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Those statements are utterly meaningless without the context that they were presented in.
Considering there is less than a mynute chance that anyone nay saying the out of context quotes are actually going to watch Obama talk about herself over an hour (including me) the thread is rather pointless...
I disagree. I don't think there is a context in which you can use the word "concession" and the phrase "cost me dreams" about being a mother and have it be a positive thing.
How is that negative?
She gave up on some of her dreams, to be a parent to her children. That seems to be a positive by it's very nature.
Let's be honest here. Other women in her position, could have hired a nanny to take care of her kids for her. Between 2000 and 2004, the Obama's made an average of $2.4 Million dollars per year. When Obama left office, his net worth was over $40 Million.
Michelle could have said "Man I'm keeping my dreams. I'll hire a nanny, and achieve my goals in life"... and honestly she could have done it.
Instead she decided that kids were more important, and made concessions on what her dreams could have been.
I do not see this as a negative. I just don't.
Explain to me, best you can, why you think this is a negative?
This is an interesting comment by her....
“You know, the day I left the White House, it was painful to sit on that stage, and then a lot of our folks didn’t vote — it was almost a slap in the face,” the former first lady continued.
“It wasn’t just in this election, but every midterm, every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because
our folks didn’t show up,” she added. “After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.”
This could mean she is completely out of touch. The people didn’t come out to vote because O failed them and they knew Hillary would too. So, we got Trump because of it.
"Our folks didn't show up". Hmmm. that shows me she thinks of ONLY BLACKS as being her and Barack's kind of people and shows significant and very telling racial prejudice against Non-Blacks, She thinks of the country in terms of SEPARATE Identities. That is absoluty disgusting. Can you imagine a White politician saying that???
I don’t believe that is what she meant. I think she was referring to Democrat voters in total.
You’d think after O lost the Congress in 2010, he would have paid attention to the people. He never did. He continued to focus his attention on the needs of the wealthiest Americans.
Can you, just for the sake of argument.... give me an example of how after 2010, that Obama focused his attention on the needs of the wealthiest Americans?
In everything he did. Bailing big corporations, tax cuts for the rich, multiple wars to enrich the MIC. Huge HC plan that enriched the rich. Shut down Occupy Wall Street. Did nothing for the people of Flint drinking polluted water. It goes on and on but a dishonest media refused to tell the people.
Um... no.
First, OWS was a bunch of stupid people, complaining they engaged in stupid, and then thought the way to protest their own stupidity, was to take over a public park, and make it into an indecent display of poop and filth.
There was not one single valid claim or position by OWS, and even if they did have a valid claim, acting like a bunch of sub-human neanderthals in a public park, is not how you deal with it. If you don't like owing money..... DO NOT BORROW THE MONEY.
Second, It's not Obama's job to fix every smelly public toilet, or every trash dump, or every road, or every water utility in the country.
I am so sick and tired of this new modern "american" todderism, where every supposedly adult human being, sits on their hands, screaming that mommy government, needs to bring her tits over, so they can suck everything you need to fix their lives out of her.
FIx your own freakin water! Your town, your city, your local government, and your tax dollars. FIX YOUR OWN WATER. Stop being a 5-year-old with a temper tantrum when you supposed to be an adult. FIX YOUR OWN PROBLEMS. You would think every adult American, needs a government assigned wet-nurse, with how you people are acting. GROW UP.
Third, yes Obama made a terrible health care plan, that was more socialized and government control than ever before, and like all socialized systems it sucks.
However, complaining the rich got rich off it? Really? Let me ask you, would you supply health care if you lost money doing so? Hint: No, you would not.
There is only one way people are going to supply health care products and services.... that's if they can get rich doing it. If your complaint is "people got rich off it", then you have no complaint, because you yourself would not be providing care for free, and losing money. So why would you expect anyone else to?
Same thing with wars. I would agree we should either have completely invaded Syria, or completely stayed out of Syria. But if your complaint is that it enriched the "military industrial complex"... grow up. People don't build weapons without profit, and the government would be buying those weapons, whether we went to war or not.
Believe it or not, but things need repaired, and need replaced, even if you don't use them. Even missiles have a shelf life.
Fifth, tax cuts for the rich? I'm not sure what you are referring to, but if you mean extending the Bush tax cuts.... that's not the same thing as tax cut. Basically he didn't raise taxes.
And by the way, I myself got a tax cut from the Bush tax cuts. I guess me and my massive $20K income at the time, means I'm part of the rich. I suppose in your world, raising taxes on me, would have.... what? Helped the economy? Learn some economics?
Conclusion:
Obama was a terrible president, with very bad policies. But this idea that he was "for the wealthy" or something.... yeah.... Um... no.
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