Stepford wives...not so much
Date: Feb 22nd, 2008 2:20:53 am - Subscribe
Mood: stormy
Weapon of Choice: Bo Staff

 I have been watching MSNBC for about 2.5 hours now and I keep hearing crap over and over about this Michelle Obama controversy.

Number one- these claims that she is not patriotic are bull shit
Number two- the quote is taken out of context
Number three- free speech, get over it

View for yourself:

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/49244.html

The Statement:
"What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud."

The Controversy: for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.

There are no anti patriot implications in this statement. She was saying that the possibility for change is finally tangible. Thats it, and there is nothing wrong with that. And even if what she did say had even a drop of hesitance in being proud of this country she would still be correct. I am not proud of America. But, I am patriotic because I am proud of what this country has the potential to be. I like the values we claim to have, but clearly we have not met those claims. Its no cake walk being a Black Woman in this Country, I know. And one would have to be completely to deluded to think that the history of this country is solely one of valor and freedom. Please. So I think Pat Buchanan and Lady McCain and everyone else needs to calm down and focus. Let's leave the spouses out of this because if we really wanted to talk about it Bill is not doing grand things for Hillary. So let the candidates stand on their own merits and not the comments on their love ones.

Focus- lets keep our eyes on the prize of getting my main man, Barack O in the white house!

okay? GOOD!

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anonymous - February 23rd, 2008
I can't think of anytime any other candidate has said anything that could be taken out of context.Oh wait:

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was "a lame attempt at humor."

The New York Democrat made the remark at a fund-raiser Saturday. During an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis."

After laughter from many in the crowd of at least 200 subsided, the former first lady continued, "No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century." In a nod to Farmer's underdog status against Republican Sen. Kit Bond, Clinton quoted the Indian independence leader as saying: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

The director of a U.S. center devoted to Gandhi's teachings said the remarks amounted to stereotyping and were insensitive.

After being approached by The Associated Press to clarify the remarks, Clinton suggested in a statement late Monday that she never meant to fuel the stereotype - often used as a comedic punch line - that certain ethnic groups run America's gas stations.

"I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi and have spoken publicly about that many times," Clinton said. "I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise."

Michelle Naef, administrator of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, a Memphis, Tenn.-based organization founded in 1991 by a Gandhi grandson, credited Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, with long having "supported the Gandhi message." But she said Saturday's remarks "could be incredibly harmful."

"I don't think she was, in any way, trying to demean Mahatma Gandhi," Naef said. "To be generous to her, I would say it was a poor attempt at humor. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but I find it offensive when people use stereotypes in that way."

Why is there so little mention of this incident? Can you imagine if Georgey W. had said this?

Sorry anonymous, this user does not allow double comments to be posted.