Slideshows of a potential *first couple* who actually like each other. Nice to see for a change.
Part 1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/the-obamas-greatest-pda-m_n_130947.html
Part 2
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/the-obamas-anniversary-al_n_131721.html
Zenguy
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How nice to see this for a change. Admittedly, I cringed when Al Gore tried to kiss Tipper...it looked so forced and fake.
Ooohhhhh.... how sweet!
Too bad they don't like America as much as they like each other.
Zenguy
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And what lie are you basing that on?
villagegreen
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Fox news.
Seriously, how tired is that line of reasoning? If you don't agree with policy X, you must not love America. I hate that the right in this country has convinced itself that it holds the monopoly on patriotism. Give me a f'ing break.
JenV
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yawn...take it back to Faux News, Ann Coulter.
Too bad they don't like America as much as they like each other.
You know, I've yet to see this assertion supported by anything other than "They hold beliefs/support policies/advocate actions with which I personally disagree." (To be non-partisan, I've seen people say the same things about McCain.)
How about a bit more robust support for that argument?
flipjack
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Yes NR, as you said yourself on this blog, you are very naive.
JenV
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polly wanna cracker?
she just never stops does she?
maybe if we all just ignore her she'll just go away....as she seems to only like to be inflammatory and repetative. Let's quit giving her the attention she so clearly craves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5kLreAmgGE&eur
The America Palin and her friends want is not very likable.
Dobson would never have endorsed the ticket without a full scale dominionist nutjob to balance John Sidney "Whiplash" McCain.
This thread had all the possibilities of being positive, let's ignore and bring it back to its original intent. I think it's lovely to see such a loving couple full of mutual respect - including fist bumps and thumbs up :)
New Resident, I have to say that I'm personally fed up with PEOPLE coming on here and spewing that crap and then asking US to back up our statements to the contrary when they KNOW that they are perpetuating hateful lies fed to you by your "news sources" and I use that term loosely. Give me some EXAMPLES. I think that was a terribly offensive thing to say - listening to much to Fox and Ann Coulter lately? What? Are they "muslim terrorists"?
I don't like John McCain but I truly think he does care about America. I'm willing to at least make that concession and I think that if you gave half a thought to the inflammatory remarks you make you would realize the same.
GenHillOne - I agree. Thanks for the reality check. *deep breaths*
I think he and Michelle and their daughters are just precious. I read an article about his home life and it seems like they really run a tight (yet loving) ship.
Those pictures are really freakin adorable. Kinda makes me want to barf. But it a really positive, America-loving way of course. :)
beachdrivegirl
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This is just another area that Obama out classes McCain. McCain is not intouch with the American people. He has cheated on his past spouses, he can not look other political leaders in the eye, and his wife is always in the background in him..Personally he just seems outdated. I am looking forward to the change that Obama can bring. And all of the change that he is planning reassures me that Obama loves our country b/c he isnt planning on driving us into a depression like his opponent McCain. (And yes McCain will drive us into a depression b/c we can not cut taxes at this point.)
mellaw6565
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One of the things that we picked up on last night in the debate was a shot of Michelle Obama in the audience looking at her husband and the love and pride in her eyes were so obvious. I'm glad my partner looks at me like that too!!
TammiWS
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NR - stop. Is it so impossible to say anything nice about Obama and his family and not just follow the negative Republican party line - which is getting more negative each day?
Please dont even refer to the Ayers BS - theres a lot out there about McCain in the past couple of days that could be tossed back at you....
Do you ever rethink your unquestioning support of the Republican party?
If someone said that about the McCains you would be the first to jump on it so please just step back and give it a break.
How do we know that is true Mellaw6565? Now you need to post some pics. ;)
beachdrivegirl
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Tammi-speaking of rethinking the Republican party or supporting McCain I was watching TV last night and had to laugh after watching a McCain staffer start going on and on about all the great things Obama did during the debate. Not sure that is what McCain was really looking for. It nearly sounded like the staffer supported McCainmore than Obama. Ha!
Zenguy
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I love the picture of Obama riding his bike with this little girls...bike helmet, golf shirt, levis, tennis shoes and black socks! But just a normal guy, doing normal dad stuff...love it!
And...I doubt that Barack Obama would ever call his wife a c#*t in public, or private, for that matter - there's a great family value for you (they're certainly not mine)....yet there are people on here who will give McCain their full support. Astounding !
Barack and Michelle are wonderful...we should all be so lucky to feel such love.
Thanks, JT, for sharing those.. :)
Zenguy, good point. All this time, I've been thinking I don't want someone like me (the attempt at folksy-I'm-like-you-Joe-6pack) in the white house, but someone far BETTER than I for the job. The "normal dad stuff" and family pictures though...yeah, that's an area where I want to connect with my candidate. Now my family doesn't look just like his, but I get it. Much like Biden's commitment to taking the train home every day to be a dad. Love it too!
Luckie
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I am voting for Obama over McCain for purely political reasons, but I gotta say...if I were married to Barack Obama I'd be smoochin' all over him too.
Oh my gosh, JT! Thank you! I feel all warm and squishy now and I wanna cuddle with my man. Funny how you can tell just from the way they are always touching each other how much they care for each other. We're like that too, it's wonderful.
They are super cute! I love that they have--and show--their strong, dynamic, loving & equal relationship! They have clear adoration and respect for each other.
have you seen them dance. they actually dance with each other.
what i liked was the way that Michelle worked the crowd after the last debate. you could clearly see her talking with people about issues.. not just talking at them.
listening is a lost art.
JenV
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NR- even that ice queen Cindy McCain acknowledges that Michelle Obama loves this country- why can't you?
from her interview with that hard hitting news magazine (:P), Marie Claire:
MC: Your impression? (on meeting Michelle Obama)
CM: Oh, very nice. It was a very brief encounter. I don’t know her, but I know she’s a good mother; she cares very deeply about her husband and for this country, and I admire her for that.
walfredo
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What on earth does "loving the country" mean? Is it blindly supporting unjust wars? Is it blindly following the worst administration in American history as our nation crumbles to its core? I remember very vividly how "unamerican" dissent was in the lead up to the Iraq War. How those people protesting "hated America", "blamed America first". While those who blindly followed W. into a disaster were "patriotic".
It seems to me like most people have a real relationship with America- of course we love the promise and opportunity it brings, but it doesn't make you unable/incapable of seeing it's many faults. Saying America has many faults, and working to improve and/or change them as Michelle has done her entire life, to me, is the definition of loving America.
The relationship the far right, and folks like W., or Palin seem to view the country as some psycho headcase never to be criticized. Any words uttered that dare question its greatness, or actually examine its policies and actions- are disgraceful acts of betrayal. It is upsurd. These people don't love America, they love a comic-book and are too stupid to offer any ideas to help improve something they already view as perfect and infallable.
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