Opinion of Michelle Obama

[Sir Mohamed]

Titanium FF, easy vote.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

FF

[Del Tachi]

whocare

she is a private citizen with no political legitimacy

this would be like asking Atlas if my mom is an FF/HP

[Calthrina950]

FF. Michelle Obama is as magnetic a public speaker as her husband, and was a dignified, but engaging, First Lady.

[John Dule]

She seems like a nice person. She is not, however, gifted with some capacity for soaring oratory, as some people seem to think she is.

[President Johnson]

Massive FF!

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I love the conspiracy theory of her secretly being a man. That has got to be the second most insane theory I've ever heard. The only one that surpasses it are the 9/11 truthers who actually believe the World Trade Center was a hologram and that the towers never existed.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

She seems like a nice person. She is not, however, gifted with some capacity for soaring oratory, as some people seem to think she is.

I recall her 2016 DNC speech being pretty good. It was filled with cheesy Democratic platitudes ("we're all in this together," "when they go low, we go high," etc, but yes, Michelle Obama's charisma is very overrated. I think she packs more of a punch before a live, in person audience.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

whocare

she is a private citizen with no political legitimacy

this would be like asking Atlas if my mom is an FF/HP

Barack Obama is a "private citizen", too. She's clearly a public figure who we can express relevant opinions about.

[Middle-aged Europe]

whocare

she is a private citizen with no political legitimacy

this would be like asking Atlas if my mom is an FF/HP

I don't know your mom's name. Why is that?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

She gave a great speech

[They not like us]

Huge FF. Should run for Senate or something

[Del Tachi]

whocare

she is a private citizen with no political legitimacy

this would be like asking Atlas if my mom is an FF/HP

Barack Obama is a "private citizen", too. She's clearly a public figure who we can express relevant opinions about.

Key difference being that Mrs. Obama has always been a private citizen, never elected or appointed to any public office.  In a strict Emily Post-type interpretation, any official courtesies afforded to a First Lady are only as deference to her husband.  She receives no official form of address, because being First Lady is not an office but a role. 

What other former First Ladies have spoken at national conventions? (Answer:  None, except Senator Hillary Clinton in 2004)  It's an uncomfortable thing to do.  Imagine never-elected-to-anything Laura Bush talking with such searing intensity about President Barack Obama when he ran for reelection in 2012.  Not even the much-beloved Nancy Reagan ever addressed an RNC after her husband left office.  Wives typically have brief, uncontroversial roles at national conventions only when their husbands are the nominees.

This unbecoming episode is just further confirmation that the contemporary Democratic Party is nothing more than a weird Obama personality cult, not motivated by any kind of ideological or policy goal.

I don't know your mom's name. Why is that?

I dunno, because I know yours

(this was too good to pass up, Mods pls don't delete)

[TDAS04]

Massive FF.

[Suburbia]

FF.

[Battista Minola 1616]

This unbecoming episode is just further confirmation that the contemporary Democratic Party is nothing more than a weird Obama personality cult, not motivated by any kind of ideological or policy goal.

Are you desperately trying to get new and more liberals to tell you that you live in an alternate reality?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

whocare

she is a private citizen with no political legitimacy

this would be like asking Atlas if my mom is an FF/HP

Barack Obama is a "private citizen", too. She's clearly a public figure who we can express relevant opinions about.

Key difference being that Mrs. Obama has always been a private citizen, never elected or appointed to any public office.  In a strict Emily Post-type interpretation, any official courtesies afforded to a First Lady are only as deference to her husband.  She receives no official form of address, because being First Lady is not an office but a role. 

What other former First Ladies have spoken at national conventions? (Answer:  None, except Senator Hillary Clinton in 2004)  It's an uncomfortable thing to do.  Imagine never-elected-to-anything Laura Bush talking with such searing intensity about President Barack Obama when he ran for reelection in 2012.  Not even the much-beloved Nancy Reagan ever addressed an RNC after her husband left office.  Wives typically have brief, uncontroversial roles at national conventions only when their husbands are the nominees.

This unbecoming episode is just further confirmation that the contemporary Democratic Party is nothing more than a weird Obama personality cult, not motivated by any kind of ideological or policy goal.

I don't know your mom's name. Why is that?

I dunno, because I know yours

(this was too good to pass up, Mods pls don't delete)

have you heard of somebody called Eleanor Roosevelt?

[dead0man]

she's smart and seems like a good person and there is no evidence pointing in the other direction, FF


and I agree with Sanchez with the "she's a man" conspiracy so many on the right enjoy.  I don't think very many of them actually believe it (unlike, say, the Obama is a secret Muslim born in Kenya thing), but I suspect they think it's funny.  (it's not)  She doesn't even look like she used to be a dude.  It's the same with Jamie Lee Curtis, how do you confuse that fine looking lady with an ex-dude?  I'm not going to say that there are no transwomen that look good, but most of them are hideous looking as women.  Certainly way less attractive typically than Michelle or Jamie.

[Trans Rights Are Human Rights]

I love the conspiracy theory of her secretly being a man. That has got to be the second most insane theory I've ever heard. The only one that surpasses it are the 9/11 truthers who actually believe the World Trade Center was a hologram and that the towers never existed.

Honestly, when people talk about Michelle being a dude, I assume they mean she wants to transition from female to male, rather than having done the opposite. Either way, maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with Michelle hypothetically being on the team.

[Saint Milei]

Not really a fan of insulting a first lady, but she can be really annoying. And I hate the way the media talks about her. It's as cringeworthy as when Joe Biden tried to call Obama articulate

[Ancestral Republican]

I love the conspiracy theory of her secretly being a man. That has got to be the second most insane theory I've ever heard. The only one that surpasses it are the 9/11 truthers who actually believe the World Trade Center was a hologram and that the towers never existed.

Honestly, when people talk about Michelle being a dude, I assume they mean she wants to transition from female to male, rather than having done the opposite. Either way, maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with Michelle hypothetically being on the team.

Exactly. It's just a stupid dog whistle, no different than Hillary getting called a lesbian in the '90s.