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<title>Slog - Comments on Will Michelle Obama Be Asked to Comment on Cindy McCain&apos;s Drug Problems Now?</title>
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<description>And Cindy&apos;s theft problems and her plagiarism problems? From ABC News: &quot;I don&apos;t know why she said what she said,&quot; Mrs. McCain explains in an interview with ABC News&apos; Kate Snow airing on &quot;Good Morning America&quot; Thursday.... Snow asked McCain is she was &quot;insulted when Michelle Obama said she was proud of her country for the first time,&quot; referencing remarks [Michelle] Obama made at a Wisconsin rally during her husband&apos;s fight for the Democratic presidential nomination......</description>
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<title>Comment by Bob</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>No offense because you're a very clever writer and all but do you actually have more than one tool in your toolbelt when it comes to making a point?</p>]]></description>
<author>Bob</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054801</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:19:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by MadDogM13</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Which has to do with what?</p>]]></description>
<author>MadDogM13</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054805</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by umvue</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Tu quoque</p>]]></description>
<author>umvue</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054820</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:53:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by ellarosa</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>in the real estate biz it's "always be closing," -- abc.  in teevee infotainment land it's "always provoke a catfight,"--apc.</p>]]></description>
<author>ellarosa</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054829</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by P to the J</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, Michelle will not crack on Cindy.  She's too classy.  She should say something completely passive-aggressive such as "poor thing, she must be withdrawing to say something like that.  I'll pray for her."  That would be awesome.</p>]]></description>
<author>P to the J</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054831</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:02:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@5 is right.</p>

<p>Michelle is classy.</p>

<p>Cindy's still a rich whore.</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054875</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:45:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mr. X</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>...and a trollop.  Can't forget the trollop part....</p>]]></description>
<author>Mr. X</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054887</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:01:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by SBVT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>We don't know why he said was he said, but we are glad he did.</p>

<p>We are a little concerned that if <b>we</b> make those newly energized young voters Obama has attracted mad, they may stay energized. But if some fag in liberal Seattle adopts our tactics we feel there is a good chance that a significant number of them will get bored with "change" and just stay home with their video games in November.</p>

<p>Thanks; The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth</p>]]></description>
<author>SBVT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054968</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:42:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mike in MO</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseOHPLEASE!!! </p>

<p>Say, how about a debate? It is goingto be fun watching Obama eviscerate Ol Man McCain, but Barack isn't even the smartest one in that couple. Michelle would annihilate that vapid old crow.</p>]]></description>
<author>Mike in MO</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054988</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:49:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by seeker6079</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm.... <br />
McCain doesn't know why Obama said that.<br />
Hmmmm....<br />
Might it have something to do with the fact that the personal, intellectual and cultural experience of a black woman might produce a view of her country which is more cynical than the experience of a fabulously wealthy white heiress who has been cosseted by the system even when she was a crime-committing drug addict?<br />
Hmmmm.....<br />
Nah.  I'm sure it couldn't be that.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>seeker6079</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1054989</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:11:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by monkey</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Nicely put, seeker.</p>]]></description>
<author>monkey</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055021</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:33:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@10: Cosseted? "To be made a pet of, as a newborn lamb". Seriously, thanks for the new word!</p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055055</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:30:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Obama people are not going to mention drugs at all.  You start a conversation about Mrs. McCain's pill habit and it'll end up being about Mr. Obama's coke habit.</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055077</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:49:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by MrEdCT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>At least I don't trowel on make-up like a trollop.......</p>]]></description>
<author>MrEdCT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055114</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:34:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind." - Barack Obama "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance"</p>

<p>In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says.</p>

<p>And that is why we will not be talking about Cindy's pill popping past.</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055125</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:40:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>That, and his ongoing addiction issues... Poor guy just can't kick the cigarettes.</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055139</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>And if Michelle is so damn smart why would she say something so damn stupid at such a damn public event?... (Yeah, real intelligent...)</p>

<p>Just saying...</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055142</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:50:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mike in MO</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><em>why would she say something so damn stupid </em></p>

<p>She didn't, dumbfuck. She said something actually thought provoking. If you would bother to listen to more than 10 seconds of the clip, you would know that. </p>

<p>The editors at Faux News reduced it to something stupid. And you, apparently, bought it.</p>]]></description>
<author>Mike in MO</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055167</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:02:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@19: She was dumb enough to give them what they needed to do it...</p>

<p>Lets look at the actual outcome of what she actually said and how it was actually distributed (net loss to her and her "baby daddy").</p>

<p>A smart woman would not have given them the opportunity...  In a sound clipped world nuance does not play well on the evening news.  An intelligent woman would realize this.</p>

<p>And true or not, justified or not, if your running for first lady, its a pretty stupid move to imply (or make any statement that could be so very very easily misconstrued to imply) that you had never, before now, been proud of your country.</p>

<p>She will prove to be a liability to Obama (and could be his undoing).</p>

<p>I'd betcha money that he wound up in Reverend Wright's church (and loaded with it's baggage) because, as so often happens, he let his wife choose the congregation they would attend...</p>

<p>Another brilliant move on one of their parts...</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055191</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:19:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>It's easy to confuse discipline and education with intelligence.  (I think she has two of the three but lacks the third.)  He has the hat trick, and they are both VERY charming... (I am inclined to distrust charming people.)</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055206</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:26:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Phoebe</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>YGBKM, what about honest people? Michelle was being honest when she made that proud-of-my-country comment, Barack was being honest when he talked about his drug use. Do you trust honest people? </p>]]></description>
<author>Phoebe</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055270</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:55:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@22 It depends on their motives.</p>]]></description>
<author>You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055308</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:10:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by seeker6079</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>It's possible to go after Cindy McCain on the drugs and theft thing: just focus on the theft and the absolutely sweetheart deal she got afterwards, which I'm sure had noooooothing to do with the fact that she was rich, white, powerful and the wife of one of the most prominent senators in the country.  Nothing at all.  </p>

<p>The addiction we can and do have sympathy for.  We can even approve of the treatment she received: many such drug addicts would, if treated humanely , be able to return to their position as functioning members of society as she has.  What we can and should attack is the fact that she got this treatment and pretty much nobody else does. Ask yourself this: if this had been Barack or Michelle Obama back in the 1990s and this happened, where would they have gone?  Jail.  Would they have been treated so courteously and humanely by the prosecutors.  Not bloody likely.</p>

<p>Perhaps an ad along the lines of: "Democrats: We believe in drug treatment.  Not special treatment."<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>seeker6079</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/will_michelle_obama_be_asked_to_comment#c1055547</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:18 -0800</pubDate>
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