Michelle Obama: "I'm A Big Fan Of Accessories. I'm Married To One"

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Michelle Obama had a little fun at her husband's expense on the campaign trail in North Carolina, The Raleigh News & Observer reports:

Michelle Obama tried to humanize her husband and their lives -- from the heavy college debts they incurred from their Harvard law school days to having her mother watch her children while on the campaign trail.


And in Winston-Salem she poked a little fun.

"I'm a big fan of accessories," she said after mentioning the outfit
of Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke. "I'm married to one.

"Just kidding."

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The Obamas really scare me. Did anyone notice that these guys are socialists?
"This is what she said at a North Carolina campaign stop, and I quote. "The truth is most Americans don`t want much. Folks don`t want the whole pie." I do. But I have a fat man screaming to get out of me. "Most Americans feel blessed to thrive just a little bit." Well, good, let`s lower the bar. "But that`s out of reach for them." And then she continued, "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 someone else can have more.""
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/10/gb.01.html

I do not know about you, but I want as big a piece of pie as I can get. That is scary stuff... Do NOT vote for these people.

thanks for reading.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:31 PM on 04/11/2008

I am really sick and tired of hearing them talk about their school loans. I have tens of thousands of dollars in school loans, but I know that if I am making over a hundred thou a year (which they have been making times 3,4,5,6,10 for over a decade now) I could get them paid off in no time. I really want to know why it took two people making a million dollars a year so long to pay off their school loans? For those of us making 50,000/year with the same amount of school loans, we don't want to hear your whiny story.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:53 PM on 04/11/2008

The insanity.

She's talking about her husband being handsome. She is married to him as she has been for years. She has every right to say whatever she wants about her husband, the man she has been married to for years. I am sure that Barack has been hearing Michelle speak this way about him for years. This isn't the first time she has admitted (and I have to agree) that he is one fine man. Any woman would be proud.

You people need to lay off the kool-aid.

Go Michelle Obama!!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:37 PM on 04/10/2008

ccmd,
I agree with you. I'm not a Obama political suporter, but I do enjoy watching a couple that seems to have a great relationship.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:16 PM on 04/10/2008

She might as well have just pulled his balls out of her purse and waived them in the air for the cheering crowd. I love Mr. Obama, but I can't say I feel the same about the Mrs.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:25 PM on 04/10/2008

I think Barack ought to get himself a nice accessory...a mistress.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:28 PM on 04/10/2008

Jeter2, we'll leave that hobby to Bill Clinton.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 AM on 04/11/2008

I guess some people find it humorous or empowering to immasculate one's husband in public. Sheesh!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 PM on 04/10/2008

Barack you deserve a mistress.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:07 PM on 04/10/2008

So because you're confident that means your arrogant?

What exactly have the Obama's "done or said" to be labeled as arrogant? Kinda of reminds me of the jim crow days - don't want the negro's getting to uppity.

And for those who didn't get her joke, she was calling her husband good looking -- I guess they'll be labeled as being conceded now.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 04/10/2008

Lame...can't they afford writers with all their money?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:32 PM on 04/10/2008

I guess she is proud of her accessories for THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE!

Michelle obama is ghetto smart!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 04/10/2008

OMG, a real woman as First Lady! Perish the thought. What will we do with a smart, personable and down to earth person.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 04/10/2008

Get a sense of humor people.

And yeah, gosh it's ashame Barack and Michelle Obama are so "smug." It's not like getting elected to the Senate and being within a hair's breadth of the presidency is anything to be proud of. They should be cringing in fear (like all black people) and keep their children locked up.

Since when have the Clintons been so modest? I'm sorry even Bill Clinton's own supporters admitted he was extremely "smug", "cocky" and "arrogant." One of our most "smug" presidents ever. So why the problem now?

I can't help but think, since pretty much every presidential couple has been smug, it has something to do with them being black. Otherwise what else is it? And do you or do you not have the same problem with Bill Clinton?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 PM on 04/10/2008

I totally agree. Why do so many Clinton supporters bash Obama as "smug"? What's smug is going on record as saying that you'll have the nomination wrapped up after Super Tuesday.
Going on to later demand that we not "disenfranchise" the rest of the voters after things don't go your way, well that's just two-faced...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 04/10/2008

Its hard to be modest when you and your hubby have made $109 million dollars in 7 years.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:23 PM on 04/10/2008

I have to say that I am a huge Obama supporter but his wife needs to put a lid on it. She definately doesn't have the charisma that her husband has been blessed with and while I appreciate her attempt at wit it just doesn't come across that well.

I am sure she is a very smart, gracious person but not the best on the political front. I think I would let her husband do the talking. :) GO OBAMA!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:41 PM on 04/10/2008

She's bragging about how good-looking her husband is. Duh!!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:40 PM on 04/10/2008

The man is the leading candidate to be the President of the United States. An "accessory"? Really? Bragging isn't what the woman was doing. Chopping his balls off in front of the country was more like it.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:27 PM on 04/10/2008

Nice picture - Don't they look smug?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 04/10/2008

This isn't the first time she has made a job at her husband's expense.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:18 PM on 04/10/2008

Just as I am trying to warm up and accept Obama if he should be the nominee, this woman Michelle Obama says something that makes me cringe and shudder at the prosepect of her being in the WH.
The Obama campaign will be better served by sending her off to Kenya for a vacation (she can get to know her in-laws) until November- but I support Hillary- so Michelle - please keep talking your mouth off !!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:07 PM on 04/10/2008

If all it takes is his wife to run her mouth off to discourage you from voting for Obama than you were never a true supporter in the first place! However, Hillary has a spouse with alot more problems than running his mouth to consider when voting for her.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:37 PM on 04/10/2008

I don't think you should bring a person's sex life up. What goes on behind close doors should stay behind close doors.

I do agree that Michelle has a big mouth and I'm not sure what her joke means.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:16 PM on 04/10/2008

wow the arrogance of these two is amazing

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:06 PM on 04/10/2008

Did anyone follow the link to read the rest of the story?

These remarks are such a small part of the story. If there were something
seriously wrong with Barack or Michelle, then we wouldn't have to focus
on some humorous remarks that some of us do not understand.

If you don't get the joke, why not just leave it at that? Did you ever hear a joke
told by George Bush that fell flatter than anything Michelle Obama ever said?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:04 PM on 04/10/2008

Looking at the pic of Obama reminds me someone needs to tell him he can't dance....what good is he as an "accessory" on the dance floor?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:58 PM on 04/10/2008

Michelle,

You are great, but you talk too much and take too much glee in tweaking the hubby. Put a cap on it for the duration, ok? The more you do that the more votes you lose, regardless of how you calculate it.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:44 PM on 04/10/2008

She's no Condi Rice thats for sure. Someone who tows the line and speaks lie after lie for a man show isnt even her husband. She isnt responsible for 4030 dead soldiers and countless others on her watch as Sec of State without a bit of remorse . Actually I think Condi and W are responsible for over 7000 dead --the 3000 from the twin towers who they ignored reports and threats on up to the day they happened , and the 4030 in Iraq.
Does anyone else see how hypocriticial our prez and his minions are: the general is reporting progress and violence down and for 2 days the ticker under him on the news is reporting US soldiers killed.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:25 PM on 04/10/2008

Eladora, you said it all in a nice little package. Michelle is a lovely, intelligent woman secure in her marriage to a wonderful guy. They will be such a delight to have in the White House, I can hardly wait, a dear family, just as normal as can be. I have such great hopes for Barack even tho with the disaster those cretins, in the last 8 years, have done to us he is the ONLY one who can start to get us back to where we were when I was proud to be an American and I have not since Bozo stole the 2 elections.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:36 PM on 04/10/2008

eladora, wonderfully said. It makes me shudder when I read about Condi's experience. She is a Evangelical Christian neocon who helped put this Iraq debacle into place. 4300+ American soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. Those are her achievements. Why in the world are people comparing Michelle Obama to her. I'll take Michelle's achievements over Condis any day.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 04/10/2008

Sure she is not Condi. Michelle Obama, while having a very impressive achievments of her own, does not come even close to Codoleezza Rice.

Lets compare:

Rice - Born in middle class family in Alabama
Obama - born in middle class family in Chicago


Level achieved in academia:

Rice - Professor and Provost of Stanford
Obama - Associate Dean of Student services at University of Chicago

Level achieved in goverment:

Rice- National security Advisor/US Secretary of State
Obama - Vice President for Community and External Affairs of University of Chicago Hospital

Respect by private sector:

Rice - board member for Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors, Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation,

Obama -treeHouse Foods, Chicago Council of Global Affairs


Press lists:

Rice - Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people four times
Obama - Essence magazine list "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women." Vanity Fair magazine list "10 of the World's Best Dressed People."

Main claim to fame:

Rice- US Secretary of State
Obama - her hasband is a presidental candidate


You are right they are not the same...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 PM on 04/10/2008

You left out the most important part, Rice is a murderer and thief, she also sucks up to Busho otherwise where would she be. You did not just HAPPEN to leave out the Michelle is one of the finest attorneys to graduate from Princeton and Yale. How easy it is to distort the info, you phonies don't fool me at all. But come November it won't make a whit of a difference. Your Condi will be Condi who? or maybe she will be getting a good defense team to defend her for the war crimes. Remember again, you forgot she was the WORST National Security Advisor in the history of our country and was partially responsible for 9/11 because of her ineptness, maybe she was playing the piano.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:41 PM on 04/10/2008

"Michelle is one of the finest attorneys to graduate from Princeton and Yale"

First of all she went to Harvard law school not Yale.

Second of all what basis you have for such claim? Michelle Obama practiced a law a few years during which she did not participate in any significant cases. She wa assosiate in OK firm specializing in marketing and inetlectual property law. She maybe very smart and talented but her status as a lawyer is zero...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 04/11/2008

for condi you forgot to list her incompetence in her job, her inabiliity to accomplish anything because she is the face of bush in conference rooms around the world where she has no credibility.
she got the job because she played the piano and impressed george sr.
4000 dead in Iraq alone . Sleep well condi

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:30 PM on 04/10/2008

We disagree on her achivements as a US secretary of State. However, I yet to here any achivements of Michelle Obama in anything..

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:01 PM on 04/11/2008

(uh, yeah, COndi has quite a resume...and if listing the titles/positions was the full equation, well her listing is heft. But frnakly, start just with her tenure as Security Advisor in this Bush admiinstration...Uh, the NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER who went on air stating how SURPISED/AMAZED she was, that NONE COULD HAVE EXPECTED such an attack as 911 using commercial aircraft commadeered to carry out such atrocity....Course she had NOT paid attention to various memos, discounted many and ignorred others that did try to get such fully attentioned/considered...Uh, the scenario was one that WAS considered way back in a homeland Olympic staging /security issue and even in the Summer of 2001, was an issue in Europe with world leaders gathering for meetings and had precautions taken and OH, on 9-11-01, a PRACTICE of sorts was sked right there in the DC vacinity to kinda check out the feasibility/contingency considerations...but COndi expressed AMAZEMENT that such ACTUAL COULD BE CARRIED OUT....wow, that alone should send a few neck hairs to stand up position !!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 04/10/2008

Sorry, but the moment people start talking about predicting 9/11, I stop taking the seriuosly...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:11 PM on 04/10/2008

Love him or hate him---ya gotta admit that Barack would make quite a pretty/handsome accessory on anybody's arm!!!
OBAMA '08