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'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official launch

by blksista
Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 03:26:06 PM EST

Also in l'orange...

The black women's blog, What About Our Daughters? is about to inaugurate
the Michelle Obama Watch page to both list and refute attacks and smears on the character and aims of Michelle Obama, who may indeed become the first African American First Lady in history.

Said Gina M., proprietess of WAOD, in light of the purported 'Whitey' tape being promoted all over:

This whole infamous tape stuff is just a sliver of what Michelle Obama is going to face in the media. So because I predict getting a flurry of emails from now until November, I am going to be proactive and start a separate Michelle Obama blog to track every article, blog post, youtube clip that pops up and provide you an opportunity to respond. Because if the past is any indicator, the campaign has no problem with her being turned into a verbal punching bag, I DO! IF you want to volunteer and want to post updates on the blog, send an email to the gmail account in the right sidebar. Its going to be a LONG hot SUMMER!
Whether you support her husband or not. Let's be clear, any and every Black woman that walks in her footsteps can expect the same treatment so we might as well pull a Gandolf, draw a line in the stand and yell "THOU SHALL NOT PASS!" This ain't about Barack, its about every professional Black woman that has had to smile on the days she didn't want to for fear of being labeled ANGRY.

So...black women aren't feminists, per se? If anything, black women understand feminism quite differently from white women, but it is still feminism.

In other words, black women are saying, we have this woman's back, and those of her children, too.

Ms. Gina has had to step up construction of the Michelle Obama Watch blog, especially in light of the Malkin 'baby mama' controversy. But it is up, in a small form, and I suggest people visit, and send links, comments and support in the coming election cycle.

'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official launch | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (4.00 / 12)

Not getting much play in orange, so I thought I would place it here, too.

I also liked the Hillary attacking Obama page, too. They compiled at least fifty separate attacks on Obama from the Hillary camp. Not funny.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 03:28:43 PM EST

Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (4.00 / 5)

Thanks for the link to the new site. Politicians' young children are supposed to be off-limits, so the caption over the Obama girls' picture is way out of bounds.

I know Fox thinks it can get away with anything, so to them, calling Michelle Barack's Baby Mama" is the norm; but I can't imagine any other network putting a caption under Cindy McCain with "McCain's Trollop (or c**t)." Gosh, I'm looking forward to the return of some standards and oversight in media.

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 04:50:30 PM EST
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Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (4.00 / 5)

I see the 'artist' said he was trying to make people think...yeah well I got my thinking right here and what I'm thinking ain't fit to print.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 05:02:00 PM EST
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orange has gone drivel (4.00 / 3)

{waves to blksista}

Michelle is great. Who cannot love a woman who has a capacity for sarcasm?

whoops, apparently there are some.

Just goes to show how lame the political dialogue has become.

With either candidate officially nominated, it has become all about the wives.

by Miss Devore on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 11:19:40 PM EST
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'Michelle Obama Watch' page (4.00 / 5)

Thanks for posting this here, sista.

It's time for the neanderthals to understand that their time is finished and the human beings will be taking over now.

Every loving soul on earth is pleased to see the Obamas moving toward the presidency.

by Alice on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 05:40:58 PM EST

I love to see this (4.00 / 2)

Swiftboating of the Obamas will not be possible with this kind of rapid response. They are so smart and so internet savvy...

"Don't waste your time on the clowns, watch the real show"

by Second Nature on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 07:16:16 PM EST

Obama Watch' (none / 0)

Don't know if this has been posted, but the is a site fighting the smears agains Senator Obama

If you want me to go back to the place that I was born, tell your corporations to leave my country (Leon Gieco)

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 07:27:57 PM EST

This got more play than the black women's blog (4.00 / 2)

This is an opportunity for black women to analyze and refute the patterns of smear and attack on Michelle Obama. In other words, it is an opportunity for black women to stop the distortion about black women, especially powerful, professional black women like Michelle Obama.

This is not to dismiss Barack at all. But black women have been increasingly concerned about how the Reich Wing spinmeisters want to drag Michelle and even the girls into their program.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 07:45:30 PM EST
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Re: This got more play than the black women's blog (none / 1)

We have some seriously evil people who roam among us. Attacking their children? Christ Jesus, that is sick.

You better believe Black women will be all over this. In fact, we already are.

But remember, scum like that fear exactly who they are: Bold, Brilliant and Black. The scum attacking her must engage in this filth to make themselves feel better. And really--McSame offers nothing, so he'll go along with his standard prattle on the campaign trail and let the other scum do his dirty work for him.

We are not having it. Period.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 09:36:46 AM EST
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Re: This got more play than the black women's blog (none / 1)

The press may have had a field day with the rest of Jimmy Carter's and Bill Clinton's families (especially brothers Billy and Roger) while they were in office, but Amy and Chelsea were left alone. Jenna Bush did get some attention, but she had been hauled into court for her fake ID.

Obama's girls should get the same deference that Amy and Chelsea got.

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 12:16:21 PM EST
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Amy Carter was not left alone... (none / 0)

which is one of the reasons why she is not a public figure.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 06:43:17 PM EST
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Re: Amy Carter was not left alone... (none / 0)

Refresh my memory. I was a teenager at the time. I can't remember seeing or hearing anything about Amy other than her hopping around in the background of her parents' hotel room on election night 1976.

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 08:11:01 PM EST
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See below... (none / 1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carter

She used to read at the WH table, which some people thought oddball. She was not thought of as pretty or smart, especially when she was asked whether she had any message for American kids, and she said, "No."

Then

Amy Carter later became known for her political activism, participating in a number of sit-ins and protests during the 1980s and early 1990s, aimed at changing U.S. foreign policy towards South Africa and Central America. Along with activist Abbie Hoffman and thirteen others, she was arrested during a 1987 demonstration at the University of Massachusetts, for protesting CIA recruitment there. She was acquitted of all charges in a well publicized trial in Northampton, Massachusetts. Attorney Leonard Weinglass, who defended Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial in the 1960s, utilized the necessity defense, successfully arguing that CIA crimes in Central America and other hotspots were equivalent to trespassing in a burning building.[4] This occurred during Amy's sophomore year at Brown University located in Providence, Rhode Island. Later, Amy left Brown due to unrelated and unpublicized issues.
Amy Carter earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) from the Memphis College of Art and a Master's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Amy was called a dyke at Brown; she was heckled and made fun of. I remember the news reports, like this. I was ashamed for her, that she had to go through such dismissal and heartbreak.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:23:50 PM EST
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Re: See below... (none / 0)

As you point out, Amy did get some attention while her father was President, but nothing like having her picture captioned as a "nappy headed ho." Perhaps even the attention she did receive was enough for the Clintons to be strongly protective of Chelsea from the outset of Bill's Presidency -- and the press backed off.

In one sense, the harassment Amy Carter got at Brown came years after she left the White House. I doubt that Amy would have received the same level of scrutiny at 19 if she had not been the daughter of an ex-President.

There are ways to get to a famous person, especially one who is protesting against the government or its friends. When Jodi Foster was harassed and stalked while she was a Yale student, she was absolutely protected by the school administration. It's hard to know whether Amy's harassment problems were just a side problem of celebrity or if she was experiencing an orchestrated backlash by elements from the Reagan administration or friends of South Africa. Whatever the case, she certainly experienced more than most 19-year-olds are prepared to deal with.

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 07:00:47 PM EST
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This shyt happened... (none / 1)

immediately after the Carter defeat and the Reagan ascendancy in the early Eighties. I tend to think of her getting harassment from the bow-tie, frat-beer types as a nasty reaction against the Carter years.

Plus, in comparison to Chelsea, Amy was never allowed the 'hands off' treatment, even after she left the White House, as Chelsea has been given even now.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Mon Jun 16th, 2008 at 10:59:30 AM EST
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Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (none / 1)

The right will probably try to parry by saying that Michelle Obama has referred to Barack as her baby-daddy on a couple occasions. naturally, context is everything, but that'll probably be their last line of defense in trying to defend the indefensible.

link

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 08:37:42 PM EST

Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (none / 1)

I'm pretty sure she said "my baby's daddy" which is way different, IMO.

"Don't waste your time on the clowns, watch the real show"

by Second Nature on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 10:26:12 AM EST
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I'm pretty sure she actually meant (none / 1)

"...my babies' daddy.'

You know. More than one baby. Sasha and Malia.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 11:22:11 AM EST
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Re: I'm pretty sure she actually meant (none / 0)

of course. My grammur sux.... :)

"Don't waste your time on the clowns, watch the real show"

by Second Nature on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 11:31:03 AM EST
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So are journalists trying to parse quotes... (none / 0)

n/t

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 06:44:06 PM EST
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Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official (none / 1)

I guess Fox is determined to energize the base to get out and support Obama. The base being any human being with a shred of decency.

Obama is a Patriot

by Steven D on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 02:04:53 PM EST

Re: 'Michelle Obama Watch' page (none / 0)

Back em' up and back em' down! Don't allow even one smear to get through! Enough is enough!

dd

by lyvwyr101 (lyvwyr101@aol.com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 11:30:24 AM EST

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