Also Obama’s spouse is going out on the campaign trail and doing a bit more than just talking about how she supports her husband or loves him. She’s essentially opening herself up to the criticisms of other campaign spokesmen and Obama’s advisors.

I don’t see McCain’s wife doing anything close to that.

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It’s amazing how the libs have created the culture of personal destruction, especially when it comes to GOP first ladies (they tried to destroy Nancy Reagan and constantly made fun of Barbara Bush) that they now whine about any criticism of Michelle Obama.

Since we know next to nothing about Obama, it does help to look for personality clues by examining his spouse. But past a point, I would agree it’s not helpful.

Why waste too much time attaching unpatriotic Michelle when her husband is just as bad or WORSE?

Obama would raise everyone’s taxes, destroy our military, weaken our alliances and let the left wing loons run riot with their flawed social strategies.

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Just For The Record

The stellar commentary from Mata and others (in other posts) is demeaned by the snarky, mental midgetry of individuals that seem to get some dark sexual gratification at trying to tear down a woman because her husband is running for President.

Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama should be off limits, but many of the monkeys in the peanut gallery just can’t seem to recognize that this line of personal destruction only denigrates our process and commentary and makes us all look small.

Just For The Record
I suggest that those who are concerned about how much money CM spends or her pass personal problems or MO master’s thesis or whether she was an AA beneficiary, get a life.

(I was going to say that they go back to their former favorite pastime forearm workouts to mini me private gratification videos, but that might get me banned from the board and would be a bit snarky.)

Moreover, I don’t really mean it. It just seems undercut the quality of the discussion and there are so many more great topics of discussion available.

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There’s a difference between open minds, and having holes in your head.

As for letter grades in school…yes, even presidents” (and wannabe-presidents like Kerry and Gore) can get bad grades.

Einstein , Leonardo da Vinci …..others come to mind.

Did you have a point to make?

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Ya’ll have such a talent for grammar.

Were any of you speech writers for GWB.

I wonder who wrote his master’s thesis? The Strategery of Beer Pong!

And McCain didn’t get affirmative action, but he definitely did not stay in the Naval Academy based on merit, being third from the bottom of his class.

If he wins, we will have another C,D student for President.

As C,D students, MO or BHO would have never saw the halls of the Ivy League even with affirmative action. More likely, community college.

How many slots did GWB, JM and their kind steal from top performers due to daddy’s connections or family money.

Just For The Record, CM seems like a nice lady and everyone makes mistakes. That doesn’t make the evil or terrible people.

But from a lot of these comments, there are very few open minds here.

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[...] was earlier today that Doug Noble and I were having a chat on another FA thread, about how I believe Michelle Obama thinks of herself first as a black woman, and as an American [...]

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Dave Noble, I think the question you should ask yourself is why it has been fair to do this to the President (it’s been going on for eight years now) but NOT Michelle Obama, or her husband (he of the “inhalator” for asthmatic children? We have been treated to years of liberals’ assumption that “Bush is an idiot” based on his verbalizations. Well, Dave, Michelle Obama’s written thesis is fair game as are her statements. I only wish that we could get our hands on some of Barack’s term papers. One can only guess why they are not being released.

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I believe the quotes in question attributed to MO were from her college thesis. Thus the “look askance” at an Ivy league college thesis having such a deplorable grasp of the English language. And in this, I have to agree. Diplomas are a demand for just about any job but flipping burgers anymore. But I have to say I know more with high school only from the 60s, and life’s experience… combined with a thirst for knowledge… that blow away those with diplomas. I believe the standards for degrees have been lowered to an embarrassing low. And MO’s thesis certainly reflects either carelessness, or a less than impressive grasp of grammar for one in an Ivy league college.

However I don’t give a rat’s butt about her grammar, as I said before. I care about her attitudes and self presentation. For me, she would be an embarrassment as a First Lady.

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Thanks, Mata,

Just out of curiosity, how do we know she didn’t actually say “have”? Do we have audio or video?

Also, why is it O.K. to do this to Michelle Obama and not the President? There are virtually endless comparable examples for him. I’ve heard many of them with my own ears. I once heard him refer to our enemies as being in the darkness and and us being in the “lightness.”

GWB – Andover, Yale, Harvard.

My SAT scores (which were really not all that impressive) were higher than his but didn’t get me into Princeton (I know I applied). Yet his got him into Yale.
Affirmative Action for rich kids from powerful families.

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How be pointin out her bad grammer be hepin hur chidrens?

You racists!

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