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Title: From one mom to another: Should Obama run? A letter writer tells his wife, Michelle: 'I wonder how on earth you and your family will make this decision. . . . It could well mean the word no one wants to say: "assassination"
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Published: Dec 29, 2006
Author: Erin Kotecki Vest
Post Date: 2008-04-16 10:26:32 by Jethro Tull
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Dear Michelle Obama, The holiday season is here, and many of us are snuggled with our families eating, opening gifts, and enjoying the love and comfort of our children and spouses. This feeling of family must be weighing very heavily on you right now. Your husband is the man of the hour, and the whole country is waiting to see if he will run for president. The decision is not one to be taken lightly by any family -- but the Obamas' are not any family. I don't need to tell you that, I know. As I sit here with my two young children, I think of you often. I wonder how you weigh what could be one of the most important candidacies in American history, and what we all hold the closest. How does a family like yours decide between changing the world and risking your lives? Between making history and making a normal childhood for your daughters? Between public service and suburban bliss? I look at my husband and my two beautiful children, and I wonder how on earth you and your family will make this decision. It would be a sacrifice, no question. Possibly the biggest sacrifice a family could make. We all know it wouldn't just be the usual pressures of the job or public life, it could very well mean the word no one wants to say but everyone is thinking: "assassination." The ugly truth is some in America may not be ready to see a black family in the White House. The ugly truth is the decision to run for president could mean the death of your husband or family member or yourself. Is any job worth it? I don't know. There are no easy answers. Would I risk my own family to change the world? I don't know. I honestly do not know. Here I spend my entire day thinking about how to protect my children. That is what a mother does. She protects, she teaches, she does what is best for them. Everyone else be damned, she does what is best for them. But how on earth does a mother begin to decide between what is best for her children and changing history. Very few individuals have ever had to make this decision. I don't envy them. Just thinking about what you may or may not be thinking is enough for me. I'm sure everyone in the world is giving you advice right now. I won't presume to know enough about what you are going through to even try to give you any. What I will tell you, though, is you already have the respect of many mothers in this country. The simple fact that I know you are weighing this decision with such intensity makes me like you and your husband even more. It confirms to me you are the type of people I think you are: smart, loving, educated, and with great common sense. Frankly, it makes me want your husband in the Oval Office even more. I'm just not sure my needs outweigh the cost to you and yours. I don't want to seem like a selfish American, but it will take something BIG to give hope to this country and those of us disheartened, disenfranchised, and just plain disgusted with the current state of affairs. Yes, I want Senator Barack Obama to be that something big. I want him to be the answer. I want to ask you to support his run in 2008. But I can't. I can't ask you to do it for me. I can't ask you to do it for the children or for the future or for the good of mankind. You are a mother, like I am a mother, and I know I can't ask that of you. I can only wait. Whatever you decide, the Moms, if no one else, will understand and have your back. If you make the choice to change the world, we'll be there with flags flying, and we'll remember the sacrifice your family is making for ours. If you decide to refrain from the Oval Office, we Moms will know exactly why. We will not for a moment question the protection of your family. May you enjoy this holiday season with those you love and hold them close, Erin Kotecki Vest This column first appeared at huffingtonpost.com WEB FEEDBACK If Mrs. Obama supports her husband on his campaign, she'll be doing a lot of people a big favor. Aserano Michelle Obama will make a great First Lady. RUN OBAMA RUN!!! PurplePolitics Please don't lump everyone who does not want Obama (and I'm one of them; I think he's in the corporate back pocket and I don't think we need a president who writes books about the importance of Jesus in his life; we've got a religious nut case now) into the racist category. There are reasons other than race to not want Obama. RnR This letter to Michelle Obama is just what I was thinking and very much afraid of. JFK was supposed to have protection . . . but . . . same as his brother . . . all the protection in the world cannot stop assassination if the "right" organization orders it. I as so many do would love to see Barack Obama in the Oval Office . . . but I do not want to see anything happen to him. --asafox Wait a minute. A black person doesn't have to run for president to be killed. I suspect, Mrs. Obama and her husband will make the decision the same way white people do. We black people make that decision every time we leave our house and get in a car. Waitaminute I found this to be a very creepy letter. Please . . . really? Is everyone thinking of "assassination"?? Erin says she wants Obama to be the president but then "warns" Michelle that it will cost her, her family. She goes ahead to remind Michelle that her real duty is toward her children and no one else. "Everyone else be damned, she [a mother] does what is best for them." This letter sounds like a warning to Michelle not to let her husband run for presidency or else. From one mom to another: Should Obama run? A letter writer tells his wife, Michelle: 'I wonder how on earth you and your family will make this decision. . . . It could well mean the word no one wants to say: "assassination" '
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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Ugly????? Really???? Last I knew majority rules or is that only in Africa. As long as blacks are a minority they will have to learn to live with it. The whites have learned the hard way in Africa. If blacks want a black president, I think that is a fine idea, just put one forth that is NOT a member of the "system". A black Ron Paul would drag in a lot of votes.
And are leaving. Most of the productive ones, anyways.
Q: Why will Obama make a great American President? Is that why JFK was assassinated? (Catholics are also a minority in this country.) Males are also a minority, come to think of it.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Most of the Protestants in Ireland left the Irish Republic after independence. It hasn't hurt Ireland, in the long run.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Duh. Ireland is white.
Q: Why will Obama make a great American President? lol Hey the Scots were pushed onto Ulster only after Knox converted them (or there wouldn't have been half the fuss). All this so that a few Lairds and Lords could have Scotland for grazing sheep, and of course for a bit of jolly good "divide and conquer" fun for the Crown.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
We could quibble about the definition of "hurt", but the more darkie pushes out whitey, the more darkie is hurt by darkie's definition, including but not limited to increasing blackouts, potholes, violence, and poverty. Homey don't do civilization. He can't, by himself.
Q: Why will Obama make a great American President? When Scotland and Ireland were both Catholic, there was quite a lot of movement of population between the two countries. My own father's family was a clan of gallowglasses that migrated from Scotland to Ireland in the Middle Ages. Because they were Catholic, that meant they eventually were considered part of the Irish people.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
and even before that... 'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
I totally reject this insinuation that Barry Hussein is any more likely to be assassinated than a President Hillary or a President McCain...MUD
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, If assassinating the Pres were easy, Dubya would be pushin up daisies.
I cling to hope of a 50 state repudiation of the traitorous, neocon Plutocrat Party
I can't say what "everyone" is thinking but as for me I think Obama, Clinton, and McCain should form a tight, triangular firing squad.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Smart people are. Yes, the Jews would love to assassinate this ignorant puppet to have more control over Americans.
God is always good!
I couldn't have said it better !
Thanks.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Maybe go bar hopping and let ted kennedy drive...
Yeah, if he would promise to drive over the Chesapeake Bay. Might take out four commies at once!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.The ugly truth is some in America may not be ready to see a black family in the White House.
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
The whites have learned the hard way in Africa.
A: He's the only candidate with menagerial talent.
#3. To: Cynicom (#1)
Last I knew majority rules
#4. To: Tauzero (#2)
#5. To: aristeides (#4)
It hasn't hurt Ireland, in the long run.
A: He's the only candidate with menagerial talent.
#6. To: aristeides (#4)
#7. To: aristeides (#4)
A: He's the only candidate with menagerial talent.
#8. To: robin (#6)
Hey the Scots were pushed onto Ulster only after Knox converted them (or there wouldn't have been half the fuss).
#9. To: aristeides (#8)
When Scotland and Ireland were both Catholic, there was quite a lot of movement of population between the two countries.
#10. To: robin, Ferret Mike (#9)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I found this to be a very creepy letter. Please . . . really? Is everyone thinking of "assassination"??
Lord Acton
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Is everyone thinking of "assassination"?
#14. To: James Deffenbach (#12)
I can't say what "everyone" is thinking but as for me I think Obama, Clinton, and McCain should form a tight, triangular firing squad.
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#14)
Lord Acton
#16. To: James Deffenbach (#12)
What North American Union? STOP the North American Union!
~~~~~~~~~> Have you seen THIS yet? TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
#17. To: FOH (#16)
Lord Acton
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