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Michelle Obama: 'Prison-Like Elements' to Being First Lady, 'But It's a Really Nice Prison'
Weekly Standard ^ | 2 July 2013 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 07/02/2013 6:02:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan

In Tanzania, Michelle Obama joked about the "prison-like elements" of being first lady. "[B]ut it's a really nice prison," she said. "You can't complain."

Seat with Laura Bush, Michelle Obama said that wives of presidents "have probably the best job in the world, because while our husbands ... have to react and respond to crises on a minute-to-minute basis, we got to work on what we're passionate about. ... I have just found it a very freeing and liberating opportunity. ... [Laughing] There are prison-like elements, but it's a really nice prison. You can't complain. There are confining elements ... While people are sorting through our shoes and our hair ... whether we cut it or not ... We take our bangs and we stand in front of important things the world needs to see. And eventually people stop looking at the bangs, and start looking at the things we're standing in front of. That's the power of our role," according to quotations provided by Mike Allen.

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


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KEYWORDS: bushafricatrip; laurabush; michelleobama; obamaafricatrip
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To: rockinqsranch
I hope those that voted for them are damned ashamed of themselves now. No way would that hope be filled. I post on my small town newspaper's website, where I once referred to her as "Mooch-chelle". I was ripped every which way but loose for doing so.

The true 0bamaphants are circling the wagons.

21 posted on 07/02/2013 6:28:53 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died, now Obama covers up the lies.)
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To: manc

The things you mention are bad enough——but when they furlough the nurses tending our wounded at Walter Reed —that is beyond the pale.

They just handed 7 Bill to the Africans-—1 billion of which will go to new power plants —the rest in the pockets of some Malawa Mugabooboo.


22 posted on 07/02/2013 6:28:56 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Rummyfan
Let's have a street demonstration for Moochelle:
My sign says:

"FREE THE WOOKIE!"
"FREE THE WOOKIE!"
"FREE THE WOOKIE!"

23 posted on 07/02/2013 6:33:01 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Rummyfan

“We got to work...”

Yes, she has an Ivy League education.


24 posted on 07/02/2013 6:33:20 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Rummyfan

We take our bangs and we stand in front of important things the world needs to see. And eventually people stop looking at the bangs, and start looking at the things we're standing in front of.

25 posted on 07/02/2013 6:35:37 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: manc
I would like to know why the hell the GOP is not making more of this and get away form this pathetic amnesty.

Because the "2" parties are one in the same. Get used to it.

FMCDH(BITS)

26 posted on 07/02/2013 6:41:35 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: Rummyfan

I tell you, nothing warms my heart like seeing “Obama” and “Prison” used in a single sentence.


27 posted on 07/02/2013 6:43:08 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rummyfan

Living under your “rule” is also like being in prison, you grifting, moneygrubbing, monstrous, ugly beast.


28 posted on 07/02/2013 6:50:29 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

LOL....


29 posted on 07/02/2013 6:50:54 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Rummyfan; mickie
Most of us women who would find ourselves "confined" in the White House would view it as a historical, lovely, awe-inspiring, comfortable, unusual, cheerful, exciting, fascinating, inspiring, happy place to live with our families for a temporary period of time in our otherwise mundane lives.

Moochelle, with her unshakeable ghetto mindset, views it as a sometimes "prison". Maybe it IS to her, but the fact that she has to bring it up for the world to hear shows her unshakeable lack of class and judgement.

There's always SOMETHING bad to say about our country, isn't there, Moochelle! Your husband does the same thing when he travels the country and the world.

Leni

30 posted on 07/02/2013 7:09:07 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Rummyfan

Teeeheeeeee, it can be sooo frustrating to send an attendant to pop out to shop for me, or order the best food in the world from a chef, or never have to wash a piece of clothing or scrub a toilet.

Boy, I just really wished I lived the REAL life. It’s like a PRISON!

(BARF GAG BARF)


31 posted on 07/02/2013 7:28:29 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Rummyfan

“We”has my permission to leave at the earliest opportunity!!


32 posted on 07/02/2013 7:34:13 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Rummyfan

“We”, meaning all of us, are in a prison run by this stupid, dishonest Administration.


33 posted on 07/02/2013 7:48:50 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: nothingnew; manc

The GOP is the dems’ “away jersey”; the flip-side of the same coin.


34 posted on 07/02/2013 7:53:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LOL; best chuckle of the morning. Thanks.


35 posted on 07/02/2013 7:54:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: nothingnew

Yep, the whole amnesty debacle has made that abundantly clear. In no manner does the GOP represent or advocate traditional, conservative, heartland values. It really is time for a new party. Yes it would lose for a while but then it might catch fire so to speak. Anyway we’re losing time and time again as things now stand. Even worse, being in the GOP tent seems to be crushing the spirit of a lot of folks, I know it has weighed on me.


36 posted on 07/02/2013 7:58:16 AM PDT by turducken
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To: CatherineofAragon
LOL....

**********

...thankya... thankya verrrr-much...

Every now & then both braincells are found synched...

37 posted on 07/02/2013 6:07:17 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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