The Tennessee GOP Message Travels Around The World
By Kleinheider Posted on May 19, 2008 at 10:47 amBill Hobbs comes right back at Barack Obama after the candidate called his party out on Good Morning America:
You can’t send your wife out on the campaign trail to give campaign speeches and do fund-raisers on your behalf and then complain that she gets a little criticism. And if you think she ought not get public scrutiny, then you probably shouldn’t take her with you onto Good Morning America and condescendingly demand she be left out of the spotlight.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Hobbs, lay off my wife, low class, Michelle Obama, Tennessee Republican Party, TNGOP
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The tone of the you-tube ad tries to say that it speaks for ALL Tennesseans and of course it doesn’t. I don’t know if Obama should be outraged but a goodly portion of Tennessee should be.
Any thoughtful person understands what Michelle was saying, and frankly, with the wifely baggage that the McCain’s are carrying you would think they would be smart enough to stay away form this angle of attack.
Speaking of public scrutiny, can we please see Cindy McCain’s tax returns?
Any thoughtful person understands what Michelle was saying
She said she had never been proud of America. Do “thoughtful” people parse that differently from English speaking people?
Do you not understand what the meaning of the word “proud” is?
What some people are saying is “hear what I meant to say rather than what I said”. That is the mantra of elitists.
yes, number9. we do understand. we understand how any effort to clarify a statement doesn’t help the smear campaign, therefore it needs to be ignored and dismissed. that way, the smear campaign can go on and on and on and on.
we understand how any effort to clarify a statement doesn’t help the smear campaign
Clarify the statement?
The statement was very clear.
This accomplished woman is a well know and highly regarded attorney who went to the best schools and who has an education that only the wealthiest Americans can afford. What you suggest is to revise the statement.
She said it, she meant to say it, she owns it.
Oh, come on! Do you honestly thing Michelle Obama’s parents bought her a Princeton education? Please. You want to hate on Obama because she doesn’t tear up appropriately when she thinks of America, land where little girls like her got rocks thrown at them for trying to go to school, fine. I guess we can all listen to you guys blathering on from bizarro land where people are simultaneously proud of their cultural heritage and completely oblivious to it.
But to try to talk like only rich people go to Ivy League schools? Aren’t you conservatives all about people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
But by god, the second someone does, you all are “oh, what elitists! Boo hoo!”
Unbelievable.
(Kids, if you are reading along at home, if you get excellent grades, you can go to almost any college you want, even the Ivies. You might have to go into debt to do it, but you don’t have to be rich. And, contrary to what the conservatives are now preaching, there’s no shame in getting the best education you can.)
You want to hate on Obama because she doesn’t tear up appropriately when she thinks of America
That is out of line. I am not “hating” on anyone.
The point was Michelle Obama has a superior education. Regardless of payment or scholarship. She is an accomplished attorney. Clearly a very intelligent and highly educated person.
She knew what she said and she meant it.
So why is it she gets a pass?
Because it’s understandable? She grew up in Chicago, which is even today very racially segregated, during a time of enormous political unrest and ugly racial incidents in the city. She didn’t say that she had, previous to that moment, been ashamed of being an American. She just said she hadn’t been proud.
I get that. It’s not my experience of being an American. But nobody in my family had to leave their homes and move north to look for work because they couldn’t find jobs because of the color of their skin. Nobody in my family had to endure segregation. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The thing I find funny and weird about this is that I took what she said as a real sign of hope, that she could finally set aside the bitterness of her past and have hope and pride in America.
And to have that turned around on her just seems a.) really petty and bullying and b.) to completely just not get that what she’s saying is exactly what conservatives are constantly complaining about. I hear you guys all the time “Why can’t African Americans just get over…” and here she is saying “Hey, today I feel proud. I feel like I can let go of all this stuff.” and you guys come down on her with both feet.
Do you even want black people to someday vote for you?
Because it’s understandable? She grew up in Chicago, which is even today very racially segregated, during a time of enormous political unrest and ugly racial incidents in the city. She didn’t say that she had, previous to that moment, been ashamed of being an American. She just said she hadn’t been proud.
In “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, Napoleon the pig observes, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
So because of her hard scrabble early life she gets special consideration?
Are we all equal? Or are some more equal than others?
I don’t know what you mean by “special.” Here you are being all “‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell” and I could read that like you think I’m too stupid to know that Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” but instead I give consideration to the fact that you’re just trying to make a point and be clear about it.
Am I giving you special consideration or am I just doing what people do and assuming the best of a person I don’t really know because that’s just how I prefer to work things?
Maybe I’m wrong and maybe she is the biggest condescending b*tch on the planet. But so what? That still wouldn’t excuse the fact that when Hobbs chose to criticize her, and then her husband, instead of engaging them on policy, he went for the biggest weenie move I’ve seen in the history of Tennessee blogging and took after her because she’s excited for her husband and then took after him because he dared stand up when she’d been insulted.
Is she fair game?
Sure.
Is that going to stop me from pointing out that Hobbs is making us all look bad with his antics that seem to come right out of the weenie-man’s playbook?
No.
As a baby boomer unaffiliated with many past wrongs in this country, I have lived in a time in which this country has fallen all over itself — to extremes: to the point of unfairness, injustice, inequity, and self-destruction — to make up for its past wrongs against minorities. Ms. Obama’s statement doesn’t sit well with me.
People of Tennessee
Look at the state of your economy, look at the state of your healthcare. Look what the GOP offers. Hate mongering and fear mongering. Don’t be fooled. Vote in your and your state’s self interest. Vote for the Democratic candidate…whoever it may be!!