Michelle Obama Takes Heat for Saying She's 'Proud of My Country' for the First Time

RINOs Gotta Go · #1 02-19-2008, 08:15 PM

Michelle Obama Takes Heat for Saying She's 'Proud of My Country' for the First Time
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
FOX NEWS

Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, is under fire for leaving the impression that she hasn't been proud of her country until now, when Democrats are beginning to rally around her husband's campaign.

Speaking in Milwaukee, Wis., on Monday, she said, "People in this country are ready for change and hungry for a different kind of politics and … for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."

Greeted with rousing applause after making the comment in Milwaukee, Obama delivered an amended version of the speech later that day in Madison, Wis.

"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country … not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change," she said. "I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

Obama was born in 1964, meaning her adult life began in 1982. Critics quickly seized on the newfound national pride.

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Amawalk John · #2 02-19-2008, 08:36 PM

She said it twice, as though she wanted to preempt and render useless all efforts by others, including her husband's spin doctors, to re-characterize this as an inadvertent slip of the tongue.

I'm so happy that someone has picked up the mantle of Ta-RAHY-zah Heinz Kerry. Michelle looks like a runaway in the quadrennial contest for craziest candidate's wife.

For a moment there I thought the prize was going to be awarded to Bill Clinton.

BUCKEYEFAN · #3 02-19-2008, 08:40 PM

JOhn, its going to be a toss up...Now that is just dumb and dumber at their best....

**Terri** · #4 02-19-2008, 08:50 PM

Mark Levin Tells Michelle Obama ‘Stop Putting Down My Country!’

NewsBusters

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What do you mean for the first time in your adult life you're proud of your country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because you think people are hungry for change? Have you suffered? Have you suffered, ma'am? I'm tired of people putting down this country. I'm tired of people pretending that this is still pre-slavery, pre-segregation, pre-internment. That we're in a depression. I'm sick and tired of people ignoring the enormous progress we've made in this country and sacrifices one generation after another have made to make this a more perfect country. I'm sick and tired of it. [...]

I don't give you a pass. You finally have hope for this country? Well, that's somebody else's kids over there, fighting and dying so you can go to an Ivy League school, so you can send your kids to a private school, so you and your husband can have your day in the limelight, and to make millions of dollars. Stop putting down my country! Stop putting down my country when there's so many great people doing so many great things so you can have it all, so we all can have it all. No more pandering. Enough is enough. This may work with the radical left, but it doesn't work with me, and it doesn't work with most Americans.

BUCKEYEFAN · #5 02-19-2008, 09:02 PM

Oh my Terri, he said what we were all thinking today and couldn't say to her....They need to try her and Sharon Stone and all the Hollyweirds for treason....Did you hear what Sharon Stone said today??? I can't quote her word for word, but to the affect that the news media would broadcast about 4000 + of our troops were killed, but the number of Iraq's killed numbered in the 60,000 bracket, but we didn't mention that, and she was appalled....

Well guess what, I am appalled at all of the USA bashers and would gladly take up a collection to get these traitors off US soil

Petertherock · #6 02-19-2008, 09:49 PM

I will donate to that fund! Get all the Hollyweirdos out of this country!!

**Terri** · #7 02-20-2008, 08:12 AM

McCain's Wife Comments on Pride

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By AP STAFF
Associated Press
February 20, 2008

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) -- Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said Tuesday she's proud of her country -- a comment seen as a veiled reference to Michelle Obama's recent remark on patriotism.

''I'm proud of my country, I don't know about you, if you heard those words earlier. I'm very proud of my country. I'm proud to be a person who voted in elections and I hope that all of you will do so today,'' Cindy McCain said at a Wisconsin rally.

She appeared to be referring to a remark that the wife of Democratic candidate Barack Obama made Monday in Milwaukee.

**javajoy** · #8 02-20-2008, 08:23 AM

Good for Mark Levin and Cindy McCain. They spoke exactly what I was thinking. Michelle Obama is an ingrate. She would not have had the same opportunities living anywhere else in the world, I don't think.

I am still reeling from one of Michelle's earlier comments about (paraphrasing here) how no one understands that her husband is a black man and takes his life in his hands and might be shot at a gas station when he goes for gas. I guess my husband is immune because he is white. Utterly stupid observation and comment on her part. Anyone else remember that like I do?