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In her speech at the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama attempted to paint a picture of her husband as a man who defied the odds, who despite being raised by a single mother and his grandparents, worked through adversity to achieve his success and who uses his accomplishments to better his community and our world. She explains that they have similar values and experiences and assures the American people that when he becomes president they will change this country for the better, to reflect their utopian vision for our society. There’s just one sticky point. Anyone with more than a superficial...

Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- On the last day of the Democratic convention, Michelle Obama, the wife of the pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack, made a comment that received little notice. Yet, it could come back to haunt Obama as voters remember his off-putting comments about his daughters and abortion. During a speech at the Women’s Caucus on Thursday, Michelle Obama said her husband would be a “steadfast supporter of women’s right to choose" abortion. “He’ll protect a woman’s freedom of choice, because government should have no say in whether or when a woman embraces the sacred responsibility of parenthood," she added....

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A party convention is a great place to expose your message to some of the top political leaders and the country and pro-life advocates took advantage of that at this week's Democratic convention. On two occasions, they drove home the pro-life perspective for Michelle Obama, wife of the pro-abortion presidential candidate.During a woman's political caucus on Thursday, three women who have had abortions and regret their decisions gave Obama an eye opener.During her speech to the Democratic group, the four women walked briskly to the front of the room. Each of them sported T-shirts saying...

Brian Williams to Michelle Obama: 'What Makes You Angriest' at GOP? By Scott Whitlock Created 2008-08-28 11:18 Brian Williams, NBC, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams conducted an embarrassingly fawning interview with Michelle Obama on Wednesday's program regarding the subject of nasty Republicans and just how exciting the Democratic campaign is. At one point, he sympathetically questioned the politician's wife, "What of the attacks have busted through to you? What makes you angriest at John McCain, the Republicans? What's being said about your husband that you want to shout from the mountain tops is not true?" More of the gushing...

“Cindy McCain looks like someone has twisted her ponytail into a knot and tried to give her a face-lift,” said Project Runway’s harshest judge Tim Gunn. He told NY Magazine that Michelle has Cindy beat style-wise, hands down.

Every night before we go to bed, my daughters and I talk about our worst and best parts of the day. Today, we all agreed that the best part was watching Michelle Obama's warm and passionate speech, and then seeing her girls come onto the stage. As a mom, I felt we were experiencing a piece of history together... The fact that today a smart, articulate, beautiful and accomplished black woman from the South side of Chicago stood before seasoned politicians, an audience of men and women, of whites, blacks, Latinos (and did you see the Indian sardar on CNN!),...

Hillary, dressed to avoid a hunting accident, was all about Hillary last night at the convention. She didn’t tell us about Barack Obama’s character, his ability to lead the United States in a troubled world or even how he would thump John McCain in November. Her speech boiled down to: Obama’s the nominee and I support Democrats, so I support Obama. That is it. She even got in a couple of nice digs . . .

Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities. Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of...

I so wish I could support Barack Obama. It would be great -- truly magnificent -- to elect a black president of the United States. Watching the convention coverage on Monday night, I was moved by my friend Juan Williams' almost tearful reaction to Michelle Obama's address. He shook his head in amazement that an African-American woman was in the position she was. And it moved me to see how moved he was. I wish I could send Michelle Obama -- so attractive, so poised, so stylish -- a cyber hug. I'd wager that millions of other Americans, like me,...

The first night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring an address by Michelle Obama, drew fewer broadcast television viewers than the event four years ago, when former President Bill Clinton kicked things off. ABC, CBS and NBC brought in 12.1 million viewers in the 10 p.m. hour, down one million from 2004, according to preliminary, fast-national data from Nielsen Media Research. NBC scored the largest audience. Later in the day, when final broadcast and cable ratings came in, it became clear that the cable news networks' blanket coverage pushed audiences much higher.

TBILISI, Georgia (AFP) - Cindy McCain, wife of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, on Tuesday visited refugees in Georgia, insisting the timing of her trip had no link to the Democratic convention. Cindy McCain visited a school and former government building housing hundreds of Georgians forced to leave their homes for the relative safety of Tbilisi in the conflict with Russia. "Each time I see and talk with refugees it breaks my heart," McCain told reporters after visiting the two camps which are supported by the World Food Programme (WFP). "The only place these people want to be is...

Here's a movie to consider carefully before viewing. For "The Clone Wars" is a strange creature, an animated "prequel" to the original Star Wars movie. Two problems with this movie and they are major ones. Also, day one of the Democratic convention and I've got some opinions about it all, including some hanging boobs.

But this year we saw an eloquent, sincere woman speaking of her dreams and aspirations. She gave a speech that sounded real with anecdotes that seemed genuine. Michelle Obama last night became a political plus, not a problem.

Yesterday, Michelle, my Bell, Obama quoted her husband quoting the radical Marxist Saul Alinsky in his book "Rules for Radicals" (The book is dedicated to Satan) This didn't go unnoticed by the Geezers on AARP.

A month ago I began a Blog series called "The Audacity of Obama" each Blog covers a different aspect of him, his associations, etc. After the speech provided by his wife last night I though now was a great time to revive it and continue the series, this time all about her. During last night's speech and as she traveled with the "Dali-Bama" this year Michelle has claimed over and over to have come from a down trodden neighborhood on the South side of Chicago, essentially the same are described in Jim Croce's 1973 recording hit "Bad Bad Leroy Brown."...

We are at war and under seige. With our every purchase of oil, we are funding the war against ourselves. Jihadists, both terrorists and legal and civil rights advocates, mean to establish Islamist beachheads in all our Judao-Christian countries and, step by step, to take them over and force us all to live under Sharia law. Mrs. Obama is a smart woman. I would have liked to hear her say something about this. Showing us and telling us that she cherishes her private family life, however wonderful that may be, does not rise to the level of a Churchillian speech...

We finally got a glimpse last night of Michelle Obama, The Actress, and exactly how far she will go to pretend to be something she’s not in order to get into the White House. I mused yesterday that Obama’s speech could in no way eclipse the rank absurdity of Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s Ode to Herself four years ago. But I was wrong. In her widely panned speech, at least Mrs. Kerry respected everyone enough to be honest with us about herself. Michelle Obama, on the other hand, simply was not. Her comments last night in no way, in any small part,...

DENVER (CBS) ― Michelle Obama's big speech at the Democratic convention Monday night was being anticipated not just for what she'd say -- but for what she'd wear. The would-be first lady's fashion flair is already grabbing attention -- she's being closely watched as a possible budding fashion icon -- and most observers the outfit she selected for the big event clicked. Among those whose keen eyes were trained on Michelle is Laura Schwartz, a former adviser to the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Teresa Heinz Kerry. Schwartz also worked in the Clinton White...

What happened: In her Monday night speech to the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama's wife said she gave up what sounded like a lucrative career for public service. "In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities." Why that's wrong: She omitted the fact that she later went on to a high paying job at...

Exactly what is controversial about Michelle Obama? It has become accepted that the wife of the Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, is controversial. Pundits referred to her as such during coverage of the Democratic National Convention's first night. Much energy was spent Monday night telling her story, which didn’t sound controversial at all. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class family, achieved her way to college at Princeton and then Harvard, and returned to Chicago and worked as an attorney, which is where she met her future husband. She was his supervisor. Eventually,...

Michelle Obama quotes lines some radicalFar Left book in her DNC Convention speech. What to make of Michelle Obama's use the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals. In last night's speech, Michelle Obama said something that peeked my curiousity. She said: "Barack stood up that day," talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, "and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be..."...

Michelle Obama quotes lines some radical Far Left book in her DNC Convention speech. What to make of Michelle Obama's use the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals. In last night's speech, Michelle Obama said something that peeked my curiousity. She said: "Barack stood up that day," talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, "and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should...

Michelle Obama’s Only Hope is That People Forget What She Once Said About Her Vision of America and Instead Focus on Her Uplifting Message From Last Night Michelle Obama gave an effective and moving tribute to her husband in her speech last night. If all you knew about her is what she said yesterday, you’d be impressed with her statements of love for her country, husband, and family. And no one doubts her deep love of her family. She helped her husband’s candidacy by letting people see him through her loving eyes. That is what all potential first ladies can...

Two years ago, the office of Michelle Obama, the vice president for community relations at the University of Chicago Medical Center, published a glossy report detailing the improvements her office had made in the lives of local residents, in part by increasing ties to minority contractors Center administrators declined to disclose which businesses benefited; the report lists one -- Blackwell Consulting Services. In 2005, the center expanded its bidding process and invited African American businessman Robert Blackwell Sr. to join a competition to upgrade the center's intranet, the in-house equivalent of a Web site. His company, Blackwell Consulting, won contracts...

When her husband ran for Congress in 2000, Michelle Obama groused so much about handshaking and fund-raising that Arthur Sussman, then her boss at the University of Chicago, finally asked if she truly could not find a single thing about campaigning to enjoy. Michelle Obama thought for a moment. Visiting so many living rooms had given her some new decorating ideas, she allowed. Eight years later, the once reluctant campaigner is at the center of a multimedia charm offensive that may be the most closely managed spousal rollout in presidential campaign history. On Monday night, Michelle Obama delivered a prime-time...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Right now, William Rivers Pitt should be the life of the party at the Democrat convention in Denver. At least in his own mind. Yes, the William Rivers Pitt of his fervid imagination should now be holding court in Denver. Awestruck Democrats approaching his table at an expensive restaurant and shyly asking for his autograph. Prominent politicians walking up to the seated Pitt and whispering insider jokes into his ear as Pitt nods approvingly. Newscasters surrounding him asking for his views on the various speeches. Probably even sitting in on a panel...

Michelle Obama, in tonight's speech that she allegedly wrote herself, said the following phrase..........Where the current of history meets this new tide of hopeThat's pretty good, I said to myself after hearing that line......let me plug that into Google.Well, I found this from a website detailing a quote by a Sir Paul Alfred Reeves of New Zealand........where the river of history meets the tide of the futureFor some reason, now I can only reach the cached Google page where the eerily similar phrase is referenced. If the two phrases seem like too much of a coincidence, a better source for...

All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do -- that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be. And that is the thread that connects our hearts. That is the thread that runs through my journey and Barack's journey and so many other improbable journeys that have brought us here tonight, where the current of history meets this new tide of hope. That is why I love this country. And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this...

DENVER — Could the Democrats be about to nominate the wrong Obama? Well, probably not. But Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife, gave an awfully good speech at the Democratic National Convention here Monday night. While Barack can sometimes soar off into the clouds, Michelle tends to keep things down to earth. “The Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago,” she said. “He’s the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer, inching along at a snail’s pace, peering anxiously at...

Beginning? Borderline? How unbalanced was MSNBC's convention coverage tonight? Keith Olbermann felt himself getting verklempt over Michelle Obama's speech. So who did he throw it to for some fair-'n-balanced commentary? Chris Matthews. At the conclusion of Michelle Obama's appearance, Olbermann seemed ready to call the election off and just hand the presidency to Obama by acclamation. KEITH OLBERMANN: Ye-a-h-h-h. Case closed. Matthews responded with a very guttural "uh-h-h-h." OLBERMANN: That could not have done better for them. That could not have done better for them. Right to the point of the little girls taking the mikes away and suddenly turning...

Chris Wallace said that the Dem's Convention tonight was a "Wasted Night". Ted and Michelle's speeches did NOTHING, according to Mr. Wallace, to get votes for Barack Obama. I must say I agree. I thought Michelle's speech was a big "so what?". Brit Hume did everything except run down on the stage after the speech and kiss her rear end. He was sickening.

Do they want no one to watch her speech or are they just not in control of the agenda?

SACRAMENTO, California - John McCain told a crowd at a fundraiser that his wife is on her way to the embattled nation of Georgia, an announcement coming just hours before Barack Obama's wife makes a high-profile speech at the Democratic National Convention. McCain told a crowd that wife, Cindy, was to accompany him on his visit to California and he apologized for her absence. "Cindy is not here today and I'm sorry she's not," said McCain. "She's on her way to the little country of Georgia." McCain has been a staunch supporter of Georgia in that country's clash with Russia,...

Monday’s "American Morning" featured a segment on CNN political analyst Roland Martin’s recent TV One interview with Michelle Obama which seemingly sought to counter negative assertions about Obama by Republicans and “crazy folks on the right.” After airing a clip of Obama talking about her blue-collar upbringing, during which she stated that her story was the "quintessential American story," co-host Kiran Chetry asked Martin about how important it would be for Obama to address that in her speech at the Democratic National Convention. In his reply, Martin contended that "crazy folks on the right" are to blame for mischaracterizations of...

Rumors have been circulating that Barrack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, is pregnant and will be announcing it at the Democratic National Convention when she speaks. But is this true and where is the source from? According to reports the rumor started with conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh speculated and said that Michelle Obama is pregnant. Rush believes that Michelle will make the announcement tonight in Denver at the Democratic Convention. Obama and Michelle married back in October 18, 1992 by their supposed racist and erratic preacher Rev. Jeremaih Wright. Married at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago,...

While Michelle Obama may be the featured speaker at the first night of the party’s convention, she will have some new high-profile Democrats as warm-up acts. The program on Monday evening was intended to pay tribute to the Kennedys, with Senator Edward M. Kennedy set to appear in a videotaped message. But senior campaign aides confirmed that Mr. Kennedy is planning to be on stage in person, making his biggest public appearance since he was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. It is sure to be a night steeped in high emotion for Mr. Kennedy, a large assembly of his...

Check out one facet of Barack Obama's "inner circle" -- most of the women shown here represent a hidden inner circle that has played important roles in getting him elected. The Nation of Islam is not just another neighorbood group. Is the Nation of Islam the next one slated to go under the bus? The photograph underscores the virtually ignored role that Louis Farrakhan and his wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, have played in the political rise of Barack and Michelle Obama. From JET Magazine, a powerful Chicago-based publication, July 26, 2004...

When state Senator Barack Obama cosponsored legislation creating and increasing subsidies for low-income housing developers in Illinois, and wrote letters to get $14 million specifically for two of them (one was Tony Rezko), his official acts benefited several friends and donors in that industry. A similar thing happened when Obama earmarked $200,000 for Jesse Jackson’s investment fund in Chicago and $225,000 for Father Michael Pfleger’s neighborhood ministry. Those are just a few among dozens of examples of how, when Senator Obama governs, his friends do well. Such arrangements give the lie to Obama’s self-projected image as a reformer who wants...

Sounds like a good drinking game for political geeks. Michelle Obama is so much fun because she is sort of like Joe Biden; endless parades of gaffes followed by corrections and revisions, when we all know they meant exactly what they said when they said it. So with Michelle’s big speech tonight, it has got to be nail biting time in Camp Obama. Of course there is not much room for error when she’s reading the thing. Obama’s guys probably took one look at her Princeton thesis and decided she wasn’t going to write it either. But, as they say,...

Michelle is the Obama who fits in a small room. She does the coffeeklatch to Barack's coliseum. For months now, she's lifted her husband up by downsizing him gently, while grappling with her own critics. Sure, he's the orator who electrifies the faithful by the tens of thousands. But he snores, and smells not so good in the morning. Sure, he's got what it takes to be president, she offers. But he's "just a man." A tall woman with an outsized personality of her own, Michelle Obama has toured the community centers, church basements and ballrooms of the land, pulling...

WASHINGTON -- Michelle is the Obama who fits in a small room. She does the coffeeklatch to Barack's coliseum. For months now, she's lifted her husband up by downsizing him gently, while grappling with her own critics. Sure, he's the orator who electrifies the faithful by the tens of thousands. But he snores, and smells not so good in the morning. Sure, he's got what it takes to be president, she offers. But he's "just a man." A tall woman with an outsized personality of her own, Michelle Obama has toured the community centers, church basements and ballrooms of the...

Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities. Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of...

Michelle Obama's job at the University of Chicago Medical Center included responsibility for a program to steer the uninsured away from its emergency room. The wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is now on leave from her position. She was earning $317,000 a year as vice president of the hospital. Some top Obama advisers are also involved with the Urban Health Initiative, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Dr. Eric Whitaker took over the program when the hospital hired him in 2007, and the hospital contracted with a company owned by David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top strategist, for a public...

What's wrong with Michelle Obama? Not a thing. Too often, the media depict black women like me as gyrating hoochie mamas, someone's baby mama or dirty crack addicts. Michelle Obama strikes a pose not seen enough: an accomplished, confident, proud black woman. (And get a load of those arms!) That seems to scare some people. OK, she slipped by suggesting she'd never really been proud of her country until her husband's candidacy took off. But the reaction went way over the top. Republicans tried to smack her down. Her husband's campaign aides wanted to perform the equivalent of a personality...

2 MICHELLES, 2 AMERICAS & SHAME vs. PRIDE By Michelle Malkin, Columnist Like Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color." Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation. Unlike Michelle Obama, I can't keep track of the number of times I've been proud - really proud - of my country since I was born and privileged to live in it. At a recent speech in Milwaukee on behalf of her husband's Democratic presidential campaign,...

One of the first images that prime-time viewers will see of the Democratic National Convention next week is that of Michelle Obama, who will begin the four-day introduction of her husband, and her family, on her terms. Like everything else at the meticulously orchestrated gala, that is by design.

WASHINGTON — One of the first images prime-time viewers will see of the Democratic National Convention next week is that of Michelle Obama, who will begin the four-day introduction of her husband, and her family, on her terms. Like everything else at the orchestrated gala, that is by design. Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with the prospect of putting a candidate with a most unusual background — the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia — and his...

Jesus says, “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45 While researching the source of Michelle Obama’s alleged “whitey” rant, we discovered direct connections between the Nation of Islam (NOI), Stokely Carmichael, Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Theology and, most prominently, Louis Farrakhan. According to Larry Johnson’s sources, the Michelle Obama tape captures her in sordid company: The sources who have seen the tape report...

DENVER — Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the featured first-night speakers at the Democratic National Convention, which also will include a videotaped message from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.

They call her the other side of Barack Obama's brain. A similar phrase was used to describe Karl Rove's closeness to President Bush. But Valerie Jarrett - unlike Rove - is not a professional political strategist. She's a business leader, a single mother, and, maybe, Chicago's most powerful woman after Oprah Winfrey. A former adviser to Mayor Daley, Jarrett's earned the complete confidence of Barack and Michelle Obama, and both Obamas say they don't make a big decision without consulting her first. Valerie Jarrett is someone America will see a lot more of between now and Election Day, and maybe...