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Michelle Obama Asked If She Wants Her Husband To Be A One-Term President

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Barbara Walters talked to both President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama tonight as part of a Thanksgiving 20/20 special, and unsurprisingly, one topic that arose was the toll the presidency takes on a family. Citing Michelle’s desire for her husband to quit politics back in 2000 when he lost the Democratic primary for Congress in Illinois, Walters asked the First Lady if she ever thinks that “one term is enough.”

And though she said she still grapples with “the sacrifice that [political] life requires of one’s family,” she still doesn’t quite think her husband should up and quit in 2012:

“If I had to pick the kind of man I’d want to be in politics…somebody who’s honest, sincere, and smart as a whip…he’d be the person that I would pick, and that’s always been why I followed him into these escapades.”

Not a ringing endorsement of life in the political fishbowl, but nonetheless, she said her husband should keep at it “until the job is done”…while throwing in the obligatory caveat that how long the president stays in office is ultimately “up to the American people.” Video of Walters’ question and the First Lady’s response below.

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  • Morgan

    MO said > “If I had to pick the kind of man I’d want to be in politics…somebody who’s honest, sincere, and smart as a whip…he’d be the person that I would pick, and that’s always been why I followed him into these escapades.”

    In 2012 will he be running for the job or the escapade?

  • SmartAlec

    Then she can go back to being ashamed of her country

  • Pablo

    I can haz cheezburger?

  • Atticus Draco

    OH NO SHE DIDNT!

  • roxsteady

    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes.

    You’re all beneath her.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112204388.html

  • roxsteady

    Oh, and she’s never said she was ashamed of her country. Just remember that one race forced another into slavery and her great, great grandfather was one of those slaves. You don’t get to erase history just because your ancestors come off badly in it.

  • Atticus Draco

    roxsteady said:
    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard

    Yeah,, they’ve made that point very clear,, they’re are elitists!
    As far as i am concerned ,, they can both carry their elitist asses right back those schools too!
    “IF YOU CANT DO,, TEACH!”

  • greg454

    “Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes. ”

    —Oh yeah? Well Woodrow Wilson was PRESIDENT of Princeton, a scholar, and he hated the founding fathers, hated black people, hated capitalism and hated the rich. So you can take your Ivy League credentials and shove them up your ass. I don’t give a crap where Michelle went to college, as far as I’m concerned, any progressive that wants to raise my taxes and redistribute wealth is no friend of mine.

    Oh and guess what, in America nobody’s beneath anyone since we all have equal rights. There are no Lords, no Dukes, in fact, both Michelle and Obama are PUBLIC SERVANTS, get it SERVANTS, they serve us. We pay their salaries, we are their masters, they are our servants. Government BY the people ring a bell to you?

    http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com/

  • roxsteady

    They’re educated and people like you are just jealous. There’s no shame in being educated. You anti intellectuals are an embarrassment to yourselves and this country.

  • roxsteady

    See my previous post! You’re jealous but, I don’t blame you. Your life is clearly miserable.

  • roxsteady

    Oh, and the reason your taxes will go up is because that other anti intellectual George Bush signed the current tax cuts into law through reconciliation back in 2001 and 2003. The Republican congress passed it that way because the Dems wouldn’t go along with it through normal legislation. Now, becasue it was done through reconciliation it has to expire on December 31, 2010. Got that asshole? It’s nothing that Obama has done. It’s the same Republican congress that won’t allow you to get a tax cut unless the rich get another one. You dumb fucks who vote for Republicans don’t have a clue about just how little they give a damn about you. You’ve all been conned once again.

  • roxsteady

    Oh, and maybe you haven’t heard but Woodrow Wilson is also DEAD! And yes, unless you’re the President of the United State, you are beneath them both! Shove that up your flat ass!

  • roxsteady

    That’s United States!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Classy lady. <3

  • Just4thefax

    roxsteady said:
    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes. You’re all beneath her. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112204388.html

    Fact: Disbarred from practicing law on fraud! Member of Black Theology Church! Eat shit. Palin is 100% American and this woman is 100% racist against whites. She should shine all Americans shoes. You must be a white hater to.

  • Just4thefax

    roxsteady said:
    Oh, and she’s never said she was ashamed of her country. Just remember that one race forced another into slavery and her great, great grandfather was one of those slaves. You don’t get to erase history just because your ancestors come off badly in it.

    Fact: Blacks in Africa enslaved other blacks then sold them to democrats here in America! You must be proud to be a democrat. I think the DNC should pay reparations don’t you agree.

  • Just4thefax

    roxsteady said:
    They’re educated and people like you are just jealous. There’s no shame in being educated. You anti intellectuals are an embarrassment to yourselves and this country.

    Fact: Their hand pupets to socialism and you must be one yourself!

  • Just4thefax

    roxsteady said:
    See my previous post! You’re jealous but, I don’t blame you. Your life is clearly miserable.

    Fact: N-please get a life. Your ebonics side is shinning thru!

  • Just4thefax

    roxsteady said:
    Oh, and the reason your taxes will go up is because that other anti intellectual George Bush signed the current tax cuts into law through reconciliation back in 2001 and 2003. The Republican congress passed it that way because the Dems wouldn’t go along with it through normal legislation. Now, becasue it was done through reconciliation it has to expire on December 31, 2010. Got that asshole? It’s nothing that Obama has done. It’s the same Republican congress that won’t allow you to get a tax cut unless the rich get another one. You dumb fucks who vote for Republicans don’t have a clue about just how little they give a damn about you. You’ve all been conned once again.

    Fact: If you’re too stupid to make decisions on your own and need handouts from the government. Piss off. Once the republicans get back in charge I hope that they again make it mandatory workfare for welfare like Ronald Reagan started. If you pay taxes you would feel that moving to a 50% tax rates on income like in Europe doesn’t work. I hope you pray for the party that freed the slaves and gave the blacks the right to vote. That’s right the Republican Party. The rich earned theirs so get the jug out of your ass and earn yours yourself and that’s the fact!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Toth/1567096214 Eric Toth

    Obviously conservatives hate America and support the terrorists.

    Under Bush they said “If you don’t support our president, you hate America, support the terrorists and embolden our enemies because they love to see us divided”

    Because if they don’t hate America and support the terrorists, then the only possible conclusion is that they are spineless cowardly hypocrites who don’t have the balls to live by the very harsh standards they demand of liberals.

    Conservatism is NOTHING more than a cult for developmentally disabled psychotic hypocrites!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Toth/1567096214 Eric Toth

    What simple minded uneducated conservative trash like Just4thefax misses in their delusional rants and worship of their messiah Jesus Reagan is that he tripled the national debt and implemented the 2nd largest tax INCREASE in US history. But these morons demand we return to the economic policies of Reagan! HAHAHAHAHAA! Morons!

  • Just4thefax

    Eric Toth said:
    Obviously conservatives hate America and support the terrorists. Under Bush they said “If you don’t support our president, you hate America, support the terrorists and embolden our enemies because they love to see us divided” Because if they don’t hate America and support the terrorists, then the only possible conclusion is that they are spineless cowardly hypocrites who don’t have the balls to live by the very harsh standards they demand of liberals. Conservatism is NOTHING more than a cult for developmentally disabled psychotic hypocrites!

    Eric Toth said:
    What simple minded uneducated conservative trash like Just4thefax misses in their delusional rants and worship of their messiah Jesus Reagan is that he tripled the national debt and implemented the 2nd largest tax INCREASE in US history. But these morons demand we return to the economic policies of Reagan! HAHAHAHAHAA! Morons!

    Fact: Liberals have a genetic brain disorder that allows them to lie about their real surroundings that no medication can cure the proper neurons to fire. This disorder allows them to know so much that isn’t so, hear so much that isn’t said. Causes kleptomania for other people belongings just because they believe they deserve it. The liberal disease Causes severe lack to want to work for a living and a need and desire to want to live off others incomes.

    Fact; I would rather be called a moron than to be called; Carter, Clinton or even Obama. That would result in an ass kicking Texas style!

  • Big Eddie

    roxsteady Got that asshole? <blockquote

    You dumb fucks who vote for Republicans don’t have a clue

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Classy lady. <3

    Really ?

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  • disenlightened

    roxsteady said:
    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes.

    You’re all beneath her.

    Can you spell affirmative action? The left claims that’s how Justice Thomas got on the bench. If it works for him, how about Moochelle – that combined with marrying right.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Eric Toth said:
    Under Bush they said “If you don’t support our president, you hate America, support the terrorists and embolden our enemies because they love to see us divided”

    Why don’t you find that quote. They was NEVER said except by fools like you. Why do you lie?

  • BR

    roxsteady said:
    Oh, and she’s never said she was ashamed of her country. Just remember that one race forced another into slavery and her great, great grandfather was one of those slaves. You don’t get to erase history just because your ancestors come off badly in it.

    So let see if I understand. One race is kidnapped by their own race and sold to another race as property. And some how its only the fault of the race that bought the property and not the race that sold the property. Wrong is wrong but if you were ever to take an HONEST look at the slave trade issue you would be very unhappy with how it originated.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    roxsteady said:
    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes. You’re all beneath her. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112204388.html

    Did you watch the interview? She also said that “all presidents lose congress at their midterm elections.”
    If Sarah Palin had said that it would be the headline here today. Instead Mediaite is covering it up.

    Michelle has no idea what she is talking about.

  • ChrisNH

    Michelle’s idea of ‘sacrifice’ is having to shell the lobsters and shrimp she gorges herself on.

  • JamesA1102

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Liberals have a genetic brain disorder that allows them to lie about their real surroundings that no medication can cure the proper neurons to fire. This disorder allows them to know so much that isn’t so, hear so much that isn’t said. Causes kleptomania for other people belongings just because they believe they deserve it. The liberal disease Causes severe lack to want to work for a living and a need and desire to want to live off others incomes.

    Do you have any links to back up this “fact”?

  • timzank

    JamesA1102 said:
    Do you have any links to back up this “fact”?

    I don’t have any links, just personal experience over 52 years on this planet watching liberals brainwash their weak willed followers and confiscate my money to give to people that are absolutely unworthy.

    Observational confirmation.

  • CosmosDan

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Disbarred from practicing law on fraud! Member of Black Theology Church! Eat shit. Palin is 100% American and this woman is 100% racist against whites. She should shine all Americans shoes. You must be a white hater to.

    Since you seem interested in facts you might want to check into that disbarment thing you’re calling fact.

    Her license is listed as voluntary inactive which is not a disbarment or necessarily any kind of disciplinary action. Just so you can quote facts accurately. I’m not sure where you get your information but reading from bias blogs is usually not enough. Do a little more research before you state something as fact.

    To be fair, it’s possible there was some complaint that was handled by a voluntary inactive agreement, but there’s no record of discipline that I saw. She was also changing jobs in Chicago at the time where she went from the law form to working for Mayor Daily and then for a Chicago hospital.
    Just, the fax right?

  • CosmosDan

    timzank said:
    I don’t have any links, just personal experience over 52 years on this planet watching liberals brainwash their weak willed followers and confiscate my money to give to people that are absolutely unworthy.

    Observational confirmation.

    So, an opinion , which everyone has.

  • timzank

    CosmosDan said:
    So, an opinion , which everyone has.

    Correct, and obviously a pretty popular one on November 2nd, wasn’t it?

  • DonnaK

    Why would The President want to take a page from the idiots playbook, and quit before he got the job done. I still have faith that the President will turn things around in the next 2 years, it would nice, if he got some help from repubs, but he can still get it done. It was so nice to be able to see 2 people connect, and speak with some intelligence as Barack & Michelle did.unlike when the Wasillahillbillies are speaking or beating a blood spattered fish. Evidently, this is how it is done, but why does she always want to be associated with killing–bears–fish–turkeys? She is a violent, hatefilled woman, that should never be considered as Presidential material!!

  • timzank

    DonnaK said:
    Why would The President want to take a page from the idiots playbook, and quit before he got the job done.

    He won’t quit, his ego wouldn’t allow it. He’ll run again. He’ll get trounced, but he’ll run again. Bring it on socialists, we’re waiting. (see nov.2)

  • Michael Charles

    Hooray!!!

    The Gordon Blower Show is already on!

    Had your morning fruit and vodka beverage yet, moron?

  • greg454

    Donnak, Obama wants to do the same progressive crap Carter, Hoover, FDR, Nixon, and Woodrow did, and it doesn’t work. Yes, Nixon was a progressive, look it up.
    http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx

    Republicans cannot afford to “work” with that, we have to lower spending, lower taxes, and then revenues and productivity will grow. Just because GWB forgot to do it doesn’t mean we have to give up on it.

    http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/nightline-whines-about-high-corporate-profits/

  • writer

    roxy touts Harvard attendance as proof of genius. That’s why she’s such a big fan of G.W. Bush. He has an MBA from Harvard. Proves he’s a genius in roxy’s book.

  • Eric

    roxsteady said:
    Here’s all you inbreds will ever need to know about the Michelle Obama who attended both Princeton and Harvard, Palin couldn’t shine her shoes.

    You’re all beneath her.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112204388.html

    You said it!! Palin talks shit about Michelle all the time because she knows that she’s could never be half the woman she is. I could just she Michelle on a boat clubbing a fish to death while she changing her grandson’s diaper because the mother of the baby in on Dancing With The Stars – so Palin can sell more of those stupid books and convince all of you idiots that she’s gonna run for president. You betcha – she knows she has ZERO chance.

  • timzank

    Eric said:
    You said it!! Palin talks shit about Michelle all the time because she knows that she’s could never be half the woman she is. I could just she Michelle on a boat clubbing a fish to death while she changing her grandson’s diaper because the mother of the baby in on Dancing With The Stars – so Palin can sell more of those stupid books and convince all of you idiots that she’s gonna run for president. You betcha – she knows she has ZERO chance.

    You realize how stupid that sounds?

    Fish have to be killed before you eat them. Do you think they commit suicide and jump into a can? And Michelle is too good to change a diaper? And having a child be successfull on national TV is a bad thing?

    What, are you 13?

  • stoogedudes

    timzank said:
    Correct, and obviously a pretty popular one on November 2nd, wasn’t it?

    True, just as popular as the opinion many people expressed in November 4, 2008. In other words, it wasn’t a rejection of liberalism as much as it was a rejection of the fact that the economy is still in bad shape and people aren’t satisfied on the state of the economy.

    You wouldn’t argue that November 4, 2008 was a rejection of conservatism, right? Probably not, because you don’t consider Bush to have been all that conservative. The point is, it’s a cycle. But if you could make the argument that Nov. 2 was a rejection of liberalism, you could make the argument as well that 2008 was a rejection of conservatism. But I don’t believe those to be very valid arguments.

  • greg454

    “You said it!! Palin talks shit about Michelle all the time because she knows that she’s could never be half the woman she is.”

    —You liberal elites always look down at blue collar people, but in the end without the hunters, farmers, truckers, and builders you wouldn’t be able to have your double-mocha frapuchinos at Starbucks.

    I’d like to see Michelle wearing fur without the fur trapper, I’d like to see Obama flying on Air Force One without the oil rig guy that got down and dirty to get that oil.

    Give me a woman who kills her own meat over a coward who picks it up at the supermarket any day. Now to be fair, Michelle does get “down and dirty” in her garden, oooh, picking up carrots is so scary.

  • stoogedudes

    greg454 said:“You said it!! Palin talks shit about Michelle all the time because she knows that she’s could never be half the woman she is.” —You liberal elites always look down at blue collar people, but in the end without the hunters, farmers, truckers, and builders you wouldn’t be able to have your double-mocha frapuchinos at Starbucks. I’d like to see Michelle wearing fur without the fur trapper, I’d like to see Obama flying on Air Force One without the oil rig guy that got down and dirty to get that oil. Give me a woman who kills her own meat over a coward who picks it up at the supermarket any day. Now to be fair, Michelle does get “down and dirty” in her garden, oooh, picking up carrots is so scary.

    I admit that a woman with a gun is quite sexy, but a woman is a coward for buying meat at a supermarket and not killing it herself? You’re calling a lot of women cowards, my friend.

  • CAconservative

    Wow…honest, sincer, and smart as a whip? Who the hell is she talking about? It’s certainly not Obimbo! Almost his entire presidential electoral platform was based on lies and half truths. He promised the most open presidency in our history and we’ve gotten just the opposite. With few exceptions, he’s appointed people to his administration any other politician would have shunned because their views were completely over the top. This clown will be a one term president because of his own making. Fooled once, shame on you, fooled twice shame on us!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Templeton/1642703797 Dave Templeton

    I like “Hope and Change”, Grandma. In fact I think I’ll change my religion to whatever help me advance my career even though I will remain a closet muslim. I think I’ll change my pace of birth to to Hawaii even though I will always be the little lost kid from Kenya. Next, I think I’ll change my name to Barry Soetoro for my Hawaiian gig and then use AKA Barack Husein Obama since it has such a “nice muslim ring” to it!

  • Eric

    timzank said:
    Eric

    Yes!! Selling your child out on national television so you can sell more books is a bad thing. Putting a kid in that kind of limelight is horrible. Clubbing a fish to death on national television is obscene and then telling people I may run for president is a joke.

  • Eric

    timzank said:
    You realize how stupid that sounds?

    Fish have to be killed before you eat them. Do you think they commit suicide and jump into a can? And Michelle is too good to change a diaper? And having a child be successfull on national TV is a bad thing?

    What, are you 13?

    Yes!! Selling your child out on national television so you can sell more books is a bad thing. Putting a kid in that kind of limelight is horrible. Clubbing a fish to death on national television is obscene and then telling people I may run for president is a joke.

  • CosmosDan

    timzank said:
    Correct, and obviously a pretty popular one on November 2nd, wasn’t it?

    And popularity proves it;s correct does it? You know better.

  • JamesA1102

    timzank said:
    I don’t have any links, just personal experience over 52 years on this planet watching liberals brainwash their weak willed followers and confiscate my money to give to people that are absolutely unworthy. Observational confirmation.

    So in other words you have no facts for back up a thing that you’re saying. OK.

  • http://none pyrope

    roxsteady said:
    That’s United States!

    Damn right, all 57 of them!

  • http://none pyrope

    It is highly likely that we shall never know whether Michelle wants her husband to be a one term president until after the 2012 elections: If he loses the White House, she will say that she only wanted him to sacrifice four years of his life in service to our country; should he win, she will say that the country needs him for four more years and is willing to make the sacrifice, too.

    In any event, 2012 will be a telling year for the future of this country!

    If the Republicans fail to nominate anyone better than McCain, they will certainly lose, and this will be the death nell for the Republican Party.

  • http://none pyrope

    Continued…

    If -0bama is reelected, the US will become a socialist country by 2016. (It’s nearly there now.)

  • CosmosDan

    pyrope said:
    Continued…

    If -0bama is reelected, the US will become a socialist country by 2016. (It’s nearly there now.)

    Is that military time , because that would be cool.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Eric said:
    Yes!! Selling your child out on national television so you can sell more books is a bad thing. Putting a kid in that kind of limelight is horrible. Clubbing a fish to death on national television is obscene and then telling people I may run for president is a joke.

    You actually claim to have a brain?

  • Sunnyr

    These two anti-American nutballs are ONE AND DONE in 2012. Can’t come soon enough!

  • http://none pyrope

    CosmosDan said:
    Is that military time , because that would be cool.

    I know about socialism. You probably would not like it. Seriously.

  • Michael Charles

    Hi Blower…

    Frankly, I’m fucking shocked. No shit, to think that you actually process the way you do, mentally.

    In your mind it’s cool to spout that garbage?

    And you have the guts to be proud about it?

    You need therapy. I know problem people, they’re pretty easy to spot and you’re one that fits the profile..You’re an unkind, mean-spirited misogynist.

  • BatBoy

    Michael Charles said:
    You need therapy. I know problem people, they’re pretty easy to spot and you’re one that fits the profile..You’re an unkind, mean-spirited misogynist.

    You are talking to yourself…right? It sure was one of the best “self-assessments” I have ever seen.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    BatBoy said:
    You are talking to yourself…right? It sure was one of the best “self-assessments” I have ever seen.

    You must fogive him, he knows not what he says. I don’t remember seeing his phony name here before? He is just another phony username by RRK.

  • justanotherconservative

    Eric Toth said:
    Obviously conservatives hate America and support the terrorists. Under Bush they said “If you don’t support our president, you hate America, support the terrorists and embolden our enemies because they love to see us divided” Because if they don’t hate America and support the terrorists, then the only possible conclusion is that they are spineless cowardly hypocrites who don’t have the balls to live by the very harsh standards they demand of liberals. Conservatism is NOTHING more than a cult for developmentally disabled psychotic hypocrites!

    oh honey. take your meds, please.

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