Michelle Obama: 'It's now or never': The Swamp
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Posted December 27, 2007 12:23 PM
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by Christi Parsons

In a Vanity Fair interview, Barack Obama's wife Michelle says it's "now or never" for her husband's run for the presidency.

“We’re not going to keep running and running and running, because at some point you do get the life beaten out of you," Obama told the magazine. "It hasn’t been beaten out of us yet. We need to be in there now, while we’re still fresh and open and fearless and bold. You lose some of that over time. Barack is not cautious yet; he’s ready to change the world, and we need that.”

The Democratic candidate's wife dished on a bunch of other topics, including why she teases her husband publicly about his personal habits and how she learned to suppress her sarcastic streak during the campaign.

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You go, Michelle. We've got your back. Barack won't have to keep running, and running, and running. You can start measuring the drapes and choosing a school for your kids now.


"DOOM AND GLOOM"

SO IF OUR GOVERNMENT ISN'T LISTENING AND YOU DON'T LISTEN TO OBAMA, WE ARE ALL DOOMED.

MAYBE, MAYBE NOT. I LIKE THE LATTER, I THINK WE WILL BE FINE, WITH OBAMA AS VICE PRESIDENT OR EVEN SECRETARY OF STATE.

IT'S BETTER THAN AN AUGMENTATED STATE DEPARTMENT! HUH CONDI?


Since she has given us a choice - I think NEVER is a pretty good option


Terry,
Stick to the safe topics today. You were overwhelmed and not sophisticated enough to comment about the NFL Network.


Talk about running a dirty negative sick campaign…. Obamas chief strategist campaign advisor, mintes after the Bhutto murder tried to link Senator Clinton!!!…talk about desperation in a camp!!!! Later, Axelrod backed away from his earlier statements. This obamacamp is sick, great example of Obamas people skills in selecting a chief strategist.
DES MOINES – Sen. Barack Obama directed fierce shots at his two chief rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), as he delivered his new stump speech at the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple. Obama’s criticisms were just another example of his reneging on his campaign promise of running a different kind of campaign. Obama campaign also spent Thursday continuing to criticize Edwards for a labor-backed 527 group that is running ads on his behalf. Obama campaign fired off emails to supporters entitled “What’s really happening in Iowa.”This guy looks pretty sad.
After The New York Times published a story Thursday reporting that Obama voted “present” — instead of yes or no — almost 130 times,
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton has won the backing of four more weekly newspapers in New Hampshire.
The Cabinet Press, which includes four weekly papers that cover nine southern New Hampshire towns, on Thursday said the New York senator excels in all the areas its editorial board believes are important, including health care, national defense, the Iraq war and abortion rights.
"Hillary Clinton is a tough, smart, courageous, compassionate and sometimes blunt senator who will be a good president in a time that requires the kind of backbone she possesses," the editorial board wrote.


I think [never] is the best option.
America will never be ready ready for a black muslim presidential candidate.
Look what happened in Pakistan today...who wants that.

Paulo


Paul - the intellect of the left has spoken.


Our Moment Is Now!

I think [never] is the best option.
America will never be ready ready for a black muslim presidential candidate.
Look what happened in Pakistan today...who wants that.
Paulo

Posted by: Paulo | December 27, 2007 6:35 PM


Paulo,
You need to reach down deep into that little pea sized brain of yours and try an come up with a new lie/smear about Obama, no one believes the "Muslim" line anymore.

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I'm fired up for Senator Obama and I'm tired of the stinkin' warmongering Republicans.

Obama 08:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtg-gvgWhE


"We need to be in there now, while we’re still fresh and open and fearless and bold." Read between the lines -- I see more danger and damage coming when Obama becomes elected. The zeal of the Obamas can work both ways - mobilize and antagonize. Obama needs seasoning. So to Michelle - it's NEVER.


[It's now or perhaps never, Obama and his wife, Michelle, concluded, because, "We still remember what it's like to be normal," he told a crowd here six days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.]

There you go… straight from the horse’s mouth. And as the saying goes, “Out from the mouth comes what is in the heart.” What does the Obama statement imply?

1. Afterall that’s said and done, the fact is Obama does not have the character, the real calling, and the heart to lead America because he cannot and will not endure in the face of defeat.

2. He is a plain opportunist seizing only the moment when as an unknown, his blunders are not yet much to be spoken of… seizing only the moment when as a dazzler, his fresh tactics could still work… seizing the moment when the rhetoric of hope would still work; for when the most experienced and steady President wins and delivers, what else can he talk about next time?

3. His wife spoke so much against the politics of “fear”. Yet here are the Obamas subjecting the American people to an emotional blackmail – instilling in the people the “fear of losing him for the presidency forever if they don’t choose him now”. This is cheap. This is pathetic. This is forcing the hand of America to choose him. Obama is not an urgent choice.

4. Obama does not consider the presidency worth pursuing at another time because he fears becoming “abnormal” in the course of waiting for his own time. That means Obama is not sure of who he is and therefore fears what he can become.

5. Obama is running for the presidency now, not because he is called for a vision, but because he is compelled by a favourable condition. His candidacy is not about hope. His hope is about his candidacy.

Obama said, "If this country would sit there and not elect him when he's clearly the obvious person for the job, that shows we're just dysfunctional as a society…”

America would be wiser not to elect someone who is unfairly contemptuous of its people and ignorantly judgmental of the choice they make (whatever it is). The presidential election is about America not about Obama.


Well, there you are: If her hubby doesn't win this, we won't have Barack Obama to kick around anymore. Now, why does this whine sound so very familiar...?


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