FINALLY, Mika said it! What everyone was thinking...

[CTyankee]

comparing Michelle and Ann. Mika said what we all thought: Ann was awkward and knew her speech was bombing when she "screamed 'I love you women!'"

Far from all the previous hype about how great Ann's outreach to women was, that line was just plain embarrassing. Off the wall. In fact, I thought Ann was feeling the exact opposite: she couldn't wait to get off the stage, away from those frowsy women in their cheap clothes, and back to her country club set, playing tennis at the club with people who can "understand" her problems and stresses...

Thank you, Mika! For once, you nailed it perfectly...

[Whisp]

1. Mika really said all that? wow. n/t

[CTyankee]

2. Just the part in quotes and the rest was my interpretation of Ann...

but the look of disgust on Mika's face spoke volumes...the fact that she said "screamed" was gratifying to me!

[Whisp]

8. ah, ok. I had morning fog.

yours was a great interpretation/addition.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. She had to break up the hate-fest that had brewed

with Joe, Brokaw. Al Hunt, and Dickwad Gregory earlier.

[CTyankee]

4. Those guys were USELESS!

They haven't had an original thought in 20 years! Dickwad is the worst, IMO.

[gordianot]

5. "Awkward" was also her defense of Romney for his Birth Certificate statement as in "awkward joke".

She must have come across "awkward" in a vocabulary building program and it stuck with her.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Mika, Mika, Mika. Democrats like Howard Dean "scream." Republicans are 'emphatic.'

[CTyankee]

7. It was a real "the empress has no clothes" moment, wasn't it?

I mean, when Mika said it. Before that, everyone had been very nicey-poo about Ann's scream...

[Pamelajaynn]

9. FINALLY, Mika said it! What everyone was thinking...

I totally agree with you..Michelle comes off as soo genuine where Ann looked desperate. I love you women?? Who says that?? Once again who is more in touch with the country the Obamas or the Romney's...simple Obama's!! BO2012!!

[CTyankee]

10. Mika says that Ann was desperate to close and that just burbled out...

I think Mika is right. It was too strange to be a planned thing.

Mika also said Ann's speech was poorly written. She said Ann needed better speech writers...of course a better message might help too, but that's not going to happen...

[Horse with no Name]

25. Michelle is classy enough to give her pointers! n/t

[livetohike]

11. Welcome to DU!

[NJCher]

14. strange utterance

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I love you women?? Who says that??

That was my thought, too: "who says that?" It's so weird!

My interpretation of it, however, was that she had been told the campaign was in trouble with women and she had to mend the fence, so in her strange republican mind, the way to mend that fence was to tell them she loved them.

What if the men of the rmoney campaign came out and said, "We love you men!"


Cher

on edit: I hadn't seen what Colbert said when I wrote this about "I love you men."

[freshwest]

16. *You* women sounds a lot like *you* people to me.

[MADem]

19. Bingo--my take, exactly, too. nt

[livetohike]

12. The Democrats show that they love women in our party platform

The Republicans scream it, as if that makes up for their sorry pandering with empty rhetoric and abusive policies.

[SunSeeker]

13. K&R

[cynatnite]

15. As soon as she said it, I knew she didn't mean it. It sounded fake. n/t

[Kurovski]

20. Stephen Colbert thought so too.

(hafta wait 14 seconds)



http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418461/august-29-2012/8-29-12-in--60-seconds

[cynatnite]

21. That was good. Thanks. n/t

[loudsue]

17. One of the PACs needs to make an ad that shows the comparison.

And put a similar comparison with Obama and Rmoney in the ad, and just keep airing it. ESPECIALLY in the south where I live.

[ecstatic]

18. I hope SNL goes crazy with that

Not only did she fail to get women on board, she managed to offend and repulse millions with her simplistic view of what it takes to attract women. She's injected herself into the campaign and is now fair game.

[mountain grammy]

22. "OMG, did you know Obama wants to FORCE gay marriage..."

That is an actual line from an American's for Prosperity anti Obama ad in NC... but Ann says "I love you women!" Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be an American.

[Kurovski]

23. personal question, CTyankee...

are you still doing the Friday "Kulture Kwizzers" here on DU?

[CTyankee]

24. I sure am, Kurovski! Where you been?

I'll be reporting for duty this Friday, 5 pm, in GD. Hope to see you!

[Kurovski]

27. Oh, in my veggie garden, here and there, readin' cookbooks and such...

I'll catch you one of these fridays, I'm glad to see you're still at it.

[savalez]

26. "She's the real deal"

That's what I said out loud while watching Michelle.

[JI7]

28. That's how Bad she sounded, she turned off women who should have been her "base"