"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism... that you come out of your isolation. ... Barack will never allow you to go your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.Michelle Obama.
"Instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, you neede to make sure your child can speak Spanish"Barack Obama, who does not speak Spanish.
"These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant. This realization has presently, made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community more desirable."
Michelle Obama. From her senior sociology thesis at Princeton.
"We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another -- that we cannot measure our greatness in the society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these.""Barack, as Oprah said, is one of the most brilliant men you will meet in our lifetime." Michelle Obama
"We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do. Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. Michelle Obama, whos salary as manager of the business diversity program at the university of Chicago Medical Center skyrocketed from
121,910 to 316,962 a couple of months after her husband was sworn in as a U.S. Senator.
Because sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?
Michelle Obama, at the University of South Carolina. Want to hear the good parts? Check here:
youtube.com/watch?v=1etj68cO7zk
"If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care."
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
Michelle Obama.
"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money."Barack Obama, at a rally in Durham, N.C.
There is more, but I've had enough. If there was any question that Obama and his wife are beyond belief in their hypocritical, marxist, anti-American tripe, then Michelle does a good job of settling the debate. I appreciate these insights into her approach to being our first lady. Without her graciously revealing so much of her poisonous rancor, we might be less informed about the stakes this november.