On Monday Michelle Obama said that now that America is on the cusp of selecting her husband to be President, that for the first time in her life, she's finally "proud to be an American."
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."
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.
Oh Really?. Though news reports have her Obamacrat audience loudly cheering these comments, personally I found that quote to be offensive, with or without the "really".. I'm a hardcore Democrat and loathe this President's policies, but I have ALWAYS been proud of my Country. Right and Wrong.
I wonder how many of the deciding voters out there would take offense at those words, that kind of attitude? And those that would, how many would chose Obama over John McCain, Man to Man...
Do you think that in the half decade that McCain was in a bamboo cage, tapping out messages in morse code to his fellow captives, do you think he ever lost his pride in being an American?
John McCain was a American POW for five years. He refused to leave his friends and comrades behind when he was offered an early out of the dreaded Hanoi Hilton because the Viet Cong found out that his Dad was an Admiral. Though a Republican, John McCain IS an honorable man. Anyone who says he isn't, is a liar and a fool.
If Obama were to face McCain in an election, they and the press would make this contest about simple things - comparing their experience , Obama's "Pride" and McCain's "Honor".
America will love that uncomplicated kind of choice and yes, love John McCain. He is a very lovable guy. The good old fashioned red, white and blue kind. He's also by far the funniest member of the Senate and when you see him up close and see that his arms still don't work, because of the torture he endued as a US POW, your heart just wants to break a little...
Comparing him Man to Man with Obama will be the Nations choice if Barack is our nominee.
Lets leave Michelle and look at the latest outrageous falseness coming from the Obama campaign. His "borrowing" words from his "good friend" Gov Patrik. Hear Obama's lame excuses and remember that its on "character" issues like this, and comments like Michelles's, that the deciding segment of our electorate will be voting come November.
from TPM:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsm emo.com/2008/02/more_rhetorical_overlap_ betwee.php
More "plagiarism" accusations: ABC News has unearthed another example of Barack Obama using practically the same language as Deval Patrick.Deval Patrick, June 2006:
"I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."
Barack Obama, November 2007, according to USA Today:
"But you see, I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."
Here's a YouTube of the two quotes (with minor differences from the above quotes) that a rival campaign is circulating:
Jake Tapper also points out that Obama's use of the "just words" line predates the period when Patrick said they started exchanging ideas. But Tapper does note one common thread here -- both men have employed David Axelrod to be their top strategist, which would plausibly lead to some of the same lines making it into their speeches.
"Exchanging ideas"? What nonsense. If as a 8th grader you'd have let a friend copy off your homework or a test would this lame excuse that Obama has offered have given you any protection from your enraged teacher? Who but a Chicago politico would think that saying that since you only stole from a friend was a good defense for CHEATING.
It's simple, Obama represented another person's words and ideas as his own. In the honor code that Thos Jefferson set up for his University of Virginia, this kind of "misrepresentation" would have gotten him expelled from the campus and the college. If he'd have done the same here at mydd the admins would have "banned" him.
But most significantly, such actions by Obama would have gotten him dismissed from all of our Nation's Military Academies on a "honor violation". All of them.
That may not matter to Obama or his finally "Proud' wife or their feverish supporters but know this, it will matter to many millions of those moderate, middle class, playing by the rules, always proud deciding American voters.
Think of that when you next think on Obama's'"obvious" electability over John McCain.
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