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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
She was confident, articulate, smart, warm, and unthreatening all at once. She delivered a wonderful speech very well. She was neither too effusive, nor too detached in her delivery. She looked elegant and attractive and she had every eye in the Convention center riveted on her.
Excellent job!
I enjoyed her speech but what I found really interesting was the scroll at the bottom of the page. "Senator McCain is sending his wife Cindy McCain to Georgia to assess the human damage." Or something like that. What a hoot.
Totally! I got a good hearty laugh out of that too! Yep, Cindy McCain is one global humanitarian expert, there's no doubt! She's going to tour ravaged Georgian villages in a shiny, too-snug, pink leather jacket and matching slacks with four-inch heels, her hair pulled into a tight up do to help minimize her wrinkles, her severe, Bride of Frankenstein make-up cracking and almost sloughing off her face from the strain of her exaggerated, frozen rictus smile--the Ice Queen of Narnia herself, touring her dominions to dispense humanitarian aid packages consisting of six packs of beer (Anheuser-Busch products only, of course), Bibles, copies of The Purpose-Driven Life, bottles of Percoset, and L'Oreal color wheels.
when i went to law school and found out my black peers got 20 points less than me on the entrance exam, and were also getting scholarships, i developed a bit of resentment for the policy of affirmative action.
Oh yeah, we all know everyone walks around blabbing about what they got on the entrance exams and comparing their scores to all their peers, and that school administrators freely dispense such information to anyone who asks.
Thanks for those words. The reason they result to talking about Rev. Wright,elitism,being as rock star and Rezko is because they don't want to talk about the issues.
Because then they would have to talk about the issues like an adult. Instead of coming up with quick fixes for our issues like gas taxes Obama would tell Americans the truth. But people like Buck don't want to hear the truth.
The same thing happened in the 2004 debate between Kerry and Bush. Kerry understood Bush had gotten in a mess. He kept saying that they did not have a plan to win the peace. So, Kerry introduced a SURGE PLAN. It was not Gen. Petreaus. Kerry said in 2004 that we needed to have 200,000 troops in Iraq. He stated that we should take the French up on their offer to train the Iraqi troops. If we had did what he said in 2004 we would have saved lives on both sides;we would have save money and been out of there by now. In that same debate Kerry said what was dangerous about Bush was that he lack attention to details and that the lack of detailed analysis would get troops killed and he was right. But people like Buck wanted a buddy they could hunt, drink beer with and bash gays.
It does take some brass neck to suggest that Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg was chosen for the VP selection committee just because her smile is winsome. "The torch is passed to a new generation" Uncle Teddy is now quoting in relation to Barack Obama but unfortunately for Mary Jo Kopechne and her family she was fated never to produce "a new generation". The Kennedys did eveything they could to limit the damage to their reputation, even managing to have an inquest in Massachusetts conducted in private (on the orders of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court). This is very similar to what the British ROYAL FAMILY did when Princess Diana's inquest was conducted ten years after her death; the difference is that the British monarchy didn't get away with an attempt to preclude the public while the Boston Royal Family did.
Joseph Kennedy, the Hitler-appeaser, made his money during Prohibition and had a lovely "friendship" with a star of that era, Gloria Swanson. Ah yes, but that's so long ago....That's true but slavery is even longer ago and some people are not prepared to let go of that, are they? It's coming up in this thread and every other one that offers an opportunity to blame every white person for what happened in America from the l7th to the l9th century.
There must be vacancies for despots around the world and there are some prime candidates in the letters section of Salon; they'd like to decide who can voice an opinion and who cannot, they'd like to suppress all views which are counter to the Obama orthodoxy and theyr're not above harassment of other writers (often in the crudest language) when it suits their purpose. It's a fairly widespread phenomenon that women are afraid to go on to the Net to express a viewpoint because it's male-dominated and the veiled threats are disturbing. However, to avoid abusive langugae, moderators use a form of sifting. Salon states that abusiveness will not be allowed but, day after day, there are refernces to excrement, genitalia, mental capacity in furtherance of no cogent argument, or facts, but with the sole purpose of intimidation.
I thought her speech was very good. I just think it was very misleading to portray her job as low paying community service. She was a hospital vice president making over $100,000 a year. I realize someone with degrees from Harvard and Princeton do make so much more. However, I have spent years in the nonprofit world making a difference at real starvation wages. Her job was not exactly the Peace Corp. If the truth gets out it just shows the Obamas are as out of touch with the real world as the McCains. $1000,000 a year as a hospital vicepresident is selfless? Give me a break!!!!
"language"
In the article and in the comments. First Traister, then AKA in the comments reducing jumping on Michelle Obama for being a well rounded person and not a simply a corporate bot. It is funny (not haha funny) and sad to me that so many reduce feminism to having a corporate or political career or at the very least competing n the same ground men have traditionally dominated. Just seems like a sad and morally bankrupt diminishment of people and a coup for the corporate mindset to increase productivity and profit not the elevation of the human or raising consciousness in any way. It is all very sad, very shallow and ironically all to the benefit of perpetuating oppression and creating new sorts.
There are other currents in feminism of course, where people are equal and should be treated with equal respect and dignity- it is not about the pursuit of money and power- at least not solely, of course those avenues should be open but those are not the only measures of success. I think it is wonderful that Barack Obama defines himself in terms of being a loving husband and father as well as an accomplished politician.
Simply on the facts it is also misleading on the author’s part to imply that Michelle Obama went to work for a law firm until she landed her man and earned her MRS as she put it. How demeaning to the career and work of Michelle Obama can you be? First off, she went on to work at Public Allies and, until recently for the University of Chicago. (I guess she deserves criticism for getting off of the money making merry go-round to do some good?) Second, back in the day ragging on someone’s personal and professional choices was just judgmental nagging, now it is elevated to feminism! We’ve come a long way indeed….
And then we get to the part of the comments where the presumption that the Obama’s must be beneficiaries of affirmative action – and so it goes not worthy of the opportunities afforded them- simply because the are black and successful…
So many double binds- it gets confusing!!! If we’re not ready for the Obama’s it is our lack and our own fault.
At any rate, Michelle Obama did a wonderful job in her speech last night. I hope we are generally better than our worst blowhards and trolls.
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