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In reply to the discussion: Michelle Obama confronts protester, threatens to leave fundraiser. [View all]BainsBane
(53,066 posts)471. You know I did a search
under both our names and read through the first several pages, and the only thing I found was some mild disagreement about Kaitlyn, and my views on that case aren't even firm. So I'm missing what we disagree so much about. Is it possible that you think about the disagreements more than writing them in response to me?
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And we certainly dont want people's rights to interfere with a hoity toity fund raiser.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#497
That's because things are getting desperate. 50% of the country is in poverty and
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#163
President Obama is a member in good standing of the 1% club. You hope he will be nice to you.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#177
You must be kidding. He nominates people that he doesnt agree with??? He nominated her because
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#183
And the only difference is what they have labeled themselves? If Romney changed parties
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#324
You think job discrimination is not about poverty? Read and learn, you look daft saying that
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#338
Don't be so quick to attack...If you "read and learn", from my post, for starters, you'll see
whathehell
Jun 2013
#414
What is that supposed to mean, that it was OK to heckle Hillary but not Michelle?
Beacool
Jun 2013
#378
Are you telling the LGBT community to, "Stop fighting for nearly useless crap,"?
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#331
Obama's not going to sign anything right now cause the SCOTUS is currently deciding the DOMA case nt
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#202
posts like yours make it easy for me to find who needs to get added to Full Ignore
ZRT2209
Jun 2013
#231
They can do anything they want that is legal. Even marry in many states.
demosincebirth
Jun 2013
#156
In NC it's not recognized as legal. Hell even my Civil Union was nullified and I'm straight.
TalkingDog
Jun 2013
#332
Hilarious. No marriage under Federal law, tax law, immigration law, Social Security law
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#341
Interesting, you are enraged that this heckler is not viewed as the same as MLK
Sheepshank
Jun 2013
#353
What the hell are you talking about? My point is that this woman is NOT counterpart
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#479
That person is fascinated by his ignore list, like a little boy who just discovered his penis
QC
Jun 2013
#319
Amen!!!! There is a lot of work to be done still but he has made more inroads that all of
mfcorey1
Jun 2013
#336
This post is one of the most bigoted responses to a post made by a minority DUer
idwiyo
Jun 2013
#359
Please accept my apology for this post. I am ashamed it's here and even more ashamed
idwiyo
Jun 2013
#400
There is no need for you to apologize. You are always on the side of the angels here.
QC
Jun 2013
#401
ONE right LGBTQ minority doesn't have? ONE right? Are you serious? How can one be so ignorant
idwiyo
Jun 2013
#470
I wasn't going to post in these threads but your post has moved me to respond.
yardwork
Jun 2013
#472
I really wish you didn't have to respond to this crap. Please accept my apologies.
idwiyo
Jun 2013
#474
I would have liked to see her take the mic and let Michelle Obama walk.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#11
Dear heart, your community has had the LGBT community on full ignore for years now
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#346
i think the point the other poster brought up is correct though. this event was in a private
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#244
She was acting as a proxy for her husband by talking at a fundraiser
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#262
Quite the contrary. He could have and should have done that in 2008 but choose not to.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#503
But Code Pink deserves our respect and admiration for heckling the President?
brooklynite
Jun 2013
#9
Please keep your words in your mouth instead of trying to stuff them inside of mine
MattBaggins
Jun 2013
#124
I just want to point out that if I turned into a cheese sandwich I'd be delicious
AngryAmish
Jun 2013
#326
Right. You expected to show your ass and get away with it because she'd NEVER respond.
nolabear
Jun 2013
#22
Meanwhile, it's a private fundraiser, they'll probably be a Q & A afterward where she could address
JaneyVee
Jun 2013
#8
Boo fucking hoo. The most influential woman in the world threatened to walk out...
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#10
You will always opine, even directly after confusing Bushes and pontificating about your
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#376
That's what woodchucks do! I'm mad as pancakes! I'm going to create a Whitehouse.gov petition...
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#46
The audience didn't come to listen to Ms. Sturtz bleat away and interrupt
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Jun 2013
#19
Yes, I know. That is why I used the word "influential" and not the word "power."
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#39
So you are implying that we should set today's standards from assisnine past actions?
Sheepshank
Jun 2013
#368
"Was Ms Obama being a lady?" What the HELL do you mean by THAT? As opposed to a WHAT???
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#28
Many DUers were praising her husband for being such a gentleman for addressing Medea...
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#42
No. The protester wasn't uppity enough. The protester should have accepted Michelle's
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#135
We had a thread about this. "Ladylike" and "being a lady" are unacceptable terms here.
Common Sense Party
Jun 2013
#215
That's it exactly. "Chattel". Never thought I'd see it on a site filled with Feminists.
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#403
Was it caucasian talk for calling Obama a gentleman when dealing with Medea
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#137
His destruction of Medea was "Presidential". What elected office does Michelle hold?
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#147
She was speaking at a fundraiser for her "Presidential" and gentlemanly
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#192
So no "elective" office? You sound as ridiculous as ever. I asked you a....
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#220
Excuse me, but was anyone arrested at the Michelle Obama event? You'll note that I did not....
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#389
Clearly, the couple handles hecklers differently. President Obama is calm (to a fault IMO)
apples and oranges
Jun 2013
#374
Reminds me of Ted Turner harrassing Madeline Albright when she was SoS.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Jun 2013
#21
yep, not a worshipper of the First Lady. I know, I don't know my place (like that protester)
quinnox
Jun 2013
#60
Funny. Right wingers say the same bullshit about her having a "chip on her shoulder"
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2013
#77
well, I've always known you were a BOG-er type, where whiffs of any criticism of the Obamas are
quinnox
Jun 2013
#87
So you believe in silencing all voices, regardless of the content or cause?
LonePirate
Jun 2013
#299
How many of those opportunities involve speaking directly to the First Lady?
LonePirate
Jun 2013
#463
I know, I should have to go to Gitmo for not being properly adoring of Michelle
quinnox
Jun 2013
#131
Is that why the straight community discriminates against gay people so brutally?
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#388
Nothing wrong with me thinking she handled it wrong. And Obama handles it right. n-t
Logical
Jun 2013
#476
If she doesn't want the heat from politics then she needs to stop making political speeches
TheKentuckian
Jun 2013
#366
Very strange that someone would heckle the First Lady. Even stranger that people would support that
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#59
i can't think of any similar instance, actually. where the first lady was heckled at a private
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#272
Obama's not going to sign anything right now cause the SCOTUS is currently deciding the DOMA case nt
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#207
did you make this rule up today? because i am pretty sure deriding laura and the twins
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#119
If people did that, they're being petty. And it's not any less so than hecking the current First La
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#128
yes it does. its not the heckling you are against. its the heckling of a democrat
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#122
i wonder how many find heckling outrageous when republicans are in office
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#108
Not a D vs R thing. It'd be just as tacky to heckle Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan. nt
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#113
please, people here were ecstatic when someone threw the shoe at bush
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#118
If people here cheered someone throwing a shoe at Laura, I'd say they're being tacky.
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#120
I would not in a million years have heckled President Nixon or Eisenhower.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#257
Beating up on a former President's wife doesn't make it okay to do it to a current President's wife.
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#495
I wish politicians had the freedom to handle these classless assholes like comedians do.
Pragdem
Jun 2013
#65
aww her speech was interrupted. such a travesty. that woman can get fired in 37 states for being gay
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#70
But an executive order would protect people for the next 3 and a half years at minimum
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#271
It's useless unless you can show significant numbers being victims of discrimination. (nt)
jeff47
Jun 2013
#393
For it to do any good, you'd have to show that some discrimination has happened.
jeff47
Jun 2013
#446
No, the precedent would be the president putting himself above the supreme court
bhikkhu
Jun 2013
#349
Are you claiming there are laws that state "discrimination by sexuality must be allowed"?
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#394
I raised valid points about how Michelle is being talked about HERE. You minimized it
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#460
She's not a politician -- she didn't run for office -- she VOLUNTEERS her time and efforts
MotherPetrie
Jun 2013
#176
she should stay away from "political" fundraisers then if she is above it all. nt
boilerbabe
Jun 2013
#201
Oh no. No way. Michelle stuck up for herself. Period. In this thread she has been called
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#416
Again, you need to read the posts before you make stupid, offensive remarks about them
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#430
It was a fundraising speech for the DNC; not about 'hungry children'
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#440
I say that calling her unladylike, classless, graceless, above it all, are buzzwords. nt
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#441
Obama is going to have a harder time signing it now because it will look like he caved to a heckler.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2013
#200
Obama's not going to sign anything right now cause the SCOTUS is currently deciding the DOMA case nt
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#208
DOMA is about marriage, not employment discrimination by federal contractors
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#278
"but has frequently chickened out in the most egregious ways when it comes to upholding them."
Summer Hathaway
Jun 2013
#251
hadn't realized this was in a private home. a little different situation than a public one. pretty
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#241
what if she is a space alien? and other hypotheticals. you pay for a private session because
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#429
yeah, i'm sure sturtz was in danger of being murdered by the first lady. there's no comparison
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#436
How long do you realistically think it will take for ENDA to pass?
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#280
I can't tell someone to "sit down and shut up" when it's their rights concerned
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#380
IF it's not legislation and only an EO then the next GOP President could over turn it w/ another EO.
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#466
Yahoo reports this, and their usual neanderthal regressives grunt in unison, bones in hand:
HughBeaumont
Jun 2013
#259
So you think rights are earned by quiet subservience? Constitution says otherwise.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#398
I was kicked out of another thread about this and want to clear something up...
Pragdem
Jun 2013
#296
I applaud the courage of anyone using civil disobedience in support of civil rights.
LonePirate
Jun 2013
#309
Let's just keep discriminating against millions of people and pretending that we don't is
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#391
You can fight discrimination in much more effective ways than childish rudeness.
phleshdef
Jun 2013
#405
See Cha's excerpt in Comment #250 regarding what WH said just hours before Michelle's speech. n/t
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#468
Uh, "in your face" is not how it's done by all, and that style frequently generates nasty responses.
whathehell
Jun 2013
#417
you know i am not at all upset with her. she did what most people do when they get unnerved
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#492
yeah esp because we seem to lack values when it comes to venerating our leaders
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2013
#502