Posted on 05/04/2020 10:12:39 AM PDT by conservative98
Michelle Obama says it was a “slap in the face’’ that minorities didn’t go to the polls in 2016 — and has no plans on re-entering the political spotlight amid a push to make her Joe Biden’s running mate.
“It takes some energy to go high, and we were exhausted from it … when you’re the first black anything,’’ she said of her and her husband, former President Barack Obama, in a new Netflix documentary set to air Wednesday, May 6.
“You know, the day I left the White House, it was painful to sit on that stage, and then a lot of our folks didn’t vote — it was almost a slap in the face,” she said, speaking to a group of black schoolchildren in the clip while referring to the 2016 election.
“I understand the people who voted for [President] Trump. [But] the people who didn’t vote at all … that’s when you think, ‘Man, people think this is a game,’ ” she added at another point.
“It wasn’t just in this election, but every midterm, every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because our folks didn’t show up. After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.
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“Barack and I are not interested in being at the forefront forever — not even for that much longer,’’ Michelle added, even as Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said he’d love to have her on his ticket.
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Hearing from this ABW is a slap in the face.
The fact that they didn’t vote impressed me more. Shows that not all are morons like Aunt Esther would like us to think.
Shouldn’t this affirmative-action clod be in prison? Askin’ for a friend...
She is a NWA (nobody with an attitude).
So wait a minute... Your party runs an unappealing white candidate and when your voters don’t turn out to vote for her that’s an insult.... to you? I suppose when one views the whole world as revolving around you that makes sense
I want to see Michelle run and get totally humiliated by Trump.
she deserves the slap, and extras.
So she learned nothing
The people were Rejecting her husbands ultra-leftist ideology
it was not a ‘slap in the face’ just voting.
Michelle Obama was absolutely correct [based on the headline]. It was a slap in the face delivered BY the black community TO Hillary Clinton!
Any slap in the face SHE gets is long overdue and RICHLY DESERVED!
Imagine if a white candidate said something along these lines.
“… a lot of our folks didn’t vote”
Nothing like stirring up the tribes.
Her husband lying to the country was a slap in the face.
No, you ugly traitorous animal, YOU are the slap in the face. Please go excuse yourself from the human race.
She’s positioning herself (or rather being positioned) to be the presidential candidate after Joe drops out for health reasons (probably at the convention).
Chewbacca would much rather live the jet-set lifestyle of a multimillionaire, worshipped by the leftist fake news for her “beauty” and “style.”
I wouldn’t mind demonstrating to her what a real slap in the face is like.
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