Michelle Obama's powerful speech: BE NOT AFRAID

[DeepModem Mom]

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[aaronbees]

1. I love hearing her talk...

In particular here, how she connects the idea of the family deciding Sen. Obama would run for president and connecting it to the larger fear felt in the country for so many years. Lots of people feel the same way, Mrs. Obama.

[Texifornia]

2. Michelle is the best reason

to support Barack. I'm not committed to any candidate, but that woman is a dynamo. Can you imagine the lift she would give to America's prestige? The goodwill a dynamic, intelligent, wonderful black woman like Michelle would engender in Africa, Asia, South America, and even Europe is of great worth. I can see throngs of well-wisher at her every appearance throughout the world.

Anyway, she's quite a woman and Barack is a very fortunate man indeed.

[sandnsea]

3. Thanks for that clip

WOW. I saw a snippet earlier on Matthews, the whole thing is incredible. They would be so amazing for this country.

[Lucinda]

4. I'm on dial-up with a storm coming in

so I cant get more than two words buffered at a time. :(
I'm bookmarking this to try again in the morning...

Thanks for the post.

[silverweb]

5. Wonderful!

Michelle will be as great a first lady as Barack will be a great president.

I was on the San Diego Trolley for a time today with a young gentleman visiting from Ireland and after I gave him directions to a couple of places he wanted to see, our conversation turned to the '08 race. He said that "all of Europe" is intensely interested in this race and hoping Obama wins -- and believes that he will be a new face of hope for the United States and the world.

I told him I'd read somewhere that Europe generally favors Hillary and he conceded that they wouldn't be unhappy if she won... if any Democrat won... but Obama's the one they're really hoping for.

Definitely made my day. And Michelle's speech just now was the icing.

GObama!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I hope I am not ahead of my time in saying this, but,

I am very happy to see the spouses involved in their husband's campaign. Very sharp, professional ladies, all around, and I'll give Hillary Clinton the credit for breaking ground in the 90s. Being the first to have to overcome the chauvinist reaction to a first lady who made it through the liberating feminist movement.

I will say this, the feminist movement wasn't about a woman's right to work, because women were working long before the 60s out of necessity, such as my mother, and she was no feminist. She wouldn't have even had time to understand what the uproar was about. The feminist movement was about forging ground in occupational areas where women were not usually welcome. And, when it comes to the first lady position, what the feminist movement did was give a woman a chance to speak her mind boldly. Emphasis on the word "boldly," because first ladys have always had a say, they just had to do it in a way that didn't alarm the chauvinists. And Hillary did alarm the chauvinists and took a beating for it. So, for that I'll say, thank you Hillary Clinton, for being the first to take the flak because, it's very exciting to see what each new spouse brings to the table.

It's well over forty years since the feminist movement began, and it's time that we stop requiring women to hide their brilliance just because it makes conservatives feel uncomfortable. Just imagine the experiences that Michelle Obama has to talk about, that you've never heard from the lips of a first lady.

Someday we'll look back and watch the reels of the pundits in the 90s who were shocked at Hillary's bold assertiveness and see them for the dinosaurs they are.

[JDPriestly]

12. Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Edwards, Ms. Kucinich and Hillary

are the heiresses of Eleanor Roosevelt. They all do her proud. When I was a teenager, I read virtually everything Eleanor Roosevelt wrote. I wish those books were more available today. They contained a great deal of useful wisdom. The conservatives would like us to forget Eleanor Roosevelt's wonderful legacy. These women keep it alive.

[Dawgs]

7. Now that is a strong compassionate woman.

[april]

8. W O W

[Laurab]

9. She's a tough act to follow

even for Obama!

[LSK]

10. The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don't think.

Nailed it.

[SeattleGirl]

11. Wow! She is a very powerful speaker!

:applause: :applause: :applause: