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Isn't She Lovely?

8.27.08 @ 12:01AM

MISSING THE FORMER MICHELLE
Re: John Tabin's American Girl:

Michelle Obama came off phony and rehearsed and certainly out of character. The words didn't fit the personality we came to know early in the campaign before she was coached by her handlers and given limited TV exposure. This was clearly an attempt to undo her Angela Davis image.
-- John W. Nelson

To say that Michelle Obama has been re-packaged by the Obama campaign is an understatement. Gone was the sharp tongued, sassy, America doubting, twice Ivy League-educated and highly paid multi-millionaire feminist. Instead, we got a Hillary redux of just an awe shucks ordinary "college educated" American wife standing by her man. The question is, can the Obama campaign and Michelle keep the burka she's being forced to wear, in order to cloak her true identity, on for another 2 months? I sure hope for her sake that the weather stays cool.
-- A. DiPentima

As so often happens when I try to understand what Democrats are going to do, I come away confused.

As Ms. Obama spoke last night I was glued to the TV. I was sure she would tell us how wonderful her husband is and that he would save us from the ravages of capitalism. I expected her to recount each and very one of the evils therein contained: profits; required effort; work; self-reliance, etc.

But instead she spoke eloquently about Republicans! I was mystified. Those among you who listened heard her numerous references to "hard working people looking for a job not a handout; folks who work two jobs just to make ends meet" and the like. She then mentioned military people "who love their country so much they leave the ones they love the most to serve..." and clearly that is not a Democrat value.

Democrats value sloth, lack of effort, no personal responsibility, dependency, and dishonesty. In short, none of the things she spoke of.

So why did she speak about Republicans? Maybe she is just one more Obamalamadingdong? Perhaps she is like most democrats, living in a world of her own invention? Maybe she has become mentally unhinged by the odious police state that is America?

More likely she is describing the folks from whom her husband will confiscate money to give to those who are the real democrat constituency: those people who do none of the things she mentioned.
-- Jay Molyneaux
Denver, North Carolina

Who cares about Michelle Obama? She'll have minimal impact on Barack being President (though could kill his chances if they let Michelle be Michelle). The only woman who can make or break the phony messiah is Hillary Rodham Clinton. If her loyal followers get it, they'll stay home in November realizing McCain is a one-term President and 2012 isn't that far off.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq

Mr. Tabin's take is most interesting -- will it sell? One would hope not, but I really need a confidence builder from my fellow citizens.

Nevertheless, this event could inspire a scene in the next remake of "The Stepford Wives."
-- Bud Hammons

EJECTION BUTTONS
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The Slavery Apology Backfire:

Too bad "the hard facts of political life in America" as Jeffrey Lord states isn't compulsory reading for Social Science classes in our colleges across America. Like Ward Churchill, more of these racist-Marxists-liberal professors need to be ejected from our learning institutions.
-- John Nelson
Hebron, Connecticut

Regarding Jeffery Lord's column, one could just as easily substitute the word "Iraq" for "race" and come up with the same reality: a well-documented history of critical misjudgments that can be rendered "non-existent" by a purposefully myopic media, a public both historically deficient and memory-challenged, and a Democratic Party willing to lie by commission or omission without a shred of remorse.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

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