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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:04 pm    Post subject: Profile of Michelle Obama Reply with quote
Good article in the NY Times

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Michelle Robinson grew up in the black half of a divided Chicago. She and her brother, Craig, lived with their parents on the second floor of a bungalow. �Two bedrooms, if you want to be generous,� she says.

Her father, Frasier Robinson, was a pump operator for Chicago�s water department and a precinct captain in the Democratic machine. Her mother, Marian, brought workbooks home to keep her children ahead of their classes. The working-class neighborhood was filled with uncles and grandparents, block associations and oak trees. �We knew the gang-bangers � my brother played basketball in the park,� Mrs. Obama says. �Home never feels dangerous.�


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�I looked out at my neighborhood and sort of had an epiphany that I had to bring my skills to bear in the place that made me,� she says in the interview. �I wanted to have a career motivated by passion and not just money.�

Eventually, she started the Chicago chapter of a training program called Public Allies.


She comes across as a highly motivated, A-type personality.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wouldn't it be interesting having a president married to a woman who can use the word 'epiphany' in a sentence?

Only 7 months from Friday! (Whoever wins.)
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catman



Joined: 18 Jul 2004
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A strong African-American Woman. A big target for the far right.
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



Joined: 25 May 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
catman wrote:
A strong African-American Woman. A big target for the far right.


Your comment is what can be refered to as slander




Yep those neo cons are sure racist.
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aarontendo



Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Current administration is more colorful than any others we've had (at least from what I read). Of course, they're republican so it's either a lie or they have some nefarious plan they're hatching.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Given their party, couldn't it be both?
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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lived with their parents on the second floor of a bungalow


Isn't a bungalow, by definition, one floor?
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I took it as 'attic of a very small house'.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote:
catman wrote:
A strong African-American Woman. A big target for the far right.


Your comment is what can be refered to as slander




Yep those neo cons are sure racist.


Yes, but there is a segment of the American electorate that is so oblivious to logic that they worry about Obama being a closet Muslim, while being completely oblivious to the fact that Bush has appointed an honest-to-God, out-of-the-closet-and-down-on-his-knees-facing-Mecca Muslim as ambassador to the UN.

These types likely wouldn't come even close to recognizing the contradiction between freaking out about Mrs. Obama, but being A-OK with having Ms. Rice in State. The GOP bigwigs aren't like this, of course, but they know that those types are out there, and are happy to pander to their paranoia.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
OTOH, what you write is true. Fortunately, the types that fret about Obama being a muslim are already solidly in the batshitcrazy wing of the GOP and were never up for grabs by the Dems anyways. At best, such scare tactics will struggle to produce even the most marginal results.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
mises wrote:
At best, such scare tactics will struggle to produce even the most marginal results.


Yeah, the only effect I could see it having is as a scare tactic for mobilizing those loonies who otherwise wouldn't be voting. Any paranoid loonie who is planning to vote is likely planning to vote GOP.
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.