Via NRO via Hot Air:
In a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Michelle observed: “What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. … And, for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.” This is not a radical observation: Get a half-dozen gals together with a few bottles of Beaujolais, and a similar theme will eventually emerge. (Trust me on this.) Looked at one way, Michelle was issuing a pointed call for female selfempowerment; but, looked at another, she was offering a poignant commentary on how things have long run [at] chez Obama.
The griefs of women are quiet; rustle
like crinoline or whisper like
the tearing of old silk;
hum like appliances, give off the sharp sweet smell
of burnt-out motors; tap like typewriter keys.
The strengths of women are quiet
but hardy as the weed that finds its cranny
between the concrete block of the sidewalk
and the concrete slab of the wall, and grows there,
and blooms there.
Men are bums.
We’re really better than they are.
Comment by Karl on 3/10 @ 12:22 pm #
Those possibilities Jim Geraghty mentions are not mutually exclusive, either.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 12:24 pm #
Shrewed observations, Dan.
Comment by Karl on 3/10 @ 12:34 pm #
Anda as long as we’re talking MO and NRO, Mark Steyn hat tips Don Surber:
No doubt she blames men for it.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 12:37 pm #
Well, Dr. Helen’s addressing the heartache that can cause.
Comment by mojo on 3/10 @ 12:51 pm #
Les langues des hommes sont remplies de duperie.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 1:12 pm #
The problem, here, is not that Michelle is insincere so much as she hasn’t learned yet not to complain to those who have it worse than she does.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 1:31 pm #
I mean, everyone’s life is hard. If only Michelle could make enough to pay someone to take care of those pesky kids, and then someone to take care of the house, and the shopping, and the cooking, and the decision-making, and (finally) the worrying, life would be easy.
I feel her pain. No, seriously. But I have learned not to complain about having money problems to those who make a quarter of what I do. It didn’t take long, either.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/10 @ 1:44 pm #
Grrrrr……..
I can’t express how utterly PISSED OFF that statement makes me.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 1:52 pm #
Good grief, for a woman who is supposed to be brilliant she sure talks in victimization absolutes. I mean all men? Every last one of them? All women struggle to get out of bed? The entire country is mean? Perhaps she didn’t read Gail Sayers’ autobiography in which he had a framed paper on his desk that said, “God is First. My Family is Second. I am Third.”
One gets the feeling that members of the campaign are trying to gently rein her in but she’ll have none o’ that!
Comment by ushie on 3/10 @ 1:53 pm #
Huh. I’ve met some men who put their family first. They must be mutant freaks.
Comment by Brett on 3/10 @ 1:54 pm #
That’s just bull. Most women put themselves first, just as men do. Many women elevate their feelings of the moment to the highest priority. That is why their word is worthless–oops! I should say, They always maintain the prerogative to change their mind.
Comment by Radish on 3/10 @ 2:07 pm #
I didn’t think it was possible to find a politician’s wife less sympathetic than Hillary, and yet there she is.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 2:19 pm #
Where in Milwaukee do you live, Radish? That’s my hometown.
Comment by J. Peden on 3/10 @ 2:45 pm #
At long last Affirmative Action has finally born its iconic perfect fruit, a large mouthed dumbass racist sexist. It works!
Somewhere, Sandra Day O’Conner gloats.
Comment by Republican on acid on 3/10 @ 3:21 pm #
The more I see of the Obama mamma the less I need to see. She is so full of shit. As anyone really can see, WHOM comes first in divorce proceedings? What MAN has a shot in hell to keep his children after a divorce unless the female of the union is a felon or provable heroin addict?
How many homes are full of things that only a MAN would buy?
Or is she talking about feelings? Probably so, because in this day and age in this country FEELINGS are all that matter.
For the first time in my life, America is making me want to barf. And mainly because so many people out there BELIEVE in goons like the Obama’s and the Clinton’s.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:24 pm #
But . . . but . . .
For the first time in her life MichelleO is proud of her country.
(And not just because Barack’s doing well)
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 3:29 pm #
#6 Slart – You are so correct. Bill Clinton was smart enough to say “I feel your pain”. Mrs. Obama instead says, “Honey, you think that’s bad? Let me tell you about my day!”
So intelligent, yet so clueless.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 3:31 pm #
And I see you covered that in #7.
Carry on.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:32 pm #
So, Dan, are you saying she’s proud enough now to get out of bed with hope to do more then just “get by” and face all of those me first men who live on the mean streets of the “mean country” and will this time, this place, actually find the time to shop for cantalopes?
word!
Comment by Radish on 3/10 @ 3:38 pm #
Dan> Well, I live in Glendale, but Milwaukee is just across the street.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:43 pm #
Cantaloupes? You SEXIST PIG!!!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 3:45 pm #
Be glad he didn’t say…watermelons!
Oh! The scandal there would be!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:45 pm #
Um …um … I meant … MELONS! NO! ah … um … KUMQUATS!
I’m going for reeducation, aren’t I?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 3:46 pm #
Are grapes on the forbidden list yet?
Just asking.
Comment by Jim in KC on 3/10 @ 3:46 pm #
So, does the fact that a lawyer at a hospital makes >$300k say more about the high cost of medical care, or about the high cost of tuition, given that it’s a university>/i> hospital?
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:46 pm #
Man-grapes?
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:47 pm #
Jim–
Hahahahahahahaha. She’s a MINORITY HIRE, you asshole.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:48 pm #
Jim:
I guess I’ll save you a bunk at the gulag…
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 4:25 pm #
Dan: If you mean “wife of a US Senator” then you are correct. There are only 100 US Senators.
Comment by BrendaK on 3/10 @ 5:17 pm #
Jeez – most of the women I know got over the “all men are bums” stage sometime in their 20’s.
MO has some very…interesting prisms she views the world through.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 6:41 pm #
I should have said ’spouse’. Not all US Senators are male. Or swing…
Look, I’m going to shut up right now.
Comment by Merovign on 3/10 @ 6:59 pm #
What a bigoted bitch. Keep that mouth yapping, Michelle, we’ll all know what you are by election day.
Comment by MlR on 3/10 @ 7:40 pm #
“At long last Affirmative Action has finally born its iconic perfect fruit, a large mouthed dumbass racist sexist. It works!
Somewhere, Sandra Day O’Conner gloats.”
This made me laugh, even though its so pathetically true.
Comment by Thomas Jackson on 3/10 @ 7:52 pm #
This woman makes Teresa Heinz look postively saintly and wise.
Comment by Al Maviva on 3/10 @ 7:54 pm #
Good lord, she talks like she’s married to Elliot Spitzer or something. C’mon.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 3/10 @ 9:12 pm #
Chances are, if you think that the world is especially and uniquely unfair to YOU, you are:
1) Fourteen years of age; or
2) A doctrinaire libtard.
Not that there is much of a difference. My Pop beat that bullshit out of me way before fourteen. Way before.
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Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 3/11 @ 4:03 am #
- But there was that one time when her poly-sci prof promised her an excellant/outstanding on her treatise: “America – scoring my proud”, but he stiffed her with a 98% for mis-spelling “mutha” 84 times.
- DAMN WHITEY RACIST!!!111one!!11