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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/05/michelle-obama-america-just-downright-mean

Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’

By Noel Sheppard | March 5, 2008 - 10:29 ET

As NewsBusters previously reported, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't very proud of her country. Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we're a country that is "just downright mean."

Given how media made excuses for her comments in Wisconsin, it will be quite interesting to see just how much of her interview in the March 10th edition of The New Yorker will be reported in the next 24 hours (emphasis added throughout, h/t JWF):

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008,
and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents
. "
We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day
," she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. "
Folks are just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I'm young. Forty-four
!"

Oh, woe is her! Just listen to how deluded this person is:

"
You're looking at a young couple that's just a few years out of debt
," Obama said. "See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn't have trust funds. I'm still waiting for Barack's trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s'posed to be a relative or something.
Give us something here
!"

Give us something here?

Can you believe this nonsense? You want to know how much this couple has been given lately?

The Obamas' financial standing has risen sharply in the past three years, largely as a result of the money Barack earned from writing "The Audacity of Hope
." In 2005, their income was $1.67 million
, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.

[...]

Just after Barack was elected to the United States Senate,
Michelle received a large pay increase-from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005
.

Still want someone to give you something, Michelle?

But that's just the beginning of an hypocrisy an honest media would be all over if her husband was a Republican:

"
The life that I'm talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl
. . . . So if you want to pretend like there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I want to meet you!"

Really, Michelle? Life has gotten worse for you since you were a little girl? Not according to The New Yorker:

Money was scarce but sufficient
. Fraser [her father] took pride in providing for his family. "
If the TV broke and we didn't have any money to have it fixed, we could go out and buy another one on a charge card, as long as we paid the bills on time
," Marian [her mother] told me. Saturday nights were spent at home playing Chinese checkers, Monopoly, or a game called Hands Down (like spoons, with bluffing). It was a simple time. "I probably had two sleepovers my entire life," Craig [her brother] said. "
We were home folks
." Many years, the family drove to Dukes Happy Holiday Resort, in Michigan, for a week's vacation.

Compare this to her life today:

The Obamas employ a full-time housekeeper, and Michelle tries to see a personal trainer four times a week.

Woe is you, Michelle.

*****Update: To give readers an idea of the delusion involved in this woman's declarations concerning how things were better when she was a little girl, let's understand that in the year she was born (1964), 19 percent of the population lived in poverty. In 2006, that percentage is 12.3.

You were saying, Michelle?

Of course, it would be nice if media called her out on this nonsense, wouldn't it?

—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

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Will someone stop putting a microphone near her? She's an idiot :laugh:

I mean seriously, this one is not THAT bad but still, she knows they are looking for anything right now and she continues to talk :doh:

Shes going to give as many dumbass quotes as Dubya if they get to the Oval Office..

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I don't see anything inflammatory in all this.

All that money they talk about was earned through her job or Barack's books. What's wrong with that?

And I imagine without color if you took one girl today that had similar means compared to Michelle Obama growing up that the girl today is worse off economically. Going to college didn't used to mean debt in even the same ballpark it means today. The current generation of babies will be lucky to get into school at less than $50,000/year.

I'm not on the Obama train, but the way his wife is getting bashed is sad.

EDIT: To say nothing of the fact that the headline is taken a wee bit out of context.

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The writer took the Cheney thing just a biiiiiiiit too seriously.

Helpful hint: When either Obama mentions being "related to Dick Cheney," you can put a lot of money on the next thing they say being some form of a joke.

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I seriously thought that article was a post on a message board by some slow kid looking for an argument. Michelle Obama didn't say a single thing that out of line. To point out the retardation of Mr. Sheppard:

"The life that I'm talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl"

'Most people' does not = Michelle Obama. Then he goes off on a stupid tangent about how awesome Mrs. Obama has had it in the last few years. I guess because she's doing well she shouldn't care about others anymore.

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I'm not on the Obama train, but the way his wife is getting bashed is sad.

If she kept her mouth shut or chose her words a little more wisely, it wouldn't happen. This kind of stuff can easily happen to anyone stuck in front of a mic, so she should get used to it, watch what she says or not say anything.

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Wait until attention turns to Cindy McCain the druggie - home wrecker in news cycles.:doh:

Umm, would you mind staying on topic, or starting your own thread about Cindy McCain. I was hoping somone would start a thread about this ungreatful *****.

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Michelle Obama>>>>>>Cindy McCain

The "would you rather" argument is weak and no defense.

Forget McCain for a moment. Obama still has to get by the Clinton smear artists, who are probably the best in the business. If/when things get tighter, she'll take off the gloves.

There will be enough buffers, of course, to allow Hillary plausible deniability, but quotes like these will add up and Hillary will keep them in her pocket until the time is right. This stuff will be used by the opposition before Obama ever has a chance to go against McCain.

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