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• Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:43 PM

  @Taliesan,

  Thank you for your kind words. I knew I would be adding fuel to this fool's mind by calling him out on this, but I just can't sit back and hear someone use those words about a great lady. Anyone who reads that Newsweek article will be impressed with her, and I just feel like defending her against these smears.

  By the way, everyone, in case you would like to read the ENTIRE statement by Michelle Obama, here it is:

  “What we’ve learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I’ve seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it’s made me proud. And I feel privileged to be a part of even witnessing this, traveling around states all over this country and being reminded that there is more that unites us than divides us…”

  They are questioning her patriotism and saying that her statement means she has never been proud or very proud of anything about America before. Their accusations are without merit for many reasons. One reasons is because anyone who is even mildly objective knows that she was speaking in the moment to a crowd. Another reason is that any reasonable person would believe that a woman seeing her husband (of any race) have a real chance to be president would be the proudest moment in her life and no reasonable person would believe she meant she’d never been proud of this country before."

  http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/17878/michelle-obama-american-pride/

  —Anonymous
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