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Michelle Obama says America is entering a time of hopelessness
NY Times ^ | 16 Dec 16 | By WITW Staff

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hope; michelle; obama; thevaporsdemshazthem; trump
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To: SkyPilot

if you didn’t get all your free stuff and other freebies in the last 8 years... I guess you ARE hopless


41 posted on 12/16/2016 12:31:21 PM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: kiltie65

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


42 posted on 12/16/2016 12:31:30 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: SkyPilot

his package is bigger than the (p)resident....


43 posted on 12/16/2016 12:31:33 PM PST by Hogblog
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To: SkyPilot

“Michelle is Finkle!”


44 posted on 12/16/2016 12:32:13 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SkyPilot

I expect that from someone who hates this country and loves its sworn enemies.


45 posted on 12/16/2016 12:32:17 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Bob434
Yes folks, that is how much they have spent on themselves every year

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.

46 posted on 12/16/2016 12:33:51 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: SkyPilot

He just changed it to a picture of Oprah and Michelle. I was surprised he had it on there, but by golly he did.


47 posted on 12/16/2016 12:33:53 PM PST by karatemom
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To: SkyPilot; All

OMG

Did anyone see the picture that Matt Drudge posted????

Schwing!


48 posted on 12/16/2016 12:34:10 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SkyPilot

Michelle and Huma should get a pole dancing gig going.


49 posted on 12/16/2016 12:35:09 PM PST by jetson
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To: SkyPilot

SCHWING!

In Rainbows no less

(I think it’s gone already. Matt better keep an eye on his car’s brake line)


50 posted on 12/16/2016 12:36:08 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: karatemom

Even in a nanosecond that picture was seared- seared I tell you - on the minds of millions


51 posted on 12/16/2016 12:37:52 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SkyPilot

liberals are certainly entering a time of hopelessness!

but everyone else is feeling MUCH better!


52 posted on 12/16/2016 12:37:53 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: SkyPilot

We entered an era of hopelessness January 21 2008.

It will end January 20, 2016.


53 posted on 12/16/2016 12:40:06 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: SkyPilot

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?


54 posted on 12/16/2016 12:40:29 PM PST by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: SkyPilot
Obama & his wife think far too much of themselves.
Notice no mention of the millions of Trump supporters who are now feeling actual hope after years of being neglected, being called racists, having their children indoctrinated and told everything their parents and they earn is mainly because of their 'white privilege'. If there is one thing this election has proven beyond any semblence of a doubt it's that liberals are the worst hypocrites in this country.
55 posted on 12/16/2016 12:42:51 PM PST by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: SkyPilot

for you maybe. I have never felt more hopeful. so, bye.


56 posted on 12/16/2016 12:44:09 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: SkyPilot

She HOPED they could destroy America, but those hopes were dashed! It’s so sad.


57 posted on 12/16/2016 12:45:23 PM PST by Savage Beast ( "You can--in fact must--shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth. J Goldberg)
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To: SkyPilot

Michelle Obama is continuing to reflect on the lunacy of the Obama years...

He/she is one butt ugly commie bitch.


58 posted on 12/16/2016 12:47:33 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: karatemom; silverleaf
Yup, Drudge only had that picture of Michael.....errr...Michelle up there for a few minutes.

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.

59 posted on 12/16/2016 12:50:19 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

No, we are in the process of leaving the state of hopelessness that America has been in for the last 8years.


60 posted on 12/16/2016 12:52:54 PM PST by mulligan (I)
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