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Politics | 05/22/2009 7:26 am

Michelle Obama Impressed by First Lady Friendliness: 'Very Cool'

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
© Getty Images

First Lady Michelle Obama graces Time magazine’s cover this week, and tells the magazine that the White House hasn’t really changed her.

"I’m pretty much who I’ve been for a long time," says Mrs. Obama. "I just think that people have the opportunity to see all of who Michelle Obama is over a longer period of time. And hopefully, they like what they see." She goes on to hypothesize that people must have liked her, otherwise "I don’t think Barack would be president, you know?"

That’s certainly a possibility.

In addition to discussing her family life - such as walking her dog and attending her daughters’ soccer games - the first lady also reveals that there’s quite a bit of sisterhood among other presidential wives. Upon entering office, she says, former first ladies came out to welcome her into the fold:

"And I’ve gotten wonderful letters and phone calls and invitations to lunch, and it’s just from every single former first lady who is alive … they’ve reached out.

And my sense is that it’s not just me; I think they do this because they know, experience when you’ve got children, that you need support. And that’s very cool, I’d say."

We concur!

You can read the entire piece over at Time.

 

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S G

I am proud to have them as first family and I think she is a wonderful first lady:)

By S G on 05/22/2009 8:13 am
C Hardy
I dont think anyone can really say anything negative against Mrs. Obama.  I think she is a good Mother, Wife, Daughter…She is doing great with her two children and I think its great she can admit they need help and has her Mother there to do so.  She is a likeable woman…I LOVE her work with the Military Families and pray she keeps it up and doesnt let that slip. 
By C Hardy on 05/22/2009 8:27 am
Green Tears
Absolutely, CH!
By Green Tears on 05/22/2009 9:53 am
deber B
Ditto, C Hardy.  
By deber B on 05/22/2009 8:33 am
caj p
Michelle is a great First Lady and has reached out across the board to so many people and has been so well received by all.  Keep up the good work Michelle we are very proud of you.
By caj p on 05/22/2009 9:22 am
DeBúrca obj
When my daughter met Michelle Obama at school back when the President was running for the Senate she came home saying "Mrs. Obama is my new hero, she is the coolest lady ever!"
By DeBúrca obj on 05/22/2009 10:15 am
caj p
How sweet!
By caj p on 05/22/2009 10:23 am
Mel Berg
I just think that Michelle Obama is the nicest person, she takes everything in stride it seems. I am proud of the way she represents our country, what a totally cool First Lady!
By Mel Berg on 05/22/2009 5:49 pm
Diamond In The Rough
I’m so glad she’s finally proud to be an American!
By Diamond In The Rough on 05/22/2009 7:16 pm
A Amedee

Why would you say something like that. Where was she born?

 

By A Amedee on 05/22/2009 8:59 pm
Andrea Brandon

Where were you, A Amedee, a little over a year ago? Michelle made a statement that was interpreted very negatively by many.  The quote itself has been misquoted a few times, but I believe it’s one of the two below:

Michelle Obama said, "For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."Then in Madison, she said, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."

In either case the general consensus by many was that she was not proud of her country for the last couple decades, which created quite a stir. This was on the heels of the Reverend Wright controversy.

By Andrea Brandon on 05/23/2009 12:09 am
Libra Lady
Andrea…yes she did….too many sermons from wright that gave her that conclusion…..all I can say to her is there are many, many things to be proud of America from day one…..evidently she doesn’t know her history…..I hope she regrets those words, because I lost so much respect when she said that.  Plus the comment using the term "whities"….uncalled for in my book.
By Libra Lady on 05/23/2009 8:10 am
Deni G
There was no “whities” comment.

If you can not trash you country and your first lady, based on the actual facts, and must make up lies and then repeat them ad naseum even after they have been debunked, that really says it all about your sincerity, integrity and agenda.

By Deni G on 05/23/2009 7:13 pm
Victoria J

Libra Lady, There was no "Whitey" comment by Michelle Obama though again the Right Wing of the Republican Party was selling that version left and right. As for Andrea’s allusion to Rev. Wright, I think it is important for those of you pedaling those allegations to face up to what the religious right got away with for years.  Here’s a part of the article which appeared on Huff post last year.

Obama’s Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero

Posted March 16, 2008 | 04:23 PM (EST)

When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father — Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer — denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.

Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father’s footsteps) rail against America’s sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the unborn," has become "Sodom" by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, "under the judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction. By comparison Obama’s minister’s shouted "controversial" comments were mild. All he said was that God should damn America for our racism and violence and that no one had ever used the N-word about Hillary Clinton.

Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation’s sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party. (This was while I was my father’s sidekick before I dropped out of the evangelical movement altogether.) We were rewarded for our "stand" by people such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The top Republican leadership depended on preachers and agitators like us to energize their rank and file. No one called us un-American.


Consider a few passages from my father’s immensely influential America-bashing book A Christian Manifesto. It sailed under the radar of the major media who, back when it was published in 1980, were not paying particular attention to best-selling religious books. Nevertheless it sold more than a million copies.

Here’s Dad writing in his chapter on civil disobedience:

If there is a legitimate reason for the use of force [against the US government]… then at a certain point force is justifiable.


And this:

In the United States the materialistic, humanistic world view is being taught exclusively in most state schools… There is an obvious parallel between this and the situation in Russia [the USSR]. And we really must not be blind to the fact that indeed in the public schools in the United States all religious influence is as forcibly forbidden as in the Soviet Union….

 

Then this:

There does come a time when force, even physical force, is appropriate… A true Christian in Hitler’s Germany and in the occupied countries should have defied the false and counterfeit state. This brings us to a current issue that is crucial for the future of the church in the United States, the issue of abortion… It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God’s law it abrogates it’s authority. And our loyalty to the God who gave this law then requires that we make the appropriate response in that situation…

 

Was any conservative political leader associated with Dad running for cover? Far from it. Dad was a frequent guest of the Kemps, had lunch with the Fords, stayed in the White House as their guest, he met with Reagan, helped Dr. C. Everett Koop become Surgeon General. (I went on the 700 Club several times to generate support for Koop).

Dad became a hero to the evangelical community and a leading political instigator. When Dad died in 1984 everyone from Reagan to Kemp to Billy Graham lamented his passing publicly as the loss of a great American. Not one Republican leader was ever asked to denounce my dad or distanced himself from Dad’s statements. "

By Victoria J on 05/24/2009 5:53 pm
Libra Lady

WRONG AGAIN!!!! vickie

For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on “whitey”, and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that’s when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who’s seen this.

The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity’s site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.

http://fairlyconservative.com/obama/rumors-of-michelle-obamas-whitie-rant-persist/

This past Friday Michelle Obama gave essentially the same stump speech in Charlotte, North Carolina that she had given the week earlier in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Based on the stump speech, Yuval Levin calls Mrs. Obama "The unhappiest millionaire." Levin’s NRO column carries a link to the C-SPAN video of Mrs. Obama’s North Carolina speech. It is well worth watching.

Levin characterizes the pervasive themes of Mrs. Obama’s stump speech as the "gospel of bitterness." Levin finds Barack Obama to be preaching a similar gospel, albeit one that benefits from "a peppier and more upbeat stump speech[.]" Senator Obama’s enormous political skills make it much more difficult to discern the somewhat repulsive views and attitudes that are nakedly on display in Mrs. Obama’s stump speech.

Michelle Obama seethes with bitterness. While she preaches the gospel according to Barack, she wears resentment and bitterness on her sleeve. It is therefore painful to listen to her. She’s apparently even still angry about her SAT scores. She didn’t test well in school, she explains. Somehow, she has overcome.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012094/posts

http://www.dipity.com/timetube/YouTube_Michelle_Obama_Whity_Rant

By Libra Lady on 05/24/2009 6:21 pm