Posts Tagged: michelle obama

African-American / Assholes / Barack Obama / GOP / Race / elections 2008 / idiocy — Comments
5
Sep 08

Uppity Obamas

The Black Snob shares with us that it’s official, the Obamas are ‘uppity’.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., was chewing the fat with reporters in the U.S. Capitol and was asked to compare Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama.

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Senator Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks they’re uppity.”

“Asked to clarify that he used the word ‘uppity,’ Westmoreland said, ‘Uppity, yeah,’ ” the newspaper The Hill reported.

-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

They even trying to hide it any more. Shocker? Nope.  Par for the course in the GOP.

Assholes / Barack Obama / Internet / elections 2008 / hypocrisy / idiocy — Comments
2
Sep 08

Republican hypocrisy

And the GOP assault on my intelligence continues.  The newest being this whole Palin baby drama. In a statement from Gov. Palin, she said that she outed her minor daughter’s current pregnancy to rebut rumors online that the baby born in April was really said daughter’s.  I’m at a loss as to how this is a rebuttal. In my world, an adult response would have been something like, “I refuse to discuss unfounded and offensive rumors regarding my minor child.” But that’s just me.

The hypocrisy in all this is that GOPs tsk-tsking over online rumors being given credence. Nevermind that by acknowledging those rumors the McCain-Palin campaign gave them life, therefore forcing the national media to delve into them. Surely, the GOP is above spreading unfounded rumors online, right?

  • This is the political party who has an operative spending almost $3M on Ayers ads.
  • This is the political party who to this day still accuse Obama of being a Muslim as if there’s anything wrong with that.
  • This is the political party who gave us “McCain has a black baby” (NOTE: We never see the ‘black baby’ with the McCain’s as they campaign, be we do see his biological daughter.)
  • This is the political party who spent almost 6 months repeating over and over that Michelle Obama said “whitey”, without a shred of evidence and they’re still trying to force this rumor.
  • This is the political party who accuses Sen. Clinton of being a murderer.

All of a sudden, these people are trying to convince me and the US that they are just shocked and amazed that online rumors are fueling our political discourse. I’d like to say the general American public isn’t that dumb, but history has proven otherwise.

African-American / Barack Obama / Democrats / Events / elections 2008 — Comments
28
Aug 08

The Democratic National Convention is over

What an emotional and historical four days it has been.  There’s a lot to talk about and I’m sure the chuckleheads on cable news are babbling incessantly and stupidly coming up with vapid memes to instigate the Republican party with–that’s their specialty.

You already know how much I cried during Michelle Obama’s speech.  Oddly enough, I did not cry during Sen. Barack Obama’s speech.  I just may be cried out.  It’s amazing to me the range of emotions I feel for this candidate when this time last year I had no plans to vote for him.  I did recognize a year ago that he was going to challenge every state and the American public. That much I gave him.  But I just didn’t think that he could break through the cynicism, apathy and ignorance that is the American voter.  I’m pleased to see that he did.  Even me and you know I’m cynical as hell…I believe.

Watching my friends and family participate in this campaign has been very rewarding.  People who had no idea how our elections worked, are now precinct captains because the took the time to learn and put their best foot forward.  My husband, who was born in a Communist country and looks at our politics as theatre and a vast charade got wrapped up in this election.  Family members who were always active in their local Democratic party, devised ways to help Obama become the frontrunner in the primaries.  These people show what the American public can do when they put their minds and hearts toward a common goal. Tonight, Sen. Obama reminded us as he always does that this election isn’t about him, it’s about the people.  The efforts of these people prove that he was right.

Tonight we watched Sen. Obama become the first black man to accept the nomination for president for a major party.  That’s history and that was moving.  When Sen. Ted Kennedy passed the torch to Obama, that was moving.  And I’m even willing to admit that it was moving when President Bill Clinton, delivering the speech his wife should have given, passed the baton on to Obama.

I hope to never forget this night, this week.

Democrats / elections 2008 — Comments
25
Aug 08

Michelle Obama

Wow.

I cried y’all…I teared up during the promo video.  I teared up during the speech.  But those last 10 minutes…I blubbered like a baby. Michelle Obama’s speech was exactly what she needed to give to re-introduce herself to the American public. 

I recognize Michelle Obama’s life because it’s similar to my own.  More importantly, I know–as any college-educated black female in America can tell you–the struggles, the doubters and the ignorance Obama has had to face at school, at work and within her own community.  She’s had to deal with people who questioned her focus on going to college.  She’s had to deal with coworkers who think that the color of her skin means that she can not do her job.  She’s had to deal with classmates who think that she didn’t get there on her own merits but only as an affirmative action acceptance.  I know that.  I’ve lived that.

But seeing her up on that stage, the possibility that she’ll be our First Lady, filled me with pride.  Not just because of the color of her skin, but as I mentioned back in Februrary, also because she’ll be the first First Lady in my lifetime that I would really and truly admire. I know I’m not alone on this, as as soon as Obama finished her speech, my IMs, phone and emails started beeping and flashing at me.  We laughed and cried and agreed to the happiness and that we’re feeling that as a college-educated black females, we finally have public face America recognizes who is not an entertainer and/or politician.

Thank you Michelle Obama, for being that face.

Election 2008 / Females / Politics — Comments
16
Apr 08

The Future First Lady

Is it wrong that a little part of me is only supporting Obama because of his wife?

If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right…

Barack Obama / Election 2008 / Females / Politics — Comments
3
Feb 08

ELECTION ‘08: UCLA Obama Rally

Wow. What an experience. I’m glad I went, though I should have left the little girl at home. She wanted to leave before it started! I took 107 photos, so I’ll just post some of them here an tell you what’s happening as we go along.

First off, considering that it’s raining and it’s Super Bowl Sunday and it’s Los Angeles AND UCLA is on the westside, I was very, very shocked at the turnout. Especially among black people. I spoke to people who said they went to the early service today to attend this rally. We got there around 10:30am, but considering the seating issues, we could have just showed up at 1 and been on time.

Here’s the famous vendor everyone in LA has a photo of. Funniest thing, the shirt he’s wearing says “He’s black and I’m proud”. I counted about 19 little (8 and younger) white kids wearing that shirt today.

Here’s crowd shot:

When we first came in, they told us to sit on the other side of the gym, which is very strange. Usually you’re forced to fill up the behind the speakers sections first. Then we all got in there and the section behind the speakers was empty. Then they told us to go over there. Bleeech. What made it lamer was that they kept saying, “You’ll be on TV!” like that’s a selling point.

(To the fat black lady in the gray pants and black sweater chasing down the Asian chick handing out signs, thanks for making my daughter cry. When you stole the sign I had asked for, even though you had 3 already, I was asking for her. She kept asking me “Why that lady take my sign?” Thank you very much for being the one blight on the day were everyone was treating her so nicely.)

If I have on complaint it’s the seating people. They were very rude and in typical LA fashion acted like they were bouncers at the hottest club on the planet. Bleeech. One lady had gone to the bathroom and was trying to get back to her stuff. The asshole there wouldn’t let her through. Stupid.

Gloria Romero came to talk. Even though she’s wearing her trademark red, it took me awhile to realize that was her.

Norma Torres, Mayor of Pomona came afterwards. She gave a good speech and was followed by the head of Women for Obama – Los Angeles and Buffy, the Obama field campaign manager. I don’t know Buffy’s last name, but everyone knows Buffy. She introduced a lady who is 93 years old.

They also played the will.i.am video I linked to last night. Some people had never seen it before, as it had just come out the night before. Everyone was cheering and I had to explain to an older couple near me that it wasn’t an Obama campaign piece. The lady then said, “That’s the highest rated YouTube video right now!” and the crowd went nuts. Then I had to explain what YouTube was.

Karen Bass followed and she gave a rousing speech in favor of Obama. In turn,one of the Obama campaign’s national co-chair’s whose name is escaping me right now and she introduced Caroline Kennedy:

Caroline Kennedy read her endorsement gave her speech and got off a funny. She said, “It’s so nice to be able introduce someone other than my uncle Teddy.” and then introduced Oprah Winfrey, who rocked the house.

I couldn’t believe how big an applause she got. Then she gave her speech and it was mind-blowing and awesome. She said that those who told her that she was a traitor to her gender bugged her. She said, “I’ve been a woman all my life, but the point is that I’m a free woman and I can make any choice I want.” Then she said, “Then there were those narrow-minded people who said I’m only endorsing Obama because he’s black.” And she went on about how that was insulting and she wasn’t “endorsing Obama because he’s black. [She's] endorsing him because he’s brilliant.” Cheers.

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The video isn’t great, but the words are clear and it seems to be shot not far from where we were sitting.

Then came Michelle Obama, with none other than Stevie Wonder.

WOW…considering that the Obama campaign has been using Stevie Wonder songs, I had wondered if he gave his blessing. Today there’s no doubt. Wonder talked about how he had supported the Clinton’s in their first two WH bids and Sen. Clinton in her Senate bid, but this time he decided to do it differently.

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Then Michelle Obama spoke. Now, I completely understand why everyone says, “Go see her speak.” The woman is brilliant. I’ve seen clips of her giving speeches and her and there and I have a total girl-crush on her. Man…her speech was funny, delightful, inspiring, energizing, brilliant, awesome…I’m not even going to run out of out adjectives. I would absolutely adore to see her as First Lady. She will be the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt who could inspire a nation to do better, to be better.

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Then Mrs. Obama said, that there was someone she wanted to have come on as a last minute thing. She said that this woman was someone who some of the people on stage knew and that we knew her too. In my mind, I thought, “I just know it’s not Maria Shriver.” Then she said, “I’m pleased to introduce the First Lady of Cali–” and the crowd went balls out nuts!

Yeah. Maria Shriver, wife of our idiot Governor endorsed Sen. Obama today and I was there. Oh my goodness. It was such an amazing moment.

Ha! Snagged a video off BooMan Tribune:

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Needless to say, I’m pretty happy to have gone.

In the parking garage, I spoke to a photographer who was also pretty stunned at the event. He said, “All us photographers were like, ‘Blah, blah, photo of Oprah, Caroline, Michelle…And WHOA Maria Shriver?!?!?’ That blew my mind. It was a smart move.” I said, “Yeah, they just pushed a rally that should have been a blurb into the news cycle leading up to Super Tuesday.” He smiled, “Bingo. People are gonna talk about this.” It’s always amusing to me to see the press get stunned.

UPDATE: