Watching Michelle Obama's Thursday speech on CSPAN now - WOW

[DesEtoiles]

Possibly she will be the greatest first lady ever.

[MadBadger]

1. Barack is on CNN though.

[DesEtoiles]

3. Switching...what an awesome duo those two are. They are America.

[DesEtoiles]

2. She is in a different universe that Mrs. Stepford McXanax.

[Kahuna]

4. She's wonderful. She'd be a great first lady.

On edit. I didn't make it clear that I've also been watching.

[BenDavid]

5. Obama called hypocrite for wife's Wal-Mart link....

while her style and performance are winning plaudits on the campaign trail, a little-reported business interest of Mrs Obama's has opened her husband up to one of the criticisms that politicians fear most - the taint of hypocrisy.she has just been re-elected to the board of an Illinois food-processing company, a position she took up two years ago to gain experience of the private sector.

And the biggest customer for Treehouse Foods is the retail giant Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporation and the bête noire of American liberals, including Sen Obama, for its employment practices, most notably its refusal to recognise trade unions.

According to the couple's tax returns, Mrs Obama earned $51,200 (£25,700) for her work as a non-executive director on Treehouse's board last year, on top of the $271,618 salary she was paid as a vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.

She also received 7,500 Treehouse stock options, worth a further $72,375, as she did the previous year, when she banked a $45,000 salary from the company.

The apparent contradiction between Sen Obama's political calculation to join the Wal-Mart-bashing lobby, and his wife's profitable role with a company that makes money from Wal-Mart, is being closely scrutinised by "opposition" research teams working for rival White House candidates.They are collecting information about Mrs Obama's Treehouse ties, anticipating that - in a country where "going dirty" is a political way of life - the link may provide valuable ammunition in the election campaign.

"The Obamas would have us believe that, when it comes to money and ethics and compassion, he is a different kind of politician."What's different here is that they actually seem to believe it. That's the only way they can justify the contradictions between what they preach and what they practice. Defending Treehouse while attacking Wal-Mart is a blatant example of personal hypocrisy."


I know this is a couple of weeks old but it's always just to show a hypocrite....

[panader0]

9. Let's see, I'm a bricklayer and was the foreman on the local

Wal-Mart. I made 22.50 an hour for a coupla months. I shop there occasionally. Am I tainted too?

[DesEtoiles]

12. welcome...to my ignore list

[Windy]

15. Ben David is the most objectionable of all HRC supporters.

I need to add him too. awful.

[DesEtoiles]

17. No longer objectionable to me - he's gone for good!

[tekisui]

13. yada yada yada.

They got the goods. There is a movement passing you by.

[ellacott]

14. You are obsessed

[pstans]

6. She's amazing: check this out

I attended a speech she gave leading up to the Iowa caucuses and it was the best political speech I had heard (and I had heard a lot of them).

http://commoniowan.blogspot.com/2007/12/michelle-obama-we-suffer-deficit-of.html

[loveangelc]

7. she is soooooooooooooo good!

[ellisonz]

8. She's better than Bill Clinton.

[DesEtoiles]

10. ha!

[tekisui]

11. She moved me to tears!

I am floored. That is the first time I've watched her speech. She was incredible.

She blew Hillary, Bill, and even Barack out of the water.

The Obama's are fop REAL.

[alteredstate]

16. She's an incredible speaker

and she's make a terrific First Lady.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. She has many qualities

Beauty, charm, poise, articulateness, animation, a great educational background, intelligence, sweetness, passion, soul. I almost wish I could vote for HER.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Yeah. Sorry Eleanor Roosevelt.

:silly: Are you kidding me?

[DesEtoiles]

21. Yeah. Sorry Eleanor Roosevelt.

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. Not right, at all.

[Clinton Crusader]

20. Has she said this is a wake up call for black America?

I saw her say that myself on CNN. Not heresay, not a story passed between 10 people. I saw it myself, maybe 3 weeks ago.

But the Obama campaign never ever uses race. Never ever! It's everyone else who does that.
:eyes:

[democrank]

23. She moved me to tears.

What an eloquent, insightful speaker. I loved her references to "the bar" being moved out of reach for so many people. While she was speaking I thought about how proud I am of her and imagined how African Americans might feel. What a wonderful thing this is....for the whole country.

[starroute]

24. My husband has never warmed to Obama . . .

. . . but he saw that speech, and I think he's in love with Michelle. He's saying now he'd vote for Obama just to get her as first lady.

And he also said you'd have to go back to Eleanor Roosevelt to find her equivalent.

[Windy]

25. awesome!!!! Its on the CSpan website. nT

[FrenchieCat]

26. Is there a link?