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Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’
Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’
As NewsBusters previously reported , the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't very proud of her country. Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we're a country that is "just downright mean ." Given how media made excuses for her comments in ...
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Michelle Malkin — ... honey, my babies’ daddy , the soul-fixer we have all been waiting for. Let me repeat: I am just the simple, ordinary, civilian spouse of The One trying to juggle my daughters’ expensive piano and ballet lessons with Access Hollywood interviews and People magazine photo shoots . But I do know this: We are living in a historic moment, a moment that makes me prouder than any other moment I can recall in my adult lifetime as a citizen of this downright mean great country. And I know that you need to celebrate his specialness, ...

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Stop The ACLU — And you aren’t allowed to use the words “hope” or “change”, or any kind of rhetoric. You’re only allowed to use specific examples of specific policies and specific positions he holds. It’s pretty hard, isn’t it? Throughout this entire election cycle, Barack Obama has maintained a carefully crafted image. He’s said himself that he “serve[s] as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views”. During the primaries, Obama ran as far to the left as he could to suit the ultra-liberals. Once he got the nomination, he suddenly became a moderate again. He panders, panders, panders. What he says to the elites is not what he says to the bitter clingers ...

Who is Barack Obama, and what does he stand for?
Wizbang — And you aren't allowed to use the words "hope" or "change", or any kind of rhetoric. You're only allowed to use specific examples of specific policies and specific positions he holds. It's pretty hard, isn't it? Throughout this entire election cycle, Barack Obama has maintained a carefully crafted image. He's said himself that he "serve[s] as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views". During the primaries, Obama ran as far to the left as he could to suit the ultra-liberals. Once he got the nomination, he suddenly became a moderate again. He panders, panders, panders. What he says to the elites is not what he says to the bitter clingers ...

Does Barack Obama have any friends who AREN'T communists?
Doug Ross @ Journal — I ripped off Ragner at The Jawa Report . With any luck he won't sue me, strictly out of pity. His post is too good to excerpt in any significant way. Question: Does Barack Obama Have Any Friends Who AREN'T Communists? [image] The news of Barack Obama's close relationship with Frank Marshall Davis has been around before, but it's important. Via Accuracy in Media : [T]hrough Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with ...

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Weekly Standard Blog — ... Michelle is more prone to the occasional mean-spirited or pompous soundbite than her husband, which is why part of her heralded campaign-trail makeover last year entailed not speaking so much. She once famously called America "downright mean," and declared that the campaign was the ...

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