'I Can Only Be Who I Can Be'

Newsweek

Why do you continue to repost these old articles? Lord knows that there are several new articles on current events that can be posted. Why do you choose not to or is the answer that obvious?

I???m surprised at the number of miserable, ignorant people in our country. Everything, and I mean everything, that the Obamas have done, said, or participated in has be scrutinized to the point where they are made to seem like villains. Had Barack not chosen to run for president, no one would have cared the less. I don???t think either he or his wife proclaim to be ???perfect???, nor should we hold them to that standard. For who the hell are we!!! Stop freaking complaining and judging these people as if we???ve known them all our lives. We only know of them what the media wants us to know. If you vote for him fine, if you don??? t, that???s fine too. What God has for the Obamas is for the Obamas and no one can stop it. Be blessed.

Katrinia Arnold

I???m surprised at the number of miserable, ignorant people in our country. Everything, and I mean everything, that the Obamas have done, said, or participated in has be scrutinized to the point where they are made to seem like villains. Had Barack not chosen to run for president, no one would have cared the less. I don???t think either he or his wife proclaim to be ???perfect???, nor should we. Stop freaking complaining and judging these people as if we???ve known them all our lives. We only know of them what the media wants us to know. If you vote for him fine, if you don??? t; that???s fine too. What God has for the Obamas is for the Obamas and no one can stop it.

Be blessed.

Hi my name is Emma and I am 56 yrs old, I am a mix Puerto Rican my grandfather was black so it has nothing to do with race, but I don???t trust obama and don???t have much respect for his wife.

I am amazed how people can vote for a man who raised his daughters in a church full of hatred and bigotry
This is also the man who only disowned his minister because the minister told the truth about him.
This is the man that is suppose to bring this country together but yet he never spoke up for Florida and Michigan because he new that he would not win them.

I am also amazed that people can vote for a man whose wife has no respect for this country and is displeased and dislikes this country so much and yet she wants to be first lady. I guess all that money spent on an education did not help Michelle because every time she opens her mouth she offends America. If she is that unhappy with us then maybe she should move to Africa where her ancestors came from.

You see I know what we got with Hillary.
With McCain more bush.
With Obama his choices tell it all.

And as for all those people that turned their backs on Hillary because they wanted to jump on the obama bandwagon (like the back stabbing governor of NM he makes me feel a shame that I am a democrate and a Latina) obama is not president yet and there is a group of people, and I mean a lot of people who will vote none of the above or fill in Hillary???s name before making obama president.

Why should her family not be considered working class? She grew up in an apartment on the South side (since someone was so kind as to post her address) What does the fact that she had a mother that stayed home do to disqualify them from being working class. I make 120k and we are working class. When you can't quit your job and maintain your lifestyle, you are working class sweetie.

Why should her family not be considered working class? She grew up in an apartment on the South side (since someone was so kind as to post her address) What does the fact that she had a mother that stayed home do to disqualify them from being working class. I make 120k and we are working class. When you can't quit your job and maintain your lifestyle, you are working class sweetie.

Why should her family not be considered working class? She grew up in an apartment on the South side (since someone was so kind as to post her address) What does the fact that she had a mother that stayed home do to disqualify them from being working class. I make 120k and we are working class. When you can't quit your job and maintain your lifestyle, you are working class sweetie.

In response to Cantabrigian, why do I have to care about Michele Obama's thesis? And what about his former housemate? Should I really hold former loves against him? Is this really something that I need to know? Why would I assume that Michele Obama's political connections mean anything for the presidential election? The Obamas appear to be a very loving couple, I really do not care about Michelle Obama's thesis statement. We can discuss his policies and whether or not you agree with them.

to:Cantabrigian You really don't think the press is gonna release Michele Obama's thesis do You? Seem to me the press thinks the obama's are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I prefer to slice my own bread, and nothing they can say or do will get my vote.

to:Cantabrigian You really don't think the press is gonna release Michele Obama's thesis do You? Seem to me the press thinks the obama's are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I prefer to slice my own bread, and nothing they can say or do will get my vote.

I would be honored to have Michelle Obama bercome the First Lady when her husband is elected President in November. I think she will be an excellent ambassador for America around the world. I think she will represent all of America. She has an honesty and strength that will serve us and her in the next 8 years. ( I am a 65 year old white woman from Iowa)

Wait until the press releases Michele Obama's thesis. The American public do not know the Obamas. What about Barack Obama's former house mate - the one before he met the more politically connected Michelle?

Michelle Obama, a very angry woman who expresses anti-American sentiments that, "life in America is not good, we're a country that is just down right mean . . . We're a country that is guided by fear, We're a nation of cynics, sloths and complacents." This is the couple the Democratic Party think could possibly be elected to live in the White House! I don't think so.

Nice article with Michelle Obama. I always appreciate her plain speaking and honesty, though more time in politics and Washington are sure to change that.

And then there is the big fat raise she got after Barack earmarked millions of dollars for the hospital where she worked.

What has Michelle done? Let's see, here's a nice story of how she works with Barack. In a campaign influenced by Walmart, instead of backing the pro-labor candidate, Obama backed a "Walmart tool."

There was little surprising about Obama's endorsement given his self-interested allegiances to the politically powerful City Hall regime of Chicago's Mayor Daley, with whom Obama shares the same big money campaign super-consultant (David Axlerod) and numerous big money sponsors.

For the first time Mayor Daley had vetoed an ordinance by his normally obedient City Council, a measure widely supported by citizens, community organizations, and labor unions in Chicago's black, Latino, and working-class wards, and he did not want the council to bring the measure up again. It was originally passed by the council under pressure from a remarkable grassroots campaign, and would have required giant retail corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, and Home Depot to pay workers a modest minimum wage of ten dollars an hour by 2010.

Wal-Mart and Target announced that they were putting a number of "big box" retail developments on hold in Chicago, and launched a preemptive public relations strike, threatening to disinvest in the city unless a "favorable business climate" was restored. Daley made a special point of wrapping his veto in the flag of racial justice, claiming it was required to permit the flowering of economic development in the city's abandoned ghetto neighborhoods.

Pat Dowell, the recipient of significant support from the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU), was running against Tillman, and Dowell had strongly criticized Tillman for siding with Daley and Wal-Mart.

Obama needed the support of the powerful campaign finance magnet Daley, and endorsed Tillman, over labor-backed Dowell.

Obama's wife Michelle then received $51,200 in 2006 for attending a few board meetings of TreeHouse Foods, a giant firm that relied heavily on its close business relationship with Wal-Mart. The granting of high-pay/do-little board posts to the spouses of politicians is a longstanding tool of the "old," corporate-dominated politics that Senator Obama claims to reject. This is not like Clinton's placement on the board of Walmart as the result of an effort to address sex discrimination in Walmart's employment practices.



Mrs. Obama resigned from her position with TreeHouse in the summer of 2007, citing "increased demands on her time" in connection with her husband's presidential campaign.



It isn't surprising that she cut her politically damaging ties to a notoriously anti-labor company that her husband was attacking Clinton about in his speeches. I mean, how would it look for the pot to be calling the kettle black?