Now, back when our great-grandparents were riding that Underground Railroad, back when John Lewis was marching across that bridge in Selma, and Jim Clyburn was sitting in an Orangeburg jail, the injustices we faced were written in big, bold letters on the face of our laws. And while we may have had our differences over strategy, the battles we needed to fight were very clear.
We knew that to end slavery, we needed a proclamation from our President, an amendment to our Constitution. To end segregation, we needed the Supreme Court to overturn the lie of "separate but equal." To reach the ballot box, we needed Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
So we moved forward, and we won those battles. And we made progress that our parents and grandparents could never have dreamed of.
But today, while there are no more "whites only" signs keeping us out, no one barring our children from the schoolhouse door, we know that our journey is far, far from finished. But --(applause) -- yes. But in many ways, the path forward for this next generation is far less clear. I mean, what exactly do we do about children who are languishing in crumbling schools? What about kids growing up in neighborhoods where they don't have opportunities worthy of their dreams? What about the 40 percent of black children who are overweight or obese, or the nearly one in two who are on track to develop diabetes in their lifetimes?
He's not saying anything Barry doesn't already know.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), known for his cantankerous ways and for not speaking to media unless it’s his idea, was overheard at the Delta Crown lounge at Reagan National Airport today talking on his cellphone about an incident he said occurred three weeks ago while at an Episcopal church auction. Please note, a church auction.
Our source, a Democratic operative who heard the whole thing, said he was “very loud”. Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that after buying all their “crap” (his word) a woman approached him and praised first lady Michelle Obama. He told the woman that Michelle should practice what she preaches — “she lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.”
The Globe magazine just released a bombshell and is reporting that Michelle Obama is having a "steamy secret affair" with a Secret Service Agent. According to The Globe, rumors started to circulate that Obama may be having an affair after her recent admission to NBC's Al Roker that she frequently "sneaks out" of the White House; and the ever increasing time she is spending away from the White House may be a cover to hide "a sizzling affair she's carrying on with a Secret Service agent."
According to The Globe's anonymous source: "The rumors are that she's getting it on with a Secret Service agent who is not part of her detail. ... Her frequent outings away from the White House give her and him an opportunity to get together." The source adds: "Something has been going on for a couple of months and there's no question Barack is embarrassed about her increasingly frequent excursions away from him at the White House."
The allegations are, of course, unsubstantiated and only time will tell if the allegations will fizzle or blow up into a major issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. Typically, the media will not report unsubstantiated claims from anonymous sources, but the recent media feeding frenzy over unsubstantiated allegation against businessman Herman Cain, which literally sank his candidacy, leave the question open: will the media pursue, or even bother to investigate this story?
I am hearing this buzz in some more obscure parts of the internet.
Here is a picture of Michelle Obama from an UPCOMING Reader's Digest:
And here are some of the not-so-secret hand signals used by Occupy Wall Street General Assembly. Take a look at the "point of order" signal.
Is Michelle Obama sending a signal to the Occupy Wall Street hippies? A little "sup my fellow commie" message? Or is she simply twiddling her thumbs? And before you run off thinking I'm crazy, consider this previous story. And, you know, you might recall that "everybody gotta share a piece of their pie" speech she gave a few years back.
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." - Michelle Obama
UPDATE: A little more research has revealed a past claim that Michelle Obama was flashing gang signs on the cover of Vogue magazine. Does she have an affinity for the Latin Kings?
Okay. We can't be sure she was flashing the Latin Kings sign. But one thing we can be sure of. Buckwheat was a banger. No doubt.
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York. The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world". They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth". Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle. Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.
YES!!!!
FINALLY!
Miss Sniggles and me can finally come out and be the proud same species couple we always felt deep down inside we really were!
"Come Miss Sniggles, they can't laugh at us ANYMORE!"
Bluewater Productions of Washington says interest in the Obama comic book is sky-high, with distributors temporarily suspending orders as the Bluewater catches up with the demand, The Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
"I feel like the guy who invented the Furby," Bluewater President Darren Davis told the newspaper. "The reaction has been insane."
The Michelle Obama comic reportedly is scheduled to be officially released April 25, selling for $3.99. The issue depicts the first lady growing up in Chicago, going to Princeton University and helping Barack Obama become the 44th U.S. president.
Can't you just imagine some of the plot lines? MO battles racist white people. MO lifts her country to great heights after battling racist white people. MO proves that racist white people never really went to the moon and then goes there herself. It should be good.
I think I am developing a crush on America's first lady. Michelle Obama is more compelling than her husband. He's good, but she's utterly fascinating.
Mrs. Obama has blown away the stale air in a White House musty from eight years of the Bushes. It's like the sun came out and a fresh spring breeze began wafting through the open windows.
It's the people's house, and Michelle Obama totally gets it. So much so that she has taken to inviting people in from the streets to see her home. Nice touch -- one completely lacking in her recent predecessors.
Watch her when she visits a local school and you see the warmth and affection she instantly triggers in people. Kids are pretty much totally honest with very good BS-detectors. If they sense you're a phony, forget it. But around the first lady, they want to hug her and laugh with her and tell her stories.
"the warmth and affection she instantly triggers in people"
Is this man out of his damn mind? Sure, if you're a socialist and not white, you should get along just find with Chaka. I guess Cafferty has forgotten her past remarks insulting Americans. I guess he has overlooked her angry militant core. I have neither forgotten nor overlooked. I've seen her without her makeup.
Fox News in Detroit featured a segment called "The Love Doctor" that focused on the relationship between President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. After watching this, I think it may be time to begin referring to Michelle Obama as the "Fist Lady".
This is just how the first lady lays out her intellectual property claim.
They’ve been in the White House less than a week, but the first daughters have already been co-opted by marketers — and Michelle Obama isn’t happy about it.
Ty, the toy company responsible for the popular Beanie Babies dolls, is now marketing “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia” dolls.
The first lady’s office said Friday Ty was out of line. “We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes,” said a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama in a statement.
To quote Michelle Obama's office again: “We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes”. Oh really? Is that something they just decided? Because I seem to recall many instances during the election of the Obamas using young children, including their own, for marketing purposes. To wit. And even more to wit:
Barack and Michelle Obama getting their "we finally got a piece of the pie" on. That dress looks like it was commandeered from the window of Queen Latifah's room at the Hyatt.
It seems Michelle Obama has some fashion style admirers. Who knew anyone thought that squeezing her freakishly large child-bearing hips into some Marvel comic superhero reject's costume was a good idea?
The letters, solicited by two University at Buffalo scholars soon after the election, have been compiled into the book, "Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady," just in time for Tuesday's inauguration.
Women of all ages and backgrounds responded to an Internet call for messages and poems, the editors, themselves black women, said. No surprise, given their own feelings of exuberance through the campaign and election.
Some read like letters to an old friend:
"I LOVED YO' RED AND BLACK ELECTION NIGHT DRESS!"
The letters were solicited by scholars, not written by them.
Ace of Spades and No Quarter are reporting that it is likely that Michelle Obama is the "Specifically Named Individual" on page 64 of the Criminal Complaint against Governor Rod Blagojevich.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to “suck it up” for two years and do nothing and give this “motherf***er [the President-elect] his senator. F**k him. For nothing? F**k him.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH states that he will put “[Senate Candidate 4]” in the Senate “before I just give f**king [Senate Candidate 1] a f**king Senate seat and I don’t get anything.” (Senate Candidate 4 is a Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois).
ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that he needs to find a way to take the “financial stress” off of his family and that his wife is as qualified or more qualified than another specifically named individual to sit on corporate boards.
No Quarters explained:
The “specifically named individual” is Michelle Obama, who was appointed to the Board of TreeHouse Foods, a WAL-MART vendor, on June 25, 2005, even though she did not have experience in the private sector previous to the appointment. Here are the benefits the Obama family received as a result of Michelle Obama’s stint with the WAL-MART vendor:
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.
Michelle Obama is to receive this £20,000 thank you from her husband for her support during the election. The Harmony ring is made of rhodium - the world's most expensive metal --and encrusted with diamonds. It is being hastily made by Italian designer Giovanni Bosco in time for January's inauguration ceremony. Only about 25 tons of rhodium are mined each year, mostly in South Africa, and as a result its price is typically around £5,000 an ounce.
And there is some question, but most likely the ring is made from materials gathered in the slave mines of South Africa.
I'm sure it will look lovely on Chaka's coconut breaking fingers. Just lovely.
Seems Weezy doesn't want to be seen with the salt of the earth. From Debbie Schlussel:
I thought that we were about to elect a President, not a queen. But Michelle Hussein Obama has other ideas.
Some Michigan cop friends of mine sent me this, about how Michelle Obama has treated them throughout Michigan, ie., like the plague. She can't be seen by the "little people" who protect us and keep us safe everyday, risking their lives to do it.
I've left out the name of the police officer to protect the officer's identity and, frankly, job. You know how the Obama mob gets.
More evidence that if you liked First Lady Hillary Clinton, you'll loooove First lady Michelle Hussein Obama, who makes Hillary's (and Bill's) treatment of the Arkansas State Troopers sound like a day at the beach:
First Hand from a Clinton Township Police Lieutenant
[DS: Clinton Township is a Detroit suburb.]
For those of you who know me, I rarely talk politics.
Those are private matters for the most part, but I just have to vent a little.
I would call myself a conservative as 99% of Policeman are, and almost always vote Republican, but I also know that they are all Politicians.
We are stuck in a quagmire of a two party system, and the non-politician independent has no chance to change this country or run this country.
I am not trying at all to dissuade your vote, but Obama has really cheesed me off. . . . I have heard these stories of Obama making the Police and Secret Service (who protect his dumb butt) stay out of his eyesight.
Well, I learned it well Thursday, October 9th. Michelle Obama was in Clinton Twp., Michigan Thursday for a rally at our biggest High School. My department had a small role in protecting her. About 8 Officers were detailed to the School for HER security. I was offered the overtime but turned it down.
One of my Sergeants, and best buddies was assigned there. He came back infuriated. The rumors are true!!!
My Sergeant was providing security in a hallway as Mrs. Obama was moving from room to room for different reasons. He was told by the SS [DS: Secret Service] that when she came down his hall, he had to duck behind the corner and not allow her to see him. He questioned this several times to be sure he heard it right, and the SS agent (embarrassed of course) had to hide from her view, too.
It is outrageous that the persons running for the President of our country on the Democratic side, has so much disdain for men and woman in uniform, they demand that they are kept from their view!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets be clear. This was not in the public. This was not an Honor Guard detail standing behind her on stage in front of thousands. This was in a hallway, out of the public eye, and the Obamas refuse to even see an Officer or Soldier in their view. The Police have to hide!!!!!!!
WHY???????????? That's the scary question! What else is going on here?
No wonder he refuses to wear the flag on his suit or salute the flag. It will be a terrible day if Obama is elected to run our country I love so much.
It is so sad that these people are the few who we have to choose from for the most powerful position in the world!!!!!!!!!
It's almost unbelievable!! Thanks for letting me vent!!!!!!!!
I already heard about this straight from the mouths of the Michigan State Police that are on their Motor Unit. They were told to "hide" behind the bus when Obama exited it so that he couldn't see them. Our (the Macomb County Sheriff's Office) Motor Unit, along with the State Police, escorted McCain when he was in town, and we were right out front, where we could proudly be seen. I don't know how you think, but the only people I have known in my career that don't want to be seen near cops are criminals....thats scary!