New secret weapon in selling ObamaCare: Michelle Obama
posted at 9:31 pm on September 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
Why not? The One’s out of ammo and the Democrats’ hyper-negative racial campaigning has failed epically. Might as well hand the ball off to Mrs. O and see if she can “mom” America into supporting this craptastic boondoggle. Imagine the media coverage. Three tips to raising a healthy child: Plenty of exercise, lots of vegetables, and blowing a trillion dollars on a universal health care plan that’ll still be bleeding red ink when the Obama girls are grandmothers.
The bad news: This means lots, lots more stories on how to get toned arms. The good news: There’s a fair chance of a “I won’t be proud of my country unless we pass ObamaCare” moment, which means rich, tasty right-wing blog content for weeks on end.
For the health care reform push, which got something of a reboot last week with President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, the aim is for the first lady’s imprimatur to put a friendly face and a noncontroversial spin on a complex, highly partisan issue.
She won’t get into the weeds on health care, pushing specific details or plans as Clinton did. Instead, she’ll make the soft, soccer-mom sell, highlighting the need to eat healthy, exercise and get preventive care. On Friday, Michelle Obama will appear at an event where women and families will talk about the health care system, and she will deliver remarks that will “amplify the president’s message on the need for health insurance reform,” according to the White House…
“Women are the swing voters on health care, and they are the people who pay most attention to health care for their families,” said Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, a coalition of community, labor and health care provider groups. “Having Michelle Obama as a spokesperson on health care makes a tremendous difference in terms of having women understand what the president’s plan will mean for families. It takes it from the policy to the personal.”
Consider yourselves lucky. Given the left’s penchant for using kids to push their policies, if M.O. fails it’s only a matter of time before Democratic spin doctors unleash an army of precious moppets to drop an atomic guilt bomb. Remember the scene in “Wag the Dog” with the girl and the calico kitten? Dude, it’s coming.
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Awesome idea, send Aunt Esther out to sell this socialist mostrosity, after all she’s a “proud” American. What could go wrong?
I’m making the popcorn- I can’t wait for this new disaster.
theenforser on September 17, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Will toned arms for free be one of the benefits of ObamaCare?
unclesmrgol on September 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Well she can’t mom this mom. I guess that’s because I am a racist. We have government health care. It’s not really a whole lot of fun. We don’t even get to choose the color of our pills we only get the white one. All those in the military know what it is. Motrin 800mg. After that chances are your lying about your symptoms. Yes we have been told that we were lying and turns out a year and a half later we were right. It was a fight to get the care that was needed.
Brat4life on September 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Only if one of her “just between us moms” events ends with her using her massive girth to pull a pregnant mother-to-be out of a burning televison studio.
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Hey, wonder if she’s channeling Elenor Rooselvelt, too?
OkieDoc on September 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Eleanor’s face on Aunt Ester’s body??? Oooh my eyes . . .
theenforser on September 17, 2009 at 11:15 PM
I don’t think it’s going to work the way they think because the FLOTUS hasn’t – so far – shown much talent for relating to or connecting on a personal level with average, middle class people. Didn’t one of her last attempts at ‘bonding with other moms’ go rather poorly? I’m thinking of the one where she was trying to empathize with poor moms by whining about how expensive it was getting to have summer camp and dance lessons and such. Or the whole $500 earrings thing.
I do not think she is a good enough actress to stay in the approved ‘character’ that has been carefully cultivated over the last months.
Kirin on September 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Breaking news! Michelle Obama shops at Farmers Market, cheers vegetables!
Buy Danish on September 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM
MO already oversaw the implementation of a public health care system in Chicago and it has failed miserably. Low income patients are being turned away at the door and sent to other hospitals mile and miles away because they must ration care.
Let them parade her out, she is already a failure and will just stick to the same talking points as her husband. Her favorability ratings will drop just like his.
Daemonocracy on September 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM
I saw that doll of Michelle and a had a mental picutre of that runner who has recently been in the news…what is her name….um I can’t remember…but she won a gold medal…there was a controversy… my memory is not so good tonight.
Nevermind.
GunRunner on September 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Kirin on September 17, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Good points and I hope to goodness you are right. MO HAS been on her best behavior…but I just have this nagging feeling. I really that worry to be wrong, ya know?
marybel on September 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Here’s another example of how great the British NHS is…amazing how frequent they publish these stories, how many have we seen in the last couple of weeks alone?
Wife’s plea to NHS chiefs over cancer drugs
The “National Institute Of Clinical Excellence”? Is this Britain or North Korea?
Sharke on September 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I am sleepy. “I really want that worry to be wrong” is what I meant to say. G’night!
marybel on September 17, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I know what you mean. I’m sleepy too. My son is now in high school and it starts TWO hours earlier than his middle school did. Beh!
Time also for me to dive back into lurkerdom. :D
Good night!
Kirin on September 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM
So the season has now opened to finally get the other half of the Marxist Duo. Let’s have at it.
larvcom on September 17, 2009 at 11:40 PM
We ain’t buying the “cool” so now we get served the “hot”?
chickasaw42 on September 17, 2009 at 11:45 PM
And then the filthy liar in the White House wonders why the public has been outspoken on this issue. The mobs of August are the only thing keeping us from the plight of Britons.
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 11:45 PM
May it die the same death.
Michelle O. made around 400,000/yr. in her hospital ‘consultant’ job, for doing nada, zilch, and more harm than good. Her then boss is now her chief of staff. This will open the floodgates to investigate what she really did for so much money, and for some shenanigans. May the show begin.
“She earned their trust” – heh, only because they had her muzzled until now. Let that mouth rip, and disaster ensues. This will turn out to be a big move, just not in the direction it’s intended.
If the calculated Messiah couldn’t sell a gold-sprayed horseturds-wreath, why would his uncontrolled devilish wife?
The Americans opened their eyes a while ago. Their noses are also very atuned by now. This whiff ain’t sellin’ baby.
Schadenfreude on September 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM
I don’t recall that event but it wouldn’t surprise me. Neither Michelle or her brats have ever wanted for anything. She’s not a stay-at-home mom and can’t relate to real Americans. That is why it is so absurd to think that she can rescue Obamacare.
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 11:50 PM
If the dear FLOTUS told me the time, I would check it with at least two other people.
She is a less acoomplished liar than her…husband.
And since she only became proud of this country less than a year ago, I don’t see that she has anything to add to the debate, having no respect at all for the past…with its errors, it is damn good. If she can appreciate that, she has no legitimate view on the future.
Harry Schell on September 17, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Michelle Obama will drop those poll numbers further. Let’s face it, many in this country were swooning over the handsom minority orator, or so they thought anyway. Michelle Obama is one unattractive woman with a face and expressions that would scare a rabid pit bull to run for the hills. And she could take BO with one hand tied behind her back. There is nothing warm and fuzzy about her.
She comes across as mean spirited, angry and pissed off at the world. No, the country went for her husband. To get him they had to take her. He plays the game to appear to be something he is not. She will never present the same faux picture. Her face will never be able to disquise the hate.
Whippet on September 17, 2009 at 11:52 PM
If her favorables are high now, they’ll tank when she starts on this. YAY! One more awakening for Americans.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on September 17, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Is it wrong that I expect the first thing out of her mouth to be “My name is Bunny. Goonie goo-goo!”?
On a more serious note, this is a disaster waiting to happen. Michelle, much like the Dumb and Dumber combination of her husband and Joe Biden, is a walking gaffe machine.
She’s either going to accidentally say the truth about ObamaCare when asked a question or she’s going to let the mask slip on how she REALLY feels about this country like she did during the campaign.
The former will help tank ObamaCare more than it already is doing with the circular firing-squad in the House and Senate. The latter will keep chipping away at her husband’s free-falling favorable-unfavorable ratings.
teke184 on September 17, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Yes she does have a face like a blind cobbler’s thumb doesn’t she.
Sharke on September 17, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Doesn’t matter what she’s peddling, she is still one FUGLY beotch!!!
Ltlgeneral64 on September 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Please OH Please let her come out to push Obamacare.
It’ll be a week before she blames Whitey or “The Man” for these problems even though she was a huge part of the problem in Chicago.
Rbastid on September 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad.
- Whomever
MB4 on September 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Nah, nobody will connect the dots to Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod and patient dumping poor people. Or Michelle Obama’s 109% salary increase (when Barack became senator) at Univ of Chicago Medical Center.
TN Mom on September 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Klingonist !!!
MB4 on September 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM
You mean she doesn’t shop at Whole Foods?
*shock*
Sharke on September 18, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Sharke,
Yes she does. And you would think with all the money at their disposal they could find a stylist that could lessen the width of those hips. They seem to be even larger than I remember. Now, I’m no petite thing, but even my mom taught me how to lessen the curves and that was on a really tight budget!
My personal favorite: http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2009/08/michelle-obama-finally-recognized-for.html
Whippet on September 18, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Ummm… this woman has actually been a real, live healthcare executive and policy-maker. She can’t just shrug her shoulders and ask Congress to get on with it. And she can’t dodge questions about the efficacy of her own healthcare policies when they were – you know, actually tried out!! And with a $300K salary, she can’t claim she was just an underling. Of course, there’s also the little matter of getting that job with no experience, no other candidates being interviewed, and no replacement required once she moved to D.C.
This has the potential to make using Jimmy Carter to call Americans racists less than a year after they elected a black President look like a brilliant piece of political manuevering! Wow!
drunyan8315 on September 18, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Hope and Change?? Carter’s second term and now using Hilary-care tactics? Good luck with all that!
chickasaw42 on September 18, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Like someone would actually ask her a question about the “efficacy of her own healthcare policies?” We can dream, can’t we…..
Whippet on September 18, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Does the public option cover butt reduction surgery? Just askin.’
Mr. Grump on September 18, 2009 at 12:22 AM
I emailed Lamar Alexander to express my total disgust with Obmacare, and I just got a response that is jaw-dropping…
“Although ethics rules prohibit me from discussing political issues in my officil U.S. Senate correspondence..”
Whisky, Tango, Fox???
grits on September 18, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Have they lost their minds? WTF I’ve never, ever heard “friendly face and soft sell” in the same sentence with Michelle Obama – maybe shrewd and cagey.
We’ll have to review the other Michelle’s book about her and keep the heat on MO.
HellCat on September 18, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Why don’t they use an ACORN child sex slave to try and sell a total federal government takeover of medicine?
Mojave Mark on September 18, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Heavens to Murgatroyd, she looks like she’s wearing the runner up to a grade school “design an outfit for Michelle Obama” competition. It’s no wonder she looks like she’s being escorted off the premises.
Sharke on September 18, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Do you have a health plan that covers lithium?
Sharke on September 18, 2009 at 12:38 AM
This is a disaster in Oh so many ways, but others have touched on several. Here is my take.
After having a husband be elected to the most powerful office in the World, the First Wombat is introduced to every President and First Lady in the free world. A pretty exciting and exclusive group all eager and friendly.
She makes zero friends, and is photographed glaring at the wife of the President Sarkozy with a look of hate that could peel paint, while her husband gains the reputation of giving Whites “looks” oe “the Obama Eye”.
If you think that look is hateful, just wait till she gets done with a few hundred town meetings. They will have to tranquilize the beast and keep her bat’leth locked up.
.
GunRunner on September 18, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Michelle Obama is vulnerable on this issue. Look up her time as a hospital administrator, that is your future under Obamacare.
Holger on September 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM
I’ve seen this before. When Tricky Dick was president, one of the wall posters sold in the head shops was a photo of Nixon glaring down at somebody. The added caption was “Would you buy a used car from this man?”
So I gotta ask – would any of you buy a used healthcare plan from this woman?
platypus on September 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Yep, she was then picked on by the eeevil website people for saying:
“Get the f outa here, ni**a- $19.95 for a cucumber?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 12:44 AM
I’m just anxious to see this “friendly face” they refer to . . . I wonder where she’s going to get one of those from and if she’ll know how to use something she’s so unfamiliar with.
califcon on September 18, 2009 at 12:44 AM
I’m beting she is going to say something that she says all the time in her Socialist Circles that will horrify a majority of Americans.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 12:47 AM
From your lips to God’s ear.
platypus on September 18, 2009 at 12:52 AM
I hope she lets the kids dress her again for a public appearance. Like the cupcake skirt she wore in London.
atheling on September 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM
If you want to scare people, I don’t see why not? In fact, if that is your mission, this is a winning plan.
:D
FontanaConservative on September 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM
So is she going to publish “game changer” editorials from her Facebook pages like a certain Conservative ex-Governor.
And if so, when?
The Blood Wine is getting cold.
GunRunner on September 18, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Brilliant! Cuz, you know, it worked out so well for that other first lady, too!
yubley on September 18, 2009 at 12:55 AM
OKay, okay, okay…
Michelle, a porcupine and a walrus walk into a bar,
the bartender asks….
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Let’s see. Let’s see. Could it be the pent-up hatred that radiates and emanates from this person? She always looks like she’s two seconds away from a nuclear blow apart.
Hillary, on the other hand, does pretty well in hiding her hatred and rage (although it is seething at the surface).
Michelle’s is not in same league and is much more, what would you say, a non-poker face.
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Killgore Trout
“In Watermelon Sugar” has already been done. Thanks to R. Braughtinton so has:
“Trout fishing in America”.
Green gills or just gaspin for aire?
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Why don’t you try and find out as so many of your lefty troll friends have before you.
Sharke on September 18, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Future Senator and Secretary of State?
Aw, the hell with that…PRESIDENT!!!
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 18, 2009 at 1:06 AM
The bartender asks…
“What’ll be gentlemen?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:07 AM
If that’s all you’ve got, that’s all you’ve got. I don’t think you are laughing at all.
People are sick and tired of walking on egg-shells with regards to any critical remarks about the president. Bush was compared to monkeys and apes many, many times. But, oh no,
mercy, don’t do that to the Obama’s, that’s off-limits. What a bunch of pansy-asses. Have to be very, very careful how you structure your comparisons now. It’s now a game of Mother May I?
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Check out JCPenny’s Domo Chewbacca as Rapper t-shirts.
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:15 AM
I think what is happening with Mr. Fish is that he is out trying to figure why so many are leaving LGF and coming over to HA. He wants to take back some info for his leader so he can be assured of not being thrown out of the club.
d1carter on September 18, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Could a luthier fix a bowcaster?
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen, the American Education system on display in the post above.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Poor Killgore. He’s like the kid whose parents beat the sh*t out of him all the time, and then he goes to a friend’s house and finds that all kids don’t get the sh*t beat out of them every day.
Not every blog has a policy of instant deletion of comments and banning from the site whenever a commenter expresses a thought that the site owner hasn’t approved in advance. In fact, as far as I know there is only one site like that. And we know which one that is, don’t we?
Hey Killgore, shouldn’t you be back at LGF up-dinging Charles’ inispid comments?
Cicero43 on September 18, 2009 at 1:19 AM
How much longer are you going to allow KT free speech?
Voices must be silenced!
redshirt on September 18, 2009 at 1:19 AM
Kilgore Trout is an unabashed racist from Daily Kos.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Could a bowcaster double as a fly-fishing rod at one’s favorite spot on the Sandy River?
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Typical IDIOT LEFTIST. “I am a racist because of YOU.”
Pathetic and very sad.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Has it gotten that bad over at LGF?
d1carter on September 18, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Killgore trout is actually bragging about this on LGF right now.
Hes not from Kos.
redshirt on September 18, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Um, hello, hello Hot Air people. I think we’ve got a sick one here.
Might consider the hammer…Killgore Trout on September 18, 2009 at 1:17 AM
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:23 AM
the bartender says:
“Lemme guess, a stiff whiskey, an Alaska switch and a banana for your monkey.”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:23 AM
I think the campaign to delete LGF from the HotAir blogroll has just gained some steam.
How about it AP?
Cicero43 on September 18, 2009 at 1:24 AM
Pray for Killgore, like Charles asked folks to pray for his ailing mother.
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:26 AM
Killgore, Unmoderated = racist in your opinion?
You paint all of us based on the horrible comments of a very few? Did you notice that there were some people criticizing that kind of talk?
redshirt on September 18, 2009 at 1:26 AM
If you were as smart as a carrot you might realize the moderators ARE ASLEEP at 1:30 in the AM.
The REGULARS here are not racist idiots like you who need minding 24 hours per day.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:27 AM
He has now hit the incoherent stage of heavy meth/alcohol use.
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:27 AM
betsyz,
There’s a lot of both where he lives in Oregon.
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Stop it your fool! If was a moderator your a$$ would have been gone long ago. I don’t know what your trying to prove here but at 1:30am we don’t need this crap. These comments will be gone by morning.
d1carter on September 18, 2009 at 1:31 AM
This is a rather revealing heart-to-heart to us all, folks.
You see, he just got fired from Acorn, and it shows.
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:31 AM
The views of Kilgore Trout do not reflect those of Hot Air Management nor regular commenters nor 99.9% of people with two synapses to rub together. He or she is a proud member of the unhinged left whose posts will all be deleted and his posting privileges revoked.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:33 AM
the bartender asks:
“What’s a nice ewe doing with the prick and the blubber?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:34 AM
The views of Kilgore Trout do not reflect those of Hot Air Management nor regular commenters nor 99.9% of people with two synapses to rub together. He or she is a proud member of the unhinged left whose posts will all be deleted and his posting privileges revoked.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:34 AM
the bartender asks:
“What is a nice ewe doing with the pr*ck and the blubber?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Did LGM send you over to pick at fight a this time of the morning? Very brave! Go back to your friends and show them what great little lizard you are.
d1carter on September 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM
He’s not a lefty. He’s just trying to get attention.
redshirt on September 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM
The views of Kilgrave Trout do not reflect those of Hot Air Management nor regular commenters nor 99.9% of people with two synapses to rub together. He or she is a proud member of the unhinged left whose posts will all be deleted and his posting privileges revoked.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:37 AM
The views of Kilgore Trout do not reflect those of Hot Air Management nor regular commenters nor 99.9% of people with two synapses to rub together. He or she is a proud member of the unhinged left whose posts will all be deleted and his posting privileges revoked. When his mother finds out he is on the computer at this hour she will take away the Barney doll he sleeps with.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:38 AM
These guys have gone completely nuts over there. This is completely unhinged. So the blog wars begin? What a cowardly way to attack HA.
d1carter on September 18, 2009 at 1:39 AM
Please don’t feed the trolls.
tballard on September 18, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Maybe Hot Air is going to have to shut down the blog at night when the Zombies come here.
Elizabetty on September 18, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Just when you think it isn’t going to get any more desperate or hilarious, I log on to HA, see this, and nearly squirt green tea out my nose laughing.
I wish he’d have a tantrum in front of the press and end it with the words “I Quit”.
Spiritk9 on September 18, 2009 at 1:41 AM
Just like most of the Trustifarians in Southeast Portland. They try to talk a good game, and are quickly revealed to be racist.
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:42 AM
Dear Mr. Trout,
I see you’ve now gone into some elephants on the ceiling sort of hallucination, and will (hopefully) regret your outbursts in the morning. Meanwhile, you’ve scored with the attention factor that you’ve created with your nonsense. Kudos.
Back to your other race-baiting comments, that you’ve decided to toss around. I say, yes, by cracky, we are ALL descended from apes. So, your point is what exactly……?
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:42 AM
the bartender (thinks before he) asks:
“I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’ joob,
Can I getcha mo ice?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:42 AM
Dude.
No.
Spiritk9 on September 18, 2009 at 1:42 AM
aka NICE.
atheling on September 18, 2009 at 1:44 AM
Mrs B.O sold her soul long ago to the devil,..it’s all just a walk in the park from here on out for that mug and her Mack daddy44.
christene on September 18, 2009 at 1:45 AM
He’s not responding. Maybe somebody needs to check up on this guy. Seriously. Mr. Trout, where to you live? I think we need to call 911. This is not a joke.
betsyz on September 18, 2009 at 1:48 AM
the bartender asks:
“You want nuts with dat?”
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:48 AM
betsyz,
He lives in either Southeast Portland or perhaps Coos Bay. Let’s call his neighbor, Chief Imahippie, though he might not pick up if the drum circles in the middle of jamming.
Christien on September 18, 2009 at 1:50 AM
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