Thursday, February 21, 2008
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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11:12 AM
 Messiah's wife... speaks truth. Suddenly struck with the need to express patriotism two days ago Michelle Obama confessed that for the first time in her adult lifetime (an interesting time frame that she limited it to don't you think), she was proud of America. Yesterday she attempted to clarify speaking to WJAR-TV: What I was clearly talking about was that I'm proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process," she said. "For the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven't seen and really trying to figure this out — and that's the source of pride that I was talking about," she added.
The problem for Michelle is that she is both right AND wrong. Yes she was expressing pride in how people were engaging in the political process. But if that's all she was speaking about then she was lying when she said on Monday that it was unrelated to the Presidential campaign and the political process of picking our next President. But I believe she also exhausted. The campaign has run long, and in a moment of weakness as a progressive liberal she actually... told... the truth! She was speaking from the heart - the clip is clear in how that is portrayed. And so she was being honest when she said that for the first time she was proud. Because - she either couldn't remember, or possibly did not feel pride - when the NYPD and FDNY went up the stairs in the Twin Towers as everyone else was leaving. Being so hostile towards our troops and the mission they are on to protect and secure our future liberty - it is very possible she felt not one ounce of pride in the performance our military troops have turned in - in the Global War on Terror. Perhaps because of her hate for republicans she felt nothing when the Berlin wall fell, and Communism was defeated. Maybe she feels nothing at all about the rate of home ownership of Blacks over the last eight years to present day (the all time highest rate of African American families actually owning their own home in the history of the nation.) Maybe none of the progress made before she stepped on that stage did mean anything to her... so in telling the truth, speaking from the heart, she let us all in on a little peek of what she really thinks. From the standpoint of running a campaign - of course she misspoke. But from being just who she is - she sounded quite authentic to me.
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With a war in Iraq, and economy teetering, a healthcare crisis, a cat fight between Michelle and Cindy is meaningless....BTW, nice red jacket Cindy, last time I saw something that ugly Goldie Hawn was wearing it on laugh in. |
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Michelle Obama will never recovery from speaking the truth about not being proud to be an American. It gives great insight into her character and, indirectly, about her husband as well. Is this the new leadership people want for America? |
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Today is my birthday. What does that have to do with anything? My parents are proud of who I am and what I am making of my future. They have pride in their child.
Apparently, Mrs. Obama, does not have pride in her children. They are just things which exist for no reason. According to her, she had NO reason to have pride in anything until this past Monday. Very telling. Could it also be possible the children mean nothing to her in the first place or they are a reason for her not to have pride? |
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consistent with her husband being a member of a church that seeks black supremacy.
These two are consistent in loathing America and all that America has stood for. |
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She told the truth, "She probably loathes the military lke Billary" |
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KMc I admire and thank you for your integrity and
balls in refusing to McInski up (or down).
I wish you all the best in this time of uncertainty--I'm in one myself.
And you are right that Mrs.B was tired, and speaking from her heart--you're just wrong ABOUT WHAT WAS IN IT!
Roberto YOU are wrong about the "health care crisis"--no such a THING--got PLEANTY of CARE (cept where the Reconquistas are flooding the system) and it's the HIGHEST QUALITY--and you got ACCESS--got signs in EVERY hospital that TELL you IT'S The LAW!! What we GOT is an
INSURANCE CRISIS and it's because too many Americans think they ought to be "taken care of"
and somebody else ought to pay for it!
Though perhaps you meant, rightly, the "crises" of the advent of Socialized Medicine in America.
you other three are just wrong having UNFAIRLY jumped to wrong conclusions.
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I think it was Frank Shaeffer?, who said:
"Half truth, presented as whole truth is something akin to false hood by that very fact."
You guys are like the Press in PATTON where he is "being nice to a bunch of old ladies" and says "since it is the obvious destiny of the British and American peoples to rule the world, the better we get to know one another, the better we shall do it" and they headline is "Russia to have no place in Post War World."
THIS is half truth, taken as whole truth because the most important CONTEXT of the quote is LEFT OUT--the very DEFINITION of out of context --which we REALLY beech about when it happens to US!
It's the name of the gotcha game in this Spin-doctored Sound Bite (there's more than a few dishes in this world that one bite can give you a whole WRONG impression of what the whole thing TASTES like) World. And such reactions as we are seeing to Mrs.Bama only REINFORCE that EVIL
Mrs.B EXPLAINS what she means 2 (or so) sentences on in the clip PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER
UNITY, NOT CHANGE, was the IMAGE. THINK on that from HER perspective.
more below.
mick
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We ALL would want to be taken for what we REALLY MEANT or MEANT to SAY as opposed to what we actually said and what people HEARD (which may have NOTHING in common either with what we thought, said or meant).
"Do as you would be done by." (The C..S. Lewis version of Jesus' teaching.) Consider this Timeline:
She is born the year after Camelot was Murdered
1964--What images, memories, family history does she grow up with in that Southside Chicago one bedroom sleeping in the curtain divided living room with her brother? Where, by the way, her mother still lives with Iron Bars on the windows to foil break-ins. Was there a picture of JFK on the wall? Bobby? M.L. King? How old was she for "I have a dream",The Assassinations? How many Heroes of the Dream did she see gunned down in her young Black Life--in her formative years?
How old is she for the Nam Protests? How old is she, is she afraid, during Chicago and the Convention? What proud American moment is SHE EXPERIENCING She is 10 when Watergate forces Nixon to Resign--a Proud American moment? A picture of National UNITY??
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mick
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Her middle-school and high school formative years are the Time of Feminism and Ecology--UNIFYING forces in America?
She is 14 when Jerry Falwell, one of THE MOST POLARIZING figures in America Politics before the Clintons, founds Moral Majority--NOTE the NAME, note the assumptions--does Junior High Michelle view this a UNIFYING?
The Presidents she experiences are Nixon, Ford, Carter (America Held HOSTAGE Proud Moment?)–Presidents of UNITY of America the Proud?
"But she said ADULT LIFE" you protest, as if adults don't view their world through the lenses of their childhood.
She becomes an adult either at 18 in 82 or 21 in 85. It is the Reagan Years--a time of Unity for a Young Liberal Black Collegian? In the 80's the War on Drugs jails 1 out of every 5 black men in her dating pool In 83 RR proposes Star Wars--NOW DEPLOYED and SUCCESSFUL and most of the World Thanks God, THEN it was one of the most Controversial and DIVISIVE ideas in the WORLD After which she gets Bush 41--and the GULF WAR--anti-war protests harking back to the 60's of her childhood. Then Clinton (so much for the first black prez) NOW the most polarizing figures in American Politics, if you don't rate the NEXT one, Bush 43, as the highest
Do you SEE where this GOING
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mick
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Except for a heartbreakingly FLEETING period of National Unity immediately after 911--best summarized, by that Fire Fighting Fellow Mick: "Ben Laden kiss my Irish Asz" --we soon reverted to tragedy and tears rather than "War to the Knife" RAGE and REVENGE! We get "where's my check" fraud at Ground Zero, the Jersey Cows, and "got to retouch the Flag Photo to be all-minority inclusive." Where's the Unity?
Hell, even I get into LaBamaba's electric remix of Camelot au Lait. I can forgive Mrs.B forFEELING and TRYING to SAY that what SHE is EXPERIENCING is what she thinks it must have been like in the JFK and "I have a Dream...All God's Children, Black and White Together"years of her CHILDHOOD IMAGINATION when she WAS proud!
I get it, ya'll should too and, with a CONSERVATIVE sense of Fair Play in the Market Place of Ideas, BACK OFF!
The Big Mick
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Michelle Malkin says, "I believe it was Michael Kinsley who quipped that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. In this case, it's what happens when an elite Democratic politician's wife says what a significant portion of the party's base really believes to be the truth: America is more a source of shame than pride."
Perhaps we can call Michelle Obama's 'gaffe' a "Freudian Slip". If she and her husband, Harvard graduates, are elected they could take the U.S. into bankruptcy with their "OBAMANOMICS".
He sponsored the "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) which calls for spending $845 billion, 0.7% of our GNP, over what the U.S. already sends to the UN. http://kilosparksitup.blogs pot.com...33-global.html
"He wants," says, [Larry] Kudlow, [NR] "to spend $150 billion on a green-energy plan, establish an infrastructure investment bank of $60 billion, expand health insurance by roughly $65 billion, 'reopen' trade deals, raise the barriers to free trade, regulate the profits for drug companies, health insurers and energy firms, establish a mortage-interest tax credit, double the number of workers receiving the earned-income tax credit and triple this benefit for minimum-wage workers."
He goes on. "Obama believes he can use government, and not free markets, to drive the economy. Obama's program is anti-growth. A President Obama would steer us in the social-market direction of Western Europe, which has produced only stagnant economies down through the years."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/B...bama?v oted=5
His mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a member of the Communist Party USA. The Senator refers to him as Frank in his book "Dreams From My Father." Apparently he had an affect on Barack Obama.
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2008/ck_02191.sht ml |
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Let's see.... did we hear all of your neo-con freaks screaming and clawing when the former first lady and mother of the current looser-in-chief insulted our dead soldiers?
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths. Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
ABC's "Good Morning, America" March 18, 2003.
Nope, you people never said ONE word. |
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I have been so busy, that aside from updates on the news stations for debates, I've not had much time to fairly share insights on this story.
This much I do know, much can be revealed about others when/if they seek to plummet the depths of "hearts" when they don't even know them.
I'd prefer to comment on the details that can't be disputed, rather than what can be gleaned, assumed, hoped for, or hazarded via *my* own limited and subjective perspective.
Many with wisdom and insight can see that, however smooth and well-spoken, (or well-dressed) some of the Democrat contenders may be, their politics are abysmal, scary, and somewhat wrong..
Skating the surface of the depths of their souls is a place I would not want to roam.
Let their deeds and leanings explain things.
We can infer what we want, and not know of whom, or, what we speak.
Only God knows the full on all hearts. And it is His insight and view which is far broader, and fairer than, at times, our own.
Plus, anyone in public, or not so public, life, who makes a faux pas in expression or public speaking, is placing themselves in the majority. Thus very human, like us all.
The only One who has not done this walked the world's waters. And has a Spirit that continues to defy the lies of devils and men eveeyday.
That is a Person I will never be.
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I am Black, 49, and American born and raised. I think many Black people understand just what M. Obama meant, so do many thinking white people. People that have partaken of the fruits of this nation, and enjoyed the promise of being "a true American" should be proud. My father, who, when reporting for duty in WWII, got off the train in South Carolina: "All you recruits go to the left, all you niggers, go to the right". Ever see a sign: "no colored (or Irish) need apply"? He has. My mother, being qualified for office work in the 40's and 50's couldn't get a job because of her race, finally in the early 60's she was able to do what she was qualified to do.
Ever been chased, physically attacked or harrassed because of your race, experienced being treated differently or totally disregarded by the society at large? Should I feel proud of this legacy, this country that murdered the indigenous population, simply because I have survived against the odds?
White and black people talk about recent progress as if the past doesn't exist; 'there's still work to do',... and sayings like that. How can black people who were raised here really feel pride in a nation that has treated them as step-children, an in many ways continues to do so (Voting rights Act, ect?) Remember we have had no black presidents, few black republicans, yes, some democratic phonies, still double have double-digit percentage black unemployment, jobs sent overseas removing many opportunities for people who want to work, lining the pockets of corporation heads. You should get the idea. I'm proud of the fact I like my parents, haven't allowed the negativity we've been fed stop our progress. |
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If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If we could find a way to get inside each others minds
If you could see you, through my eyes, instead of your ego
I believe youd be, surprised to see, that you'd been blind
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
And before you abuse
Criticise and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
Now the whole world you see around you is just a reflection
And the law of karma, says you reap, just what you sow
So unless you've, lived a life of total perfection
You'd better be careful of every stone that you should throw
And yet we spend the day throwing stones at one another
cause I don't think or wear my hair the same way you do
Well I may be common people but I'm your brother
And when you strike out and try to hurt me its a-hurtin you
There are people on reservations and out in the ghettos
And brother, there but for the grace of God go you and I
If I only, had the wings, of a little angel
Don't you know I'd fly, to the top of the mountain, and then I'd cry
Walk a mile in my shoes
just walk a mile in my shoes
Before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Then walk a mile in my shoes |
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The longer anti-liberals keep this going, the more damage the Repub Party will suffer in November.
This is a terrifc example of the "old politics" that Americans want to change.
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