Comments on: If she stops giving speeches…

By: expat

expat — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:43:04 +0000

re Michelle: Imagine her teaming up with Michael Moore on a goodwill tour. MM: Americans are the dumbest people in the world. MO: Americans are mean.

re Barack: We know he doesn’t like the upper class exploiters. We know his church doesn’t like the middle class. Is he now saying that the lower class doesn’t know how to treat women? Who does he like?

By: suek

suek — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:04:30 +0000

Ran across this today…

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/05/rumor-republicans-have-michelle-obama.html

(This may post a second time – it doesn’t seem to have gone through)

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:46:21 +0000

Michelle is not exactly Bess Truman or Mamie Eisenhower, little wifey in the kitchen baking toll house cookies. Nobody put Mamie or Bess to task for minimal participation in the political arena. Laura Bush primarily confined her public speaking to uncontroversial areas in which she had some professional expertise: libraries and reading. Michelle Obama has degrees from Ivy League schools. She holds a $300k job. She loves to hear herself giving speeches talking about a “mean” America she finds it difficult to be proud of- unless America makes her first lady. Michelle’s speeches are excellent advertisements for McCain.

If Barack had any political sense, he would inform his wife that for the next 5 1/2 months, her primary duty is to bake 20 dozen toll house cookies daily. If Michelle and Barack can’t stand the political heat from her big mouth, perhaps Michelle should stay in the kitchen. As a McCain supporter, I wish that Michelle would give five speeches daily.

By: jj

jj — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:26:02 +0000

Among the (apparently thousands of) things he doesn’t seem to understand is that his wife is solely responsible for making herself an issue, with her evidently unstoppable mouth.

But it is amusing: how long by now is the list now of things about him, his associates, etc. we aren’t allowed to talk about?

Beginning with his flapping ears, his middle name, and running right through now, apparently, his wife’s mouth. Quite a world, the one in which he lives.

By: 11B40

11B40 — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:06 +0000

Greetings:

Maybe this is a pre-emptive strike against being asked about his wife’s $200K raise and her employer’s $1 million earmark?

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:05:19 +0000

Why can’t you just let him eat his waffle?

By: David Foster

David Foster — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:20:10 +0000

Obama is not running for chief speechmaker or chief policy wonk; he is running for chief executive, and a primary executive function is selecting people. Since Obama has never held a major executive position of any kind (sadly, neither have his competitors) we have no track record available concerning his performance in hiring. Thus, we can judge his abilities on this score only by those with whom he chooses to surround himself.