What Michelle Can Teach Us

As if "mainstream publications" often do "in depth features' about "regular" NON - African American women. No, Faith Hill, Jennifer Anniston, and Katie Couric don't count.

I'm a white woman who really doesn't care what color Michelle Obama's skin is. My problem with her is the huge chip on her shoulder that she seems to have. I resent her comment about being proud of her country for the first time...this woman is in her forties. That's horrible. I was totally turned off when she announced early on in the campaign that Americans better elect Obama because this was our last chance to have him as President. He would never run again. Was she kidding? The arrogance of that statement totally astounded me. I don't think she's has anything special to emulate and if little African-American girls have only her to look up to...I'm really sorry for them. Michelle Obama is run of the mill...nothing special. An angry woman who needs a few lessons in being gracious.

I'm a white woman who really doesn't care what color Michelle Obama's skin is. My problem with her is the huge chip on her shoulder that she seems to have. I resent her comment about being proud of her country for the first time...this woman is in her forties. That's horrible. I was totally turned off when she announced early on in the campaign that Americans better elect Obama because this was our last chance to have him as President. He would never run again. Was she kidding? The arrogance of that statement totally astounded me. I don't think she's has anything special to emulate and if little African-American girls have only her to look up to...I'm really sorry for them. Michelle Obama is run of the mill...nothing special. An angry woman who needs a few lessons in being gracious.

let's not forget that condi rice also added something to the spectrum of 'the black woman'.

Cindy McCain let her "personality and experience shine" and motivate others to give back.....you have got to be joking......ice lady ....proves money can buy looks...style no....

Michelle's, confidence and intellect will go a long way in changing an image that all women need.

Michelle is an inspiration just the way she is. She doesn't need to work hard to please anyone. It's obvious that she's black, so interjecting her race is a mute point. It appears that the writer can only see that about her. I haven't heard her pop off about anything. Other First Ladies have spoken their minds and race has never been an issue. Let's get past this!! I'm sure she has so much to give. We just need to be open to it!

This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

In desperation the McCain-Palin camp is stepping up their negative ads and dirty politics, again totally concentrating on the disgusting scare and smear tactics. They are depending on throwing out a lot of garbage and really just hoping something sticks. Voters??? common sense should prevail and simply render the low-class efforts as recognized and rejected. There are so many clear indications of the true nature of their continuing efforts that they should simply reflect negatively on McCain and Palin, such as: the obvious desperate attempts with previously discredited attacks; attacks of a highly fictionalized nature; their own neglect to address the issues with real specific solutions; their trying to fault Obama-Bidden and then just expecting voters to trust McCain-Palin, as if they have some (unproven) creditability; John McCain???s over use of the pronoun ???I???, as if it is just all about him; Sarah Palin???s obnoxious and arrogant disregard for honesty; John McCain???s poor judgment, with examples being displayed as the financial crisis unfolded and in his selecting Sarah Palin; Sarah Palin???s displayed lack of any real qualification; their grabbing at faulting George W Bush after strongly supporting him for eight years and even recently declaring that they ???had the same philosophies???; their copying most everything Obama identifies as being a problem and a needed direction; their changing their positions frequently; their lack of class and quality throughout their campaign, especially after John McCain promised better; their really offering only more of the same covered over with the very empty promise of change; and on and on. It is all there for any objective and rational person to see and then, we really just can???t withstand more of the same!

Why just black women?

???Nowforsomethingotherthanthetruth??? exemplifies the measures employed by the McCain campaign starting with the anonymous smear emails that began when McC hired the Bush propaganda machine.

This deception campaign tries to benefit from party loyalties. It preys upon hate, prejudice and fear, and on the ???unanswered questions??? fabricated by the anonymous emails this campaign perpetrated. Links to debunks of many of those fabrications are in an earlier posting.

This is by far the greatest extreme ever in American politics. It is a fundamental threat to our political process. It would further entrench the Bush operatives who took over the McC campaign, and the republican lobbyists who represent only the megarich who looted our economy.

McC was a maverick. He promised to root out the lobbyists he said are what???s wrong with Washington. He said he would not take the low road employed by the Bush machine when it smeared him. He sold out when he got behind and subscribed to the ideology that the end justifies the means.

McC would continue the Bush tax give away to the rich that McC previously opposed and called ???irresponsible??? because ???it only benefits the rich.???

McC now wants to give more billions in tax give aways to oil companies that have just reported the largest profits in history for two consecutive quarters, while he claims that lowering taxes for everyone under $250k in after-deduction income will somehow keep businessmen from starting businesses.

???Nowfor??? has employed many of the themes in the anonymous viral emails. He recently said it was ???revealed that Obama has PLO buddies??? referring to Rashid Khalidi to whom McC donated $440k:

http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html Guilt by association.

"Nowfor" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people.

Alan Greenspan said the cause is that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation; "we trusted" these self-interested looters ???to regulate themselves???. Credit Default Swaps resulted. They increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under R stewardship.

The legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to McC's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to while he has been McC's campaign manager.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1

Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. The Rs, including McC's campaign manager, are in the pockets of big money.

Without solutions, it is necessary to campaign with deception, misdirection, fear, smears, hypocrisy.

Attempts to hijack our political process with deceit and abuse of the trust of party loyalties are reasons I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never voted for a Dem.

A 40

???It???s way too soon. He hasn???t done anything yet.??? -- Michelle Obama's on her husband running for president

With thanks to wendydk, here are answers to some of the smears against Obama using various non-partisan sources. Investigate for yourselves before believing anyone's version of the facts or "unanswered questions":

Where Obama was born and his birth certificate: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Rezko: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

Ayers: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp

Rashid Kahlidi: http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=23 and McCain???s donations to him http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html

Are three former Fannie Mae executives economic advisers to Obama?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/are_three_former_fannie_mae_executives_economic.html

Is Obama's brother really dirt poor in Kenya and living on a dollar a day?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_obamas_brother_really_dirt_poor_in.html

How many times did Obama vote PRESENT as a state senator and why?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html

Obama"s relationships with corrupt Chicago politicians
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html

NRA ads regarding Obama violating second amendment right to bear arms
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

Jerome Corsis The Obama Nation:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/corsis_dull_hatchet.html

Obama wants to teach sex ed to Kindergartners?
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html

Obama plans painful tax increases for working families:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.html

Context Included: Obama on Iran
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/context_included_obama_on_iran.html

Did Obama write that he would stand with the Muslims and that he nurses a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward whites:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

Other purported quotes from Obama???s books: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

Did Hamas endorse Barack Obama?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_hamas_endorse_barack_obama.html

Claims that Obama is a Muslim, attended a Wahabi school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html

Barack and Michelle Obama spent $450 on lobster and caviar at the Waldorf at taxpayer expense
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_michelle_obama_spend_450_on_room.html

50 Obama lies and counting
http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=9

The Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan Controversies
http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=21


A 40 year republican