Reply #97: Let me make me something clear... [View All]

[theHandpuppet]

...because I believe a lot folks here are proceeding from a false assumption, and that I was in any way criticizing Michelle Obama for what she said. In fact, quite the opposite is true!

Now she may feel passionately about this election because she's married to Barack and undoubtedly shares his political agenda (not to mention she's politically astute and passionate in her own right), but I can feel just as passionately about this election for different reasons entirely. Because her moments of doubt may be excused it doesn't necessarily follow that mine can simply dismissed because I'm just a citizen. We are all equals here. No one, and I mean no one who cares deeply about this country and its future, should ever be told to sit down, shut up and get with the program. That's bullying and for many women, that kind of language resonates in a way that's incredibly demeaning and dismissive.