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Michelle Obama: I had little
understanding of military
life before the White House

Politico, by Donovan Slack

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 10/9/2012 12:21:07 PM

First lady Michelle Obama says that she had no idea of the breadth of sacrifices made by members of the military and their families before entering the White House. "My connection to military life was pretty tangential," she said in an interview with ABC News set to air Tuesday. "Most Americans like me, they just don't have a clear idea of the sacrifice these men and women and their families make." Obama said she was "floored" by stories she heard about family upheavals and repeated deployments, and so she joined with second lady Jill Biden to bring attention

Comments:
Oh puhleeze. The military is only valuable to her and her slacker husband for use as a prop. You have to be really stupid to not know breadth of sacrifices made by members of the military. I utterly despise this grifter.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: kahunavol, 10/9/2012 12:25:24 PM     (No. 8920528)

That isn't all she had little understanding of before the WH.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Bubbasuncle, 10/9/2012 12:26:35 PM     (No. 8920534)

BS! What a pandering liar.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Coy860, 10/9/2012 12:27:33 PM     (No. 8920539)

What a bee itch.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Bubbasuncle, 10/9/2012 12:28:39 PM     (No. 8920540)

Sorry, hit submit too soon.
This doesn't have anything to do with being down 40 point with Military voters?


Reply 5 - Posted by: aindyin, 10/9/2012 12:31:14 PM     (No. 8920548)

And she still has no understanding of military life.


Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird, 10/9/2012 12:31:53 PM     (No. 8920550)

Smell the desperation?


Reply 7 - Posted by: radrelic, 10/9/2012 12:36:15 PM     (No. 8920567)

Socialists aren't flag wavers and neither was Black Liberation Church cleric Jeremiah Wright, or Bill Ayers and Louie Farrakhan--just guys in their neighborhood.

So where are the AP photos of their Chicago neighborhood, the neighborhood they never take their vacations at? Will it take the National Enquirer to take that story to the public?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Calvinesq, 10/9/2012 12:36:37 PM     (No. 8920568)

... and even less now.


Reply 9 - Posted by: beca, 10/9/2012 12:37:22 PM     (No. 8920573)

then you understand they move alot...Get paCKINg..............


Reply 10 - Posted by: JoeUser, 10/9/2012 12:38:24 PM     (No. 8920576)

I'd give her credit for her concerns, if she would use her wifely lobbying efforts to get her husband to light a fire under the Senate, to get them to pass a budget that prevents decimation of the ranks of said military servicemen and women (and the many defense contractor employees staring down the pink-slip barrel).

Until then, she's just pandering, sorry.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Paul248, 10/9/2012 12:38:42 PM     (No. 8920577)

As a Army retired enlisted man, I say, BS. and she and her kind still do know and still do not care....Tell her to try and get an appointment at the hospital, get glasses, or dental treatment. HA HA surprise it is not going to happen, and it was promised by her government.


Reply 12 - Posted by: zephyrgirl, 10/9/2012 12:39:37 PM     (No. 8920581)

If you aren't proud of your country, why would you know anything about those who protect our freedoms?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: armywife85, 10/9/2012 12:40:34 PM     (No. 8920588)

You witch...you and your husband are not fit to lick the boots of our military and news flash military wives sure don't need YOU. We do just fine on our own. I would suggest you use this time to start packing.

P.S.
You STILL don't have a clue about military life. NO CLUE!


Reply 14 - Posted by: Blonde Patriot, 10/9/2012 12:41:35 PM     (No. 8920593)

Wrong Mrs. Obama. Most Americans DO know the sacrifice that our military & military families make. Most of us have relative and friends who are or have served.

It is the academic "elite" socialists that don't know nor do they care.


Reply 15 - Posted by: stablemoney, 10/9/2012 12:41:35 PM     (No. 8920594)

Mooch calls out for a handler.


Reply 16 - Posted by: vigilant, 10/9/2012 12:42:37 PM     (No. 8920598)

Personally I believe in a constitution amendment requiring a candisate for president or vice president be required to have served at least two years in the arm forces- preferably the Marines.


Reply 17 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 10/9/2012 12:46:55 PM     (No. 8920616)

What #14 said.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: master sergeant, 10/9/2012 12:49:14 PM     (No. 8920627)

What do you expect from Mrs. Obama?


Reply 19 - Posted by: MMSgranny, 10/9/2012 12:50:22 PM     (No. 8920631)

"Michelle Obama says: I had little
understanding of military
life before the White House"---and I still don't!!


Reply 20 - Posted by: Nimby, 10/9/2012 12:53:08 PM     (No. 8920710)

Puhleeze!! Neither she nor the poser-in-chief understand the military EVEN NOW. Case in point......the link to the article on this web

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Father-of-fallen-Marine-upset-by-president-s-letter/-/1735978/16904582/-/q7u9agz/-/index.html


Reply 21 - Posted by: mickturn, 10/9/2012 12:54:34 PM     (No. 8920716)

Obviously you still know nothing but how to pander.


Reply 22 - Posted by: enemyofthestate, 10/9/2012 12:54:36 PM     (No. 8920717)

She, as well as her hub and the Democrat party, hates the military. She masks it by declaring support (through dog and pony shows, public relations displays) for the families of military-- never for the actual work of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Evocatus, 10/9/2012 12:57:48 PM     (No. 8920660)

Yeah, right! Now you know we exist, just when your stupid husband thinks he needs our votes.

Drop dead. Hope you like civilian life, you evil witch.


Reply 24 - Posted by: coldoc, 10/9/2012 12:58:01 PM     (No. 8920662)

Being a veteran, I find this woman unworthy of our efforts.


Reply 25 - Posted by: TexasRed, 10/9/2012 1:02:46 PM     (No. 8920743)

Mooch had no understanding of any life except the great sens of entitlement that she and Zero exhibit. She feels entitled to take vacation on the taxpayer budget, wear ridiculously expensive clothes and other garb on the taxpayers' dime. She's an arrogant, progressive marxist leech!


Reply 26 - Posted by: Emerson, 10/9/2012 1:03:27 PM     (No. 8920744)

Had no idea of their sacrifices?

I guess she wouldn't living in her little racialist bubble all her life. Community activists don't see much beyond their community. I'm not sure she sees much outside her own skin.


Reply 27 - Posted by: maggie2u, 10/9/2012 1:03:30 PM     (No. 8920745)

Poster #14, thanks, you put down exactly what I was going to say.


Reply 28 - Posted by: JAN, 10/9/2012 1:03:40 PM     (No. 8920692)

Like bubba and bubbette, they too loathe the military.

Always have always will.


Reply 29 - Posted by: Cor-vet, 10/9/2012 1:09:43 PM     (No. 8920759)

I just hope her concern and involvment doesn't screw up the food in the chow halls!


Reply 30 - Posted by: JLoophole, 10/9/2012 1:12:03 PM     (No. 8920768)

Oh yes, you know, now that the Obamas are aware of it, suddenly the sacrifices are valid

Basically what she just said here is that up til now she has had absolutely no interest in supporting America's military. That's a pretty revealing -and damning-statement.


Reply 31 - Posted by: binthere_dunthat, 10/9/2012 1:12:11 PM     (No. 8920770)

The ONLY thing that Buick Butt understands is- "I show do like dem perks dat cum wid dis life".

Hence, she will say anything and do anything to keep them coming, as will her
limp wristed husband. Come November, she'll need to start packing. The voters have had it with these miscreants.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Jimrunner, 10/9/2012 1:14:47 PM     (No. 8920777)


Reply 33 - Posted by: Jimrunner, 10/9/2012 1:15:54 PM     (No. 8920781)

Michelle Obama: "I had little
understanding of military
life before the White House." And, you know what, Mrs. Barack, the military does not have much understanding of you or your un-patriotic ideology.


Reply 34 - Posted by: jackie, 10/9/2012 1:25:51 PM     (No. 8920816)

If she and Mrs foot in mouth..aka Biden.. are so concerned about the military and their families why doesn't she just use her time to find out why the hell ballots aren't getting to them to vote. Stay out of the school lunch rooms and do something useful. Pandering harpie


Reply 35 - Posted by: Italiano, 10/9/2012 1:28:41 PM     (No. 8920823)

Now that Ms. Groucho Marxist is aware just how patriotic (and conservative) military families tend to be, she hates them even more.


Reply 36 - Posted by: LadyVet, 10/9/2012 1:39:38 PM     (No. 8920859)

I take this just like #30: if she had not understanding of military life, she had no appreciation for it. It does not take much thinking to know that if a man is serving in Iraq or on a ship in the middle of the ocean, that his family is back home without him. "Little understanding" is what you have when you are so wrapped up in yourself, thinking how the country has discriminated against you, dealt you an unfair hand, how somebody else has something you don't have instead of being appreciative of what you do have and of your fellow Americans who volunteer to protect what you have.


Reply 37 - Posted by: aposematic, 10/9/2012 2:08:20 PM     (No. 8920930)

At first I thought the Heading a joke; then I saw Politico was the source. News for M &J...military members do not have Million dollar staffs or can they take Million dollar vacations... What creeps these two are.


Reply 38 - Posted by: Japanorama, 10/9/2012 2:30:15 PM     (No. 8920979)

And you have little now.


Reply 39 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 10/9/2012 2:45:43 PM     (No. 8921018)

Is this a clod hopper attempt to pretend to like the military - two dead Seals, Ambassador and others would disagree - they can't because your stupid husband was jiving on TV and fundraising in CA. Eat dirt!


Reply 40 - Posted by: TrueBlueWfan, 10/9/2012 2:45:47 PM     (No. 8921019)

She and her poseur hubby came to the WH in 2009. 9/11 happened in 2001, the Afghanistan War a month later, and 18 months later, the Iraq War. Is she telling us that she was so far removed from reality, so disinterested, so lacking in curiosity that she had no idea what military life was like? Did she not watch any newscasts for 7 years? If she had no idea, it was because she was too self-absorbed to find out.


Reply 41 - Posted by: Smaj, 10/9/2012 3:21:08 PM     (No. 8921096)

I don't believe a word of it. She loathes the military and what it represents ("all that for a _______ flag?"). The people in uniform are nothing more than handy props for her & her evil "husband".


Reply 42 - Posted by: oriton, 10/9/2012 3:22:14 PM     (No. 8921099)

It won't work, Toni.



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