Comments on: Washington Post’s Right Matters Forum Takes a Swipe at Michelle Obama

By: La Reyna

La Reyna — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:36:23 +0000

Mike is a typical angry white male with hateful views about the sistas. Please spare me your moralistic assumptions about us.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:33:22 +0000

It’s gotten beyond old and stale when anti-white commentators bring up slavery, again and again, when anyone criticizes the “poor,” “holy,” ‘African-Americans”
.
Every race has been slaves at one time or another, and they were treated as bad or worse than blacks in America. Nobody cares about slavery anymore, and that included many black people who’ve made a fine life for themselves. Everyone, except left wing anti-whites and blacks with their hand outs, wanting white money.

Could it be “the lack of respect for black women” is something black women actually have earned with their obnoxious behavior?

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:46:24 +0000

Korb,
you are interpreting an example the way you want and your conclusion doesn’t even make sense. I talk about pollution, and that doesn’t make me a polluter. Giving your opinion about a problem doesn’t make you the cause of the problem. Just because you don’t like Obama, doesn’t mean you can “force” logic into any “shape” you want.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:43:09 +0000

Susan,
Is obvious that you are Republican. Nothing that Michelle Obama says is going to be receive by you impartially and you are going to tweak every single word. I heard Michelle comment about being proud. She meant to say she was very proud, more proud than usual, of the energy and youth of the people participating in the Democratic process. I know it, you know it, but you are not going to explain it that way because you want McCain to win…. of course.
“extremely narcissistic and self-centered.”?
If you express yourself like this, I wonder what your opinion about G.Bush is? Somebody that thinks he is the only one that can think what to do about Iraq, that he is never wrong, that he is “the decider”….
You are attacking Michelle for one sentence and disregard all her accomplishments in life. I can see you are not a fair person.

By: Korb

Korb — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:12:08 +0000

Just furthering an above quote:

“Actually, we DO have the right to be cynical, apathetic, and uninformed. It’s not necessarily the best thing to do, but there’s no law against it.”

…YET!!!

You can bet there will be LAWS, TAXES, and CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS to take away plenty of freedom…

Another favorite quote of hers: (btw: last night Barrack delcared that SHE would be his number one advisor during his presidency…. which DOES make her fair game!)

MICHELLE OBAMA when asked by a reporter from a black magazine about racism and the first black president: “I don’t lose sleep over it, because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. So, you know, you can’t — you know, you can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren’t raised that way.

Oh no racism there! (not!)
If this couple gets in … Racism will be the number one topic and it will divide everyone!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:07:26 +0000

Just furthering the comment:

“Actually, we DO have the right to be cynical, apathetic, and uninformed. It’s not necessarily the best thing to do, but there’s no law against it.”

….YET!!

You can bet there will be if ‘they’ make president.
Another great quote from her:

Racism?
You can bet ‘racism’ will be ON THE AGENDA if the Obama’s get in.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:09:27 +0000

I think Michelle is a hypocrite. First she says: she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.

Only her husband’s run for president has made her proud of America? That’s…extremely narcissistic and self-centered.
Nothing America has done in Michelle Obama’s adult life, which at 44 goes back 26 years to 1982, has made her proud of her country?

How sad. I certainly don’t want such a vain pessimist as First Lady.

Now, all of sudden, it is Ok to be an American according to her speech at the Democratic convention center:

Michelle Obama declared “I love this country” Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share Americans’ bedrock values and belief in a dream of a better future.

I wonder who will really run this country if Barack is elected??

Barack or Michelle….I believe she will influence her husband tremendously. That is not good!!! God help America.

By: rhondamarie

rhondamarie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:25:17 +0000

@Tanesha: I understand what you’re saying, but I firmly believe that just because there’s no law against something doesn’t make it a “right.”

Until very recently, there was no law on the books in Washington state against bestiality. Did that mean folks had the “right” to run around doing repulsive things with animals? It turns out the answer is no, and I think that’s a good call.

There are different ways to define a “right,” but in the context of a democracy, I’m thinking about a social contract model where certain rights are protected by the society, but they are correlative to certain duties (not to harm others being one of them) we must fulfill in order to keep them protected. If you fail to uphold your part of the bargain, then you are subject to certain limitations of your rights as a result. In other words, there’s a relationship between what you put in and what you get in a democracy, and so I’d argue that no, there isn’t a “right” to be derelict in your democratic duties. Sure you can do it, but it’s not something that is “justly due” to anyone who expects to live freely in a thriving, just democracy.

In any case, my point was that it’s not a persuasive to say, “Wait a minute…hey! But what about my right to freeload?” Whether that’s a right or not, if one is fighting behind a banner that says, “BE LAZY AND UNINVOLVED! SCREW THE GUY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHO EXPECTS MORE FROM YOU AND JUST MIGHT INSPIRE YOU TO DO BETTER!” then imo, that person doesn’t have much of a cause.

By: Tanesha

Tanesha — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:12:53 +0000

Actually, we DO have the right to be cynical, apathetic, and uninformed. It’s not necessarily the best thing to do, but there’s no law against it.

By: FakeMichelle Obama

FakeMichelle Obama — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:48:34 +0000

This lack of respect for us black women has been going on for centuries. it is painful and terribly infuriating. I am exhausted dealing with it and feel that it definitely takes a toll on our health.

Melody McCloud of the Atlanta wrote a nice piece on this entitled “Black Women Deserve Respect” . At the end she quotes Zora Neale Hurston: “We’re either the mules of the earth or as free as the freest white man.” I think she left out the part where we are treated like “that dog that some people feel like they just have to kick”.

(http://problemchylde.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/black-women-deserve-respect/)

-Me-