Book: Michelle Obama Clashed With President’s Aides, Wanted to Stay in Chicago
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A new book says there was tension between first lady Michelle Obama and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, and that she considered putting off moving the rest of her family to Washington when her husband began his term. (AP)
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president’s wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple’s relationship.
New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, in a book to be published Tuesday, portrays a White House where tensions developed between Mrs. Obama and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary and presidential adviser Robert Gibbs.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the book, “The Obamas,” Friday evening and The Times posted a 3,300-word adaption on its website that appeared to capture its most revealing accounts. The book is based on interviews with 30 current and former aides, though President Barack Obama and the first lady declined to be interviewed for the book.
The book portrays Mrs. Obama as having gone through an evolution from struggle to fulfillment in her role at the White House but all the while an “unrecognized force” in pursuing the president’s goals.
She is seen publicly as the friendly and popular face of the softer side of the White House, the one reading to school kids or promoting exercise as a means to reduce child obesity.
But according to Kantor, the first lady initially wanted to stay in Chicago instead of moving into the White House when her husband began his term:
As Michelle Obama realized over the summer and fall of 2008 that she was likely to become first lady, she asked a question that probably would have surprised outsiders: could she and her children delay moving to the White House? Perhaps it was better, she told aides and friends, to remain in Chicago until the end of the school year, giving her children more time to adjust, rather than coming right at the inauguration. Her notion, though short-lived, was telling: she didn’t understand or care what sort of message it would send to a public enthralled by the new first family, and she had trepidations about life in the spotlight, let alone the prospect of residing in a monument-museum-office-military compound-terrorist target-home.
She ultimately decided to go to Washington immediately, not because of the obligations of office, but because of “wanting her family to be together,” Ms. Jarrett said.
Once she arrived at the White House, according to Kantor, there was concern about how the White House appeared to the rest of the country in the throes of economic turmoil:
Mrs. Obama often found herself caught in an internal debate about how the Obamas should look and live, travel and entertain. As the first African-American first lady, she wanted everything to be flawless and sophisticated; she felt “everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake,” a former aide said.
But her husband’s advisers — in particular, Mr. Gibbs — were worried that the White House might appear oblivious to public anger about joblessness, banker bailouts and bonuses. The result was constant, anxious give-and-take between the East and West Wings about vacations, décor, entertainment, even matters as small as whether to announce the hiring of a new florist.
“We all have watched what happens when people get caricatured,” Mr. Gibbs said in an interview, explaining why he policed such personal matters. With a mistake like John Edwards’s $400 haircut in 2007, “there’s no way to correct that.” Other aides said there was a reason Mr. Gibbs became the main enforcer of the rules of political life: because Mr. Obama, all too aware that his wife never wanted that life, would not.
According to Kantor, early in 2010 as the president’s health care agenda seemed in danger of collapsing, Mrs. Obama let it be known she was annoyed by how the White House was handling the strategy. After media reports indicated Emanuel was unhappy pursuing the health care overhaul, Emanuel offered to resign, Kantor wrote. The president declined the offer.
By that spring, however, Kantor writes that Mrs. Obama “made it clear that she thought her husband needed a new team, according to her aides.”
Among the book’s most provocative anecdotes, Kantor recounts a scene in which Gibbs, frustrated after tamping down a potential public relations crisis involving the first lady, exploded when presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett told him the first lady had concerns about the White House response to the flap. The initial commotion had been over an alleged remark by Michelle Obama to French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy that living in the White House was “hell.”
Gibbs cursed the first lady, who was absent. Kantor writes that Gibbs later said his anger was misplaced and that he blamed Jarrett for creating the confrontation. Kantor writes that Jarrett appeared to have been too quick with her criticism of Gibbs and that two aides to the first lady later said Jarrett had misspoken.
The White House had a cold reaction to the book, calling it an “over-dramatization of old news” and emphasizing that the first couple did not speak to the author, who last interviewed them for a magazine piece in 2009.
“The emotions, thoughts and private moments described in the book, though often seemingly ascribed to the president and first lady, reflect little more than the author’s own thoughts,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. “These secondhand accounts are staples of every administration in modern political history and often exaggerated.”
The book, in an array of reconstructed anecdotes, depicts a first couple often wishing they could escape the confining White House life more freely; a president who at times gets deeply frustrated by how the press covers him; and a former chief of staff, Emanuel, who let loose with profane outbursts on staff members. All of those themes have been presented in some form in other publications.
One incident recalled that Jarrett used a phone aboard Air Force One to call a New York Times reporter. The reporter was pursuing a story about how Obama‘s West Wing was essentially a big boys’ club, and Jarrett was calling to argue that the premise of a male-dominated operation was overblown. The book says even though Jarrett was the one making the call, it was Obama himself who was managing the response to the Times’ story even before it came out by “personally dictating talking points to the aides who would speak to the reporter.”
In another, the book describes how Obama, after winning a U.S. Senate seat and writing a best-selling book, “The Audacity of Hope,” sought self-protection and privacy as he came to terms with his new fame. Some staffers came up with a word to describe times when the senator couldn’t connect with people: “Barackward,“ a combination of ”Barack“ and ”awkward.”
But despite the White House pushback to the book, Kantor also includes many positive portrayals of both Obamas as committed parents and a down to earth power couple who have not lost their perspective.
Other revelations in the book:
- During the struggle to pass health care reform, Obama was committed to tackling the massive problem of rising health care costs despite the political costs. “Michelle and I are perfectly comfortable if we’re only here one term if we feel like we really accomplished something,” the book quotes the president as telling aides.
- The first lady grew angry when Emanuel promised she would appear at a Florida congressman’s event in exchange for a health care vote without consulting her. She attended the event, but to signal her disapproval refused to commit to campaigning during the 2010 midterm elections, holding out for nearly a year.
- Despite her reticence in 2010 to campaign during the midterms, the book says Mrs. Obama now has no qualms about 2012. “Michelle had been playing it safe, storing up political capital, and now she wanted to spend it all on her husband’s re-election campaign.”
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Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:43amWE all know Mooch runs the WH. This woman is still not proud of her country, and BHO is transforming America all right, into a bannana republic, socialism and outright bankruptsy. What a guy and gal, gotta love their charisma, but hate their ideals! Let’s all come together to make sure this guy is a one termer, pretty please, with sugar on top? Our country’s future depends on this!
GETLIFE
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:06amSo she is portrayed as being independent of her husband– so as to make her all the more effective on the campaign trail. How not surprising is that!
I love the whole storytale story about maybe not moving to Washington right away. Really!!? What, did she think– everyone would just leave them to their “private” life if she and the girls stayed in Chicago? Oh come on! Is she really THAT stupid– or does she just think we are that stupid?
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:13amYeah right. Everybody was waiting for a black women to make a mistake. Well, we all know that you don’t have to wait around very long for that.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:17amSounds like a typical cop out to me. Too much pressure, I’m a “victim” waiting to happen. Just send me the government checks, I’ll deposit them in the account from here.
Now that’s what I call a life partner, not a wife. You suppose it was just some mutual agreement they had to look like “man and wife?” nah.
But a very attractive photo of a really … never mind.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:17amWookies are known to pull the arms out of your sockets when they lose.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:34amUNIX…If so called Republicans keep alienating Ron Paul supporters by calling them kooks and nuts, they will stay at home. People had better get it in their heads that Ron Paul supporters like me are Patriots that want to return to a Constitutinal Government. We want government out of our lives and we want the POS POTUS we have now gone.
Keep calling Ron pauls supporters names and I will NOT VOTE at all. I am still willing to vote, but the wrath of Ron Paul naysayers is wearing thin for me. I am getting to the point where I would like to see it all crash so we can rebuild it on the Constitution.
So wake up you Ron Paul bashers…you are bashing a Veteran, a Patriot and a true American that wants nothing more than a Constitutional government. Keep bashing and I for one will let you have Obama again.
Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:43am@Baddoggy – Sir, I am on your side 1,000%. I have never bashed Paul, I question some foreign policy, but would vote for him if he wins the Primary. I am a Constitutional Conservative. I will vote for Romney, should he get thru, Santorum, or ANY OF THEM, to get rid of this Marxist in our WH.
I urge EVERYONE, Libertarian, Conservative, Independent, I don’t care who, to UNITE, to BACK THE WINNER AT ALL COSTS, or we are DONE!
I too want to return the Republic to the Constitution! Not this bast-ard-iszed version of it – regulated, and taxed to DEATH, I am SICK OF IT.
Viva TEA
Report Post »God Bless America (all 57+ states), and Return US to the Constitution.
Roberto G. Vasquez
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:45amShouldn’t she be allowed to be herself? IMO there is too much micro-managing going on behind the scenes by the handlers in both parties.
Report Post »blattack
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:51amSooner they are out the better. I love my country..but this bunch has to go.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:51amThe only thing bigger than her arse is her ego!
Report Post »BTW, have you ever wondered why there are no stories, etc. about women in BHO’s life pre-Moochelle?
Was he some kind of celibate priest, or did he just hang out with guys??
Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:52amPolitics has come to symbolize CORRUPTION, I am sorry to say it, there are scant few ‘good’ politicians any more! Every stinking one of them is in somebody’s pocket, with few exceptions! FACT!
The more OUTSIDERS we put in the WH and Congress the BETTER, IMHO!!!
Viva TEA
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:18amShe looks angry all the time, like one of those “in your face” racist black women you run into at Walmart or someplace that you can tell is just hoping some white person will give them a reason to pounce on them.
Report Post »TAXLORDCOMETH
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:18amNot to mention her husband is secretly gay.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:24amThat would explain her expression in the photo, TAXLORD.
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:36amLook at her hair. I know you can’t help what kind of hair you have, but this is NO BEAUTY!
Waiting for a ‘Black Women’ to fail or see how much money She can spend.
Report Post »Like a drunk on a friday night. $1,000,000,000 Has She hit a billion yet???
AzDebi
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:41amI don’t care how much of OUR MONEY she spends on her appearance…she still has the face of a very ANGRY woman! She and her husband need to take a HIKE!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:52am@UNIX. You are what I would call a common sense Conserative who understands what we are faced with in the upcoming election. Romney from all I can at this point WILL probably be the nominee and the one to go up against Obama. We all need to rally behind the eventual nominee and it won’t be Ron Paul.
Ron Paul needs to get his head out of his rectum and be a uniting Republican voice when his campaign flounders again and tell his supporters to do the right thing and support the Republican nominee instead of pushing useless 3rd Party candidates just to be an A-hole. Ron Paul could go a long way in showing that he puts Patriotic Conservative America first and himself second. If he wants to remain a footnote in history and a pariah he will… or he can show Conservative America (for the first time)… he is truly the man.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:55amWookies are known to fight for freedom! So really, she’s NOT a Wookie, just a Wookie look-a-like………….:)
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:59amYeah, sure! During the 08 campaign, she let out enough clues that I knew what was coming. “For the first time in her adult life, she was proud of America” What nonsense! Then the “He will fundamentally transform America” that one scared the hell out of me.
For not wanting to move in the WH, she’s totally taken advantage of all the perks, spending millions on the trips she taken……..$4 million on last trip to Hawaii alone. The extravagant parties and costly foods……….for a while I began to think she was getting lessons from Nancy Pelosi.
Sure, they’ve all done some of this but not during a major downturn in this Country while many were
Report Post »truly hungry and in need of a few dollars just to make it to the next day. I truly believe these people
in the WH had their thumbs to their noses, waving fingers, saying: nan na, nan na, nan na to us.
oneshiner
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:08am@poor richard:
There’s plenty of stuff, but you have to dig for it. I just heard Neal Boortz talking about Bama’s love to hang out with marxists and communists when he first went to Occidental, and it followed him on to the other high learnings along with alcohol. The most interesting thing I‘ve heard was that he and Emannuel were both life members of the Chicago Men’s bath house. hmmmm? Google it. If this is truth, the wife & kids are window dressing.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:11amBull crap
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:12amThe racism that is at the core of the Tea party, that they deny, is on full display every day here.
Report Post »artistskeptic
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:21amI for one wish the skank had stayed in Chicago and kept he useless idiot husband with her!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:21amWe are not waiting for michelle to make a mistake….SHE IS A MISTAKE!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:23am.
she felt “everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake,”
And she did, and Barry did not help her. When my wife ask’s “Do I look good in this”, as much trouble as I might get in, I don’t lie to her…….
Report Post »GUNNSUP
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:37amMooch continues to embarrass herself and the country.
Listen to “The Judge”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_ybaXhXno&feature=youtu.be
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:55amIs it me, or is something wrong with that left eye…?
Michelle “Left Eye” Obama.
Her vision is skewed.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:09pmBiotchelle is a few cards short of a full deck, and there are only so many race cards in it to begin with. You’re played out, Biotchelle.
Report Post »fredbolling
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:32pmAmen to that.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:33pm.
Report Post »“Wanted to Stay in Chicago”
Go now!
You always leave before the prez. anyway.
Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:42pmI think she is enthralled with her position, loves the power her husband is exerting, loves that he is avoiding our most sacred rights given to us in our Constitution and loves seeing how much taxpayer money she can spend and piss everyone off. No matter which of the Republican candidates wins the nomination, we need to support him and get BHO out of OUR White House. It is not going to become his permanent home as he would like it to be.We all have that wonderful liberty of the right to vote and no matter what party, please support the Republican because if the vote is split with a Independent or some other party that comes outy of nowhere, we will be stuck with these two forever and God help us all if ythis happens.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:42pmAnd out comes the race card.
Report Post »Redd
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:43pmThink about it….moochelle wanted to stay in chicago because she didnt want to be in the white house when they took the commie usurper out in handcuffs. She had a lot of uncertainty about how much dunham could get away with.
Report Post »LastChanceToSaveOurRepublic
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:54pmI understand the frustration of seeing our country being destroyed by the current administration. I see what the liberal media says (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, not to mention ABC, CBS, and NBC) yes I included FOX all you have to do is listen to Bill for 5 min to see what he is all about. And please don’t tune me out or get angry. I am just explaining what I see.
First my personal beliefs:
I love my Country, and it is a Republic not a Democracy. I believe that the left has go more left as time has passed and the right has also. The Republicans are what the Democrats used to be 75 years ago. Conservatism has been almost lost … to many to be an old fashioned Republican you must be a kook/nutjob. We don’t see many of them anymore so it is not “the norm”. I consider a constitutionalist a conservative.
Continued …
Report Post »LastChanceToSaveOurRepublic
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:55pmThe top4 in Iowa order:
Mitt:
Big Government guy that supports invasive laws that takes our freedom to be individuals. Health care is a big one … Remember he did it in Mass first. I have hunted for the quote I read about 3 years ago but it has been scrubbed from the Internet. John McCain was given the nomination in 2008 for his service to the party and next time it would be Mitt’s. Will he reduce Government spending? Nope. How can he if he is growing Government? He is part of the system. Did he serve in the military? Yes. Did he see Action? No. He said he would go to war with Iran.
Rick:
Big Government can solve the peoples problems. Will he reduce Government spending? Can’t. How can he if he is making Government bigger? He wants to be “Commander in Chief” = “War President” He will go to war with Iran to stop them from getting nukes. Did he serve in the military? Yes. Did he see action? No.
Ron:
Small Government, Get the government out of the way so people can solve their problems. He would not go to war with Iran. Did he serve in the military? Yes. Did he see action? Yes.
Newt:
Big Government can solve the peoples problems. He was thrown out of the house as speaker. He knows his recent history very well. He also sites liberal FDR as our best president.
He will go to war with Iran.
Continued …
Report Post »LastChanceToSaveOurRepublic
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:56pmForeign policy is where the Ron Paul train derails right? I don’t think so. The key here is HE won’t go to war with Iran. The constitution says it is Congress that must “declare war”. He follows the constitution. If congress declares war he is under obligation to the constitution to become “Commander in Chief” and lead us to a swift victory. That is the Conservative stand on war but not the Republican or Democrat view.
I see Mitt, Rick and Newt as Big Government Liberals. I want to help the world… But if we are financially sick and can’t take care of ourselves we are no good to the rest of the world. Israel can defend itself and remove the nuke threat.
Just think about it … Peace to all
Report Post »michael48
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:17pmbible dude…typical “wanna be anything but white fello”…dumber than a sack of marbles and more than willing to provide proof…carry on comrade, when you get to the cliff…just jump…
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:20pmNot a smart response at all BAGDOGGY, sometimes people do make stupid statements about Ron Paul. I’m not a Paul supporter, but he does have a lot of good ideas, particularly on the domestic scene, but I don’t resort to name calling just cause I would not vote for him in the primaries. Sometimes you just have to consider the source when people make asinine comments. Certainly not worth discounting or throwing your vote away in the general election. it’s a little bit like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:29pmGot into Princeton on the back of her basketball brother and Affirmative Action.
Report Post »shirleyandpearl
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:41pmMoochelle was making bank at her useless hospital admin. job back in Chicago. She probably misses that moo-la, so she is taking vacation privileges to the fullest advantage courtesy of the tax payer dollars. Well, let’s make her happy camper and send this family back to Chicago by UNITING our vote, for WHOEVER wins the primary. All of the candidates have many positives that outweigh the Alinsky ideals of this sitting president. We can’t afford four more years of Obama and his choices.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:08pmThe Obama are the most bigoted people I have ever seen. Everything revolves around their skin color with these people? What in the world is wrong with them?
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:12pm@ banjarmon
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:21am
We are not waiting for michelle to make a mistake….SHE IS A MISTAKE!!!
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EXACTLY right!
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:32pm@LASTCHANCE
“Ron:
“He would not go to war with Iran. Did he serve in the military? Yes. Did he see action? Yes.”
Please do tell about the “action” that Ron Paul the drafted-volunteer saw? Would hate to see a Paulman spreading misinformation and falsehoods to make him look good.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:34pmOk, I understand the part about Michelle Obama, but who is that guy in the picture?
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:12pmWho Is That Gorgeous Yong Black Women Obama Has Been Seen With Several Times?
Is she a Tiger Woods cast off who Obama met on one of his golf outings. At a recent football game she was seen sitting very close next to the President, close enough to feel and hear his heart beat.
Only TEA can set you free now..
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:27pmAnyone remember the movie : THE GRINCH, take a close look at that photo.
Report Post »mmabri
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:02pm@Baddoggy – I would ask you as a Paul supporter will you vote for anyone else besides Paul if he doesn’t get the nomination? Because most Paul supporters I meet won’t even consider it. They would rather have another Obama term then vote for someone else. Which to me is pretty kooky and nutty. So if you guys won’t even consider voting for anyone else then what does it matter if Republicans call you kooky or nutty?
Report Post »Paydert33
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:29pm@GETLIFE………..yes, she really thinks we are stupid out here. She does. You can tell the way she acts after she shopped at Target….. how she looks down at all of us when she goes with…….how many people did she take with her to Spain? How much tax-payer money did it cost to go to Martha’s Vineyard, and take a separate plane so she didn’t have to wait a few hours more to leave? How much tax-payer money for them to go to Hawaii? (another separate plane). She…..99.9% of the time has that mean-chip-on-the-shoulder-look about her. She didn’t want to come to Washington, DC? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. What a complete phony! While they are spending us blind….they could care less for us out here, otherwise anyone with a heart would not be doing the things they are doing. Like George W, not playing golf with respect for the military. Notice o-loser could care less about respect for anyone but himself. They go and do as they please no matter the cost. Unemployment numbers in the tank, homes and more homes in foreclosure, prices at the pump and wow, the grocery prices are really going up. They know what they are doing. After all they were educated at Harvard. They might have book sense, but lack total common sense. Total losers and no class. I have never seen a First Lady act as she does. Oh, how could I forget……mooooooochele has the entitlement mentality.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:40pmWell put !
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:55pmMoooochell, like many blacks who moooch off the system, like her undergraduate and graduate degrees, then say stupid things like, “this is the first time that I have been proud of my country”, are a bunch of ingrates, who think the world owes them everything. if you Google the extravagant spending of the Obamas once they became President and First lady, she will remind you a bit about Marie Antoinette, who told the peasants, who had no bread, “let them eat cake”. There are people who say, “what a family man” of Obama‘ but it’s a bit like the farmer, who said, “Bless me , my wife and kids and no more”, for he has been in a position to help his extended family both in the states and back home in Kenya, but obviously does not have any empathy towards them, for he does nothing for them, nor does he in reality really care for the American people, for he perpetuates a family destructive welfare system and surrounds himself with progressive, anti-God types, who believe that the collectivist, anti-freedom, anti-liberty, anti-individualism, anti-free enterprise and anti-property rights, all detrimental to our traditional value oriented, Judeo-Christian way of life.
Report Post »To buttress my argument and confront those who would in any way ascribe to Obama any Christian attributes or empathies, I would draw your attention to Obama’s 2006 trip to Kenya to openly campaign for Raille Odinga for President, a man who butchered Christians and burnt over 600 Christian churches.
Armed Patriot
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:01pmMrs. Obama often found herself caught in an internal debate about how the Obamas should look and live, travel and entertain. As the first African-American first lady, she felt “everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake,” a former aide said.
We dont care about her heritage or color, only the blacks/democrats do. What we care about is her commie/anti American views and attitude about America, her abuse, and Marie Antoinette attitude, the thousands of 3# lobsters the poor are paying for her to eat, and her $4 Million dollar vacations on our dime when we cant afford to go on a $400 vacation sleeping in tents.
Impeach nobama for his many violations of the US Constitution. This Shite bag should be in prison.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:28pmI would not be surprised if the Obama’s were building a new White House in Chicago to move into after they declare martial law in 2012 and the construction at the WH (in Washington, DC) is just an underground, one way, hi-speed rail to the new WH in Chicago.
Report Post »And yes, she is one angry person.
The-Monk
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:46pmMichele O should chill out and be grateful that her parents didn’t name her Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop. Oh, and lose some weight while you’re at it. I didn’t know that eating Surf-n-Turf every day made the butt so big (or should I say… humongous).
Report Post »Marci
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:49pmShe never thought everyone was “waiting for a black woman to make a mistake”. That is doublespeak for “I am gonna do what the hell I want, and anyone who has a problem with it is racist”. Both the Obamas are completely full of it and full of themselves. And seriously, they think she is the “softer” one? Oh please, something smacks here. Was this a concerted effort to raise campaign cash no longer streaming in because more idiots are FINALLY waking up? It would seem so. Anyone who buys this book is donating to a campaign.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:15amCan ya say
>arrogant?
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:04amshe looks like a baboon that just drank vinegar
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 11:03am“everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake,”
Report Post »Actually, everyone is waiting for a Princeton educated attorney to say something intelligent.
Well, its only been three years.
XScramblerX
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 11:46am@ BADDOGGY
I’m with you 100%, The system does not want to return to the Constitution.
Report Post »Sheeple do not understand that the president’s personal views are not that important
as long as he lets Congress decide, and not use executives powers when ever congress
disagrees with him!
Ron Paul is the only candidate that will abide by the Constitution!!
ALL others are bought and paid for by the bankers!
WAKE UP PLEASE!
TEA!
stanishr
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:04pmMy candidate is anybody but Obama (ABO). His policies are destructive, socialist and Alinsky driven. The only uptick in unemployment is when congress (do nothing is much better than do wrong) has slowed his agenda. If he gives any more to Trumpka he’ll explode!
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 8:08pmSomething is very wrong with two grown adults that find racism under every leaf, rock and blade of grass. Obviously they were not discriminated against in their education and jobs, or they would not be where they are now. They just use racism to build up their voting block. They stir the racism pot to keep the contributions coming and the people going to the polls. If anything both her and her husband are racists against whites and Jews. There are many, many instances of it during his 3 years on the throne. She takes separate vacations from her husband, she even spent his birthday away from him. If she wanted to go home to Chicago, no one is stopping her. But no worries michelle o, January 15th, 2013 you can go home.
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:01am“Michelle and I are perfectly comfortable if we’re only here one term if we feel like we really accomplished something”?? the important thing is:.-. We the American people are perfectly comfortable hoping this one will be only one term president… if we want to survive as a Nation.
Report Post »tirelesspatriot
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:49pmMIL-DOT: I am no fan of the Marxist Obamas. However, your comment is egregiously moronic and is on par with miniscule-minded comments from Obama supporters.
Report Post »SHIPMONEY100TRILLION
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:43amMay hart weeps purple piss for her.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:01amMan, you ought to get that looked at by a good doctor, me thinks you may have Socialitice…that would be an extreme reaction to Socialism, it could last for years without treatment! I hear a good VOTE fixes it pretty quickly though.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:20pm@Unix
Report Post »Nicely said!
SHIPMONEY100TRILLION
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:42amWhat is this evil B-Butt whining about?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:32amI wish both she and B.O. had stayed in Chicago … let’s send them BACK!
2012 OMG == Obama must go! And take her ugly a $$ with him.
Report Post »judy1270
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:41amThat women can turn gray for all I care. I can’t stand her, and I hate her husband.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:25amWoman?
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:59am“The first lady grew angry when Emanuel promised she would appear at a Florida congressman’s event in exchange for a health care vote without consulting her”
That sentence,absolutely disgusts me. Our futures decided on favors.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:31pmHow in the hell those nig-nags wound up occupying the White house is beyond my imagination. Is this real, or am I in the Twilight zone?
Report Post »harley 98
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:34amhold on everybody, this the most admired woman in the US bull sh##@!t
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:46amoh no, the worlds most admired woman. the Obama’s remind me of the song, dead skunk in the middle of the road, roll up your windows and hold your nose. actually i’m talking about BO and his administration. i could care less about michelle the socialist. and don’t forget BO is working on becoming our first dictator, making appointments while congress is in section and calling it a recess appointment.
Report Post »cardhuu
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:30amPoor ole Michele won’t be able to eat lobster and caviar on the American people after January. She is a elitist snob always has been an will always be. Read here theist how she hates white people! Funny that she has never been proud of her country. Well tell ya what sweetie go home back to where ever you think you came from, hurry up about it to so we the American people can pay for it! 4 million and change for your trip to Hawaii! Wonder how many had to go and without food to eat Christmas day…… try thinking about the people for once not the Obozo’z and their America owes us!
Report Post »GUNNSUP
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:49amThey kinda remind me of the afro american couple I saw last week in the chinese buffet in Orlando. Both wearing matching purple outfits and just chowing down after several trips to the all you can eat food hub. Upon time to pay their tab, they argued with the mgr and I quote…”We find this food unsatisfactory & we rufuse to pay!” lol…..true story
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:44pmthe color PURPLE represents ACORN/SEIU
Report Post »See how many times that color shows up with Sheela Jackosonian Lee and RevySharpo
Also black and red—-they represent communism/socialism/marxists
Sublimal messages Andy Stern would be so proud.
rdk
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:29amThey both should have stayed in Chicago.
Report Post »I wonder where they will go in 2013?
Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:53amhopefully on a long walk off a short pier!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:18amTo He ll for all I care … that is where evil goes … right?
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:25am90 rounds of golf for the loafer in chief, million dollar vacations for his spoiled wife. give me a break. they could care less about what the american taxpayer thinks.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:38amLove that one, LOL, loafer-in-chief…I will agree with you, the man is lazy! We will see more of him over the next 10 months to fill a lifetime…oh, my, but haven’t we already seen and heard enough from this guy to fill three lifetimes already? A Billion dollar war chest…ugh…the thought of four more years of your loafer makes me feel ill.
Viva TEA
Report Post »God Bless America (all 57+ states)
drst4scss
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:24amDamn she is ugly! I cannot tell if she is a man in drag???
Report Post »Woman or Man… You be the judge?!
biohazard23
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:59amTra nny. My vote is DEFINITELY tra nny…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:20amSo her self-declared Highness is again demanding her way? No suprise.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:00amSnow, that would be “Your Excellency,” not Her Highness. Get it straight before she calls for your head!!
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:07pmShe made her first “mistake” when she said inauguration was first time she was proud of this country. This is just the “Race Card” being played once again. It has gotten very old. Kind of like crying wolf.
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:16amSince her husband had a full membership at a Chicago queer men’s club I can understand her not wanting to move to the white house. But then in actuality, I think she was chomping at the bit to get to the White House and be 1st Cow.
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:38pm“First cow” How true, how true.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:10amGive me a break, I am a member of 99% of Americans who don’t see color; so Michelle your quote: “everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake”.
This is just another one your‘s and your husband’s class / racial / financial and religous warefare comments to divide our great country! Get out of the 60′s…that‘s the 1860’s!
Report Post »cardhuu
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:21amDitto’s
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:55amI was going to say the same thing.
It’s the socialism and lack of pride in America that concerns people about the Obamas, not their color.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:55amAin’t that the truth!
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:56amTalk about a ‘chip’ on one’s shoulder.. good grief. For a supposedly educated person she seems oblivious to her irrational feelings of a black woman put upon by whites. This is imbedded in her brain. She does project her hatred of white people and it does seem to make her life quite unhappy.
Report Post »GMAFB.. she is the FLOTUS.. what more does she want.. does she think no white people voted for her hubby ? And anyone who doesn’t like him .. must be his color? Couldn’t be his marxist/communist policies? Couldn’t be his down right angry demeanor directed at America and the American people?
ps.. she should have taken the Pillsbury Dough Boy’s advice.. but then again.. he is white. I think it is very sad that many blacks are conditioned to see everything as color based.. thank you Rev, Wright.. Jesse Jackson.. etc.
I don’t know about you but I was taught that all men are equal and made in the likeness of God. I NEVER heard any sermons demonizing any human being at church. Sermons were always about how each person could be a good person and get to heaven… not about hating anyone because of their color etc.
Hello.. love thy neighbor!
oh.. I forgot.. Muslims don’t abide the Ten Commandments and so are ignorant of this mainstay of Christian beliefs.
Unix
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:34amVery well put LoveourSoldiers! I think the Christian people of America understand racism is a bad thing, and most of us could care less if you were the color purple to be accepted. Did MANY white people not help elect BHO, as you say? Where do these marxists get off saying we are racist and biggoted?
I will say this to America…You voted in 2008 to show you are not racist, show me in 2012 you are not stupid! It’s not about color, or race, it is about POLICY! Ideology! Marxism.
Viva TEA 2012
Report Post »God Bless America (all 57+ states)
P8riot
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:18pmTotally agree. That was the first thing I noticed… she truly sees America as “us vs. them.” Is it not racist in itself to assume ‘white’ people want to see a ‘black’ woman fail? This is the most divisive President and First Lady we’ve ever had.
Report Post »Husband_Beater
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:09pmThe truth is that I’m a mistake made as a black woman, not the opposite.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:09amDon’t worry first dictator lady, you can move back to Chicago in January.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:08amI don’t believe for one moment that MO wanted to stay in Chicago instead of moving to the White House. She and hubby both were slobbering at the thought of living there..
Remember, she was finally proud of this country.
Report Post »This is one book I definately won’t buy. I’ll wait for the one that details their trials for treason.
cloudsofwar
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:18amwait for the movie.
Report Post »Msgt Ret
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:08amHurry back to Chicago Michelle, oh yea, take your idiot husband with you!
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:07amHopefully michelle you can move back to Chicago in Jan 2013 for good. just think then you can make millions on the lecture circuit. also you will get all that prasie from your fellow socialist around the world. the Obama’s got it made for life even their children, they are the so called 1%. do the stupid OWS people know that? of course, they are working to reelect Obama. nothing like class warfare to win an election.
Report Post »Vulture69
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:06amDamn I think I saw one of these on Nat Geo the other night. Usually these species or the Mome-Bak-Tribe infiltrate the Waste Management Division and are used on the back of Garbage Truck. You can hear their distint cry, “mome bak mome bak mome bak which in English means Come On Back. Other tribes are there also, Motese tribe. Their call would be motesesir, motesesir-which means More Tea Sir
Report Post »marydito
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:04amCan’t wait till she and her husband are GONE!!!!!!
Report Post »Hatedemdems
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:59amMoochelle, use your new dental plan and fix those choppers.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:55am“she felt “everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake,” We didn’t have to wait long.
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:02amIt had nothing to do with being black, it had more to do with being a self centered socialist.
Report Post »cammiegene
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:57pmfrankly she’s not the first black woman to make a mistake,right off the top of my head there‘s sharpton’s,jessaaay‘s and farrakahn’s mama’s.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:54amDo us a favor and go back to Chicago! Always the victim, BORING!!!!
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:53amHo hum,yawn.When are we getting a real glimpse of the Obama’s,instead of this standard glossed over crap?
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:47amShe is one ugly woman.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:13amDear Wayne, it says that she is seen publicly as the friendly and popular face of the softer side of the White House. No where in there does is say attractive. You are correct Sir.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:44amSorry My Dear but you set yourself up with the statement about “ for the first time I feel proud of my country ” No one said the job was easy. If the heat is too hot…………….
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:56amThe BHOs could rue the day they decided themselves to be royalty and brought a king’s ransom worth of entourage aboard the BHO trainwreck.
I wonder how many “inside story” manuscripts are being typed out as we speak? How many deals with publishers are in process? ALL awaiting the day when the BHOs are bouncing off of Washington, DC’s curbs to show up on book store shelves.
It will be very interesting to see …
Report Post »cosette
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:44amDoes anyone really what goes on in the mind of this parasitic, arrogant self important snob?
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:54amMoochelle, for the sake of the children, you should have stayed in chicago, and kept that husband of yours there too…..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:43amBow to your queen!
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:37pmWhat goes thru Moochelle’s mind is, “I hate American and Whitey!” just look at her face in the picture, she has no reason to smile no reason to be the face of the USA, look at that disgusting mug.
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