sounds like Ms. Smith has a crush.

And you could take it as a jab at Hillary, it's not like Mrs. Bush has done much of anything except smile vapidly.

Exactly, Qjersey. Ever since Ladybird Johnson, it's been "the thing" for first ladies to be a cutesy-folksy demure accessories to the president until Hillary resisted.

Michelle is too good to fit that sad mold, and that's why I love her.

DO NOT take Liz Smith's advice Michelle!

KEEP ON TALKING AND EXPRESSING YOURSELF

People need to hear your valuable insights about the wrongs of Caucasian Americans.

Blah, blah.

Michelle is an intelligent woman. I'm sure she'll do just fine as First Lady beyond smiling pretty + showing off her new pearls.

Perhaps I haven't been looking hard enough, but I can't remember a damn thing that Laura Bush has done. My grandmother met Eleanor Roosevelt and idolizes her. That's a powerful thing, and motivating to girls and young women who are assessing their place in the world.

Michelle Obama adorable? Hmmm. I always thought she looked like she just ate someone's baby. Scary!

That's right Bob and Churchill, you probably heard that Obama's presidency offers an alternative to abortion….Michele is a "white baby eater."

You guys truly are pathetic (and predictable) morons.

Sorry folks, Michelle Obama is not going to be our next first lady. Barak has made a nice run but thankfully it will come to an end, he will be gone soon and we will have someone with some balls back in the white house. Sorry all you stupid liberal pukes, get used to McCain as your president you can waste your lives and time complaining about him like you have done with Bush for the last 8 years. Hopefully you feel pretty stupid now. VIVA LA BUSH!!!!

i don't imagine that michelle will let herself be so blatantly used as a political pawn as Laura did whenever george needed her to do his bidding.

Wow, does that mean we get Cindy McCain?? Free pills and beer for everybody!

Darth, I though Ladybird Johnson was very active on the environment and civil rights. I'd take Ladybird over "adorable" any day.

Jordanboston
Check out this assessment comparing the two of them. Michelle is a smart accomplished woman, not a pill popper and is a testament to the possibilities in America. I knew Cindy was medicating but didn't know that she retaliated against the guy who busted her.

http://www.democraticundergrou.....15;4682548

It's a really exciting year for GLBT issues in politics. Check out this inspiring portrait of a lesbian legislator in Utah: http://www.1000voicesarchive.o.....-to-Values

I have always wanted First Ladies to be so much more than they ever are, but in her case, I just want her to be adorable.

Poor Liz Smith can't handle the idea of an intelligent, strong black woman like Michelle Obama in the White House, so she needs to see her entire personality diminished into "adorableness". Fuck you Liz.

Sorry, I don't want Michelle Obama as my First Lady, not because she speaks her mind (I like that), but for what she says. I do not want anyone in the White House who has sat in the "church" that she has for 20 years. I don't want someone in the White House who repeatedly calls her husband her "baby daddy." I don't want someone in the White House who freely admits that she hates America. Speaking her mind isn't the problem, it's what she says. Well, that and her husband says NOTHING and has done NOTHING.

Your hood is showing, Bill H.

Michelle must be barfing inside being photographed hugging a whitey.

RPCV -

You're going to be REALLY bitter when McCain loses too!

And who said racism doesn't exist in the privileged white gay community? Some of these comments directed towards Michelle Obama are horrendous. You should be ashamed!

Ashamed for telling the truth? Hardly. I'm only coining her own words.

Ah, gay men looking to Rush Limbaugh for insight and purported facts. Simply Pathetic. She never said whitey. And Bill H, "really proud" equates to "freely admitting she hates her country." Balance, rationality, logic much? Hyperbole and distortion is the lingua franca on here.

http://gawker.com/tag/barack-o.....uster-site

And for those gay white men struggling with their racism (yet professing to be staunch feminists — that's the prevailing mantra on here) either on this site or others, try to absorb the essays of http://www.timwise.org

It would be pretty stupid for Michelle to barf inside over hugging a white person when her own husband is half white.

Is American ready to accept Cindy as First Concubine/Drug Addict? He's still married to his first wife in the eyes of the Lord! Marriage is a sacred thing between a man and a woman … as many times as they want to do it.

One shot of melanin from you for the day is enough Afroguapo, we feel the POWER of COLOR, happy! Please spear us non-african Americans the scoldings, we get enough of that with Michelle. Your insistence just shows how worried you are. To all those non-blacks who think that a tape might not be possible take a look at this and think why would that be so far fetched coming from a woman who befriends and attends lectures with the likes of such people:

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4831

Pay special attention to the caption listing.

P.S. TE AMO MILITANT

Michelle Obama:

Fake pearls, fake smile, anti-American.

Michelle be who you are, and do exactly what you choose to do.
Liz mind your own G*D DAMN business, and btw, Michelle is TAKEN.

RPCV

hit his ONE note, AGAIN,and pitch perfect…Bravo you racist f*cktard.

Cujo

The RNC is so very very very dead. get used to it.

I would like Michelle to be a typical Democrat First Lady. One who is a socio-cultural activist like Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Rosalyn Carter. Not a POLITICAL activist like she who shall not be named.

God, this is just pathetic, Queerty. Do you not know how to track an IP address or do you simply enjoy the hate-speak? I've had enough.

I'd like to second that notion

All the rest say aye, (hitting gavel), and it's passed. Jules/Hisurfer you're on point. Why there are no Terms of Service is beyond me. I can only think that the hate-speak generates "momentum buzz" and thus more hits and more $$$.

P.S. Churchill, it's spare, not spear. I guess you're subconsciously obsessed with your notions of Africa.

P.S. Odio su ignorancia. Es muy horrible.

Topsyturvy, he's also reputed to have called Cindy a cunt (anger management much) and call me jaded, but how can one not be an adulterer if he divorces his first wife perhaps one or 2 months before marrying his next one? No real relationship, however blissful, accelerates that fast. I don't think any of us need to take his views on marriage seriously. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

I interrupt my great vacation in Palm Springs California for this queerty comment.

OK, Here we go again with the Gay Race haters on here our favorite two ignoramuses

Churchiill-Y not go to hell
And (RPCV) R2D2 Debunk your computer chips they're dated circa 1958 (racial segreagation)

Michelle Obama is a fine woman who loves America and is PROUD to be one. And by the way that other Michelle (Malkin) lying ass hoe there is no video tape of "whitey" PERIOD her and FAUX NOISE are lying. And to all of you McCain 08 and Viva La Bush stupid ass queens if McShame wins and put those Right-wingers on that court.you dumb bitches are going to really get what you deserve and that is PURE D' HELL. Then maybe you learn what TOLERANCE & EQUALITY is all about. You want to live with equality but because someone who lives the same lifestyle as you but their race is different you feel SUPERIOR then let the ones you love (white) destroy you.

The only unfortunate thing is all of us decent fair minded thinking folks will suffer.

Fair-minded decent thinking folks FUCK THEM and push for what is right.

And McCain isn't right.

OBAMA/CLINTON'08
The CHANGE and EXPERIENCE we need!

I meant what I wrote Afroguapo and you're correct about what I was thinking at the time.

"I will “use all of my present and future resources to benefit [the Black]community first and foremost

Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites…it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first

there is a distinctive Black culture different from White culture.

[A] Black person may have all White friends and prefer these friends and their activities to those with Blacks without the individual believing that he/she is White" - Michelle's Princeton thesis

P.S. Qu’est-ce qui passe Afroguapo tu n'as pas peut-être un agitation/vandalisme qu'organiser à Paris avec les tiens subsahariens et nord africains amis délinquants? JE T'AIME!

NOBAMA’08 !!!

And what prey tell is so scary about her thesis? Michelle was a black working class women at Princeton, a predominantly affluent white male bastion of elitism in the 80s. Of course she would feel isolated and consider herself to be black first because the environment in which she found herself told her so, in subtle and overt ways. I am sure Justice Roberts (a member of an all male white eating club) probably found Princeton more comfortable and less alienating. Your posts and RPCV's illustrate the odious frisson of racial politics and mischaracertization of blacks as supposedly hating whites simply for speaking out on behalf of black people (Your views are akin to when straight people make the implausible argument that gays want "special" rights when we just want respect and the very rights they take for granted). I know it's hard for you to extrapolate and engage in deductive reasoning so let me simplify it for you like when I do "paint by numbers" with my niece, substitute "gay" for black and "straight" for white in your quote above and perhaps you'll grasp what most of us already know. People can see through your classifying me as some raging militant or rioter(e.g., the Civil Unrest in Paris in 2005 by immigrants and the dispossessed)… your obsession with riots and black unrest is pathological. Keep any love you may have for yourself as your soul/spirit is ugly and hateful and undoubtedly not something that any gay man worth his salt would be attracted to.

Justice Samuel Alito is the reference.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/press

Thanks Afroguapo for your responses and links to informative and relevant articles. A great send off to this very long week. I look forward to seeing more of your writings next week.

Her thesis is online. Read it. It's standard, mainstream stuff. Anyone who went to a major college in the 1980's - regardless of race - had plenty of late night conversations on topics similar to her thesis. There is nothing radical there, and you'd have to be shockingly insecure to be threatened by anything she wrote.

CUJO, have you been infected with rabies like the dog, 'cause it shows up in your rants…..

I am going to be so so so proud to see Michelle and Barack Obama in the White House - smart, beautiful, passionate, dedicated people - maybe, just maybe the rest of the world will start taking us seriously again.

Jim Pickett who said 'I am going to be so so so proud to see Michelle and Barack Obama in the White House - smart, beautiful, passionate, dedicated people - maybe, just maybe the rest of the world will start taking us seriously again.'

No they wont!

Obama will bomb Iran and get Iran, China and Russia to erase the parts of the US and the whole of Israel! Obama is a dishonest person and a Zionist puppet, just like Bush (who committed 9/11).

Unfortunately for you McPain belongs to the same club. So, me thinks you got are truly f****d this time by the people who control you!

No half-white (or half-black) Muslim (ask his brother in Kenya), groomed by the Zionists for president, is going to save you.

Quite the opposite!

Google 'Obama Kenya' and investigate this kids childhood. He is totally screwed and just used as a tool by his masters!

Sorry to rain on your parade!

Mark my words!

Peter Pan: What the fuck are you talking about?

Ummm, Mind Over Matter … please tell me where I wrote that Michelle Obama is a "white baby eater"? I believe you inserted the "white" to assert I am a racist, when I never said any such thing. Nice try to paint me with the racist brush, dear. But I was alluding to her scary countenance, not her choice in skin color.

You're all idiots. Every last one of you.