Michelle Obama is crazy enough to have married Obama, the most liberal senator we’ve got, and people are expecting her to be proud of our country?

Good, go after Obama’s marriage, because McCain is golden in this area. He and Cindy were High School sweethearts, who stuck together even when he was a POW.

Oh, no. that was his first wife, who stuck with him while he was a POW, and who he (self-admittedly) cheated on and dumped in his 40’s after she got in a car wreck. So he “traded in for a newer model” and married a younger, more attractive heiress (whose daddy had money to fund his political ambitions) while dumping his wife who had stuck with him through thick and thin.

Yep, he’s golden on this area… I’d choose this as a plan of attack in the general election against Obama. I’m sure the Conservatives in “flyover states” are really cool with ditching your wife and infidelity, which is why they loved Bill Clinton so much.

2) If any polly, or wife of one, tried this (either one of them) in Oz there’d be no end to their ridicule, I suspect

McCain knows how to play the game. Spouse comments on spouse and he doesn’t dirty his hands with it.

- The Cat

MirCat on February 19, 2008 at 5:26 PM

But wou;dn’t it be so much better if there weren’t any games? Especially on the Republican side?

doriangrey on February 19, 2008 at 2:10 PM

Are you quoting Axel Ropse of all people?

Update: Sorry for the RedLasso glitch. Click the image to watch.

One of these days, Redlasso will be purged from existence. :)

- The Cat

Hat tip MM. Guess who’s not ready for prime time? Obamaby krs601 “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done…

Esthier on February 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM

I do not parse my patriotism or my pride in America.

I am unemberassed to admit that I think that the USA is not just the greatest country in the world, but in fact, the greatest nation in the history of the orld.

I say that without any hedging or qualification and I mean every word.

So, when some liberal, hate-filled, idiot says she doesn’t have pride in America until her husband is given the Presidency, I take her at her word and I hope the rest of America does too.

Not that what she actually said matters to most people but, she said it was the first time that she is really proud” of her country in her adult-life. Which, of course, could easily mean that she’s been proud for all or even part of her adult-life but is now abundantly proud.

12thman on February 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM

Really can also mean genuinely. Either way it was a poor choice of words for a would-be First Lady.

So, I take her at her word, she has no pride in America unless we elect her unaccomplished, empty-suit of a plagiarizing husband to the White House.

I belive she means what she said and therefore her husband will never get my vote.

You can say that again. It just crashed my browser. And I’m running Safari, on OS X, which is rather stable. Is there a reason this is used? The quality is bad, and it loves crashing. Thumbs down!

freakagriep on February 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM

RedLasso works for me on Linux. Maybe, you should stop paying for software. (By the way, there is no problem with being pro-capitalism and pro-free, open source software. It turns out that large businesses are more than happy to help fund free software and that some programming enthusiasts and academics are more than happy to provide the free software. It’s their free choice.)

Would trigger questions about his drug use.

Not that what she actually said matters to most people but, she said it was the first time that she is really proud” of her country in her adult-life. Which, of course, could easily mean that she’s been proud for all or even part of her adult-life but is now abundantly proud.

12thman on February 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM

This is the first time you made a really stupid post, not that your other posts weren’t stupid, but this one was really abundantly stupid.

Michelle Obama = Theresa Hines-Kerry.

TroubledMonkey on February 19, 2008 at 2:47 PM

The Mouth is much better than THK. Heinz-Kerry was just a rich, elitist snob, with a European-style disdain for the unwashed plebs (who, after all, should respect and defer to their social betters). Michelle is much better, much more interesting and will give us plenty of material to work with over the next 9 months. The Mouth is angry in a way THK can’t even imagine.

Ironically, Mrs. Obama looks a lot like Mrs. Clinton. Michelle’s an an academically accomplished woman married to ‘charismatic’ man who overshadows her. Until recently, Michelle (like HRC) made the money. She’s been supporting their lifestyle at a real job for years and years while BHO has played community organizer and Illinois State Senator. She was going to work while he wrotes his book about his precious identity. In her mind she’s the smart, hard-working, tough one. She grew up a black girl in Chicago while Barry was surfing at his private school in Hawaii. Michelle, like HRC, is the hard-working grind. She had to overcome her poor standardized test scores. Whereas BHO waltzes through his editorship at Harvard Law Review without leaving any paper trail. Can’t you feel her frustration?

Like HRC, her resentment is quivering just below the surface. Michelle both loves and hates the man she is bound to. But HRC is a generation older, from a more restrained, stiff-upper-lip, Methodist background. Michelle, by background and constitution, lacks Hillary’s self-control. To her followers this is ‘passion’ and is part of her charm. But it could easily be her undoing.

Michelle Obama just might be the cure for dumb blond jokes.

Kini on February 19, 2008 at 2:21 PM

When her forbidden Princeton thesis surfaces…most probably, yeah.