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You make me laugh. And on top of that you have to sit in church and listen to hate speeches from the rev. or the other friends of the rev. who still are stating that it is right what he had said!!! What a waste of time, you are better off the way you live. I wouldn't be the Obama's and if I would be they would be different. they wouldn't have these friends, etc....
ROFL, true that!!! BUT, they'd have to attend a very proper high-church Episcopal service every week!!! No sermons with four-letter words shouted or obscene gestures made! Just teachings from the Bible and instruction for living, I'm afraid. They would find other black folks (and Asians and Hispanics) there, though! (I wonder if Michelle would sign up to help make soup and deliver it to shut-ins? Or if Barack would go serve breakfast with the other parishioners to the working poor bright and early in the morning?! )
Such shallowness. What an idiotic comment. So only beautiful people should be our politicians? You obviously don't follow politics other than this presidential race. We're trying to decide who should get one of the most important and difficult jobs in the world, and you treat it like picking out Miss America or casting a major movie picture.
I don't understand what anyone's looks have to do with being president or first lady or whatever.
hah did i even mentioned look? I merely comment on the poster after the OP, picking on her misspelled. crazy obamanator...
And I guess I think that a single comment does not make someone an elitist who has worked to get where they are. And I know people who are very upset in PA, I don't live there because of poor economics in the last 20 years and had move all over, when everyone was told to do well in school and you will have it made in PA. I just think people like to hang on to a sound bite and not look at the whole person. When I hear things like they are hate filled I know reality is gone and emotion is setting in. None of our candidates are hate filled and none of our candidates are racist, the hype is beyond the pale.
I don't hate Michelle Obama. Not a teeny bit sour in life, rich people make it on work, not luck. I am not remotely jealous of her. But I have listened to what she has said over the course of about 5 months now. There is a certain pattern of disconnect that I have noticed - what she says and to what groups she says it to.
When she speaks like this she can be a detriment to her husband. I think a lot of posters here - including Obama supporters - could consider that idea.
Like calling America "mean", or saying that she can "barely make ends meet" on her paltry allowance allocated to her daughter's tap dance instruction and other extracirricular activities that Average Americans cannot dream of providing their children. Or telling young people not to go into corporate America. Isn't that how she got her money? Saying her husband, as a black man, (who has been shuttled around in a limo for years now) can get shot gassing up his car? She talks of her squalid upbringing, yet every account has it that her childhood was that of an upper middle class girl in a peaceful home. She's really reaching with this comment IMO.
Yes Warren Buffet is just like us. He is working as hard as ever and is not leaving his wealth to his children because they need to learn to work hard. Even with his wealth and his age he is working hard like most Americans. Warren Buffett is Poly Just like us but more successful. Read and understand. Knowledge is powerful
With regards to my comment about some of you who are failures, I think you know who you are.
But while Buffet (or Gates/Trump, take your pick of wealthy humanitarians) is not an elitist, he is not middle class "just like the rest of us" either, and I think should he comment that his lifestyle was comparable to the "average joe" his connections would rush him to the doc. I think it is clear M.O. was talking about her present life, and it is not the life of an average american.
To the second part, FYI the Obama supporters here continually call the Hillary supporters trailer trash, uneducated, racist people. Just checking that was not yet another endless, unfounded dig.
Hate to be mean, but tried to watch her interview, just could not get past that ugly face!
Why don't you post a pic of your face on here before you call someone ugly? Most people who are quick to call others ugly aren't to good looking themselves either.
Has nothing to do with her features, but the mean looking eyes while smiling is very bizarre, and the contortions with the mouth, the phony smile, are a giveaway. One can be very homely yet exude inner beauty. This gal is homely and also exudes pure inner "ugliness"... I would compare her to Carville, damn hideous inside and out.
are you talking about GW Bush? btw Mr. Carville is a political genious
I don't hate Michelle Obama. Not a teeny bit sour in life, rich people make it on work, not luck. I am not remotely jealous of her. But I have listened to what she has said over the course of about 5 months now. There is a certain pattern of disconnect that I have noticed - what she says and to what groups she says it to.
When she speaks like this she can be a detriment to her husband. I think a lot of posters here - including Obama supporters - could consider that idea.
Like calling America "mean", or saying that she can "barely make ends meet" on her paltry allowance allocated to her daughter's tap dance instruction and other extracirricular activities that Average Americans cannot dream of providing their children. Or telling young people not to go into corporate America. Isn't that how she got her money? Saying her husband, as a black man, (who has been shuttled around in a limo for years now) can get shot gassing up his car? She talks of her squalid upbringing, yet every account has it that her childhood was that of an upper middle class girl in a peaceful home. She's really reaching with this comment IMO.
If you listened, really listened, and were not looking for a word to jump on, she said that she wanted him to be anything but a politician because those people are mean, and being in her shoes, you have to agree that people calling her ugly and hate filled and racist do show a certain meanness. Be honest, we all grew up in school and we all know people can be mean, look at this board. I see very very very few positive comments about anyone, it is filled with hyperbole about how awful everyone is. Sometimes one might not like what is said, but that does not negate the value of it. I find it refreshing that she is willing to speak her mind and not "reinvent" herself to be what people think she should be. We had a first lady in the 90s who kept reinventing herself and I do not think it is our right Americans to demand such acquiesence.
Having looked into her upbringing, seems she came from a middle to lower middle class family who worked hard. She lived in a small apartment, so upper middle class is a bit of stretch I think. I also think that most working class families are peaceful, hardworking and try to provide upward mobility for their children. Just because you have a bit money in the last five years, does not make you forget where you came from. To his dying day, my successful father always kept his depression era values. Just because he had some money in the end, did not stop him from hitting Duncan Donuts in the morning for coffee, or mowing the lawn, or having us do our chores. I just find it incredible that somehow John McCain who has been living in the lap of luxury, flying around in his wife's jet, or Hillary Clinton who has lived in the Governor's Mansion and White House for most of her adult life are somehow more "real".
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I personally do not care which of the 3 candidates is wealthiest (none of them is poor after all). I care about what they will do in office to help people and the country. I am leaning towards the democrats because health care is such an important issue to me and I haven't heard McCain say much on this at all.
I wouldn't vote for Obama and I certainly don't want his wife living in the White House.
I have the feeling they are **nothing** like me.
I can't stand her and I think her husband has the least experience of anyone who was running for the Presidency this year.
I'll vote for Hillary if she gets the nomination, otherwise, I'll vote for McCain!
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And on top of that you have to sit in church and listen to hate speeches from the rev. or the other friends of the rev. who still are stating that it is right what he had said!!! What a waste of time, you are better off the way you live. I wouldn't be the Obama's and if I would be they would be different. they wouldn't have these friends, etc....
No sermons with four-letter words shouted or obscene gestures made! Just teachings from the Bible and instruction for living, I'm afraid. They would find other black folks (and Asians and Hispanics) there, though!
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