Showing posts with label Michelle Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Donald Trump Replacing Barack after US Election 'Still Hurts', Says Michelle Obama - BBC News

Nov 15, 2022 | Michelle Obama, former US first lady, has said the US electorate’s decision to elect Donald Trump as president following Barack Obama's term in office "still hurts". Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: "That's that point in time when you have to ask yourself, was it worth it?" "Did we make a dent? Did it matter? And when I'm in my darkest moment, my most irrational place, I could say, well, maybe not. Maybe we weren't good enough.” However, the former first lady said that seeing “more rationally”, she was able to think about “a whole world of young people who are thinking differently about themselves because of the work that we've done”.

Mrs Obama has revealed in her new book The Light We Carry that she struggles with negative thoughts about her appearance and her “fearful mind”, but that [we] women need to “learn to love ourselves as we are”.


Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Michelle Obama Criticizes Trump in New Campaign Video

Former first lady Michelle Obama is making her closing message to Americans in a campaign video released less than one month before Election Day, imploring voters to "vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it."

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Michelle Obama: The Former First Lady's DNC Speech in Full


Former first lady Michelle Obama launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump and urged Americans to elect Democrat Joe Biden in November to end what she said had been chaos during the last four years.

In an impassioned speech capping the first night of the Democratic national convention, Obama said Trump 'has had enough time to prove that he can do the job' but that he had failed to meet the moment in a country reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, economic turmoil and racial injustice.


'In Over His Head': Michelle Obama Delivers Rebuke of Trump in DNC Speech


The former first lady Michelle Obama has delivered a searing rebuke of Donald Trump, arguing the president is incapable of leading the country during this moment of crisis. “If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it,” Obama said. The pre-taped speech attracted widespread praise, with many Democrats saying Obama offered an eloquent and urgent call to action.


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Monday, April 03, 2017

George W. Bush On Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, 9/11 & Much More | PEN | TIME


Former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush sit down to discuss President Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, the Royal Family, 9/11, the 43rd President's paintings and much more in "George W. Bush: Portraits of Courage."

Thursday, March 02, 2017

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Teary Barack Obama Thanks Michelle in Farewell Speech


n his final address to the nation as president, Barack Obama gets emotional as he thanks the first lady. Obama, turning to his wife Michelle, says for the past 25 years she has been “not only my wife and mother of my children, but my best friend.” As his daughter Malia looks on crying and the audience rises to give Michelle Obama a standing ovation, he continues: “You took on a role you didn’t ask for and made it your own with grace and with grit and with style and good humour.”


Barack Obama's farewell speech in full: annotated »

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Weekly Address: Merry Christmas from the President and the First Lady


In this week’s address, the President and the First Lady wished all Americans a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Judge Jeanine: I'll Tell You What Hope Is, Michelle


Dec. 18, 2016 - 5:39 - Michelle Obama is out of hope after eight years as first lady

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Donald Trump Turns on Michelle Obama during North Carolina Rally


Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, took a rare swipe at First Lady, Michelle Obama, in North Carolina on Friday. Michelle Obama currently leads the popularity polls, ahead of her husband and the two presidential nominees. Trump complained that ‘all she wants to do is campaign’. He then accused her of attacking Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries


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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Michelle Obama Slams Trump's 'Birtherism' during Clinton Rally


The first lady did not shy away from addressing the latest controversy surrounding the ‘birther’ movement and Barack Obama’s birthplace during a campaign speech for Hillary Clinton in Fairfax, Virginia, on Friday

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Compare Melania Trump's Speech with Michelle Obama's 2008 Address


A number of lines in the speech delivered by Melania Trump at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday appear to have been lifted verbatim from a speech Michelle Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic convention

Friday, June 19, 2015

LITTLEJOHN: Did Michelle Obama Not See the Irony in Delivering a Speech on Female Emancipation to a School Full of Girls in Headscarves in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets? (And Is This the Face Britain Wants to Show the World?)

DAILY MAIL: Michelle Obama paid visit to the Mulberry School for Girls, Tower Hamlets / More than 90% of pupils are Muslim from mainly Bangladeshi background / And majority have no option but to wear headscarves and long robes / But still it was chosen as the site for the First Lady's speech on equality

Of all the schools in all the towns in all the world, why did Michelle Obama visit a girls’ school in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets this week?

She says it was her own choice to make a speech on education at the Mulberry School for Girls. But was it?

I doubt the First Lady had ever heard of the school before this trip, and probably couldn’t point to Tower Hamlets on a map. My guess is that the venue was chosen deliberately by the Department for Education to showcase our new, rigorously enforced State religion: ‘Celebrating Diversity’.

Actually, if that was what they intended, they couldn’t have chosen a worse example. The Mulberry School is probably one of the least diverse schools in Britain. And that includes Eton.

More than 90 per cent of the pupils are Muslim, from a predominantly Bangladeshi background. That make-up pretty much reflects the demography of the surrounding area.

Tower Hamlets, in East London, isn’t so much multicultural, it’s virtually a monoculture. The local council, under its recently deposed Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, has been a by-word for Third World-style corruption and vote-rigging.

There are more burkas on the streets of Limehouse than there are in Lahore. So it wasn’t surprising to see the vast majority of the girls photographed with Mrs Obama wearing the now familiar headscarfs and long robes insisted upon by the more devout adherents of Islam.

Did the First Lady not appreciate the contradictions inherent in delivering a speech on female emancipation and education in front of an audience which could have been transported direct from Saudi Arabia? » | Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail | Thursday, June 18, 2015

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Michelle Obama Cocks a Snook at Outdated, Ante-Diluvian Saudi Customs


Saudi TV BLURS Michelle Obama's FACE As Barack Meets King


Michelle Obama Causes Outrage in Saudi Arabia by Not Wearing Headscarf


THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: First Lady draws criticism for not wearing headscarf in highly conservative country


In a show of solidarity with Saudi Arabia, President Barack Obama cut short his visit to India and led a parade of American dignitaries in Riyadh on Tuesday to pay respects after King Abdullah's death.

But it was the presence - and attire - of his wife Michelle which drew the most attention in the ultraconservative desert kingdom.

The First Lady dressed conservatively in black trousers and a long jacket, wearing loose clothing that fully covered her arms, but did not cover her head.

It is forbidden for Saudi women to appear in public without their heads covered, and most Saudi women wear niqabs.

Hundreds of Saudis took to Twitter using hashtags translating to “#Michelle_Obama_Immodest” and "#Michelle_Obama_NotVeiled” to voice their disapproval of her decision not to observe Saudi customs. » | Andrew Marszal, and agencies | Wednesday, January 28, 2015