Michelle Obama in Nov. of 2007: vote for Barack because of his color

[jackson_dem]

Notice the date. Apparently in Obamanation calenders are the stuff of fairy tales. This was the same month she made her "black America will wake up" ( 1. What happened to happy talk about "There is not a white America, a black America, a Latino America, and an Asian America. There is the United States of America!" 2. This was at a time when Obama was losing blacks by only 46-37 when Clinton was at her zenith and in an 8 candidate field. That wasn't enough? Edwards was at 1-3%--and he was in THIRD among black voters at the time!), and Obama surrogate Charles Barron said blacks should vote for Obama because he is black. All of this happened long before Clinton said anything about Obama's Iraq record.

In the end she did include an obligatory statement that Obama should be judged on merit, not based on his color but you can't make a racial appeal one minute and then claim to be color-blind the next. This is exactly what the rethugs do when they wink and nod at racists one moment and then profess color-blindess the next.

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"Michelle Obama says America will be viewed differently with a black president"

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) – Michelle Obama told an audience Tuesday that electing an African-American president will challenge America to "look at itself differently.”

"Imagine our family on that inaugural platform," she said. "America will look at itself differently. The world will look at America differently. There is no other candidate who is going to do that for our country. You know that."

Obama was campaigning on behalf of her husband, Sen. Barack Obama, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama told the audience at the historically black South Carolina State University that she and her husband realize there are doubts among black Americans about whether an African-American can win a presidential election. But she called those fears "the bitter legacy of racism and discrimination and oppression in this country."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/20/michelle-obama-says-america-will-be-viewed-differently-with-a-black-president/

[Sadie5]

1. MO seems racist to me

I have thought so since her proud of America for the first time speech. I bet that if you check MOs family were probably members of that church for a long time.

[Hoof Hearted]

3. I'll bet if BO ever had thoughts of leaving (for his career) MO was the one who put her foot down

and insisted they stay. She didn't want him to run in the first place. Her graduate thesis bemoaned the prospect of becoming "too white" in a world where she would never be fully accepted. Are you effin' kidding me MO? Who the hell is EVER "fully accepted," black OR white OR female or liberal or conservative....... etc.

I think in some ways they might be just as screwed up as Clarance Thomas.

“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.” - Barack Obama.


This man is never going to be a president of the United States. Any first year poli sci student could write the 527 ads that will bring him down if he is ever the nominee.

[Tellurian]

2. Michelle's speeches are comprised of vagaries..

What is scary to me is their constant racist talk. I don't think it's good for the country to be stirring up an unnecessary race war because the Obamas have an agenda specifically aimed at black people. Shouldn't we be concerned they are advocating for special interests groups, their own, as their priority for America rather than looking into the critical issues pressing our country into an economic depression affecting ALL the people?

Here are a few article that seem to mesh with their agenda as being the primary purpose of Obama's candidacy:

How dangerous Obama's ambitions will be for the rest of us:

Donna Brazile is saying: the African American community will outraged if Hillary wins the nomination and Michelle's speeches seem to indicate this is all too true.

You may not be understanding the implication of that statement and what she means. She is saying that African American community will outraged if Hillary wins the nomination due to Super Delegates.

This is about the Congressional Black Caucus. Back on September 29, 2007, It was a CBC sponsored round table on CSPAN in which Donna Brazile, Arthur Davis and about three others were in a panel discussion. We didn’t get to see the whole thing but saw and heard enough. Unfortunately there is neither a video (even though it was obviously on tape) or transcript from the event.

It was the same weekend event to which Hillary was an invited speaker but which caused an uproar because Obama supporters in the CBC objected.

http://www.thehill.com/leading-the-news/cbcs-event-for-clinton-prompts-grumbles-2007-09-20.html

Davis’s speech at the weekend event was pretty much the same one he had delivered at other annual events about the “glass ceiling” (see the problem coming here?)

http://www.house.gov/arturdavis/2004press/glass_ceiling...

Artur Davis RW Power Broker

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=886

The particular round table was about the future of African Americans in politics.

Not to stretch the details in the discussion beyond memory, the gist was this — everybody just couldn’t wait, including Donna and Artur, for Barack Obama to be president so that FINALLY AAs would be able to enact all the plans they've been waiting so long for “the one” to lead.

It was a chilling undercurrent coming from Brazile and if you can't see the implication coming from Brazile on an Obama presidency, then take a step back and think a minute..

CBC’s BrainTrust’s Mission: Strangely enough, it's not about a better Life for AAs..

http://www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=891

In summary, what I gleaned from the CBC's agenda is this: It's not about helping the poor of all races climb out of Poverty, or helping the sick and underprivileged of all races get affordable Health Care and Education. It's about getting in on the Global Trade gravy train using the presidency for enough clout to control and assign contacts and trade deals to AA owned companies and more...

When you factor what you already know from Michelle's prior speeches, adding the CBC's agenda to the equation, it becomes clear what she is talking about. The actual result of an Obama presidency is a picture excluding a huge segment of America and possibly igniting racial violence throughout the country. Once started, it will be impossible to stop it.

I imagine the Republicans are already aware of this canard and will use it to easily crush him as the Dem Nominee in the GE and of course we then become the World's biggest losers again..

[rodeodance]

4. thanks for your work JD.

[rodeodance]

5. REC