely unhinged to boot. Unbelievable mouth on her.
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