Two Minutes Hate: Obama tries to sound threatening.
While actively campaigning for her husband, Michelle Obama said stupid shit, such as that she is proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. She said it to a crowd in Milwaukee, who cheered.
Naturally and obviously, the Tennessee Republican Party has made a video mocking that statement by featuring many people saying they ARE proud. So Barack and Michelle were on Good Morning America today and were asked about it and Barack Your Soul-Saving Lord-n-Christ said:
“If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because that I find unacceptable — the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family,” he said.
“For them to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her I think is just low class and I think they — most of the American people would think that as well,” he said. “I would never think of going after somebody’s spouse in a campaign.”
So I just want to know what happens if Republican’s aren’t “careful.” Is he gonna give them karate? Write a strongly worded letter of disapproval?
What a dickhead. He can’t possibly believe that things his wife says at political campaign rallies are immune from criticism. As Hot Air pointed out, Barack himself has criticized Bill Clinton in the exact same way. And I will give each of you five trillion dollars if Cindy McCain ever says anything massively stupid and inflammatory on stage at a public McCain campaign event, and the Obama campaign ignores it because she’s the wife, not the candidate. No shit, five trillion dollars. See, I can promise that because I know it’s not physically possible for that scenario to ever occur.
Oh and by the way, Mike Huckabee said some stupid shit recently, too:
During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
Nice job, pal. Fodder on a platter for the Democrats.
Hmm… maybe if he doesn’t want people to mock his wife, he should tell her to shut the heck up and stay away from campaigning for him.
Oh, and Huckabee is definitely an idiot. That joke would have worked if he had said that someone had fanned his jacket and Obama dove for cover because he SAW a gun.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pmI think the more obvious person that should be careful is Obama because he’s come between Hillary and her right to be president. Has he never learned about arkancide?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pmFeh… if he doesn’t want people attacking his wife, she should stay the hell out of the spotlight. Can’t take the heat? Get out of politics.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:16 pmSkyler, you’re not the only one thinking along those lines….
Huckabee hit his stupid quote with the “God’s Army” speech.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:22 pm…play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her…
I saw this play called in the first half in defence of the Wright offense; didn’t work then either. Turns out the ’snippets’ told the good half of the story.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:30 pmWaahhh! Does this guy suck his thumb, too?
What kind of idiot gets his wife to shill for him and then complains that quoting her is out of bounds. Is he trying to burnish his elite, effete, holier-than-the-unwashed-masses credentials?
This “I can dish it out, but I can’t take it” attitude will NOT win over any of those “clingers” he so desperately needs.
Dude needs to learn how to take a punch and then punch back instead of taking a punch and then running crying to the Principal’s office.
And we have to put up with this until November. Oh, joy.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pmBecause any criticism of you or your campaign is a “smear”, right?
So to recap:
1. Can’t say Obama’s middle name. That’s a smear.
2. Can’t mention Obama’s pastor. That’s a smear.
3. Can’t mention Obama’s Muslim childhood. That’s a smear.
4. Can’t mention Tony Rezko. That’s a smear.
5. Can’t mention Obama’s support for appeasement. That’s a smear.
6. Can’t mention Obama’s radical liberal views. That’s a smear.
7. Can’t mention the fact that Hamas supports Obama. That’s a smear.
And now,
8. Can’t mention how batshit insane Obama’s wife is. That’s a smear.
What, pray tell, are Obama’s opponents allowed to criticize?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pmEvery time she talks about the campaign, she says, “We…” We want this. We did that. We will do this other thing. She clearly thinks she shares his candidacy, so she gets to share in the criticism, too.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pmYou forgot a few:
9. Can’t make fun of his 57 states gaffe. That’s a smear.
10. Can’t make fun of the fact that he thought Arkansas is closer to Kentucky than Illinois is. That’s a smear.
11. Can’t mention his terrorist friends from Weather Underground. That’s a smear.
12. Can’t mention that he’s more afraid of FOX News than Iran. That’s a smear.
WARNING: Do not taunt or tease Happy Fun Obama.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pmHe believes that the things he says at campaign rallies should be immune from criticism. This is just logical consistency.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pmIf Obama’s wife makes statements like that in public, at campaign appearances, it is fair game to criticize those statements. If someone says she is unattractive, or she needs to have her overbite fixed, or she needs to go home and be barefoot and pregnant, then that is indeed out of line. But that isn’t what’s being said here.
Michelle Obama made a massive, potentially catastrophic faux pas in admitting that she is accustomed to being ashamed of her country. The fact that she felt unencumbered by concern enough to utter it out loud, in full view of cameras and micrphones tells me that this is likely an opinion she and Obama share, and that they see no dichotomy between being President of the United States and being publically ashamed with your country.
Such utterances are a call to your judgment, Senator. Don’t be snippy at the U.S. for reacting: be mad at your wife for having so little discretion.
My Opinion: Michelle Obama is a racist, afro-supremicist loose cannon. There. I said it, and I’ll keep saying it.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pmHopechange.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:26 pmSo far as I am concerned, Huckabee wrote himself out of serious consideration with his idiotic shotgun stunt, where he somehow thought that discharging a shotgun towards a group of reporters was an amusing slam at Dick Cheney instead of an unforgivably stupid safety violation.
I have to ask, whet the hell was the NRA thinking, inviting this goofball to speak?
Oh, and mightysamurai, you ask:
“What, pray tell, are Obama’s opponents allowed to criticize?”
Good one, my friend. I’ll be laughing all day at that display of subtle dry wit.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:54 pmEvery single blog I’ve read today has done this story (including myself). AND every single one of them has come to the same conclusion: If Michelle Obama is going to put herself out there on equal political standing as Barack, then she is going to get an equal share of criticism for saying stupid things. And as long as all that’s being criticized is her politics (and as far as I know, no one has engaged in gratuitous name-calling so far), then it’s totally fair.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pmIf so many “regular folks” are able to understand that, why is Barack Obama having a hard time grasping it?? Why has no one pulled him aside and said “Hey, as long as your wife acts like a target, she’s gonna get treated like one– you may want to encourage her to censor herself.”
Mightysamurai: don’t you realize that it’s blasphemy to criticize the Obamamessiah?
Excuse my language, but what a pussy this guy is. His socialist record and Marxist harpy of a wife aside, Obama keeps proving himself to be the biggest pansy to ever run for President of the Ladies Auxiliary the US. Every comment that doesn’t drip adoration for him is “a distraction”. Crikey, my 3 year old daughter is tougher than this guy.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pmIs Michelle Obama taking lessons from Teresa Heinz-
May 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pmKetchupKerry? …because it worked soooo well in ‘04 for the Dems.Obama has figured out an extremely salient point - it’s theoretically possible to become President of the United States simply by “Playing the Victim”. Waaah! People don’t like my pastor! Well, you’re a victim of subconscious racism. Waaah! People are saying my middle name! Well, you’re a victim of (that’s right!) subconscious racism. Waaah! People don’t like my friends! Well, it’s because you’re a victim of vicious smear tactics that wish to “distract the voters from the real issues”. Naturally, it’s your job to define which issues are, um, real and which ones are distractions. HINT: Any issue that doesn’t make you look good is a distraction. Waaah! People think my wife is an idiot! Clearly, your family are the victims of an unconscionable smear campaign… and so on.
The worst part is that some people are buying it. The only question is whether or not this line of professional victimology will work long enough to waltz him into the White House.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pmGive it time, he’ll figure Michelle’s a liability and she’ll be under the bus with granny and the sky pilot.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:22 pmMighty, I guess we could fall back on his parent’s shotgun wedding. Or maybe he was just a fast grower in utero, being born at full size after a mere six months of matrimony. But it’s not like anyone asked him if he wanted to be “premature.”
Fuzz, that’s HopeChange™. And they’ve just added FaithHopeChange™. Do you have permission to use that trademark?
My God, man, didn’t you get THE NOTICE?
May 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pmShitBallsOhWellSueMe™
May 19th, 2008 at 5:26 pmBECAUSE OF THE HOPINESS!
BECASUE OF THE CHANGITUDE!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pmI’m still trying to figure out how Huckabee thought that was actually funny… o_O
*shakes head* that man’s crazy.. but not in any good ways.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pmSo
The Obamaessiah is going to get medieval on me for talking about dumb things his wife has said while stumping for him (in other words, picking on his wife) but Iran is killing our soldiers and pissing on their graves and THEY get a talking?
Someone needs to remind the Mighty O, this isn’t high school. We don’t fight out at the smoker’s field cause I called your girl a slut.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pmAs ridiculous as this is, I don’t see why anyone is surprised. This is straight out of the Liberal playbook: trot out people “immune” to criticism, (Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls, the few war heros (real or imagined) that are liberal, etc.) and say that no one can question them because of whatever status they happen to have.
More here
May 20th, 2008 at 11:58 amHey, for the first time in MY adult life, I’m checking out First Ladies, they just MIGHT be using the role as a springboard to the Presidency. If Michelle isn’t home baking cookies, she’s fair game.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:08 pmThey played the audio clip on the local liberal radio talk show this morning. Even those guys, who can’t stand McCain and all seem to love Obama, thought he got this one wrong. Not that this was a first step toward enlightenment, however.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:27 pmWe’re clearly not allowed to criticize anything about the Obamessiah. We’re clearly too stupid to live if we do so.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pm“”"”What, pray tell, are Obama’s opponents allowed to criticize?”"”"”
His EARS, have you noticed his ears? We can make fun of th . . . . RRRIIINNNGGGG!!!! Excuse me . . . “RRRIIINNNGGGG!!!!” Yes, Hello?
Oops! Sorry, I’ve just been told by Louis Farrakhan’s Thugs On Loan that I can’t criticize Obama’s ears.
By the way, how is it that the African American elite — who make a fetish of Malcolm X — are hanging out with and tolerating Malcom X’s murderer, Minister “Calypso Pete” Farrakhan?
May 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pmHmmph. So the media is lying again. Obambi won’t, if elected be a first. We’ve already had a sissy for a President, James Buchanan.
So, since an original thought and a cold cup of water would kill this clown, what is he doing getting the nomination?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pmObambi?
I am so totally stealing that.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:49 pm“Obambi” is not that new. Stubborn Facts has been using it for well over a year, though I don’t know if we were first past the post with it. But we did invent the Obambi/Rorschach logo.
Because people see in him whatever they WANT to see. That’s why he IS the
May 20th, 2008 at 4:55 pmKwisatz HaderachObamessiah!Almost fell off my chair — hah!
The Obama camp keep using that word ‘attack.’ I do not think it means what they think it means!
Huckabee? I hope he’s finally killed his chances for the veep slot — that’s one effing eejit we really need not to put into high office!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:14 pmAt least no one will be talking about Huckabee as a running mate, feel the need to give him air time at the convention, or ever again seriously consider him as a candidate for elective office.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:15 pmThey don’t call Obama ‘the boy with the pickaninny dick’ for nothing.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pmLa-te-da, la-te-da, Hopey-changey, hopey-changey. I’m not lissssssstening to you!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pmWrite it down: Barry Obama will make history not as the first black President (he’s post-racial, don’t you know?). He’ll be the first woman President!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pmHow quickly we forget. Bill Clinton was already the first black president. Toni Morrison said so!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:02 pmSticking up for his wife. Good for him.
Pickaninny dick? Shame on you, racist asshole. Because that’s a racist word. It’s not a maybe racist word, or a kinda racist word, or a don’t misinterpret me racist word. It’s a racist word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny
May 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pmWhat’s he supposed to say? “Sure, dis my wife all you want!”
The only thing Republicans have to run on is literally “Democrats hate America.”
Of course, Republicans love America so much they commit us to wars that aren’t worth fighting. They let their buddies in business (hey there “Kenny Boy” Ken Lay!) run roughshod over working people. They run the honor and prestige of the country into the ground.
I’ll take Barack, Michelle, and common sense over Republican b.s. in the fall, thanks, and I’ll bet I’m not the only one.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pmDon’t you DARE to interrupt the eating of the waffles, either. “Yea and verily, for he did regale himself upon Mrs. Butterworth’s and was sore wroth with any who approached him. Indeed, he smote them, hip and thigh” Which I see as a chicken and waffles reference, but it’s not strictly Obamacanon. I don’t want to spout any heresy. I suspect that Obamaniacs + heretics = trouble
May 20th, 2008 at 6:29 pmYou know, what’s a little weird about this is that it’s akin to the “sweetie” comment, a sign of the same hidden depths of contempt for women that Bill Clinton eventually demonstrated. I mean, it’s not so much that he’s a pussy (although he is), but that he thinks poor l’il Michelle might get the vapors if the hooligans start saying mean things about her.
No wonder so many older Democratic women smelled something faintly familiarly repulsive, held their noses, and pulled the lever for Hillary.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pmA Junta that will voluntarily step down from office?
BHO will complain that it makes
Saddam/Bashar/Mugabe/Chavez/ DespotOfYourTinyCountryOfChoice look bad.That Karl Rove gets inside everybody’s decision loop.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pmFunny, franglo, but Enron tits up in late 2001 about 11 months after Bush was inaugurated. The peak of Enron’s stock, and the time when their entire house of cards was built up, was during the previous administration.
But don’t let facts get in the way of your reTHUGlican pr0n.
Should Lay and all those other douchebags have gotten long prison terms? Certainly. But the fact remains that it was during the Clinton years that they so easily committed their crimes.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:54 pmHow bout the Iraq war, there, Bingley. Was that the Clintons’ fault as well?
May 20th, 2008 at 7:04 pmKeep in mind that the 1993 bombing of the WTC was accomplished with funding from Al Queda, and passports stolen from Kuwaitt during the Iraqi occupation. The explosives were laced with cyanide compounds from Iraq, in an attempt to murder first responders with cyanide gas.
There you go. A terrorist attack on the US using WMD with Al Queda and Iraq in collusion.
Now can we kill the terrorists? With the Democrats on our side instead of on the terrorists’ side?
May 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pmThe Obamotto:
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
And cry like a baby.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pm. . . were on a bridge. Common sense fell off, and who was left?
May 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pmHe’s like the obnoxious kid who goes around the schoolyard antagonizing everybody, and when somebody goes after him, says, “You can’t hit me! I’ve got glasses on!”
May 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pmI would recommend the following quote, by a great Democrat, to Michelle Obama:
May 20th, 2008 at 8:44 pm“He can’t possibly believe that things his wife says at political campaign rallies are immune from criticism.”
I suppose it’s possible that his reaction is sincere: He’s a black leftist who has spent most of his life surrounded by people who believe that blacks can do no wrong (except when they vote Republican, in which case they are Race Traitors.)
May 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pmObama has only one response anytime anyone questions anything about his candidacy: call the question off limits and attack the questioner. This is quintessential ad hominem attack politics, and carried to its logical conclusion has resulted the quashing of free speech enforced by gulags and cultural revolutions.
I find Obama’s current responses to criticism offensive. I fear what his response to criticism will be if he gets power. Regulation of the internet? Reimposition of the fairness doctrine? Pressure on Fox News? Jailings for exercise of free speech?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pmThat’s because if he actually has to address issues, it becomes obvious there’s not much there. His popularity depends on the Rorschach effect.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:28 pmI will never understand how former governors of a failed Southern state like Arkansas can spawn serious presidential candidates. It’s like the Dallas Cowboys recruiting Division III schools.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:33 amYou know it just occurred to me, the McCain campaign gave a statement on this issue earlier this month that pretty much sums up the entire problem with Obama’s campaign strategy:
As much as I dislike McCain, I gotta hand it to him on that one. Pwned to the nth degree.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:14 amPickaninny, Obambi…Oh the PC that is not on this blog… I love it!
Franglo!?! Obama, Michele, common sense? I am cryin’ here. The only common sense used by politicians is when they are organizing and planning their campaign funds and personal futures. Think the Clintons would have made over 100 million if they hadn’t been politicians? well, Bill is a good salesman…
May 21st, 2008 at 8:50 amNo, and I don’t recall mentioning it one way or another. But I’m glad you acknowledge that this
Refers to the Democrats as well if not more so than the Republicans.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:42 amfranglo, I’ll pin the blame for Iraq on Clinton, for letting Saddam shoot at our fighters for 8 years and doing NOTHING about it (you remember, ouir guys were enforcing the no-fly zone?). A President Wild Bill would have gone to war the first time he cooked off a missle at us.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmWhy John McCain is a shower & Barack Obama is all bath
August 30th, 2008 at 6:43 amhttp://www.wdbathrooms.co.uk/acatalog/Shower-or-Bath.html