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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 04:55 PM Apr 2012

Hey GOP, Apologize to Michelle Obama

Hey GOP, Apologize to Michelle Obama

by TheCrank

I'm waiting for the apologies from the right wingers to Michelle Obama. Because they love to smear and attack her on issues from her college thesis to apparently engineering forced eating of broccoli at gunpoint.

Seriously, I could give you 100 examples.

This one by a GOP Congressman about the size of her butt was particularly stupid and sexist.

Then there was attacking her for going to Target.

How about how bitter and angry Michelle Obama is.

Or Rush attacking her for eating ribs.

Or Limbaugh defending NASCAR fans who booed her, using the word "uppity".

Or the racist response to the false rumor Obama had spent $50,000 on underwear. ("She's trying to make up for the fact that she's not a thin, beautiful white woman. Cut her a little slack. It can't be easy looking like a baboon in a dress.&quot

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Or depicting Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette.


Or for appearing on iCarly on Nickelodeon!

Or the party of Nancy Reagan attacking Mrs. Obama for wearing borrowed jewelry.

Or when Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann attacked the FLOTUS for supporting a very small tax break to offset the cost of breast pumps, a necessity for working mothers of infants.

Which lead to a combination of smears attempting to portray Mrs. Obama's intent was to "raise your children at gunpoint."

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/12/1082776/-Hey-GOP-Apologize-to-Michelle-Obama


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Hey GOP, Apologize to Michelle Obama (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2012 OP
k&r... spanone Apr 2012 #1
K/R Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #2
And, while they're at it... GoCubsGo Apr 2012 #3
Good point. n/t ProSense Apr 2012 #5
They don't have it in them to apologize. lpbk2713 Apr 2012 #4
Will never happen, but point well taken. Faygo Kid Apr 2012 #6
K&R Kadie Apr 2012 #7
And they actually think they're not racists onlyadream Apr 2012 #8
The right-wing's attempt at critisism... tex-wyo-dem Apr 2012 #9

GoCubsGo

(32,116 posts)
3. And, while they're at it...
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 04:59 PM
Apr 2012

How about an apology for the judge who insinuated that the President's mother had sex with a dog?

lpbk2713

(42,784 posts)
4. They don't have it in them to apologize.
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 05:02 PM
Apr 2012



The closest they ever come is ... "If you were offended by what I said or did then ... "


onlyadream

(2,168 posts)
8. And they actually think they're not racists
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 07:15 PM
Apr 2012

Just can't admit it to themselves. Knuckle draggers. MO is beautiful, smart, and super awesome.

tex-wyo-dem

(3,190 posts)
9. The right-wing's attempt at critisism...
Fri Apr 13, 2012, 12:13 AM
Apr 2012

Is so stupid and immature that it falls in the same realm of a seven- or eight-year-old. Pure schoolyard bully bullshit...nothing substantiative.

Of course this sort of thing resonates with those who vote repub...same level of intelligence and maturity as a grade school bully.

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