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POLL: Michelle Obama Is A Liability

Although it is Barack Obama and not Michelle Obama who is running for public office, Michelle Obama is viewed negatively by almost half of the American public. I quote a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted on 9 JUN 2008:

By contrast, Michelle Obama, whose husband cinched the Democratic presidential nomination last week, is rated favorably by 48% and unfavorably by 42% of voters. That latter figure includes a startling 25% who have Very Unfavorable opinion of the potential First Lady. A statistically comparable 24% view her Very Favorably. Ten percent (10%) are undecided.

How will Obama unify the country when his wife is such a divisive figure?

Compare her numbers with those of Cindy McCain, who has received her fair share of negative press.

Cindy McCain, the wife of the Republican hopeful, earns favorable reviews from 49% while 29% offer an unfavorable assessment. She is viewed Very Unfavorably by only 10% of voters while 17% have a Very Favorable opinion of Mrs. McCain. In her case, 22% remain undecided.

Lest anyone attempt to dismiss the findings of the Rasmussen poll, allow me to cite another statistic:

Three out of five American voters (61%) say their perception of a presidential candidate’s wife is at least somewhat important to how they vote[.]

Perhaps this explains why Obama’s numbers have slumped after he secured the Democratic nomination with the assistance of superdelegates.

Why is Michelle Obama so controversial? Please offer your thoughts in the comments thread.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    She outraged me when she said she wouldn’t work for the Democrats if Hillary won. That was so un-Democratic that I was shocked. Then the rest of her sweet words just reinforced her own image as a very coarse woman with little dignity or grace.

    She’s a loose cannon.

  • Sara C.

    Obama’s numbers have slumped? You mean like taking a large lead in Florida, Ohio and PA?

    Look, I understand you aren’t a fan of the man or his wife, but at least get the facts right at the start. Obama seems to be doing well, especially since it’s only about week 2 in the General, so let’s wait and see where it all goes.

  • roseeriter

    Michele seems to have a chip on her shoulder, and having been thrown under the bus by the Hillary haters supporting Nobama, I kind of understand how she feels. That chip makes for a big anger factor, trust me I am angry and she looks angry too.
    Both mr and mrs O are too phony in my View.

  • http://paganpower.wordpress.com/ PaganPower

    Why is Michelle Obama so controversial? Please offer your thoughts in the comments thread.

    I’ve been laughing since I read this. Too funny.

    You realize that we are liable to crash the server answering it fully.

  • William

    Hillary = opinionated white woman = good.
    Michelle = opinionated black woman = bad.

    Simple, really.

  • Peter

    On Yahoo’s front page is a ‘Michelle Obama pulls ahead of Cindy McCain in polls. If you watch Obama supporters and listen to people online, they have no boundaries, no concept of civility. A harsh edge is ‘in style’ I don’t call it the x-gen or anything else. I call it the jackass generation… it’s like a two year old ‘look at me, look at me’ doing/being anything to get attention is the in thing. Nowadays, it isn’t skill that gets one noticed or ahead…. it is being slimy or obnoxious… there has to be something ‘off’

    Here’s the link. I was uninterested.

    Obama is not slumping, he is moving up in several polls. My family and friends don’t support him. I can not fathom where his support is coming from. I was pissed when Bush was elected, I will be pissed if Obama gets elected.

    http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=8373262&ch=4226716&src=news

  • vinnie

    Top reason for not electing BO…his angry and mean wife. SCARY.

  • bert

    I was taken aback when she was asked early in the primary season if she would support Hillary if she won the nomination and Michelle said, “I’ll have to think about that.” And added it depended upon the tone of Hillary’s campaign. E-X-C-U-S-E M-E?????????

    She would have to think about whether or not she would support the Democratic nominee? How crass. How Chicago style politics. Who is she and what accomplishments does she have to allow her to say such a thing? The arrogance. The audacity. And now the hypocrasy.

    She has no class.

  • Palomino

    Un-Democratic? Uprofessional, that’s all. It was at a time when feelings were raw and running very hot, and Michelle’s a neophyte in politics at this level. That’s why she’s getting a makeover now. BTW, her impolitic statement was that she would have to think about working for Hillary, and she immediately followed up (maybe having realized how that sounded) by saying that everyone would work hard to get the Democratic nominee elected. She never said she would not work for Hillary Clinton.

  • AngryWhitePerson

    Barbara Walters asked Michelle Obama today if Hillary should be her husband’s running mate.

    “I think the one thing a nominee earns is the right to pick the vice president that they thhink will best reflect their vision of the country and I’m just glad I will have nothing to do with it.

    Well, gee. Thank goodness for that. But what kind vision would that be, Michelle?

  • Pol C

    The main thing that gets to me about her is the enormous chip she appears to have on her shoulder. She seems terribly resentful of what she sees as the privileged life other people–read: wealthy white people–have had. What’s so disgusting is that she’s led a pretty privileged life herself: Ivy League undergraduate and professional degrees, employment on executive boards, six-figure annual incomes independent of her husband, the ability to raise her kids in style, as well as membership in good standing in the intellectual, professional, and political elite of her hometown. We should all have it so bad. Life’s been damn good to her, and one wishes she’d get that fact through her head. Instead, she’s resentful she wasn’t raised in the environment she knows now, and to top off, she’s embarrassed she didn’t have it worse, so she fibs about how poor her upbringing was. She’s a real piece of work, and almost as offensive a public figure as her husband.

  • baracknophobia

    PUMA supporters are outraged by Michelle’s affront to party unity!

  • jdledell

    Good Grief – Michelle Obama’s favorable unfavorable rates were better than Hillary’s. If you look at the same Rasmussen poll from the end of May this year, Hillary was 48% favorable and 51% unfavorable. Lets look at facts rather than just emotion.

  • bert

    4% – with a 3 % margin of error is NOT a latge lead. Where did you learn math? Or polling for that matter. Obama is in trouble. Same poll he went way down in MN.

  • http://www.patriotroom.com Bill Dupray

    Obama’s Stalinist Tactics: Purge, Consolidate, Control. And if Hillary supporters want to come along, that’s fine. Just keep your mouths shut and do what you are told. He has literally taken over every aspect of Democratic Party operations and leaves no room for dissent. Doesn’t sound like America to me.

    http://patriotroom.com/?p=437

  • beebop

    Michelle’s “mean” comment seems right in keeping with his “bitter” comment. I just don’t see America electing people not “proud” of America or its successes and thinking that they and they alone are the key to turning it around. The Obamas have a level of arrogance and entitlement that is breath taking in its anger.

  • IndyRobin

    Hillary would have NEVER disrespected Michell ..NEVER

    Don’t even mention her name in the same sentence with Hillary

  • NoToDisenfranchisement

    if Obama has such a large lead there, why didn’t he win any of those states against Clinton?

    many of us Clinton supporters who followed the primary closely know that the media is selective with its information, and always weighted polls that favored Obama over Clinton.

    remember the Zogby poll that had Obama ahead of Clinton in CA by 13 – did that happen? But it was THE poll the media was citing before Super Tues.

    Remember the poll where Obama was supposed to defeat Clinton by 8 or 9 points in NH, did that happen? yet, it was these polls the media was citing.

    conclusion: DO NOT TRUST THE MEDIA. It’s all Obama propaganda.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    The poll you’re quoting did not poll FL Jews or Cuban voters. *blink*

  • KG

    College thesis.
    TUCC.
    Allowing her children to be baptised at TUCC.
    Her belief in Black Liberation Theology.
    Raising her children to believe in Black Liberation Theology.
    Not Proud to be an American.
    And I don’t like the way she dresses. LOL

  • JP49

    Don’t believe the polls. Like everything else in this election, its contrived. Michelle Obama is a gorilla. Remember when she said she “wanted to scratch Bill Clinton’s eyes out”. Why? Who knows. A crazy person is just a crazy person. No thanks. Not in my White House. She acts like she pissed off at the world all the time. Maybe she is. I don’t really care. I definitely wouldn’t strike up a conversation with her. Can you imagine her meeting heads of state and other dignitaries. You can’t clean up someone like her no matter how hard you try.

  • Judy

    Let me see???????? Hmmmmmmmm?

    Arrogant

    Angry

    Association with hate monger pastor for 20 years
    College thesis

    Entanglement with Chicago politics (yes Michelle)

    Salary from $100 + thousand dollars to $300 + thousand dollars after husband elected Senator (possible favors to hospital she works for)

    Never proud of her country

    I am sick of her and her anti-white/anti-government self righteous anger.

    I am sick of being blamed for black problems that I have NOTHING TO DO WITH!!!!

    She has helped bring forth the truth about the feelings that are harboring in AA churches and communities – I have to be honest – I had no idea until the Obamas came on the scene. And, now I am upset.

  • KG

    PS: She’s a separatist.

  • Freedom Fighter

    You folks are really low class for attacking a candidate’s wife. I think this is really out of bounds for civil discussion. I also think the poll is inaccurate. The majority of Americans identify Michelle Obama with Jackie Kennedy.

  • Mandelay

    I did not watch but I’ve read that Michelle Obama “applauded” Hillary Clinton on “the View” and also mentioned that she had written a note to Laura Bush to thank Mrs. Bush for sticking up for her recently. Looks like we’re seeing a “kinder, gentler” Michelle. No doubt this will be lapped up, too. I think people are desperate to believe in Obama and his wife and even his kids. A Rev. Wright would have put him away in any other time. This time, many Americans are desperate for something to believe in. I feel lucky that Hillary’s campaign turned me away from this “worship” at the Obama altar.

  • votermom

    Is she more or less popular than Teresa Heinz Kerry?

  • RJ

    This may be yet another case of selective polling or altering the actual results of the polling data to ahcieve the desired outcome.

    WE WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER

    McCain ’08 (no matter who the dem VP is)

  • NomNomNom

    Go to WVa and poll.

  • hootnannie

    I haven’t liked Michelle since she once introduced hubby as “my baby daddy”. And it’s gotten a lot worse. She comes across as surly, ill-bred, and resentful of whites. I don’t want a first lady who can’t be trusted to behave with civility. The only people who could honestly have a positve opinion of her are women just like her or those who don’t know enough about her. The rest are liars.

  • Hope Floats

    He has steadily dropped in most polls only rebounding in the past few days. Right now in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania:

    Rasmussen has Obama at 45 and McCain at 43 in PA
    SUSA has Obama at 48 and McCain at 40
    The previous Rasmussen had Obama at 47 and McCain at 39

    Right now Rasmussen has Obama at 44 and McCain at 45 in OH
    SUSA had Obama at 48 and McCain at 38

    It’s easy to check on RCP, and that what most people use. At this point, he should be getting a bump from being declared the presumptive nominee. With such an unpopular incumbent, he should have double digits.

  • RJ

    oops… achieve

  • meileen

    Ahhhh. Now it makes sense why there were two Michelle articles today in the MSM. I don’t bother reading about her, won’t provide the click thru- but one heading was that she is polling better than Cindy McCain. I laughed out loud at that one – who the fu*k cares! I knew it was total spin. Now I see that they’re trying to soften her persona. She apparently was ‘touched’ that Laura Bush said something in her defense (I believe regarding, “For the first time in my life”).

    When does this spin cycle rinse again to give us a better candidate?

  • KG

    For the sake of fairness, I’ve seen clips of it and it was a kindler/gentler Michelle. She spoke kindly of Laura Bush and Hillary.

  • Judy

    Also, I am offended that they are making her over – just fits into Obama’s lies/manipulations/deception.

    We will hide who she really is – we will make her over for the general election – so the American public once again can be deceived by the Obamas.

  • NomNomNom

    Considering that half of Americans are repubs and half of the (former) dems think she’s a hateful racist, your analysis seems improbable.

  • Susan N Chatt,TN

    I can’t believe Mrs Obama could even be our first lady. She dresses like a bag lady and her high fives with her husband and then he smacks her on the ass. Thats just to much. She has so not got any class. I guess when the he wins they’ll do a chest bump. She is the biggest skank I ever saw. can’t believe she could actually represent this country. GOd Help america!

  • NoToDisenfranchisement

    Hey Sara C: Below is a passage from http://www.stop-obama.org/?p=88

    there are around 25 articles cited here that use polls to create a momentum that Obama didn’t have:

    Clinton was objectively ahead in both Texas and Ohio primaries right up to March 4th, but the media gave a different impression.

    It began with the stories of Obama’s advance (you can hear the galloping horse in Axelrod’s head)

    Clinton’s lead fadesin blue-collar Ohio
    Obama leads in Texas and is advancing in Ohio race
    Obama Hopes To End Clinton Run

    Then polls entered the advance. Lies, damned lies, and statistics!

    And juding by Hillary’s victory in Ohio, statistics these were!!

    Ohio was always Clintonland, with Hillary enjoying a solid lead from time immemorial. Then the pro-Obama propaganda set in, beginning with stories of Obama catching up with Clinton:

    Ohio poll: Clinton ahead by just 2 percentage points
    Obama rides wave into Texas
    Clinton viewed as underdog in state
    Clinton and Obama tied in Texas, close in Ohio

    These escalated into:Poll in Ohio shows Obama gaining on Clinton with a week to go
    Poll shows Obama gaining in OhioPolls show Senator Clinton is holding a narrow lead in Ohio but her once large margin in Texas has now evaporated and she is in a statistical dead-heat with Senator Obama for the Lone Star state.

    Then shifting to a tie:

    Poll shows Clinton with slight lead over Obama in Ohio
    Clinton and Obama tied in Texas, close in Ohio
    Latest poll: Obama, Clinton split Ohio, Texas

    Suddenly breakthrough, a lead. The most notorious poll here was the Zogby poll, (because people like myself trust Zogby)

    Zogby Poll: Obama overtakes Clinton in Ohio

    Now, there was incessant talk of dominace:

    Obama rides wave into Texas
    New Texas Poll Shows Obama ahead
    Obama Overtakes Clinton
    New Polls Show Obama Gaining In Texas, Ohio And Nationally
    New CBS 11 Poll Puts Obama Ahead Of Clinton

  • Freedom Fighter

    Most people interviewed on TV make the Michelle-Jackie comparison.

  • Hope Floats

    Michelle runs her mouth, but she doesn’t seem ambitious in a way that would steal the spotlight from her husband. Hillary was a feminist icon before she married Bill and always seemed interested in politics. That was the criticism among many. She didn’t know her “place.” The cookies comment. She was seen as meddling. Michelle is seen more as a Theresa Heinz Kerry. Imperious and bitchy – and not in a campy way.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Will that make you go back to HuffPo?

    A girl can dream.

    Let me see if I can explicate how I saw her.

    When she said, “If you can’t keep your own house in order, you can’t keep the White House in order,” I was appalled that this woman would ever be the first lady. That’s trash talk. That’s right up there with the Mean Girls movie.

    What a bitch. What a non-Feminist thoughtless remark.

    When she said, “This country is mean today,” I thought: “Good golly, doesn’t anyone in that campaign have a clue about how to coach this idiot?” Americans do not wish to listen to a potential first lady run down America. That’s not campaigning.

    I’ll skip the big one……first time I’m proud……

    When she said, “America’s soul has to heal before we can move forward,” I thought: This woman views him as some kind of new-age healer. Good Golly…..Oprah has unleashed the idiots on us.

    Are you gone yet?

  • Tricia

    I can not wait for the tape. Did you notice that no one said on no not MIchelle she would never speak like that. All they could say is she did not say it in Church (I know she said at the Sheraton)

  • rjj

    I always check to see which are deeper: the frown lines or the laugh lines.

  • Judy

    Don’t trust the polls – investigate Zogby and you will find the owner is an Obama delegate/and has business ties with him.

    I am sick of the lies and deceit from polls and the media.

  • AF catfish

    From the last thread this morning on the view Michelle Obama was describing her husband as “pathetic” when Baba Wawa jumped in to say Michelle meant to say “EMpathetic.”

    Of all the words to get wrong, that is telling no?

  • William

    So essentially Hillary could be president of West Virginia. I’m sure she’s thrilled at the thought.

  • Tricia

    They also have Kerry by 17

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    That doesn’t bug me. They had to spiff up Hillary’s wardrobe. She was too dowdy. In Arkansas, they actually had a poll on her hair-do’s and she had to ditch hairbands. *haha

  • Hope Floats

    Cindy McCain is not a Stepford Wife. She is attractive and blonde, kind of milfy, but she has her own life. She is chair of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation. She also founded and ran a non-profit organization from 1988 to 1995 that organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. She continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    It’s ignorance and trying to sound intellectual. Empathic doesn’t sound anything like pathetic.

    Empathetic isn’t the right word.

    So it was a gaffe.

    But……whose counting.

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Dave

    I think Obama’s aids are more of a liability… Winnie the Pooh politics? Come on.

    See http://www.obama-wire.com/

  • Caya

    I lost any respect I had for her when she said about Hillary “If you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc

  • standard

    But she’s wonderful. Didn’t you read the NYT puff piece about her?

  • Disgruntled Dem

    Michelle Obama is a liability in the presidential race…B. Hussein Obama is a liability in the presidential race….The Obama’s are two confused, angry, radical, racist, affirmative-action, blacks.

    I am sick of people like Bette Midler saying that it wouldn’t matter what color Obama was….he is so brilliant….what planet is she receiving her news on?????

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Sam
  • Dawnelle

    r u saying that if he tanks in the polls later in the year you are willing to CHANGE your vote SaraSuperD?

    Have you read ANYTHING lately about BHO’s ever flipping rhetoric about everything? Are you NOT worried he voted for CHENEY’SSSSSSSSSSS ENERGY BILL???? come on PUHLEASE!!!

    You can wait and see how the polls go but I don’t need convincing and if right now he was at 70 or 80 in the polls I would flee the country!!

    no bout a doubt it

  • Hope Floats

    Smart analysis. The Obamas seem lacking in humility or manners. Uppity? No. Just not all that enthused about this country. Have you ever heard of someone applying for a job and saying how much they hate it before they even start?

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Sam

    OBAMA-WIRE.COM

  • MP98

    Now, there’s a valid statistical sample for you.

    Do have any idea of what I am referring to?
    I think not.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Her remark is why I don’t have a guilty bone in my body regarding not supporting him.

    She made it very clear. Her husband or nobody.

    Ditto……back at ya, …. Michelle!

    PUMA!

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Sam
  • NoToDisenfranchisement

    “freedom” fighter –

    are you saying you’ve never, ever said anything bad about Bill Clinton during the primary?

    so, given your statement, I take it you fought tooth and nail against the media for smearing Bill Clinton as a racist?

  • karen for Clinton

    I didn’t watch The View but read a post that said one of the hostesses mentioned the *really* proud of my country as an excuse she meant she was always proud but now is *really* proud.

    What that View hostess doesn’t know and what MO didn’t correct her on obviously is how Mo said it more than once and tapes have her saying “proud” and another with “really” proud.

    The other thing was I just watched Gore talking in Michigan from his endorsement speech and it was pretty horrific to watch HIM in MICHIGAN repeat over and over that VOTES MATTER.

    For crissakes has the whole world gone stark raving mad?

  • Dawnelle

    ROFLOL@crashing servers!

  • Faustina

    I have had the TV turned off for the last 6 months, so I haven’t seen Michelle recently. But I think the first time I saw her before really knowing anything about her and little about her husband, I said to myself, “I don’t like this woman.”

    She seemed very aggressive, not a good listener, and in your face.

    Now after all her bad publicity, I don’t think I would easily change my mind about my first impression.

  • Hope Floats

    Where did all these apologists come from? This must be why Obama acts like a jackass in public but assumes all Hillary supporters are his for the taking.

    He will just hire some bloggers to his the resistance, then he’ll feed everyone BS and tell them it’s pudding.

    Was Michelle compared to Nixon, Bush, Cheney or McCarthy? Has anyone commented on her cleavage, her laugh, her cankles, her dull smile or her ass? Has anyone insulted the Obama children? Has anyone suggested Michelle should die or that she would like to kill her opponents?

    Gee, I wonder why Hillary had higher negatives?

  • NoToDisenfranchisement

    William – I think we’ve endured enough of Obama followers calling us racists when we’re not.

  • kenoshaMarge

    Haven’t you heard? She’s had her “makeover”?

    What’s next a pillbox hat?

    Jackie O? good grief, not even close. Maybe the comparisons are easier since so many of the people making them don’t remember the graciousness of Jackie O. Michelle Obama is not even in the same league.

  • beebop

    The majority of Americans identify Michelle Obama with Jackie Kennedy. Can you find a basis in fact for that? I laughed so hard I knocked the computer to the floor ….. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah …. Jackie who was married to President Kennedy? Oh, right! That one is really funny.

  • stop Hussein

    I assume Michelle won’t be happy about Larry Sinclair’s press conference today at the National Press Club concerning BO’s purported homosexual liaisons…

    http://obambi.wordpress.com/

  • KG

    I don’t mind a new hair cut either, or a new wardrobe, but I do mind a new mindset, character to please the masses. I don’t want to see anymore chameleon characteristics from the Obamas…or any other politician for that matter.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Michelle Obama used her position on the Historic Board to Jam the sellers of the house they live in.

    She has abused many times her position for personal gain.

    and the big one… “Gemmie Some”…

    Her belief in BLT; she is a big time bigot.

  • SJ

    Michelle is just like her husband playing to the audience, all of a sudden Hillary is this great woman that shattered the glass ceiling, and paved the way for her daughters.

    Yeah right she sure as hell was not saying that when Hillary was running against her husband, it was not a woman that was paving the way for her daughters then, it was a black candidate that was doing that for blacks, it was yes we can, and our time now, or black people just have to wake up and get it.

    What about the speech about Hillary cant even run her home but she wants to run the WH. Some would love to play they have forgotten all this, and now they seem to be on a makeover image of Michelle, we have the ridiculous polls of her leading McCain wife.

    Since when do we have polls for the first lady in a presidential race, what utter nonsense anything to justify putting two people into the WH that a host of other have burning question about. This media nonsense will not stop am sure for days we are going to be flooding with clips of Michelle on the view, with body language specialist giving their bits on what was going on, for days we are going to see Michelle hypocrisy play out on the tv screens, as they try to soften her image.

    This election is really a joke, and disgusting as regards to the lengths that some are going to to sell Obama to us just to get our votes.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    She never did. Hillary never even commented directly about Samatha’s monster comment.

  • beebop

    They must have her on hopey changey meds.

  • Dawnelle

    I’m no longer a Democrat

    I voted for PEROT twice
    I voted for Clark, he convinced me to vote for KERRY but there was NO option.

    I never even noticed Hillary much until last year.

    NOW I know her. She earned my vote.
    but she has not and would not try to convince me to vote against my beliefs.

    McKook ran against Bush (he has that in his favor)

    BHO has not earned my vote and will not (as far as I can see into the future)

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Sam

    Taking Him Out With The Truth

    http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM

  • kenoshaMarge

    I don’t like or dislike her. But I am offended when she is compared to Jackie O. Jackie had class and was a truly gracious woman. Mrs. Obama has a long, long way to go to even come close.

    I don’t base my vote on spousal units. Her I don’t care about. The empty suit she married I will not be voting for come November.

  • Drew

    Time to delete any comments disagreeing with the author!! Hurry up, we’re swarming!

  • NoObamislamists

    I’ve read that they’re sampling Dems in the 55%-60% range. They are assuming a huge Dem turnout, which explains Hussein Obama’s “surge” after the non-Hillary bounce.

    It think it’s clear that the political class wants to maintain the status quo and I believe they think they can achieve it with Hussein Obama’s face instead of McCain. We’ll see.

  • Kim

    As for the Michelle Obama makeover…you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

  • motherinKY

    This is why Michelle Obama is controversial:

  • Drew

    So a commenter explaining to NomNomNom that ACTUALLY their numbers are completely wrong, is out of place. You guys are hilarious. Keep up the censorship.

  • Hope Floats

    That’s because Obama is always comparing himself to JFK, and the media follows suit. Since JFK was barely in office a year, who would challenge that? Most of the people who were alive then, but that’s about it. It’s all perception. Jackie was stylish and stuck up but also gracious. She was a famously private and retiring person.

    Jackie O: “I want minimum information given with maximum politeness,” and “I want to live my life, not record it.” She remained out of the lime light of political opinions.

    Michelle O: “I’ve got a loud mouth. I tease my husband. He is incredibly smart and he is very able to deal with a strong woman, which one of the reasons why he can be president… because he can deal with me.”

  • LDW

    Most Americans think Michelle Obama has led a pretty lucky life. Her father had a city job which enabled the family to live in a good area and have his wife be a stay-at-home mother. Michelle went to good schools and probably got an ‘affirmative action’ admission to Princeton. Her father had been a small cog in the Chicago political machine, but she married further up the chain, and has benefitted with a well paid corporate job, a multi-million dollar house, and a politician husband who is ambitious and successful.

    But what does Michelle Obama say to the press? She whines about her impovrished childhood; having to pay off student loans; and even the expense of piano lessons for her girls. From her corporate perch, she lectured a group of women at a daycare in Zanesville, Ohio: “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond”. Respond? Well, Michelle Obama didn’t give up any corporate directorships, and working PR for a for-profit hospital for over $300,000/yr is hardly ‘going into the helping industries’.

    Then, there was that moment during the primaries where she complained that ‘they’ were always ‘raising the bar’. Michelle Obama said, “there, you’re reaching out for the bar, you think you have it, and then what happens? They move the bar. They raise it up. They shift it to the left and to the right. It’s always just quite out of reach. And that’s a little bit of what Barack has been experiencing. The bar is constantly changing for this man. Raise the money? Not enough. Build an organization? Not enough. Win a whole bunch of states? Not the right states. You got to win certain states. So the bar has been shifting and moving in this race, but the irony is, the sad irony is that that’s exactly what’s happening to most Americans Americans in this country. The bar is shifting and moving on people all the time” So, Michelle Obama’s husband and his team were doing exactly what other presidential candidates were doing, having to raise money and build an organization and get votes and Michelle Obama was whining that somehow she and Barack were hard done by because nobody had handed them the prize yet.

    The lovely/nasty irony is that it was Obama’s organization that was and is the organization that was busy moving the bar and shifting the bar, and sending in thugs to rig caucuses, and making the rules up as they went along, all to the benefit of Obama.

    Michelle Obama has a great sense of entitlement and a great capacity for self-pity and it’s no wonder she has stuck a wrong note with many Americans.

  • Drew

    yeah I noted that as well, but my post was deleted. Wouldn’t expect yours to stay up much longer either. Facts hurt.

  • beebop

    Do you read any news at all? Do you know the entire sentence? Can you find it on google? Do you care? You are a waste of everyone’s time. bye!

  • so saddened

    but now the msm are full of comments about how fox news was terrible for using that term about her and portraying it as one of the horrible smears….

    the rewriting has begun. we heard michelle say it, but who are we going to believe – the msm or our lying ears?

  • TeakwoodKite

    Needs to expand on that theme…Fair game! :)

  • Steven Mather

    Don’t feed the trolls. Purge the blog of “freedom fighter’s” Republican pot stirring and “Baracknophobia’s’ Squeeleresque “four-legs good, two-legs-better” commentary.

  • NY still loves Hillary

    For crissakes has the whole world gone stark raving mad?

    Apparently a fair portion of America has. I wonder if this is how people felt in Germany in the 1930s? Did they ask each other can this really be happening? Can everyone really be jumping on board this crazy train headed for hell? My grandparents got out before Hitler took over (thank God!); sometimes I wish they were still alive so I could ask them if this feels the same, but mostly I’m glad they aren’t here to see this. God save us all.

  • Sara C.

    When Obama was running against Clinton, he was running WITHIN the Democratic Party, now that it has opened up to all his lead “seems” to have grown quite a bit. It surprised me, I must say.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Good grief, you’re dumber than I imagined.

    That wasn’t even what was said, nitwit.

    Go away!

  • belle du jour

    What I find amazing is that historically, Dems have NEVER resorted to the pusillanimous strategy of attacking candidates via their wives. Whatever we may have thought of George Bush or John McCain, I have never heard anyone say that people shouldn’t vote for them based on anything having to do with Laura or Cindy.

    Conversely, the Republicans ALWAYS seem to not only attack the wives, but spread vicious lies about them. Kitty Dukakis was accused by a sitting Republican senator (Kit Bond) of burning the American flag. Hillary had all the Vince Foster smears, as well as the ridiculous distortions of her legal writings (Pat Buchanan said in his ’92 convention speech that she “compared marriage to slavery.”) And of course, now we have Michelle and the evanescent, wildly implausible “whitey” video. If Cindy McCain’s husband were a Democrat, does anyone have any doubt we would constantly be hearing the phrase “pill-popping beer heiress”?

    Their reasons for doing this should be obvious: It’s the classic misogynistic smear of attacking a woman in order to emasculate her husband. It goes back to Lady Macbeth. Heck, it goes back to Adam and Eve. And it’s imperative on anyone who claims to care about women’s issues to recognize this pattern and denounce it. Whatever you think of Michelle or her husband, don’t aid and abet the conservative smear machine by perpetuating one of the oldest sexist slurs out there.

  • SJ

    Have you all not noticed Michelle even at time come out with a hair style like Jackie O, even her dresses at time looks similar to what Jackie use to wear, the sleeveless dress with a broad belt.

  • NY still loves Hillary

    She’s quite the trend setter, isn’t she?
    I hear bitter is “in” this season.

  • NoObamislamists

    Look at the sample size of the Dems in these polls. They are bumping the Dems sample to 55%-60% now. All of a sudden Obama is “surging”.

  • TeakwoodKite

    then your salaries respond”. Respond?

    Is that the same as “The vegtable will respond to you”? (Zappa)

    (Sorry…I can’t believe MO’s MO.)

    Some very deep hate in side of her.

    Well said LDW

  • campingoutindenver

    Be a card-carrying member of real hope & change. Register Independent.

  • PssttCmere

    rock on anninca….watching the view women shill for her was more than too much….only caught bits and pieces and was still ready to hurl…michelle is ugly from the inside and that is what people pick up on….good luck with her extreme makeover. The repubs are salivating while waiting to tear into her. I hope the obama’s aren’t waiting for Bill or Hillary to stick up for her sorry ass…because you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…her inner michelle will come bursting out at the most inopportune moment.

  • Sara C.

    I am hardly one to use polls as an accurate meter to gauge anything quite frankly, as I think they can be “handled” by the company themselves. What impressed me about this particular poll was that it was done by a polling organization that is usually quite Republican in nature, thus the results are usually skewed toward to the right. Here they say something different.

    Look, none of us know how this will flesh out in the end and McCain might actually win (God help us all), but at this time in the election, it would seem that Obama is doing well. Can he do better, most assuredly, but at least he is beating McCain at the moment.

    We will see come November, but in the meantime, let’s at least TRY to be somewhat thoughtful, eh?

  • PssttCmere

    yeah….wait and see….the key words….dems are disappointed with obama’s bounce…he should be far ahead and he isn’t….grasping at straws by his followers will not help him.

  • Anon21

    Not a large lead, but a large net shift to Obama. He has picked up 14 points from the last Florida poll (in May), and 8 from Quinnipiac’s last poll (also in May). The MN result actually came from a different poll, and it conflicts with a poll released just days earlier showing Obama with a widening lead in that state.

    Even for a devoted anti-Obama partisan, it does no good to deny the facts. Obama’s polling trend has been up ever since the conclusion of the primary contest.

  • Hope Floats

    Here is the clip. You can listen to it verbatim all the way through, and Nowhere does Bill Clinton say anything remotely racist. He talks about Obama and his alleged Iraq war opposition.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDx4NZr2u4

    This makes absolutely no sense. I can’t even see where confusion would occur.

  • campingoutindenver

    Stop pandering to the Two Party System: Register & Vote Independent.

  • es

    Wow, This is so Floyd Brown!

  • Caya

    LOL, Don’t forget the pearls! She is trying SO hard.

  • jbjd

    Karen, you ask whether the whole word has gone mad. In a word, no. That in the midst of a primary that can only be described as “Kafkaesque,” you still express surprise at the madness, is proof you, at least, are not mad. And I had to respond to your posting to reassure you that you are not the lone voice in the wilderness asking this question.

  • Hope Floats

    But vote Republican this fall. It’s the surest way to stick it to the Dems.

  • NomNomNom

    Meant poll you mention was not representative: you didn’t poll every state nor every demographic: thought that was obvious. Guess they don’t make trolls like they used to! Jeebus.

  • TheViking

    Lol yeah.

    For me, it’s her “TONE”…

  • campingoutindenver

    Split the glass ceiling of a Two Party System. Register Independent.

  • Hope Floats

    I love it!

  • Sara C.

    It’s curious that suddenly my posts don’t seem to be logging in. Might that be because I am trying to debate the actual concept of Obama surging V plunging here?

    I thought this blog didn’t delete comments. What a shame.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Read it. It’s pretty compelling, to be honest. He names the limo driver, who was not there to be questioned.

    Interesting…..can’t wait to hear the follow-up questions.

  • Sara C.

    Might this help some?

  • Chelsea Patriot

    How Exactly is “Fairy Tale” racist?

    I have never heard the word “Fairy” used in a derogatory manner with regards to African-Americans.

    The word “Fairy” is a homophobic slur.
    How is “fairy” of those types ofracially charged terms?

  • es

    Can you get Richard Mellon Scaife to weigh in here?

  • BRENDA

    DD ANYONE COVER THE LARRY SINCLAIR PRESSCONFERENCE!

  • meileen

    Here’s a great video some of you may have already seen. Good production values:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UAFbMLZm4g&feature=related

    It’s about that UN-electability.

  • http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/ Gloria

    Obama Hides Behind Rev. Joseph Lowery–Literally

    This pair of fundraising letters really was full of ironies…

    Which I point out….

    http://tinyurl.com/48xaj3

    PS..MSNBC says Michelle trumps Cindy

  • Annie Oakley

    Lol. Calling Dr. Freud.

  • Hope Floats

    The Clintons came to my home state WV quite a bit when Bill was running. My high school class had excellent seats for the inauguration. They really are not elitist snobs who put on an act during an election. But Hillary loves DC. I couldn’t see her running for Governor, because she’d be bored silly in Albany. She is very warm and lively when you meet her in person. She needs to be constantly busy and around people.

  • BRENDA

    DD ANYONE COVER THE LARRY SINCLAIR PRESS CONFERENCE!

  • Dave_Not_For_Obama

    Just in:

    PRESS STATEMENT OF LARRY SINCLAIR

    JUNE 18, 2008

    Good afternoon, my name is Larry Sinclair and I am a former recreational drug user and trafficker, a convicted felon for crimes of forgery, bad checks and theft by check. I am also an American who loves this country and I cannot stay silent regarding Barack Obama knowing what I know.

    Today I will discharge my obligation as a citizen to witness this knowledge to you and raise questions for others to investigate and consider. I am going to briefly describe my background, my experience with Senator Obama in 1999, what appears to me to be a coordinated effort to discredit me and finally a list of questions. After this brief statement, I will take and try to answer any reasonable questions.
    Background

    I am 46 years old and I currently reside in Duluth, MN. I am a US Citizen, and I have made mistakes in my lifetime. I have been convicted and served prison sentences for writing bad checks, forging checks, using stolen credit card numbers in Arizona, Florida and Colorado. These event’s occurred over twenty (20) years ago between 1980 thru 1986. After going public on the internet with these claims against Senator Obama earlier this year, I became aware of a warrant out of Florida from 1986 which I have resolved and it has now been dismissed. I also have an active “Colorado Only” warrant for alleged “Theft and Forgery”. I am not ignoring this warrant but am addressing it with the Court in Colorado as well as with the DA’s office. I have a pending motion to dismiss this warrant which I am waiting to have calendared by the Colorado Court.

    I have lived and worked under three different names. My birth name is Lawrence W. Sinclair. Later on, I had my name legally changed first to La-Rye A. Silvas, and then La-Rye Vizcarra Avila. The last two were legal name changes granted by the court in Penal County Superior Court, Florence Arizona. I legally returned to my birth name in the Fremont County District court, Canon City, Colorado in 1997.
    Obama Incident

    I flew out of Colorado Springs, Colorado to Chicago on November 2, 1999, arriving in O’Hare early in the morning of November 3, 1999. I went to the Chicago area to attend the graduation of my god son (my best friend’s son) from basic training from the Great Lakes Navy Training Center. I made reservations at the Comfort Inn and Suites in Gurnee, IL based on location to the Navy Training center. On November 5, 1999, I hired the services of Five Star Limo. I had hired them for both November 5 and November 6. On November 6, 1999, I asked the limo driver – whose name I now reveal for the first time – Paramjit Multani, if he knew anyone who would like to socialize and show me Chicago. Paramjit Multani understood that I was not looking for someone who knew Chicago and would enjoy socializing. Paramjit Multani said he knew someone who was a friend of his.

    On November 6, 1999 after picking me up at the Hotel in Gurnee– and this is significant – Paramjit Multani used his cellphone to make a call. That call was made to then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama to set up an introduction between me and Senator Obama. Upon arriving at the bar and exiting the Limo, Senator Obama was standing next to Paramjit Multani and I was introduced to Senator Obama. Later that evening at a bar which I believe was called Alibis, I mention I could use a line or two to wake up. Senator Obama asked me if I was referring to “coke” and after stating I was, Obama stated he could purchase cocaine for me and then made a telephone call – and this too is significant — from his cellphone to a presently unknown individual during which Senator Obama arranged the cocaine purchase.

    Senator Obama and I then departed the bar in my limousine and proceeded to an unknown location where Senator Obama exited the limousine with two hundred fifty dollars ($250) I had given him and returned a short while later with an “eightball” of cocaine which he gave to me. I did ingest a couple of lines of cocaine, and shortly thereafter Senator Obama produced a glass cylinder pipe and packet of crack cocaine from his pants pocket and Obama smoked the crack cocaine. I performed fellatio on Senator Obama in the limousine during the time Senator Obama was smoking crack cocaine, after which I had the driver take me to the my hotel, The Comfort Suits, Gurnee, Illinois.

    The following day, November 7, 1999, Senator Obama appeared at my hotel room where we again ingested cocaine and I again performed fellatio on Senator Obama. Significantly, both the driver’s telephone call to Senator Obama and his call to the drug dealer should appear on the driver’s and Senator Obama’s cellphone billing statements.
    Fall 2007

    In September 2007 I contacted the Presidential Campaign of Barack H. Obama, to request solely that Senator Obama publicly correct his stated drug use record to reflect his use of crack cocaine with me in November 1999. When I made that first contact I left with the Presidential Campaign of Senator Barack H. Obama a telephone number for the campaign to return my call. The first number I provided was a Texas cell phone number. From the period of Labor day weekend 2007 through November 18, 2007 I did rovide a total of four (4) different call back numbers to the Obama campaign, as I had moved and had changed the numbers to reflect locally my place of residence at the time. In late September to early October 2007, I received a call from a male who identified himself as a “Mr. Young” stating he was calling in regards to calls I had made to the Obama campaign. This first call was in fact an attempt by “Mr. Young” to obtained from me the identities of anyone I had contacted concerning my 1999 allegations against Senator Obama. This first called shocked me in that this “Mr. Young” asked me why I had not asked Senator Obama to disclose the sexual encounters I had with Mr. Obama in 1999. I was shocked as I had never mentioned to the campaign or anyone working for the campaign any sexual encounters as my call was prompted by drug allegations only. The call ended with “Mr. Young” stating I would hear from someone in a few days.

    In mid to late October 2007, I received a second call from this “Mr. Young” at which time I clearly became aware that this individual was personally involved with Senator Obama rather than just an employee of his campaign. The tone of the conversation had a sexual nature. “Mr. Young” did not once advise me how he obtained my phone number which by this time had now changed to a Delaware number.

    In late October 2007, I received a text message from the gentleman identified as “Mr. Young” in which he stated he was intimately involved with Senator Obama and that Obama was discussing with him and his pastor how to publicly acknowledge Senator Obama’s drug use in 1999 and that Obama wanted to be sure I had not discussed the sexual encounters or drug incidents with any media at that time.

    In mid to late November 2007, in another text message from “Mr. Young” , he advised me that Senator Obama will publicly correct his statement as to he last time he used drugs and I did not need to concern myself with publicly disclosing it myself. The last contact I had with “Mr. Young” was in early December 2007 when he made it clear to me that Senator Obama had no intentions of publicly acknowledging his 1999 use of crack cocaine and that “Mr. Young” was in fact doing nothing more than milking information from me for Senator Obama’s use.

    I later learned that a Donald Young was the choir director of Reverend Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ – Obama’s now-former church — and was openly a homosexual. I also learned that he was murdered on December 23, 2007. I have cooperated with the Chicago Police Department in this matter by providing them the telephone numbers I was using during the fall of 2007 and I release them now publically in the hope that someone may be able to connect the dots between these telephone numbers and Mr. Young. Those numbers are: 954-758-1105; 956-758-1885; 956-758-8002; 302-685-7175; 612-466-1043.
    2008

    In what I now realize was a naive and un-counseled decision, I posted in January 2008 a video on YouTube.com where I related the above information regarding my liaisons with Senator Obama in 1999. The response was overwhelming and I quickly became the recipient of what in hindsight appears to have been a coordinated attack on my character with ever increasing falsehoods circulating on the internet.

    In response I agreed to take a polygraph test from Whitehouse.com. The results of that test have been partially revealed to the end of labeling me a liar and taken as gospel by all. I would like to make the following comments about that polygraph test. First, I have been subsequently advised that Whitehouse.com was a website dedicated to anti-Clinton pornography until earlier this year. Second, I have now come to understand that lie detectors are junk science at best which is why courts of law refuse to use them. Third, a review of the results by George W. Maschke, Ph.D. of AntiPolygraph.org raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the examination. Indeed, overlooked by almost everyone is that hitehouse.com’s own examiner, Dr. Gordon Barland, observed that on the drug question regarding Senator Obama that the computerized score found that there was less than a 1% probability of deception by me. That’s about as high a passing score as one can possibly attain.

    Finally, in February 2008 I was told anonymously that Dan Parisi of Whitehouse.com received $750,000 from the Obama campaign through AKR Media to organize an effort to publically discredit me. When I confronted Dan Parisi with this allegation, he did not deny it but instead withdrew the second exonerating polygraph report of Dr. Gordon Barland, failed to post the video of my polygraph as he and Whitehouse.com promised they would do, and even removed posts from their web site altogether, claiming that they had “had enough of the attacks by Sinclair’s supporters and Sinclair himself.”

    The polygraph results – as misrepresented – were immediately seized upon by the blogger community and I became the subject of vicious lies about me. I was forced to file a lawsuit in an attempt to stop those lies about me that have been circulating. That lawsuit sought to obtain the proof of what I was saying about my contact with Senator Obama through subpoenas for the identities of the anonymous bloggers so they could be linked to the Obama campaign and relevant records of the cellphone companies to prove the truth of my allegations. To date, though the lawsuit is now over ninety days old, Judge Kennedy has refused to permit the suit to move forward so this evidence may be obtained.
    Conclusion

    In sum, you can discredit my story and then make your decision on who should be the next President of the United States. The burden is now off me as I have told my story without the distortions that have been intentionally heaped on me in what my lawyer tells me is an ad hominem attack – shoot the messenger so you don’t have to hear the message he is bringing. I am now done. It is for others to find the corroborating evidence of my story by locating the limousine driver – Paramjit Multani – and the telephone numbers related to Donald Young and/or Senator Obama. I leave you with these questions that I have asked of Senator Obama but which he – who wants to be the next President of the United States – has refused to answer:

    1. Why won’t Senator Obama provide his cellphone numbers and telephone records for all his personal and official cell phones held by him for the time period of November 3, 1999 thru November 8, 1999, when we met?

    2. Why won’t Senator Obama provide his cellphone numbers and telephone records for all his personal and official cell phones held by Senator Obama or September 2007 – December 23, 2008, the murder of Donald Young?

    3. Why won’t Senator Obama provide all email communication both personal and campaign related to and/or from AKP Message & Media from January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008 for Senator Obama, David Axelrod and David Plouffe?

    4. Why won’t Senator Obama provide proof of all payments made from AKP Message & Media, Obama for America, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Senator Obama’s accounts for the period of January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008?

    On my website – larrysinclair.org – you will find the documents that I have referred to in this statement. A copy of the home page for that website is attached. Thank you for your time and attention this afternoon and I will now take any questions.

    - E n d -

    http://larrysinclair.org

  • Alex

    Deep down, I don’t think Michelle even likes Barky much either. Her comments on him are either nauseatingly sweet and fake or subliminally emasculating.

    All the polls in the world would not change the fact that Michelle is hard and does not come across likable. She can be as Jackie-esque as the image consultants can overhaul, but she’s no Jackie nor are we in Jackie’s time. Jackie stayed quiet. She smiled, waved and treaded lightly. Ironically, she also couldn’t keep her house in order either according to Michelle given JFK’s history of infidelity. I can not understand the contradiction of why Michelle would wear pearls to imitate Jackie’s style, yet exhibits none of Jackie’s refinement. Another lie the Obamas try to sell to the public.

    I am sick of these two phonies. It’s FRAUD.

  • Hope Floats

    Dead ringer. I say it all the time.

  • eleana

    Here’s my favorite Michelle Obama clip, first she steers Stevie Wonder in the wrong direction, Stevie falls, she takes two seconds to pick him up, doesn’t even try to help him, then flails her arms at the crowd…One classy broad! http://youtube.com/watch?v=6kSJ9QYv5os

  • jbjd

    I am always heartened when someone comments on an issue that struck a chord with me but which received what I consider was inadequate focus in either the MSM or the blogs. Bad enough when Ms. Obama disrespected the former First Lady; discussing the former President of the United States in this way was base. I have taught my teenage son who, as a black boy living in a predominantly white upper middle class suburb, has already suffered suffered gross injustices at the hands of white authorities: I do not require that you respect the office holder but I need you to respect the office.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Yes, bless her heart. That style isn’t right for a tall gal like her. I really wished they had let her be herself image-wise. Less herself, mouth-wise.

    She doesn’t have the body for those clothes, and I think it makes her look uncomfortable.

    People poked fun at Hillary’s pantsuits, but I thought she looked very comfortable all the time.

    That’s the important thing….to have one’s style be right and comfortable.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    There’s a link on this thread to his statement. Interesting reading.

  • typical irishman

    Michelle Obama is a chronic hater and is in a constant state of agitation. Just like me, except I am sort of particular about who I hate:). Michelle hates everybody, but especially WHITEY. Larry where the hell is that hate tape of Michelle’s. LOL!!

  • campingoutindenver

    Screw them all and the Two Party System they rode in on.

  • Hope Floats

    Paved the way for her daughters… it’s always what you can do for her!

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    The majority of Americans identify Michelle Obama with Jackie Kennedy.

    So then according to you, the only people who are real Americans are those who support the Obama’s?

    GOP’s can’t stand Obama, that is what about 50% of the people in American who are not Americans?

    Most Hillary supporters can’t stand Obama, so they are not Americans according to you?

    Gee, to be an Amercian you have to support an pathetic politician who has caused more divide in America than any politician in recent history, according to you!

    So basically, must be lonely in your America huh?

  • jbjd

    I did not know her personally but, whether she harbored the thought, I cannot imagine that Ms. Kennedy ever expressed the inclination to scratch out the eyes of anyone vying for the Oval Office against her husband, let alone Mr. Nixon, the former Vice President (who some say but for ballot tampering in Chicago, would have beaten JFK in the general election).

  • http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1212187691.pdf NOBAMA

    There a many reasons I can’t stand her, a few are yet to surface. This is one of the big ones:

    May 10, 2008
    Michelle Vetoes Hillary
    By Robert Novak

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

    The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

  • NY still loves Hillary

    Hey, now – there’s an idea! Let’s have a popularity contest. We can all call in or text our votes, and whoever wins in each state can be Supreme Ruler. To hell with those pesky elections – who needs ‘em anyway. In fact, why bother even doing a new vote. We’ll just split things up now.

    So lets see – Obama can be King of NC, SC, IA, IL, MT, CT, VT, WA, OR, AL, AK, CO, DE, WY, ID, UT, NE, ME, MS, LA, KS, ND, HI, MO, MN, GA, WI, and of course VA, MD and DC. Of course, that wouldn’t do too much to end the “politics as usual”, would it, since he’d have the Beltway crowd and the Daley crowd. Hmm – guess he’d have to work on that. But that’s ok by me, because I live in NY, which is one of Hillary’s states. Anyway, Michelle wouldn’t have to worry about her BLT anymore, because half the black population would be gone, as would most of the white population. Of course they might have a few issues with immigration and emmigration…

    So I guess the rest of us would just hold an actual election and pick a President instead of holding a coronation for a Supreme Ruler. Hmmm – it just might work. Let’s just have another Civil War, right guys?

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    So Michelle going to be kept on mood drugs for 4 years if Bambi gets in the Oval Office?

  • Perry Logan

    Will a Michelle Obama nutcracker be available soon? It suits her far more than it did Hillary.

  • DJ

    MO looked like she just got out of bed with that hair do…they can try to do what ever they want, the lady has NO CLASS…she would be such a DISGRACE as first lady……….YUCK what a thought!

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Well, I find the way Obama flip-flops and now Michelle is beyond disingenuous. It’s insulting to Americans.

    There are sometimes when people say things they shouldn’t. It needs to be cleaned up then, not later.

    This business of trying to act like she has a nice word to say about Hillary is absurd.

    That means….we must accept them as liars. Pure and simple.

  • Pragmatist

    MO is consummately unattractive.

  • JP49

    Oh my God. Thank you Larry. I hope this puts a stop to Obama once and for all. If nothing else he should lose support from many of the supers let along voters. Thank you Thank you. I love you Larry.

  • Hope Floats

    Stop scrounging for votes for fucking Bob Barr or whatever lunatic you’re shilling for.

  • Hope Floats

    “Bless her heart!” Ha ha. The Southern slap someone called it.

  • alee21

    Michelle O reeks of entitlement and elitisim. Also what did she do to earn a 3 fold hike in salary from $100K+ to $300K+ as a U of Chicago employee?
    I can tell you that at universities, only the President, maybe the Dean of the Medical School (not sure about B school and law school) and the CEO of hospitals pull that kind of salary.

  • http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mzc3ZWNhNThmM2JhMzliZDUxMWNmMmU5M2ZiNmM1YTY= Shane

    I couldn’t agree more with everyone here. If we can’t judge a politician based on broad assumptions about their spouse, then the terrorists have truly won. I’m literally saluting my computer screen.
    Anyone wanna ask Larry for another refreshing post about the Whitey tape? I haven’t seen one in awhile, which makes me think it exists even more.

  • Hope Floats

    The ‘glass ceiling’ refers to sexism or racism, but since the term was coined, “glass ceiling” has also come to describe the limited advancement of the deaf, blind, disabled, aged and sexual minorities. It is where barriers to advancement typically don’t exist among a group. Dumbass.

  • KG

    I had a second part to that post, but erased it since I started it off with “For the sake of fairness..”.

    The second part went something like: But I don’t believe a bit of the new facade. They are chameleons.

  • Peggy Sue

    Michelle Obama isn’t running for POTUS. We may dislike her hard edge and careless remarks, but demonizing her is the same thing the Republicans did to HRC when Bill Clinton ran for office.

    Honestly, I don’t buy into personality makeovers. As far as I’m concerned it’s too little, too late. But Michelle O. is not the issue; her husband is and anything that deflects from holding Barack’s feet to the fire is a waste of time and energy. There’s plenty of kindling out there to keep the discussion hot and uncomfortable for him and the Obamatron army.

    IMHO.

    PUMApac.org

  • campingoutindenver

    At least I’m not whoring myself out to McCain.

  • campingoutindenver

    My point exactly.

  • mountainlion

    micHELLe obama is a baboon and one ugly racist bitch. her and her husband are graduates of black theology and continue to fool whitey. anyone that dares question either one of them are labled racists and threatened with their lives. these people are moving into the whitehouse ? what a nightmare in the making. cindy mccain is alot more first lady material than that monkey woman. i am sorry, the very sight of either one of the obama’s makes me sick. i cant stand their voices, i hate them and its not going to change. and freedom fighter, go to hell and take the obama’s with you.

  • doctorwang

    I agree, campingoutindenver. THIS is the year a third party CAN win. The immense hatred (by the Republicans AND the Democrats) of both Obama and McCain makes this Election Day an opportunity that we’ve never had before. Don’t squander your vote! Let’s rid ourselves of the two party system that has crippled our government!

    Barr in ’08 !!

  • MikeSD

    Yes, it is easy to check at RCP.

    Pennsylvania: The 45-43 Rasmussen poll you quote is from May 21. The Quinnipiac poll from this week has Obama up 12. That’s a big bounce.

    Ohio: Again the Rasmussen poll you site and consider “right now” is from May 15. The current (from this week) PPP and Quinnipiac polls have Obama up 11 and 6 respectively. That’s a big bounce.

    Florida: Quinnipiac has Obama going from -4 in May to +4 this week. Not bad for a state that Obama has supposedly thrown under the bus.

    Like him or not, the guy is not as unelectable as you’d like to believe. And with regard to spouses, Michelle is not as off putting as you’d like to believe either. From an ABCNews/Washington Post poll on spouses out today:

    “In the battle of the spouses the early edge is Michelle Obama’s, in favorable views and intensity of sentiment alike. (snip)

    Forty-eight percent of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll see Obama favorably, vs. 39 percent for McCain, a 9-point Obama advantage.”

  • doctorwang

    Oh…and up yours Dope Bloats!

  • JP49

    Michelle Obama isn’t fit to be one of Jackie O’s toenails. Obama isn’t fit to even be in the same room with John or Robert Kennedy or the Clintons for that matter. Pure shit is what the Obamas are. Pure shit.

  • KG

    Liars yes. And they haven’t been in the public life long enough for us to know who they really are…so they can get away with saying whatever they want whenever needed and nobody really will know the difference.

    Smears/truth we don’t know much of anything about them and that scares the hell out of me. Especially with both of them being so disingenuous.

  • TeakwoodKite

    In his neighbors mailbox ?

  • campingoutindenver

    Register Independent

  • karen for Clinton

    Ha, more dems will certainly (at this point) vote for obama than for mccain. So what?

    It is a long way till November. To be obsessed with polls now is ludicrous. They can and will change overnight by major news stories numerous times between now and then.

    And yes, as cited above they are corrupted and unreliable to boot.

    I don’t give a rat’s ass what the polls say now.

    Will you cite polls from June through November?

    Really, WTF cares? He blows – maybe literally.

  • JP49

    My only concern is that the limo driver may need to think quick and go into hiding before he gets murdered like Donald Young.

  • ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama

    after 20 yrs of GOP attacks Hill was at that unfavorable rating, and still got 18 million Dem votes in the primaries despite being outspent 3-1….

    MEchelle Omarosa has nowhere to go but higher in her unfavorables as the country gets to hear her ME ME ME and DOUGH DOUGH DOUGH….now if only they would go FAR FAR FAR….

  • ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama

    she wants to CLAW (Bills) eyes out too she tells the magazine..

    unreal…

    dont forget her OH appearance in a town that earns less than 28k avg whining about her student loans and paying 10k a yr for her kids activities, uh-huh , then she launched into telling the women to be caregivers and not work as attys or hedge fund executives uh-huh

  • DAB

    Oh pullease! I clearly remember Jackie Kennedy and Michelle is NO Jackie Kennedy!

  • http://www.dontvoteobama.net NO DEAL OBAMA

    SHE IS THE RACIST WHITE HATER IN THE OBAMA FAMILY, WHAT A MEAN SPITEFUL PRIVILEGED HYPOCRITE

    MICHELLE OBAMAS RACIST THEIS

    “There is no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost”. Michelle Obama, in her own words, does not lookout into a crowd at a political rally and see Americans, she sees whites and blacks.
    It is no wonder they chose Rev. Wright as a pastor, because his comments and his church’s mission statement go right in line with her thesis. Promotion of the black race at ANYcost! If she didn’t consider her inner thoughts of this thesis being revealed a liability, then why did she have access to the thesis blocked at the Princeton website until November 8th. A few days AFTER the national Presidential election on November 4th.
    Whitey cut folks off Medicaid?
    Whitey let New Orleans drown?
    Whitey do nothing about Jena?
    Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason?

    SHOCKING: What Obamas really think of white folks
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3jsFs
    http://www.dontvoteobama.net

  • Outsider

    Barack Obama is a PATRIOTIC AMERICAN. He has one HAND over his HEART at all times. He occasionally switches when one arm gets tired, which is almost never because he is STRONG.

    Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It’s upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.

    Barack Obama is a DEVOUT CHRISTIAN. His favorite book is the BIBLE, which he has memorized. His name means HE WHO LOVES JESUS in the ancient language of Aramaic. He is PROUD that Jesus was an American.

    Barack Obama goes to church every morning. He goes to church every afternoon. He goes to church every evening. He is IN CHURCH RIGHT NOW.

    Barack Obama’s new airplane includes a conference room, a kitchen, and a MEGACHURCH.

    Barack Obama’s skin is the color of AMERICAN SOIL.

  • karen for Clinton

    As far as I know this is all repeating what he has said all along with the addition of the name of the driver and the additional information on the phone numbers he previously held.

    I haven’t speculated on this story since it could very well be bogus.

    The things we know about obama for sure all have back up evidence – from video of him saying it on national TV to direct quotes of his books to links to investigations carried out by sources.

    The only witness to the Sinclair story so far is Sinclair himself – so that makes it heresay… and it does have that tabloid subject matter too.

    I have no opinion if it is true or false – it could easily be either one.

  • JP49

    Question: Do any of you actually think that the republican party is willing to lose this election by dogging McCain and in so doing help get Obama elected (assuming he wins the nomination in August)? Then for sure in four years of Obama the public will hate the democrats and the republicans will swoop in with a candidate they like more than McCain? Just wondering.

  • DAB

    I saw Cindy McCain on the View a while ago. I had never seen her in such a setting and she was quite charming, natural and likable. She needs more of this type of exposure.

  • DAB

    Dukakis was 15 points up on George Bush and lost to him. Polls this early on are meaningless. Think that the debates will decide this election.

  • karen for Clinton

    Is Ann the spouse of a person running for President? Is she the wife of one of the heads of the party?

    Like I’ve said, they need to be diplomats and they have not learned in life how to do that.

    They have no clue what is required to win let alone what it takes to show some class and be gracious.

    They aren’t presidential.

    They do not uphold the dignity of the office.

    As for any individual not supporting ob – call it whatever you want but think up insults for around 60 – 70 million people who will vote in the General for McCain.

    Better get started now insulting them you will be too busy crying your heart out later.

  • belle du jour

    Wow, I can’t imagine why anyone would call you racist. It’s gotten to the point where you can’t even call a black person a “baboon” and a “monkey” without them playing the race card.

  • Barak Osama

    You’re a whore to BO.

  • Northwest rain

    I had neighbors who got out if Berlin and immigrated to America shortly after Hilter took power. They have both recently passed away.

    The Obama brownshirts are thugs and bullies just like the Bush brownshirts were doing the period of the recount in 2000.

    When my neighbors watched the Bush bullies harassing the vote counters in Florida — my neighbors said that they were disturbingly similar to the behavior of Hitler’s brownshirts.

    It is the mob behavior — that is similar between Hitler’s brownshirts, Bush’s thugs and Obama’s Obamabutts. When mob mentality takes over — the human brain’s frontal lobes just shut down and the primitive brain takes over.

    That’s why when we see the Obamabutts swarm websites — none have any logical reasoning ability. All they can do is repeat the same old crap again and again and again.

    Obama is a National Security Risk.

    McCain (or Clinton) 08

    Clinton 2012

    PUMA

  • No to B.O.= Body Odor & B. Obama

    Who the hell cares about the gay sex -it’s the cocaine use and possible murder/cover-up that is alarming. The media should definitely get on this, not for the gay sex, but for the fact that Obama’s campaign willingly buys people off ($750K???), and Obama could be suffering from the influence of drugs (illegal ones at that), a drug user, a liar, and possible murderer? This story is a lot juicier than I originally thought.

    If it is true- I am itching to say to Michelle -
    “How can you take care of the white house if you can’t take care of your own house?” — just like she said to Hillary. Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?

  • belle du jour

    Thank you, Peggy Sue! Demonizing candidates’ wives is what Republicans always do, and what Democrats never do. When was the last time you heard a Dem cite Laura or Cindy as a reason for voting against their husbands? It’s a classic sexist smear. Don’t buy into it!

  • doctorwang

    Yeah- she was on her ‘pain-pills’ again. It’s easy to be charming when you’re in la-la land.

  • bwana

    how is it down there at the bottom of the barrel? need a flashlight?

    jeez you people are pathetic…

  • bwana

    zogby is an idiot. nobody beleives his numbers.

  • OBushMA!

    Earned… lol Stole is more like it.

    And yes, Obama needs to pick someone even less qualified than him. Maybe he should pick her. Obviously, she reflects his vision of the country. Barf.

  • http://make-it-plain.blogspot.com/ sonya

    You state that Michelle went to good schools, yet you assert that she “probably got an affirmative action admission to Princeton.” Why do you assume that?

    There are enough valid critcisms to make about both Obamas without engaging in speculation based on your own prejudices.

  • Faustina

    I would think that the National Security Agency or whoever does the eavesdropping these days could verify some of these allegations. I can’t imagine George Bush & Co having any compunction at all in using whatever means are available to discredit Obama. This story, if true, is probably worse than the Michelle “whitey tape”.

    With politics being the dirty, filthy business it is, it is easy to brush something like this off as just another exercise in mudslinging, but it reminds me of similar allegations about the very influential evangelical pastor of the New Life Congregation in Colorado Springs, Ted Haggard, who was accused of the same thing in 2006 and who at least had the guts to admit his guilt soon after the accusations surfaced.

  • Michelle Obama Is Out of Touch

    This woman should not serve as First Lady.

  • UKforDems

    She would have to think about whether or not she would support the Democratic nominee? How crass. How Chicago style politics. Who is she and what accomplishments does she have to allow her to say such a thing? The arrogance. The audacity. And now the hypocrasy.

    She has no class.

    Can you not see your own hypocrisy on this?

  • http://nobho.blogspot.com/ Johnny at Work

    Well we are trying to find your candidate, but it looks like he’s lower than the bottom of a barrel….

    Don’t need a flashlight, but an excavator would be nice, maybe a hazmat crew too. There’s some pretty scummy stuff leaking from the O’boy barrel.

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    Is your use of the flashlight a reference that Bambi is a little short and hard to find?

  • Keyser Söze

    This so funny. Nine months ago the Obama freaks were saying Hillary was a bad choice because she was polarizing and divisive. This is so funny I’m gonna be in stitches. This has got to be the stupidest political campaign I have ever seen.

  • Keyser Söze

    Rove gave 2008 to McCain because it’s an off-year.

  • karen for Clinton

    No. They are very fired up about not letting ob anywhere near the job he applied for.

    They are very slick and they won’t even let you into half of their game plan.

    What they have on the McCain site in video material alone is very, very strong material.

    But the real bombs don’t drop till Labor day, and then they won’t let up for more than a few minutues till the General. Have you seen how much cash they have raised? They’re motivated like crazy.

  • Democrat

    LARRY SINCLAIR WAS ARRESTED TODAY!!

    http://www.mydd.com/

  • Keyser Söze

    Agreed.

  • doctorwang

    What….and McCain hasn’t flip-flopped? Talk about being disingenuous!

  • Keyser Söze

    I think the Republicans went after Hillary because they didn’t like her and felt threatened by her. There’s a lot more to this. Today people are going after Michelle – as am I – because they don’t like her. And at least in my case am scared of her politics.

    But there’s a world of difference between someone who wants and fights for justice for all and someone who only now feels proud enough to work for it.

    Hillary’s life is ripe with human interest stories. All the people who Hillary helped. People who go on the record about how wonderful she is.

    Show us one single human interest story about the Obama. Just one. You can’t because they very literally don’t give a shit about anybody but themselves.

    If that ain’t the Okey-Doke I don’t know what is.

  • doctorwang

    As long as he can contain the all too familiar drool that constantly drips from his chin, McCain should do fairly well in the debates.

  • Keyser Söze

    The hike was because her husband got his Senate seat in Washington and they knew she was therefore worth the investment.

  • Keyser Söze

    Fugly.

  • http://www.obama-wire.com Sam

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  • educatedwhitewoman

    “Life’s been damn good to her, and one wishes she’d get that fact through her head.”

    She really believes Rev. Wright’s view of the world – black liberation theology. In their world view, blacks need to TAKE power from the privileged, evil white slavemasters.

  • Peggy Sue

    I can understand your passion, mountainlion. But your comments are so offensive, so racist in nature that they dilute any protest, which is real and credible. If Barack Obama were a white man, I’d have the same misgivings about his “presumptive” nominee status. Race is not the issue from where I sit though the Obamatrons are quick to use that label–you don’t agree, you’re labeled a racist. That’s utterly wrong-headed and cheapens the idea of racism, makes it impossible to categorize real racial issues in any real way. If everything is racist then nothing is racist. It’s self-defeating and zeroes things out.

    The issue is lack of experience, arrogance, allowing sexist fervor to flourish, flip-flopping on issues and the dubious connections that Barack Obama “chose” to have in Chicago–the church, the Rezko mess, the Illinois Combine ties, William Ayers and the whole cast of unsavory characters. His voting record and his amazing lack of accomplishments can be thrown in the pot, too. These are real and they have legs. The fact the MSM has chosen to turn a blind eye is a scandal.

    But please, resist the racist spleen. It’s ugly. It has always been ugly. I refuse to become what I hate or read hateful rants, here or anywhere else.

    PUMApac.org

  • Mary

    Dear God….did you hear Whoopee babbling about the only Black women on TV have no teeth, gold teeth, and can’t finish a sentence?

    Condi Rice? Gwen Ifill? Oprah Winfrey?

    I just turned the TV off. It was totally airhead bullshit designed to fluff Michelle.

    YUK

  • Uppity Woman

    See me in October.

  • Uppity Woman

    But what kind vision would that be, Michelle?

    The Pakistan vision.

  • Mary

    I don’t really need to know anything about Larry Sinclair to know I won’t be voting for Barak Obama.

    There are plenty of reasons not to vote for him, just on his own record.

  • educatedwhitewoman

    Michelle’s comment about Hillary “not keeping her house in order” was the #1 most tasteless comment I’ve heard made by any potential first lady. Jackie O would turn over in her grave to be compared to this woman who, although she’s led a charmed life (and yes, she came from a black middle-class background), appears to despise this great country and the majority of its inhabitants.

  • Mary

    Try to remember that Michael Dukakis was 17 points ahead at this time, too.

    You DO know how that turned out, right?

  • Mary

    Yes, so they’re basically MANIPULATING the polls to give Obama false “momentum.”

    Why am I not surprised?

  • http://www.illusionofjoy.net Seth Warren

    Screw the two-party system. Does anyone else here support instant run-off voting?

  • thenana1

    In reading Larry’s letter this I can say for him, he was up-front about his past and his
    life style.

    Now it would be nice to hear this sort of
    up-frontness from Barack Hussein Obama.

    If this story is true, then we need to know.

  • Mary

    He came out IN FAVOR of Nafta , too.

    That ought to go over real well with the people he told the opposite to, in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  • http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ Robbedvoter

    Why I loathe Michelle?
    “Who can’t take care of her house, can’t be in the White House”

  • http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mzc3ZWNhNThmM2JhMzliZDUxMWNmMmU5M2ZiNmM1YTY= Shane

    Monkey woman. Wow. Congratulations, you dumb motherfuckers. These are your new friends. Let the race war begin.

  • jack, too

    After reading Larry Sinclair’s press release where he describes “fellatio” between himself and Obama, I have a constant visual now of Larry sucking Obama’s dick, and the reverse.

    That’s some Obama porn, too bad he didn’t tape it.

    Larry flew in from Colorado Springs, too, turns out he has military in the family.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    His interview is on Texas Darling’s site now.

  • doctorwang

    Hey Hope Floats- Read this:

    “Now for the shocker. If the election comes down to a choice between John McCain and Barack Obama I will vote for Bob Barr. I live in Maryland and my state is very likely to vote overwhelmingly for Barack. I continue to believe that Barack is not qualified by experience or temperament to be President. I will be happy to be proved wrong on that count. But, if elected, he is likely to revive memories of the failed Presidency of Jimmy Carter. How apropos that Jimmy endorsed Barack.

    And I cannot support John McCain, who is staffing his national security team with many of the bozos who were instrumental in bringing us the debacle in Iraq. Of particular concern is Randy Scheunemann. A confidant of Douglas Feith, Scheunemann represents a continuation of the disastrous Bush policies in the Middle East. I’ll devote more time later to these issues.

    That was written/posted on this site by LARRY JOHNSON! If you don’t believe me check the Archives (on top of the page) and read the posting yourself. It’s dated June 7, 2008 (11 days ago) and is titled “An Update on the Michelle Obama Rant”.

    No Quarter is Larry Johnson’s blog.

    Larry Johnson is pro Barr.

    Larry Johnson is anti McCain.

    If you don’t like the fact that there are others here that are pro Barr and anti McCain than I suggest that you FUCK OFF and find yourself another site that drools over McCain the way you do. You can spew out your pseudointellectual drivel there. Or perhaps you can get your pompous friend together for daily 4PM McCain rallies at the local Old Country / Hometown Buffet. You’ll be in good company there.

  • Kevin

    I don’t care about his wife
    I don’t care about his getting a smoothie from Sinclair
    I don’t care about his color
    I don’t care that he may have been raised a muslim

    I care that his resume is thin
    I care that his associations are suspect
    I care that he is supported by thugs
    I care that his economic policy is unsound

    When you look at his, Senator Clinton’s and Senator McCain’s varying degrees of experience, combined with positions, the choice is clear:
    1. Senator Clinton
    2. Senator McCain
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    5,999,999,999 Senator Obama

  • Mary

    It’s all for show.

    This one on the View is not the REAL Michelle.

    This is the one the media spcialists created for TV.

  • jack, too

    Larry flew in from Colorado Springs, to attend a family military graduation in IL. This is how he came to meet Obama, asking the limo driver in IL if he could find him a little action.

    So the limo driver called Obama.

    That’s pretty funny, isn’t it?

    (Want a good time, call “O?”)

    Larry sprung for some coke, too.

    I wonder if he was familiar with Ted?

  • Mary

    The 2 articles were PLANTED by the Obama campaign in anticipation of The View.

    This is PURE media consultant crativity, because the last round of polls showed her negatives going up, up, up.

    This is the CREATED “Michelle.” Not the real one.

  • jack, too

    I suppose this also reminds me of the Rezko cohort Stuart Levine, also a bisexual man into heavy drug usage.

    I wonder what he knows…

  • No to B.O.= Body Odor & B. Obama

    He wouldn’t dare throw Michelle under the bus – she knows where the skeletons are hidden.

  • Mary

    What debates? Obama is hiding again.

  • Mary

    In Karl Rove’s safe waiting for October.

  • jack, too

    TO BRENDA:

    Try texasdarlin’s blog, or Larry’s.

    lol.

  • jack, too

    I care about Sinclair, because if accurate, it exposes more of the lie.

    Secondly, it may lead back to the players in the combine.

    Very important.

  • Mary

    Oh hell, you can watch the trolls trashing Cindy McCain as a “drug addict” and on other threads trashing McCain’s first wife.

    They have no decency, while chiding YOU for talking about Michelle.

    Gimme a damm break.

  • IndayHill

    freedomfighter,nothing original to the Obamas. All copied. Even the dead, they copy!Jackie O must be turning on her rest when compared to the “Mrs. Whiner/Grievance”. JackieO never whined in any time of her life!Much more, even when she was in excruciating pain, she had the grace and dignity in her every moves. Did you see JackieO acted with no class?? Michelle, STOP COPYING JACKIEO. YOU ARE NOT FITTED TO TAKE HER PLACE! SHAME, SHAME.

  • thenana1

    Well, now she claims ( Ms. Obama)that she perfers
    Mrs. Bush. And will model herself after her.

  • Dan R.

    After reviewing his background and his arrest record, I wouldn’t believe Larry Sinclair if he told me what time of day it was. If he’s got any proof or any witnesses, let’s see ‘em. Otherwise, he needs to shut the f*** up.

  • Uppity Woman

    Polls aren’t worth squat until October. He’s supposed to get a spike from being the Presumptive Nominee. And his spike is not a spike. It should be double digits not five points in the margin of error.

  • JP49

    You don’t hear Laura or Cindy spouting garbage like Michelle does. They certainly don’t look like they want to start shooting everybody like Michelle does. Michelle is tooooo scary. Get a life.

  • Uppity Woman

    She “applauded” Hillary and mentioned how she took “Hits”. She was one of the Hitters, the scumball. And she’s only “Applauding” Hillary to suck up to Hillary’s voters as IF she could EVER win us over.

  • Uppity Woman

    Don’t know. I know that Kerry did better in the General than he will though.

  • Dan R.

    Well Belle du Jour, Republicans wouldn’t “demonize” Democrats’ wives (or husbands) if those wives knew how to shut the fuck up and stay out of the headlines. Bill Clinton probably cost his wife the nomination by opening his big fat mouth to the press, and people like Michelle Obama and Theresa Heinz-Kerry just invite controversy with their attitude and public remarks. Same with Hillary when Bill was running. Republican wives like Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Cindy McCain and Laura Bush know to smile, look pretty, and keep their mouths SHUT!!!

  • JP49

    With Obama’s background that is so rich “I wouldn’t believe Larry Sinclair”. I believe him. I don’t care what he did. Obama is a thug and much worse.

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity Woman

    Fine with me. I don’t want to be with her either.

  • IndayHill

    HALT! Mountainlion,we, the PUMAS, understand your feelings towards the Obamas. But please, let us refrain from hurtful name callings.Golden Rule? I feel what our most qualified presidential candidate Hillary feels, every vile name calling she gets from the opponent & their supporters, is a sharp knife trust to her heart. But Hillary keeps her cool.I pray to God to keep her strong.That is why we admire her so much. Mountainlion, we can express our anger without using bad words, the Obamanites are using. We will not stoop down to their level.We have CLASS!
    Hillary or McCain ’08
    For my country! NO OBAMA!

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    TexasDarlin has the scoop.

  • Fran

    Michelle Obama is not physically unattractive, but she always seems unhappy, bitter. I have wondered why from the beginning, since life has been very good to her. It is the sour expression she always seems to have that makes her unattractive.

    Plus, she seems to equate having a loud mouth with being a strong woman.

    I think that both she and Obama are extremely ambitious – like more of a business than a marriage -not a pleasant business either.

    Also – poor Michelle at Princeton didn’t fit in. I probably would not have either, but I’m not crying about it. Poor Michelle had a lot of college loans to pay. She could have gone to less expensive schools. A lot of people do. Some cannot even afford it at all! Oh, I guess they are not the anointed elite, like she and her husband.

    Wow – I never saw anyone with so much feel so sorry for themselves. She wants to be elite and she wants to be from the Hood. This couple are very conflicted!

  • speaktruth

    The scariest thing of all today is I was watching Fox(lol) – both O’Reilly and Hannity – after wanting to throw up watching the propoganda propogated on every other show. I was watching to see them attack this whole ugly Michelle thing. But O’Reilly defended Obama (and Michelle, too, at least in part), Elizabeth Hasselback said only good things about her.
    Yes, it may be they are waiting until August to turn, but I’m beginning to have some other theory that I find terrifying.
    The Republicans don’t like McCain. They seem to all be for Obama. Maybe they want Obama to win so he can continue working for the corporations. Dems don’t even mention universal health care anymore, now they say affordable health care, same as McCain. Maybe they want Dems to deal with Iraq, then self-destruct. Then they can bring back the big guns, Jeb Bush in 2012.
    I told my friends my Jeb theory a few months ago, partly joking. We all laughed a little.
    Now George has begun mentioning Jeb.
    I think they are going to allow McCain to lose this one this time.
    I guess that’s what ending bipartisanship looks like – one party, everyone saying the same, no place to turn for an alternative. Keep watching, they all like Obama, even Fox.
    This is looking scary and depressing, and definitely surreal.
    I want us to be able to fight back, but at the moment it’s not looking good to me.

  • cynthiab

    I’ve been to Germany recently and toured the nazi sites and Dachau. I learned how the nazi party rose to power… it was through fear and propaganda sold to the weak minded.

    Thank god that most in the country don’t by any of the GARBAGE you nuts spew on the website. It is your collective attitudes, fear mongering and propaganda that are reminiscent of the rise of nazism and the lunatics who destroyed so many lives.

    Read up on your history and learn from it!

    Thank god the majority of people in this country have woken up and have rejected fearmongering and corporatist run government!

    We will save this country…

    You hateful, unintelligent lunatics can rot!!!

  • Typical white nurse

    Speaking of cartoon characters does anyone else think Michelle bears a strong resemblance to the Disney Cruella de Vil? She also likes dalmations!

  • It’s Not Me

    Okay. There it is. The phone numbers should be easy enough to trace by anyone with the know-how, right? Larry Johnson? He has connections.;) This can easily be disproved if Larry Sinclair is lying.

  • speaktruth

    Right, that’s the new spin. It’s so obvious it’s the new party line when you see it every hour on every network.
    Michelle is just a strong woman. Americans don’t like strong women with opinions, hence they don’t like Michelle.
    Suddenly these a-holes misogynists have had an awakening and voila – they are feminists.
    Michelle is being picked on just because she states her opinions. Oh, and of course, it’s only because she’s black. Because Hillary was only respected by everybody, never insulted, and now look at poor Michelle.
    No – that is not it at all. It’s because Michelle is the opposite of a strong woman and certainly not a feminist.
    No feminist blames another woman for her husband’s indescretions. Neither does a Democrat.
    Neither does a Democrat try to get mileage out of this topic at all. Only Republicans do that.
    I and all of the women here, and men, too, are, and like, strong women with opinions. Obviously.
    It’s self-evident. That’s why we like Hillary. And no, it’s not because of her skin color. Give me a break.
    But Michelle Obama is mean, arrogant, insensitive and nasty. Her saying she might not support Hillary as candidate was another big turning point in how far I’d go voting against her husband.
    It’s not her race, it’s her misogyny with Hillary, and her Republican talking points. And her opportunism and lack of ethics.

  • It’s Not Me

    Uhhhh….supporters are NOT the spouse of the candidates. There’s no hypocrisy here.

    Michelle is a mean spirited, miserable woman and comes across as such. 20 years of sitting in a racist, anti-white, hate filled Black Liberation church will do that to a person.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    Michelle….completely unacceptable statements.

    Now, I understood when Hillary made people mad with her statements that Obama has not cross the “threshhold” to be commander in chief while she and McCain have. (I agree with her, but it was over the line.)

    But Michelle has to own her crap statements, too. And she did say she would have to “think about it” when asked if she would support Hillary if she were the candidate. THAT was outrageous and unacceptable.

    Has nothing to do with her being strong or being opinionated. It has everything to do with what the opinion was.

  • http://deleted AnninCa

    She’s on the View….it’ll boost her likeability unless she steps in it.

  • Patricia

    freedom fighter you must be crazy,Jackie Kennedy
    had class,not so Mrs. Obama. Jackie never would say the
    mean things that Mrs. Obama have said, scratching
    President Bill Clintons eyes out, saying she is only just recently proud to be an American, going to a Church for 20 years that seems to preach hate
    and letting her children listen to these hateful
    sermons. No Jackie had real class, she could have blamed everyone for her husbands death, but instead
    she showed grace, for she loved her country and wanted the country to heal.

  • Connie

    with all the makeovers and scripting in the world, michele obama cannot be rehabilitated. she is still the same mouthy bitch we have come to know. what a liability…McCain ’08

  • belle du jour

    Uh huh. So it’s OK to be sexist if someone is “scary” and doesn’t act like women are supposed to act. Where have a I heard that before? Oh right, back in ’92, when everyone kept asking why Hillary couldn’t be docile and quiet like that nice Barbara Bush.

    Like I said. Oldest sexist trope in the book.

  • belle du jour

    I think the Republicans went after Hillary because they didn’t like her and felt threatened by her. There’s a lot more to this. Today people are going after Michelle – as am I – because they don’t like her. And at least in my case am scared of her politics.

    So the Republicans went after Hillary because they didn’t like her. And that was wrong. But you go after Michelle because you don’t like her. And that’s OK.

    My point was the whole notion that a wife’s politics matter is an invention of the GOP smear machine. They trot it out every four years as a backdoor way to attack the husbands. And it’s deeply sexist.

    Look, I don’t really care if you like Michelle. Nor do I care if you vote against her husband. But if you cite the former as a reason for the latter, you should be aware that you’re playing along with the GOP smear machine.

  • belle du jour

    Wow, Dan, I’m amazed. I didn’t realize you had access to the Internet in your 1958 timewarp.

  • Elizabeth

    She added more to that statement, stating that she would indeed support the democratic nominee. why do you keep mis-quoting or half-quoting Obama and his wife? Why are you so desparate to attack…same lines over and over and over.

    completely unacceptable statements? Says who? You, and who the heck are you??

  • WildChild

    You should look up the definition of hearsay. It’s essentially any statement made or any evidense presented outside of a court room. Which would make all the evidense you point to concerning BOBO hearsay. Sinclair is a primary witness to the events of which he speaks and in a court room his testimony would be accepted as such. Finally, if your concerned about the tabloid nature of the statements you should take it up with BOBO. He’s the one who smokes crack and hires out for man sex.

  • WildChild

    and Mike wasn’t smoking crack or hiring out for man sex like BOBO.

  • Typewriterstreaming

    Michelle Obama appears to have a racially divisive axe to grind and it is a major turnoff. The most recent example of this is the startling revelation that while working on the board of a Chicago Hospital she rejected the new cervical cancer vaccine Gardisil offered to the young women clients there, based on her outrageously erroneous understanding that the vaccine was being unfairly peddled to young African American women. She rejected this vaccine outright because it reminded her of the “Tuskgee experiment”. Tuskgee was in fact a horrific withholding of medicine not the administration of the same. None the less, Michelle’s assumption is entirely false. The new vaccine is in fact being peddled to young women of all colors – That the vaccine is new and perhaps risky is one reason to reject it – but to reject it out of hand on the paranoid assumption that Merck Pharm had a specific design to use young African American women as guinea pigs is disturbingly misguided and slanderous. Did Mrs. Obama miss the extenisve news coverage given to this new vaccine, endorsed by First Lady Laura Bush and its enormous rollout to ALL adolescent women across this country? Do the Obama’s live in a special hole in which they are shielded from information available to the rest of the nation? IMHO, Michelle Obama’s racial paranoia is a major problem and diminshes authentic claims of racism. It’s the old story of the lady who cried wolf.

  • Mary

    I can just imagine Michelle Obama giving fist bumps to the Queen of England as she travels on our behalf around the world. Gosh I wish Obama was married to Halley Barry. This woman may be educated but exudes venom when she speaks. She is the one who told Hillary ” If you can’t run your own house you can’t run the Whitehouse. She is not suitable to be first lady!

  • Gina

    Hey Barack, let’s blame the media, instead of you and Michele taking some responsibility for Michele’s low popularity. Maybe the public doesn’t like it when a potential first lady makes statements about America being mean, or not being proud of America until her husband is elected. Or, maybe it’s because you joined Barack in subjecting your small children to the likes of Anti-American racist Jeremiah Wright throughout their entire childhood.

  • scared of Obamas

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  • Lorelei

    “You hateful unintelligent lunatics can rot.”

    uh….’scuse me…who is hateful here? maybe YOU???

  • Lorelei

    Hey-stop with the denial. The guy has some very real skeletons in his closet whether you crazies who can actually be supportintg this guy want to admit it or not.

    Look at this realistically–the left is working their tails off trying to dredge…what do they have…hmmm…let’s see now…McCain’s divorce…oh no! wait! Palin’s troopergate! uh..hmm..let me do better than this–I know! The woman hunts moose and EATS them!! And has a pregnant DAUGHTER!! Oh GAWD – how can we take this duo seriously!!! Surely this trumps all of NOBAMA’s shady background!! NOT!!!!!

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