Comments on Proud to Be an American

Wow.

Um, I'm confused ... I thought we were electing him as President, not her?

Or is this going to count as "experience"?

that makes me, amber atkins, proud to be an american.

Michelle is the 'new' Hillary....

Are they going to ask her to bake cookies too?

I was at McCain's "I am the candidate!" event in Columbus, OH, last night, and he went off on M. Obama's comment several to many times during his speech. Makes me wonder what he was planning on saying before she made the remark.

PS McCain's crowd was *scary,* including shouts of "Commies!" at times when he referenced democrats.

Well. If WALNUTS! McCain wants to go after his opponent's wife, perhaps now we can all start talking about Cindy McCain's little pill-popping addiction and how she used her own charity (her own CHARITY, people!) that provided prescription drugs to those of us who are less fortunate as her own personal dealer.

Or we could talk about how she helped break up the Senator's first marriage to become his wealthy trophy wife that funded his entry into politics.

But we wouldn't want to bring candidate's wives into this, would we?

It's going to be sad to watch McCain throw away his remaining shreds of integrity as he enthusiastically works the controls of the right wing smear machine. All for the chance to end his career in defeat.

@2: EXACTLY!

Also: Can you remember the theme from your favorite pagent?

Has anyone heard Bill O'Reilly's comment? What a fucking D BAG!

Has anyone heard Bill O'Reilly's comment? What a fucking D BAG!

What's not to be proud of? The gap between the rich and poor has widened, 1 in 6 have no health insurance, the American dream is all but dead, invaded Iraq twice, vets are living on the street and the President is destroying your constitutional democrary. Oh yeah, and the US can't sign Kyoto and is ignoring the Genva Conventions, and the rest of the world hates you.

It's hardly the time to be counting the accomplishments. When is this Rupert Murdoch bullshitathon going to be over?

@1 Great point Will

It just shows the desereration to find any kind of crack in his armor.

ALL the candidates are worried about his momentum irrespective of their party.

They realize that the people want to believe in this knight in shining armor, and they need to find a way to tarnish that image.

Notice he has always stayed above the low brow, no class attack politics.

Obama doesn't need to stoop to their level of dirty politics. It's sad to see our "politicians" bring the race down to this meaningless stuff.

I have a feeling the general citizen agrees with this, and is simply fed up with the crap.

Hence Obama's popularity on both sides of the aisle with moderates.

Reality Check

she made michelle malkin's life a lot easier this week. it's been the lead story on her blog the past couple days, as well as the topic of this week's column. it's always fun to see how much mileage she can wring out of a single sentence taken completely out of context.

Strange, not that it factors into my voting decision at all, but I have been impressed by Michelle's presence on the campaign. When she was on Larry King, I kept thinking, would I be so polished and on point all the time if that were me?

I am not referring so much to the "proud to be an American" part, but the "in my adult life" part. That just made them sound young -- it got me thinking about who has been preseident in her life time, and, wow, her first election she was eligible to vote in was Reagan's second term.

She has generally been very good at deflecting anything that alludes to their relative youth and inexperience on the national stage.

Barf. Can we just ignore this bullshit?

...and so it officially starts. This is the first of 9 more months of ugly political mud slinging. The media must be crying with joy over all the great sound bites and sensational headlines that will sell sell sell!

@3 - no, they want her to bake brownies.

I expect she would, but she'd use a recipe from New Orleans instead ...

I'm proud to say I'm not usually proud of the US. In fact when I travel abroad I usually pretend I'm Canadian or Mexican. I can fake a Canadian accent well enough. :D

@17 - really? Which one? BC, Alberta, Prairies, Ontario, or Quebec? Or do you pull off a Cape Breton one? Nobody can do Newf like a local tho ...

i saw cindy mccaine mockingly mentioned michelle obama's comments... cindy's biting off a bit more than she can chew, methinks.

@13: I hadn't done the math yet, but I was thinking along similar lines...given who's been in office and what has happened in her (and my) adult life, I'm not sure there's much we should have been proud of. If McCain and the right latch on to this, there's loads of return fodder for the Dems to shoot back with.

What ever happened to McCain's first wife's kids, anyway, and why don't we see them on the campaign trail?

Ok y'all gonna hate me for this but:
Proud that people are getting involved? And, the unspoken idea here is that it *might* be bc of Obama?

What is unnerving about the participation level and the high hopes is that it really might not be about (or bc of) Obama...OR about a people to be proud of...the energy is simply a reaction to horrible, no good, disastrous, terrible, effed-up Bush administration. The reason for packed primaries and caucuses, Obamamania and all the Kool-aid etc is bc we are all reacting to the Bush terror of the past 8 years. An administration that was the result of the apathy of these very same folks who are renewing their participatory vigor. It took Bush-terror to get us all going. Is that something to be proud of? Really? I think we are just desperate. Obama is cool n all...but fainting?

I'm not proud of these peeps yet. Or of Obama (yet). I'm still disappointed that we let Bush into power in the first place. If enough of us had voted in 2000 and 2004 this wouldn't have happened. So let's not pat ourselves on the back too much. We still deserve a kick in the ass for the past 8 years.

Is it wrong of me to point out that this is just the very first tiniest bit of the mound of Republican shit I mentioned earlier?

I will be interested to see how Obama handles it. Hint: don't pull a Kerry. To assume that your opponent's argument is so absurd that it can't possibly gain any traction is exactly what got us eight years of the Bush.

Also, at a tactical level, it would absolutely confirm the worst fears of those Clinton supporters for whom the ability to respond to such attacks is a strong component of our support for Hills.

Even Slate, the Mouth of Obama, has a problem with the Michelle Obama quote.

That monkey faced NI-GG NO-GG!

DAT BITCH A HO!!!

There is nothing wrong with Michelle Obama's statement. What the hell has Michelle got to be proud of? She's not a robotic, flag-waving idiot who thinks patriotism means blindly following the idiot in charge. I also think she was referring to our country's *government* and not our society in general. I have never in my lifetime (I'm 48, white, and female) been proud of my government and the last president I marginally respected was Jimmy Carter. I would *love* to feel differently. Unfortunately, as long as our government runs without accountability and a system of checks, it'll always one I can't be proud of. As the saying goes, "A government is a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned."

Prediction

After Texas and Ohio when Hillary can bow out gracefully, she will take her 527's and her rich donor base and set up a PAC to smear the crap out of McCain. She'll take all the heat for it and Obama can keep the pretty Democrat face.

This has only been a prediction.

Back to you.

If she does that, we'll have to do something nice for her.

Send her a card, or flowers, or something.