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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if you didn’t get all your free stuff and other freebies in the last 8 years... I guess you ARE hopless
But, but, isn’t he donating the millions for his Hawaii vacay to feed the needy this year, opting to spend the time at his ‘home’ in Chicago? /s
his package is bigger than the (p)resident....
“Michelle is Finkle!”
I expect that from someone who hates this country and loves its sworn enemies.
Are you suggesting that the Republican House did not appropriate the money?
The Obamas did not "spend it on themselves". Your Congress spent it on them.
He just changed it to a picture of Oprah and Michelle. I was surprised he had it on there, but by golly he did.
OMG
Did anyone see the picture that Matt Drudge posted????
Schwing!
Michelle and Huma should get a pole dancing gig going.
SCHWING!
In Rainbows no less
(I think it’s gone already. Matt better keep an eye on his car’s brake line)
Even in a nanosecond that picture was seared- seared I tell you - on the minds of millions
liberals are certainly entering a time of hopelessness!
but everyone else is feeling MUCH better!
We entered an era of hopelessness January 21 2008.
It will end January 20, 2016.
Well bltch, you’re gone, your husband’s gone, and your mother is gone. NOW we feel hope. And when are you going to pay mommy’s bill?
for you maybe. I have never felt more hopeful. so, bye.
She HOPED they could destroy America, but those hopes were dashed! It’s so sad.
Michelle Obama is continuing to reflect on the lunacy of the Obama years...
He/she is one butt ugly commie bitch.
He replaced it with a link to a video of Obama's news confernece today where a reporter got very ill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEK0Znss5lI
Barry gets more and more irritated that the press is paying more attention to the dying/ill reporter than they are to him.
No, we are in the process of leaving the state of hopelessness that America has been in for the last 8years.
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