Love to see that Michelle has moved on from supporting the internment of American citizens by racial means. Keep up the good work Michelle!
Gag.

Terry Silver on July 30, 2009 at 5:39 PM

She screwed up on the internment issue — let her personal feelings (as a Filipina ethnic against the Japanese) color what should have been a completely different finding of racism on the part of FDR, Army General John DeWitt, and the Democrats of California and Congress against individual American citizens (the overwhelming number of those interned were Citizens, including Harry Sumida (Navy Veteran of the Spanish American War, who was taken froma VA Hospital to Manzanar) and Sadao Munemori, who enlisted in Los Angeles (just before his family was sent to Manzanar) and who subsequently received a posthumous Medal of Honor:

“He fought with great gallantry and intrepidity near Seravezza, Italy. When his unit was pinned down by grazing fire from the enemy’s strong mountain defense and command of the squad devolved on him with the wounding of its regular leader, he made frontal, one-man attacks through direct fire and knocked out two machine guns with grenades. Withdrawing under murderous fire and showers of grenades from other enemy emplacements, he had nearly reached a shell crater occupied by two of his men when an unexploded grenade bounced on his helmet and rolled toward his helpless comrades. He arose into the withering fire, dived for the missile and smothered its blast with his body. By his swift, supremely heroic action Pfc. Munemori saved two of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company’s victorious advance.”

[The above is as much for Michelle as for you.]

That she was wrong on that issue certainly does not make her wrong on this one, as the Obamas’ lives as board members and graft-takers and graft-givers show. Nepotism may be a wrong word, as no nephews were involved — they just bootstrapped each other — Michelle by having organizations she controlled or had influence with donate to Barack’s campaigns, and Barack by using his elective offices to push money toward organizations employing Michelle. If you count the White House appointment of Maya Lin (Barack’s half-sister) to a commission whose job is to select awardees of White House Fellowships, we have three. You may gag all you want, but you are gagging on the truth. Maybe nepotism in politics is OK with you, but it sure isn’t with me.

unclesmrgol on August 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM