I’m getting increasingly worried about Michelle Obama’s speechifying. The election is pretty much decided. Why is she amping up the speeches now, when they are no longer needed?
I’m afraid she does have hopes for a political future, and that’s bad. We don’t need yet another woman sleeping her way into politics. All of her feminist speeches are worthless if her central message is that the best starter position for an aspiring female politician is still on her back.
Perhaps she feels sexual assault is a real problem, with the revelations about Trump, instead of trying to advance her own career, which was full of accomplishments before her hubby was elected POTUS, btw.
Oh, I forget, that would be too logical for a brilliant, Yale educated feminist like you.
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I most sincerely hope that you are right. I like Michelle and don’t want to be disappointed in her. You were right when you said Obama wasn’t about to sell out Ukraine and I was being paranoid. Let’s hope you are right again.
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I’m not a huge fan of Michelle Obama but she had an impressive career before Barack Obama ran for president. She has a law degree from an Ivy and worked for state and local government. She has enough experience on her own to justify a run for the House or Senate. She is hardly a bimbo.
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I would be all for her going back to that career. Or not if she doesn’t feel like it. But all of these wives, husbands, children, nephews, etc in politics – that only feeds into the idea that politics is a family business for a few elite families.
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That is how it has traditionally been done in much of the world.
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But she was involved in politics. Just not national politics. But many people who begin in local and state politics move on to national politics.
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She chose to take a different route and become the first lady instead. Nobody would give her such a prominent spot at the DNC and nobody would invite her to speak right now if it weren’t for that.
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“nobody would invite her to speak right now if it weren’t for that.”
I don’t blame her for speaking out during the campaign.
But if she does want a political career (I sort of doubt that she does), she should follow Clinton’s lead and run for office (maybe the house) and get some experience in office first.
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I’m getting increasingly worried about Michelle Obama’s speechifying. The election is pretty much decided. Why is she amping up the speeches now, when they are no longer needed?
It’s not over until the votes are counted and the other person concedes. People still have to turn in their ballots and show up at the voting polls. The other candidate has already been heavily hinting to his supporters that the election is rigged and there is a conspiracy against him, so the solution is to get the lead up so high that there is no question of “fraud.” In addition, if she can help get people to vote for the Democratic party on down ticket ballots the control of the House and the Senate might switch. The other person and his supporters are not going to stop on Election Day and will probably continue to do more “repeal Obamacare and legislate bathroom votes and let’s block every single SCOTUS nominee until the heat death of the universe” maneuvers if they have a significant minority or control.
It’s personal for her. Why not take the opportunity to make the other candidate’s defeat as humiliating and as wide as possible? You think Trump running his birther mouth about is only objected to by Obama himself? I haven’t even touched the topic of sexual assault itself.
The pattern of all these people coming forward to talk about some aspect of Trump’s behavior is not just oppo research. He’s made a LOT of enemies along the way that he’s attempted to silence with lawsuits and NDAs and a presidential campaign is the perfect opportunity to pay him back so they’re all shellacking his sorry ass now because he can’t fight all of them at once.
I don’t think she’d want to be President. She’s shown no interest in governing and HRC was always very open about her interest in governing from even her First Lady days.
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It’s not over until the votes are counted and the other person concedes. People still have to turn in their ballots and show up at the voting polls. The other candidate has already been heavily hinting to his supporters that the election is rigged and there is a conspiracy against him, so the solution is to get the lead up so high that there is no question of “fraud.”
I fear that Russia (or some other party) could hack the voting machines in some states and alter totals. This is the modern version of what Stalin said, unfortunately. It may well have happened in the most recent Gubernatorial election in Kentucky.
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Today a famous Russian politicians and a Kremlin mouthpiece said that Americans should prepare for nuclear war with Russia if they fail to elect Trump. It is that important to Russia that Trump gets elected. So yes, there’s reason to be worried about voting machines being hacked.
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What is this nonsense? Like Trump wouldn’t provoke a war over some dumb slight real or perceived.
I haven’t seen Trump in action with someone that he considers above him socially [because let’s face it, he doesn’t consider voters above him even when he needs them to vote for him] who insults him to his face. Has anyone seen this? Putin has not actually directly insulted him AFAIK.
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Putin loves him and would never insult him. He’d play to his vanity and get every concession he wants in return for heavy flattery.
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