Michelle Obama's Speech: I = You

I totally disagree with alot of the comments listed. Yes everyone knows that Barack and Michelle isn't perfect and have previous pasts, but who don't. That doesn't mean that Barack isn't equipped with becoming our next president. I honestly fell that he will do his best on trying to meet and keep the expectations laid before him for the country. If or when he becomes the next president, because change is over due. People are steady trying to tear Barack and Michelle down look. With out looking at what has happened over the last eight years. The country needs a strong leader who is going to build up the country's security and restore all that has been lost over the last eight years. Regardless of what other people think Barack has my vote.

I'm Baracking Baby: If your electing a president, that leaves Obama out because he doesn't have the capabilities to lead. Quote from Biden: Obama is not ready to be president. That's why Obama will be the president in name only and Biden will be making the decisions. This is the highly educated Obama that people say is to intelligent. And if your paying too much for gas, take a bus, its cheaper. The trouble with a lot of American's they are spoiled and lazy. The bus isn't good enough for them so they use their credit cards to fill up time after time then get mad because they run out of money. That's like the people that bought houses or condo's with 5% down instead of 25% to 30% down and then they faced foreclosure. It appears that people make their own mistakes by their choices.

Jennifer: Michele left you in tears talking about the bad times she went thru when she was young? And how Obama was poor and his mother on food stamps? Give me a break. Both of them were not poor. Obama's mother went to college and started to teach him about MLK when he was five years old. After college she was working and so was her mother. Obama's mother was married and divorced three times and his father four times. He has half brothers and sisters all over. His grandmother raised him when his mother died of cancer and sent him thru college. He never worked until he graduated. That's when he got involved with Rezko, Ayers and Wright. However, he was a racist as a young boy and hated white people. Get a copy of his BIO from the NYT and read up on him. All you people believe their poor story. There are a lot of poor people on the streets but the are not faking like Michele and Obama.

Gina: Your are so right in what you said about Obama and Michele. There is so much dirt in Obama's background I can't see how so many voter's are drawn to him. It must be the speeches of the late JFK, RFK and MLK that he studied for the platform. I knew months back that he was using other's. And he fooled the majority of the American public. Is he going to do all he said? I don't think so. It is a gimmick to get elected but I am not falling for it. I am voting McCain. Hillary's fundraisers are not donating to Obama they have already started donating to McCain and no doubt will swith their vote. If the majority of Hillary's voter's do the same, McCain will win the election. We just have to hope.

I'm Baracking Baby: What gave you the idea that Obama was black? If you are educated you would know that a man that is half black and half white can't be black. He can never be either race. Wake up. And he isn't bi-racial or mixed race.

This speech was just more political _ _.
Remember the old saying "you can take the girl out of the country(country meaning a hick), but you can't take the country out of the girl"?
Well....we are what we are.

Correction: That should have been 52 consecutive months of job grown.

I'm Baracking Baby!, the history books will be very kind to President Bush.

Our economy has taken some really hard hits during President Bush's two terms: He inherited a recession; 9/11; the War on Terror (including the Battle of Iraq); corporate scandals; devastating hurricanes (2004-05); the slumping housing market; the subprime mortgage crisis, and subsequent tightening of credit; and the skyrocketing energy prices.

The 2001 Bush tax cuts turned around the 2000-01 recession. The combination of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts greatly diminished the effect that 9/11 and the corporate scandals had on our economy. Then we actually had 54 consecutive months of job growth (an historical record) ending December 2007--as the effects of the triple whammy of the slumping housing market, the subprime mortgage crisis and skyrocketing energy prices caused the downturn in the economy. YET in spite of these latest hits to the economy, GDP actually grew the first two quarters of 2008. There have been 463,000 jobs lost in the first 7 months of the year and unemployment rate has jumped to 5.7%. BUT, historically 5.7% unemployment is a healthy number.

I contend that President Bush's economic policies have gotten us through and limited the effects of these huge blows to our economy; and DID NOT cause the downturn.

Could things get worse? Yes, of course! Raising taxes, doing nothing to increase our supply of oil, not expanding nuclear power; implementing windfall profits taxes on the oil companies, and adding several new and very expensive entitlement programs--the Obama economic plan--WILL NOT help us turn the economy around.

It seems to me that SOME PEOPLE are just determined NOT to like them... NO matter WHAT they do or say. Soome people have just made a decision NOT to VOTE for Obama... NOT because Michelle misspokne ONCE and not because Barack atteneded a church of a Pastor with questionable views but because THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO... which is fine, if they're fine with the way the world is going that's fine. DON'T VOTE FOR OBAMA... but don't then blame it on that, just say "I'm not voting for him because I dont like him and I never did... I never even tried to." But remember, that isn't really what this election is supposed to be about. We're not in high school - and we're not electing Prom King,,. we're electing a President to lead our country. And if you all can honestlt say you're happy under the George Bush reign and go and pull the lever for JOhn McCain... well I think ALL of our troops should be allowed to come home and YOU should go over and fight Bush and McCain's war. You should not only continue to pay to fill up your car at these outrageous prices - you should also pay to fill up mine and the other millions of American's who are tired of emptying their pockets at the pump - because obviously this isn't a issue to you... and we all shouldn't be forced to continue to pay for your mistakes.

In spite of the fanatical Obama supporters illusion that disliking Barack and MIchele is blasphemy ... and that Michele's speech was so great ... Many Americans saw her speech as a masquerade. Both Barack and Michele think they can cover up their own history of anti-American racist remarks and associations, simply by giving a few speeches to the contrary. Furthermore, it should be noted that in addition to Barack and Michelle choosing Jeremiah Wright as their mentor and spiritual advisor, for 20 years ... they also subjected their two young daughters to the racist anti-American likes of Wright, Farrakhan, Pfleiger, Moss, etc.. This also does not jive with the all American family image the Obama's are all of sudden trying so hard to portray for political gain.

Joe Angel, a coalition of 34 nations responded to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1991. After 100 days, Saddam Hussein accepted the conditions of the cease fire. But he never complied with any of these conditions. Therefore it was reasonable to rescind the cease fire and resume the war.

Whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq in 2003 is IRRELEVANT. One of the conditions of the 1991 cease fire was Saddam Hussein coming clean about his WMD programs. The destruction of these programs was to have occurred under the supervision of the IAEA. So Saddam Hussein was obligated to prove that he no longer had WMDs, which he failed to do.

Now as for Bush and Cheney lying, where is your outrage at the Democrats for "lying" in 1998-2002? Democrats like: President Bill Clinton, VP Al Gore, Sec. of State Madeline Albright, Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Bob Graham, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Jay Rockefeller, Hillary Clinton AND Representatives Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi to name a few. Some Democrats even said that the threat was imminent--which the Bush Administration NEVER said.

For more than half his life, Sen. Obama has had mentors like Frank Marshall Davis (a communist), Saul Alinsky (a communist), the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (a Black Liberation Theologian) and Father Michael Pfleger (a radical liberal). And Sen. Obama wrote in his book, Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the politcal winds shift in an ugly direction." Sen. Obama is the wrong man for the job.

So many negative comments on a wonderful speech. It seems that NO MATTER WHAT she said, some people would still find something bad to say about it. Is there ANYTHING that she could have said to impress the haters? They only listen to try to find flaws. But what I really don't understand is how anyone who was for Hillary could possibly vote for McCain? I have been for Obama, but if he had lost the primary to Clinton I would vote for her for the better of the country. Their ideals are so similar while McCain is way off.

Too bad that the most she can be is First Lady of the United States. This woman, in a different nation and a different world, wouldn´t have just cracked the glass ceiling, she would have broken through it on the first shot.

Thanks to Hillary, it will be at least another generation before we women regain the credibility that she so manifestly squandered during the primaries. Hillary Clinton set us back in time. Nice of Michelle to mention her, but it was strictly tongue-in-cheek.

What´s the name of Michelle´s husband? Oh, yea, forgot: Barack.

Doesn´t really matter. Any guy who was savvy enough to marry this marvel of a human being gets my vote. Just show me where to put the X.

To James Danley, you say that Iraq started the war in 1991? Was it with us or Kuwait?? And the only reason why we helped Kuwait is.....?? Oil. And Second, Bush/Cheney LIED to us about WMD (weapons of mass destruction) so we can invade (not liberate) Iraq for the oil. This current administration will go down in history as one (if not) the worst administration. If Obama becomes President, I'm sure he will do a great job, because being the 1st black president I know for sure he will not dissapoint. But if Mccain, who is aligned with Bush/Cheney wins this election, then I will be ashamed to call myself an American, because it would just tell me that this country does not care about anything, the enviroment, the working class, the poor etc.

As a young 23 year old woman I am amazed as to how many of my fellow Americans can be duped by a few cheesy lines and two adorable kids. Michelle Obama's speech was the same old fluff that is purely written in hopes to undo the image damage she did while on the campaign trail. That speech sought out peoples' emotions, but still did not even mention on WHY he husband would be better, or WHAT it is he is going to do. I saw a comment saying we need "love" and "hope"...that is ridiculous.. we need a rational, strategic plan to stregthen the economy and win the war in a timely manner.

Michelle Speech was brilliant. The problem is that no matter how much you speak to the public the Republican and their so-call democrat (republican ) will find something negative to say.

Cindy McCain can not give a speech like that in a million years. Why don’t you (Republicans ) ever comment on Cindy McCain Speech?

Gary - Thanks for your post. My father-in-law was a vet, I know POWs, my brother-in-law was in Vietnam and in a full career as an intelligence officer - and all of them are appalled that John McCain is playing on his experience over and over and over. They see it as an act of disrespect for the service - and for the men and women who did not come home to new lives. In the twenty-five years I've known my father-in-law and brother-in-law, they have talked about their experiences exactly zero times. And to sell them for ambition? They have way too much honor.

Jake, One I=You - you're right. You are not Michelle Obama. But that speech wasn't aimed at people who went to private prep schools, the same Ivy League schools as their daddy's went to and married money. It was aimed at regular Americans. Most Americans came from working class backgrounds - the same as the Obamas. Most people did not come from the entitled, wealthy, careless life shared by the McCains and a large portion of the national press under 50.

If you are discussing what she wrote at Princeton - first of all I doubt whether it was a thesis. She got her undergraduate degree there. Second, Hillary is capable of putting together some decent speeches and her senior project reads like a 14-year olds. Third, no one could have written that speech unless they had lived her life.

I know war heors, and tey don't tell their stories on national TV. i'm from AZ and if mccain does for the country what he did for is home state the rich will get richer and the poor will go fight needless wars for them.