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Michael · 10-05-2008, 02:13 AM

US of A get ready for a major change. History in the making, and the end of the reign of ignorant, selfish businessmen. About F****** time.

Michael · 10-05-2008, 02:16 AM

Would be interesting to see the demographics of an election.

Michael · 10-05-2008, 02:27 AM

USA can be a credible participant in the new global arena. With her technological prowess and agricutural capabilty USA can influence the World for good. For everyone's sake, live up to your potential.

Boon Mee · 10-05-2008, 02:35 AM

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and her conversation is worse...

What conversation?
All she does is lecture folks.
A whiny, arrogant, latte-liberal with a huge sense of entitlement..

Jet Gorgon · 10-05-2008, 07:25 AM

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I think Michelle Obama can be trained to be Presidential wife material.

No way.

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Originally Posted by sabang

I never recall such attention being paid to a potential first lady...As best I can see, the only baggage Michelle carries is that she is Black and educationally accomplished.

She has a big mouth (i.e., she flaps her trap. She is not running for pres, so she should show some respect.)

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Originally Posted by Michael

USA can be a credible participant in the new global arena. With her technological prowess and agricutural capabilty USA can influence the World for good. For everyone's sake, live up to your potential.

I hope you're talking about the country not the dem nominee candidate's wife.

sabang · 10-05-2008, 07:39 AM

Well, at least now I know that women should be seen and not heard (just like my Grandfather used to say), and should not have opinions of their own unless given them by their husbands. Women are good for crochet circles, afternoon charity parties, Boudoir activities, and little else. Clearly, sending a woman to University is dangerous- especially if they are Black (in which case it's only Affirmative Action anyway). They might get ideas above their Station.

Michelle, apart from having a Big Black Booty, will redecorate the White House in purple velour. She also looks like a Monkey. Did I miss anything?

In short, she's a Black Grrrl with No respect and Ideas above her Station in Life, which to quote Jet is a 'cotton pickin' Ho'.

Oh, and Republicans are neither Racist nor Sexist. Send me an application I wanna join the GOP!

chinthee · 10-05-2008, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by sabang

I never recall such attention being paid to a potential first lady.

Well, to her credit, she is deserving of such attention. I only hope she learns to hold her tongue. She will be an exciting and incendiary first lady.

BobbyTits · 10-05-2008, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by sabang

I never recall such attention being paid to a potential first lady.

Well, to her credit, she is deserving of such attention. I only hope she learns to hold her tongue. She will be an exciting and incendiary first lady.

I hope they don't bring cockroaches with them into the White House.

sabang · 10-05-2008, 07:46 AM

How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black. I am enjoying the squirming, and the animal smell of fear in several quarters.

chinthee · 10-05-2008, 08:23 AM

Thank God her name isn't Latitia or Deserie.

Jet Gorgon · 11-05-2008, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by sabang

In short, she's a Black Grrrl with No respect and Ideas above her Station in Life, which to quote Jet is a 'cotton pickin' Ho'.

You better find that quote, Sabby.

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Originally Posted by chinthee

Well, to her credit, she is deserving of such attention. I only hope she learns to hold her tongue. She will be an exciting and incendiary first lady.

??? Hold her tongure for sure. She will decide alot of policy. What she forgets is this is not the family together deciding on mortgages and vacuum cleaners. If Obama is elected, she will be in there like a dirty shirt with an opinion on everything. Not good, IMO.

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How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black. I am enjoying the squirming, and the animal smell of fear in several quarters.

How about Hillary? How about Laura Bush (oh, only gained a Master's degree in the 60s). It's all quite relative, Sabang. Women weren't encouraged or even allowed to attend uni for a long time. Heck, Eleanor Roosevelt only had a few years of schooling, but she was well-read and accomplished. The only reason I'll be shaking is that Michelle will be instrumental in lots of Obama's decisions. Don't forget, lots of dictators and evil people are well-educated, too. Not that Michelle is evil, but I still think she has a "black" agenda.

Boon Mee · 11-05-2008, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by chinthee

Thank God her name isn't Latitia or Deserie.

Or Yolanda...

sabang · 11-05-2008, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

You better find that quote, Sabby.

If I misquoted ya, solly. Maybe it wasn't yours, but theres been several such quotes. My Post was tongue in cheek of course.

Michelles got a doctorate though- puts her one ahead of Lauras masters.

I don't see how she can actually have a black agenda in the Whitehouse- you can't just put up welfare payments for black people. A bit more investment in inner city education might be a good thing.

BobbyTits · 11-05-2008, 05:32 AM

[quote=sabang;619590]How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black. [quote]

I'd like some proof of that statement sans affirmative action.

sabang · 11-05-2008, 05:38 AM

I gotto go to Isaan. I don't know whether her entry to Princeton was some Affirmative action thing. Her academic prize certainly wasn't, and her law doctorate- well, I'm don't believe Affirmative action ever applied to post-grad. She ain't no Dumbo, but then again I suspect thats partially what all the noise is about.

Jet Gorgon · 11-05-2008, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sabang

Michelles got a doctorate though- puts her one ahead of Lauras masters.

It's relative, innit? As I said, not many women even got college degrees in the 60s never mind a master's. My London neighbour got an economics degree from the LSE and worked in Codes & Ciphers during WWII. (No, I do not have press clippings. She also said the LSE was just a second-grade college back then, not like it is today.) She was an anomaly. Very few women graduated from high school, never mind college back then. Nowadays, it's not strange for a woman to get a master's or a doctorate. Still not many female CEOs tho.

chinthee · 11-05-2008, 09:02 PM

^Jet, that's what makes Cindy McCain so impressive. She has ruled the business empire with a truly feminine touch and care for employees.

And, you're right, I think we're seeing the baby boom generation of women professionals come to the fore now, and Michelle and Cindy are great examples and role models for women.

raycarey · 11-05-2008, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by sabang

How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black.

I'd like some proof of that statement sans affirmative action.

i'd like some proof that she benefited from affirmative action.

Jet Gorgon · 11-05-2008, 11:33 PM

At Harvard, she felt the same racial divide. Verna Williams and Michelle became friends in their first year of law school. She remembers many of their fellow black students worrying that white classmates viewed them as charity cases. But she suggests Michelle was not among them. "She recognized that she had been privileged by affirmative action and she was very comfortable with that," Williams recalls.
Who Is Michelle Obama? | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

10-05-2008, 07:39 AM	#266 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Today 05:01 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: east of Pattaya Posts: 7,261	Well, at least now I know that women should be seen and not heard (just like my Grandfather used to say), and should not have opinions of their own unless given them by their husbands. Women are good for crochet circles, afternoon charity parties, Boudoir activities, and little else. Clearly, sending a woman to University is dangerous- especially if they are Black (in which case it's only Affirmative Action anyway). They might get ideas above their Station. Michelle, apart from having a Big Black Booty, will redecorate the White House in purple velour. She also looks like a Monkey. Did I miss anything? In short, she's a Black Grrrl with No respect and Ideas above her Station in Life, which to quote Jet is a 'cotton pickin' Ho'. Oh, and Republicans are neither Racist nor Sexist. Send me an application I wanna join the GOP! __________________ East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Last edited by sabang : 10-05-2008 at 07:54 AM.

10-05-2008, 02:13 AM	#261 (permalink)
Michael Petchabun Last Online: 12-08-2008 04:12 PM Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Songkhla Posts: 172	US of A get ready for a major change. History in the making, and the end of the reign of ignorant, selfish businessmen. About F****** time.

10-05-2008, 02:16 AM	#262 (permalink)
Michael Petchabun Last Online: 12-08-2008 04:12 PM Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Songkhla Posts: 172	Would be interesting to see the demographics of an election.

10-05-2008, 02:27 AM	#263 (permalink)
Michael Petchabun Last Online: 12-08-2008 04:12 PM Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Songkhla Posts: 172	USA can be a credible participant in the new global arena. With her technological prowess and agricutural capabilty USA can influence the World for good. For everyone's sake, live up to your potential.

10-05-2008, 07:46 AM	#269 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Today 05:01 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: east of Pattaya Posts: 7,261	How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black. I am enjoying the squirming, and the animal smell of fear in several quarters.

10-05-2008, 08:23 AM	#270 (permalink)
chinthee Sundance is my bff Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5,776	Thank God her name isn't Latitia or Deserie.

11-05-2008, 05:32 AM	#274 (permalink)
BobbyTits I am in Jail Last Online: 26-06-2008 04:02 PM Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 561	[quote=sabang;619590]How strange and interesting that the most educationally accomplished First Lady in the history of the USA will be Black. [quote] I'd like some proof of that statement sans affirmative action.

11-05-2008, 05:38 AM	#275 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Today 05:01 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: east of Pattaya Posts: 7,261	I gotto go to Isaan. I don't know whether her entry to Princeton was some Affirmative action thing. Her academic prize certainly wasn't, and her law doctorate- well, I'm don't believe Affirmative action ever applied to post-grad. She ain't no Dumbo, but then again I suspect thats partially what all the noise is about.

11-05-2008, 09:02 PM	#277 (permalink)
chinthee Sundance is my bff Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5,776	^Jet, that's what makes Cindy McCain so impressive. She has ruled the business empire with a truly feminine touch and care for employees. And, you're right, I think we're seeing the baby boom generation of women professionals come to the fore now, and Michelle and Cindy are great examples and role models for women.

11-05-2008, 11:33 PM	#279 (permalink)
Jet Gorgon What the Dormouse Said Last Online: Today 11:09 AM Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rabbit Hole Posts: 5,671	At Harvard, she felt the same racial divide. Verna Williams and Michelle became friends in their first year of law school. She remembers many of their fellow black students worrying that white classmates viewed them as charity cases. But she suggests Michelle was not among them. "She recognized that she had been privileged by affirmative action and she was very comfortable with that," Williams recalls. Who Is Michelle Obama? \| Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 \| Newsweek.com

12-05-2008, 02:54 AM	#280 (permalink)
Boon Mee Senior Member Last Online: Today 04:48 PM Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 8,672