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Bill O’Reilly Defends Michelle Obama From Comparisons To Marie Antoinette

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Jodi Kantor‘s new book The Obamas has stirred some controversy over its claims that the First Lady proved somewhat problematic in terms of her image. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Bernie Goldberg admitted that the story of Robert Gibbs losing his patience with the First Lady’s extravagant clothing was “doesn’t shock me,” but upon debating further her image as a “Marie Antoinette” type, Bill O’Reilly came to her defense.

RELATED: Axelrod Confirms That Robert Gibbs Did Curse Michelle Obama

Goldberg noted that the story appeared very much believable that Gibbs was frustrated with the First Lady wearing “expensive clothes in difficult times,” given that she did things like go to “a food bank wearing $550 $515 sneakers” and that “Gibbs is a guy that understand images matter.” “Breach of decorum or not, this doesn’t shock me,” Goldberg concluded.

O’Reilly then turned to the public perception of the First Lady through images such as photoshops of Mrs. Obama as Marie Antoinette, “a historical icon of excess.” Goldberg noted that there were moments where she, possibly inadvertently, fueled that image. “Michelle Obama is going to be on a Nickelodeon sitcom,” Goldberg explained, where a girl mistakenly called her “your excellency” and the First Lady is said to enjoy it. O’Reilly countered that the Marie Antoinette comparisons were nonetheless unfair– “it’s not justified, Marie Antoinette is villainous.” Goldberg added that unfair as that particular comparison was, the claims that the source of the criticism was racism was “despicable and harmful…. if they do this over and over again, what happens when real racism shows up?”

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  • T. Gloves Donahue

    Mrs. O. , like Mr. O. is a grifter. From her $300.000 no show job in Chicago after Barry was elected to today, she is taking advantage of the taxpayers, and feels entitled to it.

  • Anonymous

    Bernard Goldberg is truly scummy. There’s not a right wing talking point that this wingnut doesn’t embrace.

    Like saying liberals won’t care or Downs Syndrome babies like Palin does

    Or comparing Black Americans who vote democratic to slaves.

    As Jon Stewart memorably put it, takes a brave man to go on Fox to complain about left-wing bias.

  • Anonymous

    The perfect example of a wingnut hypocrite. Does Ginni Thomas ring a bell?

  • Jardino

    Is Goldberg suggesting class warfare?

  • Anonymous

    “she is taking advantage of the taxpayers”"

    How? Details please.

    “and feels entitled to it”

    I’ll wager that you don’t know, don’t know anyone who knows, or met Michelle Obama.

    You sound, word for word, like a Beck android.

  • Anonymous

    ..when you have a nation with so many uneducated, undereduca­ted, easily disturbed, bigoted people they make the perfect subjects for the GOP’s operations­..

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The hatred some have for our first lady is a sickness.

  • Anonymous

    at least she had a job…if she was on welfare you’d bitch about that

  • Anonymous

    It’s called ODS: Obama Degrangement Syndrome

  • OSTL

    nothing like the progs hated on Mrs. Bush and you damned well know it.

  • OSTL

    u must be talking about the 42% that think Obama is doing a bang up job, right?

  • OSTL

    doesn’t matter how she got that “job” huh? Nice “standards”

  • Anonymous

    I never really had much of an opinion of Mrs. Obama until her last two vacations.  Even when she did the Europe/Africa thing that did not register so much with me as I thought that her detractors were making it into something bigger than it really was.  But these last two vacations the one where she flew to Martha’s Vineyard a few hours early at taking a separate plane and necessitating a second security detail so that she could arrive a few hours ahead of her husband at the cost of 10′s of thousands of dollars to the tax payers and then she did exactly the same thing with this last vacation to Hawaii..  I now have little respect for her.  My family has always had enough money to afford whatever it was that they needed but would never consider additional expenses if a husband or father were delayed at the onset of a vacation, no way would moms or wives consider spending thousands of additional dollars to start a vacation without their husband because his work had delayed him…  They would simply wait and the family would leave when dad/husband had finished the business which caused his delay.  

    She has no respect for the taxpayer. She certainly does not treat taxpayer money as she would her own.

  • Anonymous

    Bill defends Michelle Obama….who is going to defend the “WHITE Irish Catholics” from her RACIST tirades?

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly defends Michelle Obama.

    So who is going to defend “white Irish Catholics” from Michelle Obama’s RACIST rant?

  • Anonymous

    Does Harrison J. Bounel ring a bell?

  • OSTL

    bustin out all the socks, huh? lol

  • us995

    when you have a nation of so many liberal elites that think they know better than the rest of us thats how you get solyndra, fast and furious, and the chevy volt

  • Anonymous

    Either you’re taking those statements out of context, or he didn’t say them.

  • Henry Wood

    Unintentional comedy is awesome.

  • Henry Wood

    Quite the opposite, actually.  I think Laura Bush would have been a significantly better president than her husband.

    Imagine the hysteria if Michelle Obama had killed someone in a car accident.  We’d hear about it every single day from hydrophobic lunatics like yourself.

  • Anonymous

    When?Where?Who?

    C’mon humour us.

  • Anonymous

    You?

  • Anonymous

    Here was Glovesie last week pleading for the children.

    Low class lefties have already tried to make Santorum’s name into
    something filthy. The man has children, and there are bound to be plenty
    of people with the same name around the country. There has to be a
    special place in Hades for these clods.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/meghan-mccain-if-santorum-becomes-the-nominee-its-going-to-be-bedlam-and-hysteria-like-you-have-never-seen/#comment-400823211

    So?What about the children?

  • Anonymous

    No,should it?Will I need tinfoil?

  • OSTL

    now, why did u change socks to sound just as stupid as your huskers sock?

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Bill O’Reilly is a nice guy, but he’s a smuck..  The truth is, and Bernie is right, Michele Obama acts like Marie Antoinette, every chance she gets, in her personal extravagant luxury vacations, designer clothes and jewelry, and especially by her arrogant, indignant, and insouciant attitude towards the American people, then turns around and behaves like she is Evita of Argentina, acting like a benevolent dictators wife.. then claims to be helping the poor children of America, as well as the adults, by dictating her self-imposed nanny policies..

    O’Reilly, you are a smuck and a putz..

  • Anonymous

    Put the bottle down.

  • Anonymous

    He said them.

    Do your homework before floating speculative bunk.

  • Anonymous

    Post the link, so everyone can see how far out of context all you misleading propaganda liberals really are hack

  • OSTL

    you just made my point, einstein…er, patsy. lol

  • Anonymous

    Lemme guess… you were not doing such strict accounting of Laura Bush’s movements? Ask yourself why you’re giving this First Lady your selective, hypocritical treatment.

    REally, youre upset that she flew to Massachusetts without the POTUS? 

    Two things… 

    How do we know it”s HER decision? 
    The presidency is an all consuming busy job… maybe that was the best logistical arrangement.

    The heart bleeds for your extreme care about taxpayer dollars. You dont appear to know that the Obamas did not invent tax payer funding of the first family.

  • Anonymous

    Heard of google? Get to work. 

    Goldberg said those things. Theyre easily checkable. You with your closed conservative mind dont accept it. Tough. Up to you to prove me wrong.

  • Anonymous

    More like you are the schmuck, note spelling.
    What nanny state policies did she dictate? Is encouraging kids to eat healthy some heinous Communist plot. Like I said before, any self proclaimed tea party poster is going to post solid inanities.

  • Anonymous

    What is she planning to do, starve the Irish by having their potato crop blighted?

  • Anonymous

    So how do you explain Olbermann then? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Bernie is a media contortionist attempting to shape the image of Michele Obama into that of the 1% the Republicans consistently favor.  It’s not Michelle Obama who is ‘Marie Antoinette’ like.  It’s those of the GOP and the 1% who have edited Marie’s mythological line, “Let them eat cake’ into “Let them watch while we eat their cake.” 

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t know a rocket scientist could be so fcking stupid.  Then again there were some people who glossed Stepin Fetchit, I mean Herb KochCain a rocket scientist to.  Okay,so where were all of the e-mails that compared frumpy ass Laura Bush as a monkey?  Where were all of the posters of her and her stupid ass man as a pimp and his whore?  We gave Laura and all of the other Anglo-Saxon skanks their respect. But it seems that Mrs. 44 can’t get that from your side. You bitches thought that she was going to be the stereotypical “angry “Black” woman”, but she has managed to stay in her shoes and have two good causes, which are helping military families and getting Amerika’s fat ass kids into shape. You need to try that again

  • Anonymous

    Shut the fck up.  We could go down that long ass list of reTHUGlican fck up’s. Oh and fast and furious, was started during the Bush regime in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I don’t think Marie would be shopping at Target if they had such a thing back in the day. That is one of the things that I love about Obama’s presidency.  The fact that he has caused so many of the Anglo-Saxon to have a collective nervous breakdown at the same time.  Most of you can’t stand the fact that a “Black” beat out a white guy for the presidency.  Maybe you bitches ought to place your anger at McPrisoner of War’s feet for running such an inept campaign. I mean its not called the “White” House no reason other than the paint.  That building represented how you people, the OG illegal immigrants, came here, displaced the natives and then set the rules to game to benefit you and yours.  So, along comes a dude who knows how to play the game and you people have a conniption.  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

  • Anonymous

    If you can’t see she is a raging,angry racist bitch,you are brain dead.

  • Anonymous

    The previous comment and Michelle Obama’s profligate spending at taxpayer expense are exemplars of the mentality created by decades of the Reverend Wright philosophy and propaganda that has pervaded the Left. It is both horrifying and sad.

  • Anonymous

    You just proved you are a brain dead lemming.

    Google can help your delusions.

  • Anonymous

    A job as what?  The hospital job she got as part of a graft package and where she developed the program of patient dumping?  Did you ever read about the little black boy that DIED because of her shit?  The job that was so important that when her fat ass left to rape the nation, it was never filled again?

    Laura Bush 1 accidental death as a young woman.
    The fugly beard, 1 for sure deliberate and ???? not known?

  • Anonymous

    OMG, do you have to pay someone to remind you to breathe?
    You are by far one of the dumbest motherfuckers on the internet.

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is really mellowing out in his senior years.The outspoken right of center O’Reilly, which made him number one  in his time slot, no longer exists.  O’Reilly has bought into the liberal think, that he makes too much money, therefore, he needs to give more of his money away; the old O’Reilly wanted the government to keep its hands off his money. O’Reilly has also always ranted against the left, for mocking Christianity, yet, last week, O’Reilly labeled Santorum’s Christian values as ‘extreme.’ I wouldn’t be a bit surprised, if O’Reilly’s viewing audience evolved fom a right of center audience, to a more left of center audience. Who would have believed O’Reilly would shift to  the left? Not I, for sure.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I find it funny that O’Reilly brings up the photoshops, but doesn’t mention the classy alterations the right makes to pic:
    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008070008
    Gee, why do people think conservatives are racist?

  • Anonymous

    Raging angry racist bitch?  Wow, just wow.  Time to look in the mirror.

  • Anonymous

    Jon Stewart could just as easily have said “It takes a brave man to go on MSNBC and complain about right-wing bias.” You see any bias there ? It’s obvious to me. 

  • Pablo

    The best logistical arrangement might have been sending 2 separate 747′s with full security entourages, hours apart? Something tells me you’d find a way to justify a menu of orphaned infants.

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    Referring to Jodi Kantor’s new book about the Obamas, I said Mrs. Obama’s sneakers cost “$515″ not “$550″ as you said I did.  Just setting the record straight.

    Bernard Goldberg

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    That strikes as absurd. Which is the worst case or set of cases of Laura Bush hate that inform this view?

  • Pablo

    I don’t think they sell $600 earrings or $500 sneakers at Target. I’ve also never seen anyone arrive there with a cadre of photographers. Marie probably would have enjoyed Target if that were the case.

  • Anonymous

    Where were you people when Laura and George were winging around the country in these planes??  didn’t make a peep.

  • Anonymous

    Extravagance by the Affirmative Action first lady.  A fish out of water.  Swim back to Chicago with your BO to work the streets of community organizing where you belong.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Yes
    I remember the protests.

    NO ONE SHOULD TELL MY CHILD TO READ.

    As usual – no links to support

  • Pablo

    Yes, her grand accomplishment was dumping Medicare/Medicaid patients elsewhere. FOR THE PEOPLE!!! And $317K a year.

    http://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago_news/Rush_calls_for_investigation_at_U_of_C_for_patient_dumping_allegations,28054

  • WiddleBabyDanielson
  • Pablo

    Michelle Obama’s famous biceps

    The LA Times is totally racist, huh Bob?

  • Pablo

    Oh, and no it wasn’t. Fast and Furious began in November 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal#2009.E2.88.922011:_Operation_Fast_and_Furious
    I’ll bet the lavish, secretive Halloween bash is Bush’s fault too, right Mr. Suck Balls?

  • Anonymous

    Noted.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Swann/100003281352784 Charles Swann

    That just isn’t true.  Liberals deplored the fact that Mrs. Bush was constrained in her outreach activities by her husband’s idiocy, but we appreciated her literacy program and the poetry events at the White House.  And if Mrs. Bush had been subjected to unfair criticism, would that justify the current treatment of Mrs. Obama?

  • Anonymous

    That 300k job of hers was such an important position that they abandoned it after she left!!

    Amazing how much taxpayer money that Chicago Hospital got after Obummer was elected Senator!! The Obummers got away with that money laundering scheme!!

    Why doesn’t the lame stream investigate this? I can only imagine the intensive investigation that would be taking place were it happened to any of the GOP candidates wives!!

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’ has a gold-plated loofah and a diamond-studded dildo.

  • Anonymous

    Comparing a woman who grew up working class with a disabled father who paid off her student loans just before moving into the White House and who dedicated her law practice to community service with a French princess cannot be considered anything but disrespectful – the woman worked for where she is today. She was even the boss and mentor  for the next president of the United States at one point. It is something that many could emulate.

  • Anonymous

    Not as dumb as your bitch ass

  • Anonymous

    Really? Submit the proof.  Now, I know she got off the reservation during the democratic primaries back in the day, but she has done a damn good job staying in her shoes.  Prove that she’s racist and don’t give me the usual regressive bullsht answer like the church they used to belong to.  Besides, its not like Rev. Wright wasn’t telling that truth about Amerika’s actions.  Submit the proof or shut your dumb ass up

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3ECP44WMF7VRMKIGQQ4Y7Y33BU abhay

    I don’t find michelle o’s spending expenses with the job she’s had prior to becoming a first lady a big deal. There’s no evidence that she spent tax payers money on her clothes. Any middle class person who is still employed and gets paid great spends $500-2000 once a year on clothes. People who for some reason hate her just based on her clothing expenditure are reacting like she’s spending $2000 for 365 dresses, and $500+ for shoes that she wears each day every year. There is no dress code to go to a food bank or a poverty stricken town, she wears what’s in her closet and they are obviously not what poor people wear. People expect her to buy her clothes,shoes,etc.. only from walmart or a dollar store. Did anyone find out her clothing and vacation expenses prior to becoming the first lady. Just b.c she’s in the public spotlight, she is the subject of intense scrutiny. She’s not bound to her husband, that both of them have to board the same plane and have the same amount of bodyguards. Every president and first lady get’s all the amenities and they can’t act like common citizens and board a commercial airline and not have bodyguards surround them every moment. Despite the economy, every president and first lady should get the best personal treatment. 

  • http://Mediaite.com Jon Nicosia

    Fixed!  Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    Let’s get one thing clear. George W. Bush stayed in the WH during Christmas time so that Secret Service could celebrate with their families. Laura Bush never did anything excessive as did Michelle Obama who for example, showed up at charity event for the homeless in $500 dollar shoes!!
    Obamas are insensitive to others and only care about themselves and fattening their donors pockets!!!

  • Anonymous

    she is on welfare! She is living off taxpayers just like all other welfare people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Rickards/1082264578 Roger Rickards

    Nancy Reagan the big spender of First Ladies.
    Sorry I forgot she was deified like Ronald.

  • Comment removed

    Personal attacks towards other commenters and racist or otherwise
    discriminatory rants against media and political figures are childish
    and unseemly. And they’re no longer being tolerated

  • Comment removed

    That job magically appeared when Barack Obama got that particular hospital a million dollar earmark too. The media never mentioned that nor did they ask him about it.

  • Comment removed

    Making jokes about the media’s love affair with Michelle’s biceps is racist! /snark

  • Comment removed

    If there was demonstrable quid pro quo involved, Obama would be in a cell between Rezko and Blagojevich, wouldn’t he?

    Seems like just the kind of sensational story the media would want to investigate. They could lead every night for a month with it. Upstart Senator sends millions of taxpayer dollars to a hospital which then creates a high paying job, which never existed before, for his wife. Then after she leaves the job, it is never filled with another employee.

    Instead the media flies to Alaska to tip over Sarah Palin’s garbage cans and issues a plea to “crowd source” all of her emails.

  • Pablo

    They didn’t replace her when she left either. She must have been the only person on Earth capable of filling that position.

  • Comment removed

    You mean like this?:

    Everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this
    election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line —
    the basic promise that no matter what you look like,
    no matter where you come from
    , this is a place where you could make it
    if you try.  The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look
    out for one another — that’s at stake in this election.  Don’t take my
    word for it.  Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in
    New Hampshire.

    Will we be a country where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top?  Or will we give every child — every child  — a chance to succeed, no matter where she’s from, or what she looks like, or how much money her parents are?  Who are we?  That’s what’s at stake here
    ….
    I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try; a place where every child, no matter what they look like, where they come from, should have a chance to succeed . . . I still believe in that America.  I believe we can be that America again.

  • Comment removed

    Personal attacks towards other commenters and racist or otherwise
    discriminatory rants against media and political figures are childish
    and unseemly. And they’re no longer being tolerated

  • Comment removed

    The media tore Mrs. Reagan apart for everything she purchased, from her clothing down to the table settings of the White House.

  • Megan Williams

    You’re an idiot.  ‘A grifter’?  Do you even know what that MEANS?  She dresses from J. Crew.  Mrs. REAGAN who you adore dressed (and accepted) designer clothes worth thousands.  I hate people like you.  You are SO STUPID.

  • Anonymous

    We are not that America now.

  • Anonymous

    What racist rant?

  • Anonymous

    Marie Antoinette,  the let them eat cake lady…..?

  • Anonymous

    http://www.politicususa.com/en/cost-obama-christmas-vacation-bush
    perhaps you should have expended some anger and the previous occupier of the white house?  This expense subject is rather openly debunked.  Even O Reilly pointed it out.  Come on now righties, Focus!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OJ766ICBQDKEJY34J252S7J5CE Pat Mulligan

    look this is all about race and antiwomen discourse around the country; did you say all that about the real marie antoinette, mancy reagan?  goldberg was and always is a creep and no more than that.  for the first time, thank you o’reilly for gettig it straight.  

  • Anonymous

    no it didnt.  but nice try.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he’s been born again…..

  • Anonymous

    Michele Obama was a n employee of university of Chicago Hospital from her hire date in 2002 until Jan 9 2009.  Long before these supposed earmarks.  Considering her education and experience it would be expected that she would be promoted to VP in 2005 from her position as Director.  
    Good for her for doing a good job.  As for the 300K…try again…
    http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/michelle-obamas-salary/ 
    Please stop perpetuating these silly and easily disproved rumors. It really subtracts from your attempts at making salient points and arguments

    PS: U of Chicago hospital is a cutting edge, ivy league teaching and clinical hospital( I know- I am a nurse there) . It gets grants, donations, Nobel Prize money, etc because of all that it does.  It has been this way for a long time- long before the Obamas set foot in Chicago.

  • Anonymous

    please show us the proof.  I personally loved Laura Bush.  She was for Education and literacy, she also had a masters degree.  
    But please show us all of the proof of the liberals hatin’ on Laura.  

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Abhay. Well put.  But trying to point out the differences to anyone who hates on FLOTUS as much as the right does…well.  Its not worth it.  However,bang up job!

  • Anonymous

    First off you assume that I am here to defend George Bush and I am not, secondly like I said I had no opinion of Mrs. Obama until the Martha’s Vineyard trip.  I really don’t care what the Bushes, Clintons, or the Reagans or any other’s did.  Mrs. Obama’s actions speak for themselves and she shows no regard for the taxpayers independent of what others have done before her.  I can tell you that neither my wife or my mother would spend money so freely, they would be embarrassed and feel shameful.  

    Hey, according to your logic just because Woodrow Wilson screwed over this country so bad, we should just give GW a pass.  How’s that for ya!  Or coz Johnson put us into Vietnam a much bloodier and even more useless war than was Iraq, again GW should get a pass… Hell Jimmy Carter had this economy in shambles, again Bush should get a pass on the housing crisis and the misery that has followed….  Shit we shouldn’t hold anyone accountable to anything as somewhere in our history I am sure that we can find a bigger A-hole that the other side did not complain about. 

  • Anonymous

    jack. You stutter.  I was merely pointing out the reality of these so called spending campaigns of the first lady.
    What your wife or mother do is up to them.  Are either of them the first lady of the U.S?  Who must adhere to the protocol of the Secret Service.
    No?  
    As for the rest of your missive….uh.  What?
    Try making sense in your next rant.
    Thanks! 

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    I think it was peas..

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Exactly..

  • BooBoo Bear

    For some reason I am reminded of a lady called Nancy, no not Nancy Grace but Nancy Reagan. Who many Americans thought had extravagant style. It might make you take time and think back to those years. However I do believe that Michelle is actually paying for her wardrobe where Nancy “borrowed” many of her dresses. *Nancy forgot to mention those borrowed dresses for six years after it was found out about her dresses in 1982.

  • Anonymous

    Its a sad thing viewing this website and having to imagine that there are educated people in the world. There are plans in place for vacations of the presidential family that we are not all privvy to for whatever reasons they decided to do things the way they did and in fact a lot of these things are budgeted for. Was it at the best of times, no but so what they are entitled to it and I am ok with it. I pay taxes and rather we all agree or not it is what it is and there are other families that traveled while occupying the white house. Some of need to grow up and be a a little reasonable. Its a sad thing when all we can do is attack the white house family instead of being adults and voting and carrying on educated conversations. Grifter….really…sad sad sad point of view…

  • Anonymous

    It may not have been the best logistical arrangment but its what they came up with for whatever reasons. It may be good to remember they don’t always travel together for safety reasons….our former presidents have security details as well. You wanna be upset with that arrangement as well.

  • Anonymous

    I must admit you have some valid points, but lets not bring your mother into it. Its ok to hold our president accountable but we need to be reasonable, if you are so upset with what you are seeing vote better.

  • Anonymous

    Tell it like it is! I appreciate at that…actual and factual information

  • Anonymous

    It could have been ketchup…..doesn’t Michelle have a vegetable garden…..?

  • Anonymous

    Might I remind all of you attacking Michelle Obama that Nancy Reagan did the same things you’re accusing our currant First Lady of & much worse!
    But, that’s different, right?  After all, *she* was a republican!

  • Anonymous

    I can well imagine poor Gibbs wanting to put a bullet in his head out of frustration with the political amateurs Obama surrounded himself with from the campaign in the early going. The only two that seemed to be minimally competent were Gibbs and Rahm, and Rahm wasn’t from the campaign.

    Chris Matthews has it right on some of the key people around Obama, especially ValJar: They’re either star-struck sycophants or amateurs wearing beanies with propellers on them. 

  • Anonymous

    Did mrs bush or mrs Reagan live off the taxpayer?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002306938951 Joseph Monaghan

    Marie Antoinette was not villainous.

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