Letters to the Editor
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Made me a believer...again...
Ok, so now is it Michelle or Hillary? For all us women looking out for the woman that can take on the establishment, change things in Washington, not be bought out, have the diplomacy and tact to unravel the last 8 years worth of tangled webs, and just be an intelligent woman in power, which one is it?
I'm looking for change, people. I thought Obama was it, because of his politics of hope, and because I can just see his earnestness and his plain good common sense, his honesty, when he speaks.
But for a while, it began to look like Hillary was the real go-getter, that Obama just didn't have the oomph that Hillary did, especially when you watched her take her attackers head on and set them in their place. Her answers were always right.
But now they're looking a little too right. Now it just seems like she's always right, all the time, because she knows exactly what people want to hear. And because she never actually takes a stand on anything, so no one can ever pin her down. I don't blame her: so many special interests have bought her over that I don't think she can give a straight answer even if she wanted to.
So, back to Obama? Maybe Michelle is the woman I've been looking for? Aside from sharing her love for designer boots, I can actually see her in the White House, making tough decisions with tact and grace, debt-free (and not just student loan debt), and a real, honest to goodness diplomat.
The Obamas might be just the thing I've been looking for. Thanks, Traister, for reaffirming my wavering faith in the Obamas.
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Michelle and her hubby
I know. I wrote a comment praising Michelle and I meant it...but...I am voting for John Edwards.
Anyone who will pay $400 for a haircut when he is campaigning for president on his self devised platform supporting people like me has to be the independent kind of guy I like.
Go get 'em John and Elizabeth!
Obama would make a great veep!
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Bunch Of Whiny BULL
Laura Bush? She may have been as charming as Michelle Obama, but that's where the similarities end. I'm sure Mrs. Bush is a perfectly intelligent woman, and I would never slight a librarian, but for me there is a big difference between someone who can tell you where a book is, and someone who can tell you what's in it.
To the sister of the former roomate of Michelle Obama: your sister is beat, isn't she? Probably not totally hideous, but definitely not the pretty one in the room. I know how this works; the green-eyed monster can turn the bitter gripes into a self-fulfilling prophecy when you have to put up with it your whole life. I would think that a person having to go through life suffering catty reactions to her appearance- to something she can't conrol - would eventually take their toll and form a nice hard shell. In any case, that is just about the dumbest complaint about a public figure I've ever heard, your support of Obama notwithstanding.
For the pessimists and those who love Hilary because she's such a practiced 'fighter'
[you people do realize that your own descriptor of your candidate is linguistically interchangeable with the dreaded B-word, right? Yes, gripe about the gender bias in the word all you want, it doesn't change the fact that you like her because she's good at being a bitch . Can't have it both ways]
please listen: you can be a fighter and a winner without being a sneaky, underhanded, dirty fighter. If you know anything about boxing, you know this. Or any other sport, for that matter. In football the 'greatest team in history' was caught cheating, but it doesn't matter, right? Because they win? Even if they win by cheating? Or Barry Bonds- he may have shot horse hormones into his butt, but boy can he swing!
You are the people that make this world dingy and grey: please go back to your dank caves and knaw on your fingernails. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world, and you wouldn't know Righteousness if it placed a gently-reassuring hand on your shoulder. Be gone, we have no use for you here.
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She sounds cool
Given the choice between Michelle Obama as First Lady, and Bill Clinton as First Lady, I'm thinking.....Michelle!
But Bill is still blacker.
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Comfortabel with herself.
Michelle Obama is very confident and comfortable with herself.
So, Maureen thinks a husband who helps is emasculated. This sounds like a comment a right-wing traditionalist or maybe Maureen was engaging in sarcastic satire in regard to traditional thinking.
B. Obama is my candidate, and I love Michelle's sarcastic sense of humor, maybe because I am sarcastic myself. Both Barak and Michelle are very bright, but also in tune with real family values. She represents many of today's women juggling family, career, and taking in stride their sacrifices in regard to their own careers vs. the needs of their husband and children.
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three points in response...
First, to the Anonymous sibling of Obama's college roommate: are you seriously still holding Michelle, a 43 year-old woman, responsible for her behavior at 18? I know I'm not the same person at 37 that I was at 18 (a time for which I've apologized to my college roommate!). I'm not saying she's perfect or anything but people do grow and change. Get over it.
Second, to the Anonymous person hating on the Jimmy Choos: who says you can't wear expensive clothes and still keep it real? She earned the cash for those boots by working at a high-paying job she got by earning two Ivy League degrees. Like John Edwards getting a $400 haircut, I've got no problem with Michelle Obama buying Jimmy Choos with money earned by working an actual job.
Third, to Baloo: the Republican hate machine is real, and the reason people rightly fear it is because Democrats in Washington are too stupid and scared to fight it and win. It never fails - every 4 years the Dem nominee hires the same crappy bunch of DC "consultants" because they have "experience" running national campaigns. Right into the ground. Every election cycle, the Dem candidate fails to respond to GOP attacks and walks right into the " Democrats are weak" trap. Democrats continue to take the high road, clinging to the belief that voters are smart enough to see through stupid attacks and will do the right thing on election day. The last two presidential elections should be evidence enough that it just isn't true. If the Democratic nominee isn't willing to drop gloves and start punching for real, get ready to watch the GOP crank up the ol' hate machine and obliterate another Dem, with 4-8 more years of Republican incompetence as a bonus.
I'm voting for John Edwards because he and his wife aren't afraid of the Republicans, understanding that being careful will only get them beat. An Edwards-Obama ticket would be unstoppable.