Michelle Obama Just Can't Shut Up

I mostly gave her a pass the first time she sounded over the top. This is getting to be a regular occurrence. It's as if, in her mind, we all need Obama to be our personal savior.

I'll pass, thanks.

What America needs, she added, is a "fundamentally different kind of leadership," one that challenges people to be different, and better to one another. And that, she said to critics who say it is not his time, cannot wait.

"Barack Obama will be the kind of leader we need right now, not in four years or eight years or 12 years," she said. "We can't wait to get this right. We need it to happen today."

Comments

[Darth Malice]

She will be a great first lady...thanks McCain.....keep kissing Obama's and the MsM"s butt

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

Guh? Yeah, it's totally over the top for the candidate's wife to sing the praises of her husband. When will that (black) woman learn her place?! Meanwhile, St. McCain is embracing yet another bigot:

http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1393

I guess when one has to pick and choose from far right cranks, one is bound to ruffle some feathers.

[Dan Riehl]

"to sing the praises of her husband"

You're kidding, right? She can sing his praises all she wants as far as I'm concerned. But this?

"to be different, and better to one another."

Like I said, over the top. If she wants to preach, she should get a congregation, not chase a constituency for her husband. You morons would be screaming if Bush said something like that crap.

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

"To be different, and to be better to one another"?

I fail to see the controversy. How is that even in the ballpark of being "over the top"? Perhaps you see a nefarious angle in all of this, Mr. Riehl, that is not evident from Mrs. Obama's plain words. If us "morons" don't see it, perhaps you could expand on your assessment, beyond your mere facile declarations of outrage.

[Dan Riehl]

Apparently you don't even know when someone is insulting you, THC. Or is it that M. Obama wants to play Mother to the country? Since when is it her or anyone's business to tell people they need to be "different, better than one another"?

How, or what I or anyone is, is none of her damned business. We elect chief executives, not Moms and Dads, despite how you liberals "feel" about it.

Ugh!

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

I know when someone is insulting me. It usually involves a measure of lying in the face of verifiable fact - not suggesting that we as a society treat our fellow citizens like ... well, fellow citizens. You know, kinda how our founding fathers sought fit to memorialize in a quaint document called the constitution. If you feel "insulted" by Mrs. Obama's words, perhaps they have touched a nerve as to how you treat people. I have no idea. It's her "business" because she, as a citizen of the United States, has probably witnessed the opposite effect treatment of people at the hands of an administration that 70% of the public find repugnant. No one is telling you how to "be."

If you "feel" threatened by a system that refuses to only benefit the chosen few, that's on you. My humble advice is to get used to it, because the public appears to have rejected your elitist principles.

[LOL]

I wonder if wingnuts are capable of talking at length about what conservatives want for America without some 2-minute diatribe about their hatred for the left.

As for your desperate grab at Mrs. Obama, it's obvious you have no point. What's wrong with a country's president asking its people to treat each other better?

[elixelx]

I've no objection to Michelle calling for a better world, as long as she cleans up her corner, her room, her house, her neighbourhood, her city, her RACE first!

Will she admit that?

Of course, Michelle believes that if pigs would just fly, the pigsty would be so much more livable!

[syn]

"challenges people to be different, and better to one another"

Does this mean no more notes with the message "you're an evil warmonger' left on the windshields of cars with W stickers.

Or how about the nasty ladies in my building? Will they appologize to my dear friend and doorman who fled from Cuba in 1979, joined the US military, remained in the reserves, has been sent to Israel several times, for telling him that he used to be their favorite doorman until they found out he is a Republican who supports President Bush? My dear friend does have black skin afterall.

Or how about every celebrity star, writer, musician? Will they stop portraying Republicans(especially if they happen to be white males) as 'homophopic, racist, bigoted, Islamophobic, classist? ANd will they appologize for portraying our military as "idiot baby-killer drones who were trick in to volunteering"?

If Obama whats to treat people better, does this mean Bill Mahler, Rosie O'Donell, Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, Alex Baldwin, Robert Redford, Oliver Stone, George Clooney, and the rest of Hollywood's Hate Gang are no longer treated as Icons?

I don't need to mention the nasty stuff from Dick Durbin, John Murtha, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrat Party.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"challenges people to be different, and better to one another"

Frankly I see no problem with this sentiment.I would like to see it. Definately comes from the wrong party though, syn said it best but one only need to read teh posts from our loving, tolerant friends like DaBoob, LOL, LAmeLama, THC, et al to see the true base of the demonrat party. And these trolls, these are mild in comparison to the hate filled average posters on huffington, KOS, O'Donnell, etc. People generally without the guts to put your granny in the oven but enough conviction in their "principles" to play soothing music while someone else does the deed.

[Fred Beloit]

I would like Totally to be: "...different, and better to one another." I am afraid, though, that Totally has a hole in Totally's broken soul. This makes it very difficult to be different (rational) and better to others.

Ah but there is some good news about "hope" today. There are reports from Pakistan that traitor Adam Gadahn is dead. I hope these reports are true. Mission accomplished, at least part of it.

By the way, Obama is charging that the U.S. brought al Qaeda to Iraq. This inexperienced and uninformed but involved candidate doesn't seem to understand that bringing them to Iraq makes it much easier to destroy them or their will to resist. His brain doesn't seem to have voted "present" when he made a dumb accusation like this.

Carry on, future Commander-in-Comic-Relief.

[anonymous]

These empty slogans are of, by, and for, those who get their information from the phony world of television. Removed from the context of an exuberant video, the shallowness becomes evident. This is why they become so annoying when reproduced solely as written words. When seeing Obama speak, you get the feeling you're being subjected to an endless Swiffer commercial. Obama is targeting a raised-on-video generation, and the MSM loves every minute of it.

Obama's wife is simply not as skilled in this practice. Or perhaps, she's the "edgy" campaigner who grabs attention with thinly-veiled insults. Unlike a Swiffer commercial, she reminds more of a bad sitcom whose major laughline is when some white male is hit in the crotch.

BTW, I'm checking Dan's site regularly. If anyone can uncover some of Obama's writings, it's likely as not to be Dan.

[chris]

Perhaps Michelle should get on the meds that Laura takes and walk around with a creepy permasmile.

[Eric R. Ashley]

Chris,
Let me challenge you to be different, and better to others, hmmm?

I personally don't find Mrs. Obama's sentiment out of place, but then I also thought Mrs. Reagan's "Just Say No" was a good idea too. Leadership does need to say the obvious things, to remind people.

"People seldom need to be told, they often need to be reminded." Samuel Johnson.

This is basic social maintenance, kinda like getting the oil changed in your car. Its not deep, and insightful, but frequently life is just 'muddling through'.

[juandos]

Hmmm, we need a socialist like Custer needed another indian at Little-Big Horn...(http://www.nysun.com/article/72106)

"Barack Obama will be the kind of leader we need right now"...

We need another pathological liar defiling the Oval Office?!?!
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=431908&in_page_id=1770)

[WAHOO WILLIE]

chrissy (aka BITTER) sez:"Perhaps Michelle should get on the meds that Laura takes and walk around with a creepy permasmile."

I rest my case

[Yoda]

Fundamentally different, socialism is.

[templar knight]

Irony-a liberal Democrat telling anyone that they should be nicer.

Hypocrite-a liberal Democrat.

[Lala]

It is very rare to have a discussion with a liberal and not have them be insulting.

[Wahoo Willie]

Lala how does one have an actual "discussion" with a liberal?

You: "Good morning neighbor"
Liberal: "What's so good about it? Everything sucks, there's no future, this is bad and that is awful and I wish the sky weren't so blue, I generally hate you, me and everything about my own country and dont even get me started on how GWB and Cheney's Ninja's managed to f*** up the entire world in 7 short years."

[Lala]

Willie, I know a couple who are kind of sane. Your quotes are almost exactly how the guy next door talks to my husband. He complained the other day because my husband was warming his car up (air pollution) while he shoveled some snow. In the summer he puts up a barrier in his yard to block the noise of our air conditioner. When his 29 cats ran all over our property he told us it was our responsibility to put up a fence to keep them out. He tried to stop the neighbors from adding an upstairs to their house.

[templar knight]

Lala, I have a cure for the common cat, if your husband so desires to have it.

[Lala]

We dreamed up lots of solutions to the cats but the problem solved itself when his mother died and he gave all but one away.

[seekeronos]

Heh.

I was hoping TK's solution would involve a "cat"apult.

Nyuk, nyuk.

[Wahoo Willie]

"Willie, I know a couple who are kind of sane."
Lala, I've heard the same stories over and again with slight variations. Thank goodness most of my new neighbors like to move into those gated neighborhoods where someone tells you what to park in your driveway, what kind of flowers to plant and generally run your life. (No wonder so many New Englanders are lefties) Anyway out in what used to be country where I live, we don't have to worry much about "neighbors" and their complaints but even this has it's good and bad.