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DEL.ICIO.USThe Mystery of the Witchified Wife
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I touched on this in an earlier posting, but I’ve been thinking about it ever since: Why do conservatives seem to identify the wives of Democratic nominees as legitimate Targets of Group Hate?
The venom directed at Hillary Clinton over the years was way over the top, and oddly, it seemed to decline in intensity once she began to build a political reputation and career of her own. In her presidential run, some on the conservative side even began to admit to a grudging admiration of her. And the original example of the Witchified Wife, of course, was Eleanor Roosevelt.
More recently, Teresa Heinz, wife of John Kerry, got a good dose of hate and ridicule, and these days the Right seems positively eager to make a target of Michelle Obama and cast her as the new Hillary, even to the point of fabricating excuses to attack her.
Just as they did with Hillary — you know, the lesbian who murdered Vince Foster ….
Keep it civil.
Comments
By catlady
June 8, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this
The witchification is directly proportional to the woman’s intelligence.
It is a gender-based swiftboating (swiftboobing?)
By Jimbo
June 8, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
Wow, Jay lecturing others on hate directed speech. What a joke, nearly p** my pants laughing so hard. I get it. You’re a hypocrite.
By Dreamon
June 8, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
You seemed to forget one important aspect. Shortly after Clinton was elected in ‘92, Hillary decided to take up the issue of providing for a nationalized government run healthcare system. As soon as she decided to inject herself into a controversial issue, she became fair game, even though the country elected Bill, not Hillary.
As for Ms. Heinz, hard to not chastize her for being a stalwart conservative when married to Sen. Heinz and becoming an instant millionaire then transform into such an “enlightened” liberal after marrying Sen. Snowboarder, er Kerry.
As for the soon to be first lady, Mrs. Obama. I suppose the day Barack becomes inaugurated, that will be the SECOND time she is proud of the good ol US of A.
As for civility, have you read some of the stuff from the Daily Kos, Moveon.org, Air America? Keep it civil?…please, surely you jest
By Jimbo
June 8, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
Something else I find hilarious. A question, I’d like to ask. Why is villifying Hillary considered hate speech, and yet those on the left directing the same type comments towards Laura Bush or Lynn Cheney is considered “freedom of speech”? Can you say hypocrite, Jay?
By JAY BOOKMAN
June 8, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this
Hey Jimbo, I have a little project for you: Find examples in my work that you consider “hate-directed speech.” I’ve been writing stuff for years now, a lot of it’s on the Internet. So, find examples that you believe qualify as “hate speech” on my part and post them here.
You’ll find criticism of how President Bush has done his job - very poorly, in my mind and that of the vast majority of Americans by this point. But criticism of job performance does not constitute hate, I wouldn’t think.
But hey, define it as you will. Post your best examples of “hate-directed speech” under my byline. I’d be curious to see what you find.
By WhatWillLauraDo?
June 8, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this
Like a bad take on Maya Angelou, Bookman’s actions scream “Yet still I duck the question.”
Bookman complains about coverups in Washington, but is an active participant in covering up the discipline problems in Atlanta Public Schools. He shills about the “good school” his son goes to but says nothing about FALSIFIED DISCIPLINE DATA, and the deceit in covering it up.
The Dept. of Education cites APS for falsified discipline data that claimed 40 schools had ZERO discipline problems and Bookman says nothing. 40 schools with ZERO discipline problems? In APS? And the AJC lets Asst. Supt. Kathy Augustine spin it with “perhaps are reforms are working so well, there are no discipline problem to report” and Bookman lets that whopper go completely unchallenged?
Why won’t Bookman step up and address why he was completely silent on this?
And why was Bookman completely silent on the subsequent story of South Atlanta reporting no “major incidents” while the Atlanta Police Dept. records show over FIFTY calls to the school?
APS knew they were caught red handed, so they told the AJC “we need more time to study the data.”
And the AJC let them get away with it, because there was ZERO follow up (even though the original reporter did a half page spread with the superintendent, she refused-or was ordered-not to follow up her story) and Bookman did his part in the cover up by saying absolutely nothing yet again.
Where was YOUR voice, Mr. Bookman?
And how are you any better than the politicians you complain about in Washington, when you actively engage in coverups in your own backyard to suit your political agenda?
By AL
June 8, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this
Question: Why is it when liberals are called on something they’re being hated? If I’m critical of Obama and his wife , why am I a racist? If I think the Clintons are liars and crooks and have been for a long, long time , does this mean I hate them? Bush has made teriible mistakes in retrospect in Iraq (even though Congress approved)at the time. If it would have gone well the band-wagon jumpers would be everywhere. Liberals as a rule are sad little bitter people that need a cause or someone to blame for their bitterness.
By GOPs got to go
June 8, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this
My main fault with Laura and Lynn is their utterly abysmal taste in men. I mean they may bake a great cookie or cake, but when it comes to smarts, they are light years behind Hilliary and Michelle. They are the kind of girls who marry for money and then retire to volunteer.
Please get over the whole murdering thing. Like I said before, Ken Star, been there, tried that angle. He managed to stay on the taxpayer’s payroll for 7 years. Alas, and all for naught.
By Jimbo
June 8, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this
WhatWillLauraDo?,
He can’t blame Bush, Perdue, or ‘conservatives’, so it won’t be reported by him.
By WhatWillLauraDo?
June 8, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this
Well if Bookman won’t address his own complicity in a local coverup, doesn’t give him much credibility when complaining about what goes on in Washington now does it?
By Eric
June 8, 2008 11:42 PM | Link to this
Jay is right on as usual! I’m glad he is around, and the AJC and Atlanta need him.
By Dusty
June 9, 2008 12:15 AM | Link to this
Michelle Obama “witchified” herself. She did it all by herself and her ‘loose lips’ aka a ‘big mouth’. And I must say, she did a fine job.
Hillary “witchified” herself by her power driven personality. She was the “two for one” with Bill when Americans voted for one president only. She has overlooked, lied, pushed, twisted and dodged to keep herself in the political spotlight. Voters realize her actions are for the power of Hillary, not America.
I don’t think Eleanor Roosevelt cared what other people thought about her actions. FDR didn’t care either. This was a woman with a set of principles and nothing diverted her efforts. Unlike Hillary, her “power” was directed towards the benefit of others, not herself. History treats her well.
As for you, Mr. Bookman, your game is to present the synonyms of hate without saying the four letter word. A little suggestion, an exaggerated claim, a bit of anti-war free speech, a hint and insinuation here and there, facts and figures from liberal sources, representation of the liberal view only, and bad news only about America’s positions in war and terrorism or anything done by the President.
You can barely keep from saying Gore and Kerry REALLY won and Bush lost, a fabrication proven false many times. It is the liberal witch’s brew that has poisoned liberals into a realm without reason and little success. In your case, a Bookman exocism might help.
By ByteMan
June 9, 2008 6:30 AM | Link to this
I think the real question here, Jay, has nothing really to do with conservatives and liberals, but this: Why do some candidates and their minions think it’s ok to go beyond the bounds of decent behavior and attack the spouses and families of the candidates?
Why was is ok for Bush’s surrogates to attack McCain in SC in 2000 for supposedly having a black child out of wedlock?
I think the answer is the saying I heard four years ago: in any battle between the ruthless and the spineless, the ruthless will always prevail.
Some candidates want to win so badly they’re willing to claim their opponent’s wife is something to “fear”. And some people are dumb enough to believe any e-mail chain letter they get from a buddy on the internet. (And remember: don’t buy oil from gas stations that get their oil from the Middle East! ;-)
By GodHatesTrash
June 9, 2008 6:57 AM | Link to this
The “mind” (as small and feeble as it is) of your typical “conservative” is a festering pustule of fear, hate and insecurity. Racism, xenophobia, fundamnentalism, gundamnentalism, anti-Semitism, anti-intellectualism, and homophobia provide the constructs of their “thinking”.
They are incapable of abstract thought, everything that is not them is the other and must be feared and fought, they are raised by their traditions of violence and hatred to become paranoid rage-filled lunatics, their “morality” social Darwinism, and despite their professed “individualism”, they are intellectual hyenas and jackals, traveling in packs, dragging the carcasses of worn out ideas, fulminating and festering their hate, their fear, and their core loathing of human decency.
Of course, sexism is part of their “mindset”. The dragging down of women allows them to hate their own mothers and wives, and daughters, keeping the fear of living and life that runs them close to their day to day life.
Let’s face it - the core constituency of the GOP today is men that hate women, and the pitiful women that love men that hate women. HIllary bashing, Theresa Heinz-Kerry bashing, Michelle bashing - fun for very small minds.
By Copyleft
June 9, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this
Small-minded snipers throw mud on candidates’ families and spouses when they have nothing better to work with.
And I second Jay in asking for proof of the alleged “slurs” cast at Lynn Cheney and Laura Bush, other than their taste in husbands. The absolute WORST comment I’ve ever seen or heard about Laura Bush is “She’s kinda dull.” Wow, that’s really the same as branding Hillary a closet lesbian murderer, or Michelle a Marxist thug.
You right-wingers are so blinded by irrational hate you can’t even see how it’s destroying your party in the eyes of America.
By hounddog
June 9, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
Let’s see, seems to me it hasn’t been “conservatives” slinging the attack arrows at Ms. Obama and Ms. Clinton the last few months, but rather there liberal friends. That actually works very well because it puts all the liberals and their party in their favorite position…victim.
By ron
June 9, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Thinking back over the Candidate's wives I find that the ones that were vilified asked for it.By Their words or actions.One of them said that nothing that transpired in the U.S. prior to 2008 made her proud of her country.Nothing. That's quite a statement from a candidate's wife.By Country Mouse
June 9, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
How anyone can read the drivel posted on this blog by liberals and yet accuse conservatives of hate speech boggles the mind. And, Jay, if that drivel is in response to the column you write, can you honestly say that you are not spouting hate, at least subliminally? One does not have to be as blatant as Wright to get out the hate message.
By hillbilly ragger
June 9, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
Jay, Godhatestrash @ 6:57 pretty much nailed it.
The conservatives launch stupid, sexist attacks because they’re stupid, sexist louts, so are their target audience.
It’s not a whole lot more complicated than that.
In the case of Michelle Obama, we’re going to get a heapin’ helping of racism thinly disguised as jingoism.
By SpaceyG
June 9, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
I’d go on a date with God Hates Trash! Would that be self-loathing behavior? Only of I married him, because then I’d never get a good insult in about Laura Bush in for all his excellent ranting about.
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
JAY BOOKMAN, Here you go again. It’s always “hate” from the right but never from the left. How about all the “Condi is an uncle tom and drawn as a slave woman” drawings and articles from the left? Hillary causes people to dislike her. It’s one of her best traits. It’s sort of like Cynthia Tuckers race baiting articles. Always someone else’s fault.
But then again Jay, you still have a job p** people off.
By Wild Bill Hiltner
June 9, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
My dear, sweet, naive, “Oh Jay” Bookman, when a candidates wife assumes a traditional support role, she is left alone. When she turns into an intolerable gas bag (Teresa), takes policy positions (HRC), or defames America (MO), the wife becomes fair game. It is important, particularly with a candidate so light on legislative record as Obamalamadingdong to consider those persons (for the firt time proud of America!!!!!) with he he consorts.
By Copyleft
June 9, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Wild Bill: What, exactly, is a “traditional support role”? Is that GOP code for “shut up, smile, and look pretty?”
Because modern women don’t have to stay in the background baking cookies just because hubby is running for office. Geez, what decade is this? Heck, what CENTURY is this?
By JAY BOOKMAN
June 9, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
To Wild Bill:
Now you’ve gone too far, sir. I get called a lot of terrible names in this line of work, but “naive?” Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
And as to “sweet,” nobody calls me that but my wife. And come to think of it, she doesn’t either.
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
Copyleft, Who said that the GOP is oppressive to women? Way to spin someones opinion. But then again, you never have anything intelligent to say. Are you on the AJC payroll? Intern maybe?
By American Ego
June 9, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
The momemnt a wife of a candidate steps up to the podium to speak in favor of her husband and his campaign, she is fair game. Obama had his wife on the campaign trail yet he said she was off limits to be critized by Republicans. Duh. Mrs. Obama will probably afford the Republicans many more times to get on her case and listen to her speeches. I have a sneaky feeling this woman will not take a back seat to anyone and she is the type to think she can talk her way into your hearts, minds and living rooms but all the while we look and listen we realize there is something a little off center about this woman that we just don’t trust. Michelle Obama seems to be hiding a personal agenda a mile wide. Kind of like her backside.
By Matthew
June 9, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
Jay,
My problem is that you tend to equate criticism (in this context—of wives) as “hate speech,” but don’t extend the definition to the actions of the left.
I don’t think the Michelle Obama stuff as hateful at all. She acted as a spokesperson for the campaign, made dumb statements, and people repeat them. What is the problem? If you get into the public arena, you’re gonna get the attention you crave, good or bad.
As for the left, what do you call the garbage that people like Keith Olbermann or Maher spew? Hollywood? The comments about the Bush daughters? The jokes about Reagan’s disease and Heston’s death? Basically I think you pick and choose what personal attacks to care about. I also think a lot of what you reference doesn’t constitute illegitimate attack.
Unfortunately, this is simply another “campaign” post where you lash out at the right in an attempt to promote your own political leanings.
By Political Woman
June 9, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
GodHtaesTrash mnust go through a gallon of Listerine a week. How else could you stomach your own breath after regurgitating your own vomit over and over again…each time you open your mouth and the same words fall out. Oh, poo-hoo, we better not say anything about poor Michelle Obama, after all she is just starting the process of loving and being proud of Amercia. What does this woman know about Amercia? We know her husband added a few states to the union but we know very little about her knowledge other than a trumped up resume that’s very suspect to say the least. Sorry Michelle, I for one am not buying the Junior League pearls and whole candidates wife bit you’re selling. You strike me as the biggest phony coming down the pike in a long time. After a few months of this foul mouthed woman we’ll welcome, with open arms, a more banal type First Lady. If she’s in the background it’ll be a backgroud so loud and crass, like a pair of hideous drapes that keeps your eyes off the worn out, mismatched furnture.
By DH
June 9, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
My twleve year daughter made an interesting comment this week end. She asked me why Republicans are so much more atractive than Democrats. I told her it was Gods will…and better breeding.
By Mike
June 9, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
A few things:
If you don’t think Cindy McCain is the focus of hate speech, you don’t read Daily Kos or the AJC blogs. (It still amazes me how liberal pundits are bling the the torrent of hate speech coming from the left.)
Second, Hillary and Teresa were very outspoken and have recieved their own share of criticism from liberals for their shrillness. It certainly isn’t just those mean old conservatives who have a problem with these two women.
Michelle Obama is very outspoken and makes very strong criticisms of those who don’t share her views. To say that it is unfair to criticize her is absurd and even the Obama PR team at MSNBC has admitted that.
If he wasn’t such a partisan, Bookman might comment on the liberal hate speech that appears on this board every single day. But he is such a partisan, and consequentially he doesn’t really care about the morality involved, he just wants an excuse to attack the same people that he predictably attacks every single day.
By GOPs got to go
June 9, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
MR American Ego,
You say that Michelle Obama is “the kind of woman who not take a backseat to anyone”… Hmm, is this supposed to be an attack or praise? Because that is JUST the kind of first lady I want. And to your silly referance to her backside, just what is your waist size?
By Copyleft
June 9, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
DH: My condolences on your daughter’s blindness. Hopefully when she’s out of the house and exposed to some fresh air and new ideas, her vision will clear up.
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
Copyleft, I believe it is not possible for you to have a single thought in your small brain. You’ve yet to offer a solution. Only cut downs. Your pathetic life must really get you down. I mean, to come on here and just cut people down is beyond comprehension. Please get help.
By The Truth
June 9, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Better Headline:
The Mystery of the Hack Writer at AJC.
By Ed
June 9, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Copyleft, Mrs. Obama can two of the following three: Shut-up, smile and look pretty. Nevermind, she can only smile. One out of three isn’t too bad. For her.
By Slick
June 9, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Jay
As soon as Obama became the apparent Democratic nominee, the right wing nuts started filling the internet with e mails attacking Michelle.
I received one this morning attacking her for a paper he claimed she wrote about race relations in 1985 while she was at Princeton University. He claimed that she favored black supremacy, hated all whites, and would be a grave threat to US international relations if she becomes first lady.
It seems to me that if she graduated from Princeton University with grades good enough to get into and graduate from Harvard Law School, she is probably a hell of a lot smarter than the illiterate, ignorant right wing nuts who demonstrate their stupidity on the internet.
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Slick, IF Mrs. Obama wrote a paper on black supremacy then that would make a racist, right? Just an observation. I’m not a right wing nut job. One more point. Just because a person graduated from an Ivy League school doesn’t make them superior in intellect.
By David Farrior
June 9, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
I have been reading Jay Bookman since 2003. He has never expressed hate for anyone. Prior to the Iraq War, Jay was one of the few journalists that had the courage to oppose this horrible war. If more media had Jay’s intestinal fortitude, we might not be in this boondoggle. David
By Pat
June 9, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
No Experience. No Substance. NOBama ‘08. http://www.cafepress.com/NObamaforPres
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Why is it if a black person supposebly say anything considered threatening to white folks they get their panties in a bunch. First of all the Black community doesn’t have the money or the power to opprese an entire nation. Men like Micheal Milken the ex-junk bond king. The ex-Chairman of Enron and other corporate bigwigs such as the mortgage industry has the power to ruin lives and the economy with the stroke of a pen. Farrahkan and Wright doesn’t have the power. I guess Oprah is threatening now since she supported Obama. Oprah ain’t no fool. She knows with all of the money she has people folks will always look at her as BLACK first and a WOMAN second. I was ROTFLMAO when I read that white women was gonna stop watching her. I was like DUH, she has money and yall think she is one of you. Stop the madness please. McCain wife would be a threat to this nation’s international security with the Sudan investment she pulled out a couple of months ago and her drug habit she never went to jail first.
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Why is it if a black person supposebly say anything considered threatening to white folks they get their panties in a bunch. First of all the Black community doesn’t have the money or the power to opprese an entire nation. Men like Micheal Milken the ex-junk bond king. The ex-Chairman of Enron and other corporate bigwigs such as the mortgage industry has the power to ruin lives and the economy with the stroke of a pen. Farrahkan and Wright doesn’t have the power. I guess Oprah is threatening now since she supported Obama. Oprah ain’t no fool. She knows with all of the money she has people folks will always look at her as BLACK first and a WOMAN second. I was ROTFLMAO when I read that white women was gonna stop watching her. I was like DUH, she has money and yall think she is one of you. Stop the madness please. McCain wife would be a threat to this nation’s international security with the Sudan investment she pulled out a couple of months ago and her drug habit she never went to jail first.
By Ed
June 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Sorry Slick, as long as we have affimative action, no one should be impressed with anyone who benefits from this outdated practice. Now that Obama has reached the top of the the political ladder this should say once and for all, loud and clear, anyone can do anything now…ON THEIR OWN. This should do away with race baited quotas and affirmative action based on anything other than income. To do so would simply admit to genetic inferiority. Right? Until afirmative action is unlawful other than for income only, we’ll always be suspect of those that benefited from such a limited practice. When my son was admitted to Duke University, his admittance was determined byy his grades and grades only. He couldn’t extend his hand and ask to be admitted based on the tone of his skin color.
By The Truth
June 9, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
David Farrior, What does the Iraq War have to do with campaigning women?
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
hotlanta, Black first? That’s exactly why racism is alive and well in this country and it’s not whitey who’s the racist. By the way, ALL politicians are the problem in this country. Too much power.
By hillbilly ragger
June 9, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Mike @ 11, I call BS.
Provide cites to the Kos or AJC commenters that’ve posted “hate speech” about Cindy McCain, or shut your piehole.
By hillbilly ragger
June 9, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Oh, and Jay? apparently a Fox anchor called Michelle and Barak’s congratulatory gesture a “[terrorist fist jab(http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060007)].”
By hillbilly ragger
June 9, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
argh, messed up the linkee. Try again…
A Fox anchor called Michelle and Barak’s congratulatory gesture a “terrorist fist jab.”
By WhatWillLauraDo?
June 9, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
David Farrior, the “courage” you claim Bookman has seems to abandon him when it comes to FALSIFIED DISCIPLINE DATA in Atlanta Public Schools.
40 schools with ZERO discipline problems? And the AJC allows Asst. Supt. Kathy Augustine to spin it with “perhaps our reforms are working so well there are no discipline problems to report,” a whopper that Bookman allows to go completely unchallenged?
Following that, South Atlanta reports ZERO “major incidents” even though the Atlanta Police Dept. reports they responded to over FIFTY calls to the school?
Again, the AJC lets APS off the hook with “we need more time to study the data” and the AJC complies in the coverup by NOT doing a follow up story, and again Bookman is completely silent.
Where is this “courage” you ascribe to Bookman, David Farrior?
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Yes Crafty black first. What is wrong with that. Why is is that everyone else can say Jewish American, Italian American, Asian American or anything else no one has a problem But the word AFRICAN stirs up a lotta emotions in people. You don’t know where you are going unless you know where you are from. Racism is a fact of life and it ain’t going nowhere. When Obama becomes President it will get worse because folks will be upset that Hiliary/McCain didn’t win. Folks will be doubly scared because they will feel that black folks will really try to take over. They will have secret meetings behind closed doors to quietly change to rules before the next go round. Ed, Brotha Obama didn’t get the usual famly buddy pass to Harvard he WORKED for it okay like a lot of other people and you know it Obama didn’t do this on OWN he had HELP. What do you call his staff members AIR. What do you call the voters AIR. Somebody helped you get to where you are in life right now even though you are in a small space. Ed all need help to get through life. If you wanna be so self sufficent the next time you go to a restaurant instead of ordering your own fool, cook your food, serve/tip yourself and wash your own dishes.
By Slick
June 9, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Ed,
Affirmative action programs based on race only consider it as ONE factor among many others in admission decisions. It is NOT a factor in professors assigning grades, which determine whether a student passes or fails, hense graduates or not.
Crafty,
An Ivy League education may not always indicate superior intellect, but it is a pretty good indicator, and a better predictor of intellect than a closed mind that parrots right wing slogans and bigotry.
By Willie
June 9, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Jay avoid reporting scandals in his own back yard? Now why am I NOT surprised. But I believe it. Now back to the wives of Presidents. I did not vote for them nor do I want them involved into the matters of the Whitehouse no more than ordinary citizens. FDR’s wife and FDR last years was a lie to the American people. They kept his condition a scret and the vice president should have been running the country. No but you democrats let the wife of a President do it. That is a scam on the American people. Eleanor should go down in history as a traitor. Even if she did good things it was not her right nor her place to replace the President. Lets have a constitutional class on the hierarchy of the executive branch. Why did not the reporters push out to the Amercian people the truth about FDR and Eleanor. It was treason to have the First lady replace the president. Hiliary and the rest do not represent the American voters as First ladies. They may have supportive role for the president but that is it…
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Hillbilly, Hesslebeck the squirrel on the View had the nerve to say that she found the Obama/Michelle jab distracting. Obama is not gonna waste his time trying to get votes from people like her. It made it this far without it and he will keep on trucking. So no matter what they do somebody will always have something to say. I can see it now. Obama purchased Charmain instead of Cottenelle. It is distracting. By the way Hiliary was not wearing a FLAG pin during her exit speech and no one said a word about it.
By CHRIS
June 9, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
** AJC, STOP BEING A TABLOID NEWSPAPER, ALL YOU DO WITH THESE POSTS IS BRING OUT THE NUTS ON BOTH SIDES! PEOPLE WAKE UP AND STOP EATING THIS HATE THE MEDIA WANTS TO FEED US!
By Slick
June 9, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
CHRIS
One man’s NUT is another man’s INTELLECTUAL…
AJC
KEEP UP THE POSTS!
By Crafty
June 9, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Slick, So, by going to an Ivy League school makes you a non-bigot? How? I mean, most intellectual libs have jobs ONLY by means of tenure. That’s because they can’t survive in the real world.
By Ed
June 9, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Hotlanta, take the chip off your shoulder. Use the wood for something constructive, help Carter build a habitat for humanity. Why do you black folk go around with such a chip on your shoulders all the time? Hell, if I were given all the perks, double standards, quotas and all that you get ( and yet you still almost always finish last)I would walk around singing all the time. Relax bud, they won’t take your court given perks away, if anything…you’ll getting a heaping pile added on. Must be nice.
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Ed please. I just read the paper how the woman who just MURDERED a young man while he was asleep ,would have gotten out if no one had not said anything, had several DUI’s and still driving around. Speaking of court given perks don’t let me get started on the Barbie Bandits and the famous runaway bride who committed several felonies by lying to the cops, etc, etc and records will be expunged in 2 years or less as if nothing ever happened. Why is the truth gotta be a chip on my shoulder. Speaking of perks double standard, quotas that you guys get I will also be like McCain over botoxed Stepford wife. I will be loving myself some U.S. of A to death also.
By hotlanta
June 9, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Ed please. I just read the paper how the woman who just MURDERED a young man while he was asleep ,would have gotten out if no one had not said anything, had several DUI’s and still driving around. Speaking of court given perks don’t let me get started on the Barbie Bandits and the famous runaway bride who committed several felonies by lying to the cops, etc, etc and records will be expunged in 2 years or less as if nothing ever happened. Why is the truth gotta be a chip on my shoulder. Speaking of perks double standard, quotas that you guys get I will also be like McCain over botoxed Stepford wife. I will be loving myself some U.S. of A to death also.
By Not Again, Jay
June 9, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Jay, of all the idiots in all the idiot villages, you my friend, stand alone. Not conveying a convincing point of view, just stirring the pot for the sake of stirring the pot. Got nothing else to write about? How about Obama’s plan for wealth redistribution? Take my money and give it someone else who hasn’t made good decisions and now cries foul? Ever think to write something like that?
By Wild Bill Hiltner
June 9, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
To Copyleft, a “traditional support role” is when the candiates wife says things like, “George, would be good for our children” or “if my husband is elected, literacy would be my most important project.” These are the sort of apolitical comments that one expects from a prospective First Lady and they draw no fire from the opposition. However, when a brazen hussy steps into the arena to say that she is proud of this great nation for the first time in her life or to pick up the mantle of “shot-caller” on the policy side, she should not expect to bat her eyes and call off the dogs. At least with Hillary, she had cojones.
By Ms. Tucker If Ur Nasty
June 9, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
For a conservative wife, see Warren Jeffs.
By butch
June 9, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
jay must have a lot of money in swiss banks so he can haul A* when the going gets tough in the USA because of barry HUSSIEN
By GodHatesTrash
June 9, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
The “conservative women” posting here remind me that of course many men are filled with rage against women, having been raised by the kind of ugly harpies and shrews that put their own hatreds and fears even ahead of the welfare of their children.
No wonder so many men hate women, having been whelped by such monsters…
By GodHatesTrash
June 9, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
If I were Political Woman’s husband, it wouldn’t be Listerine I’d be drinking, it would be Drano.
Poor man.
By Joe
June 9, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
Michelle Obama obviously hates her country because of all the negative comments she’s made. She’ll be an easy target for Repubilcans because she is to stupid to keep her mouth shut. Hillary on the other hand has criminal ties. She deserved to be hammered for all the corrupt activity she did. Of course libs like you Jay don’t see anything wrong with hanging with terrorists and going to raciest church. To me she’s just as much guilty as her husband. Barrack Hussein Obama…
By GMAN
June 9, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
Joe, please tell me 3 negative comments that Michelle Obama has made about her country. Please!
By saywhat?
June 9, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this
Joe at 6:36, you are borderline illiterate. On top of that, you are one of those 25 percenters who think Bush, the worst president in the history of the USA, is doing a great job. With these two strikes against you, how can anybody take anything you write seriously?
Some right-wingers, like the ones who populate this forum, attack candidates wives because they lack critical thinking skills, and merely parrot what they hear on radio, tv or the internet, no matter how ludicrous or absurd it is. The originators of the hatred instigate it because they know their listeners will gobble it up and crap it back out everywhere they can, unquestioningly. This is often called the right wing noise machine. Its purpose is the cause a clamor over nothing to distract people from noticing how corrupt and incompetent the Republicans are, or how harmful their policies are to the nation.
By GMAN
June 9, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this
saywhat I applaud you on your excellent analytical skills. Jan 2009, the end of an error!
By bdawk
June 9, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this
Jay, Who cares?
By GOPs got to go
June 10, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
Crafty, Joe, and the rest of you GOP’s, FOX NEWS ALERT Most bigoted, sexist, and illiterate men actually consider themselves to be rather main stream. They just don’t get why a reverence to a woman’s backside just might show their ignorance and sexism. Next FOX NEWS ALERT** They never will either. As to the comment on an Ivy league education not necessarily meaning you are intelligent, well The Shrub shows you may be right on that point.