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Michelle Obama & Kids Talk To Barack In St. Louis (video)
youtube.com - 8/26/2008
Michelle Obama & Kids Talk To Barack In St. Louis (video)
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via video at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.http://shakesville.comhttp:/petulantweb.com

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Michelle Obama at The Democratic National Convention
Shakesville — I had some minor hiccups, so moving a bit slow. Michelle Obama "introduced" her husband in a resounding speech. Though, the segment directly after her speech with their children chatting with "daddy" via satellite was the clincher. ...

I love this stuff
Brilliant at Breakfast — There. I said it. When you grew up when I did, it's sometimes hard to understand why people get all blubbery at Memorial Day parades, or when "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is played, or when the flag is raised. When the images of your youth are of black people being sprayed with hoses while dogs bark, or young people screaming in the streets and being maced and beaten by cops, or of a young woman weeping over the corpse of a college student shot down by National Guard troops at a student protest, or of the napalmed bodies of people living in a village in Vietnam who did nothing to us, the word "patriotism" can be an empty one. When the people who refuse to admit ...

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