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Some advisor for the Obama campaign is going to figure out how to convince Michelle Obama to shut up - or at least quit blasting America and/or the male portion of the population at every opportunity. That will be a very sad day for me.

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this. Just one point though.
Should, God forbid, BHO become president, I think Michelle Obama will become only the second first lady I can honestly say I detest.
I'll let you guess who the first one was.

...as the Queen of cheap shots.

It's hard to believe that someone who is supposedly as intelligent as the Obamassiah's wife consistently spews so much flatulent ignorance. Perhaps her husband, father, and other male friends and family members are as selfish as she claims all men to be. Too bad for her.

However, I know why I wake up every morning and endure a job that causes me so much stress that I can sometimes barely breathe. I know why I drive a 1998 car while my wife drives the kids to school in a 2008 model.

Every day I make sacrifices that will help my family have a better life. I'm not talking about liberal pseudo-sacrifices such as hiring the government to demand that others make sacrifices for my benefit. I'm talking about sacrificing my own time, money, and comfort because my family deserves everything that I can offer them. Because that's what men do.

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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox

Perhaps Mrs. Obama is really communicating something deeper about men. Could it be that she realizes that for at least some of us (and I tend to believe all of us) true joy and health comes from putting our family first? In other words, I am actually incredibly selfish when I put my wife's needs ahead of mine. I just am totally self absorbed when I stay up all night rocking and walking my sick child, so that she can get some sleep. Nah... she is just the self absorbed leftist she seems to be, trying to blame men for her woes.

My Ph.D. is in geochemistry. My research has included studies of greenhouse gas levels and temperatures in Earth's earliest atmosphere in an effort to greatly extend the timeline over which we can explore the relationship between these gases and climate. Yes, I try to provide data that can be used to test the hypotheses that the thousands of modelers around the world like to treat as 'data' when they discuss climate change and the 'fact' that we are heading for the end of the world. I have also helped lead a massive effort to narrow down the search parameters for looking for life on planets around other stars using massively powerful telescopes that NASA was supposed to launch next decade (think Hubble on some serious steroids). Why all this build up of me and my career?

Well, my wife and I have three very young children. She is an information technologist with 15 years experience and therefore makes way more money than I do per hour worked. So, despite knowing that I had been on the fast track to the highest levels of academic success, I spent much of the past 5 years as a semi-stay-at-home dad, making sure that my wife could do her 20 hour/week job AND we never had to put our children in day care (I am employed but I work on soft money (NASA grants) that I raise. Therefore, I can set my own hours and work location, which has meant working bizarre hours at home mostly when the kids were asleep or my wife had them). One of our children has Down Syndrome. I drove her around to 7 therapies every week for well over a year. (Aside: Our 47-chromosome-child is the happiest person I know. I have been incredibly blessed to get to spend so much time with her... so I guess I really am selfish)

Do I feel cheated that my career has been stalled by the choices I have made to care for my family? Not one bit. I am thrilled that my children are raised by their parents, not by strangers.

We are finally dropping my wife's job. We just cannot sustain both jobs and homeschool our children and sleep. One thing had to go, and it could not be sleep and it could not be homeschooling. We talked about my staying home, but she has grown to hate her job. So, that means I have to find a new career, one that feeds my family and our mortgage. I don't really know what I will do. I had a long-term vision for my career path, that might still be viable, but who knows. What I do know is that I will do whatever job I get to take care of my family. Yes, I hope to find a job that stimulates my mind and uses all the skills I have been given, but those considerations must come after the basics: take care of my wife and children. There is no better way for me to find happiness. So, I suppose in the end, I have to admit, I am selfish after all. After all, we all know that up is down, if you just look at it through the eyes of a socialist.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. -G.K. Chesterton

that perhaps Michelle Obama's assessment of men is proceeding from an unusually small sample size.

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

Since Michelle insists on being concise, doesn’t her husband fit into the set of ‘all men’? If he truly suffers from the intolerable selfish priorities of male narcissism, then perhaps Michelle will be voting for Hillary in November.

and then inquire of the Great One why he hasn't told us the truth about why he is running for president? Where IS God in your family's situation? Are you taking anything for all for your insane/angry moments? How much wine does it usually take to take the edge off of your self-importance?

I have way to many questions for these folks just off the little bit presented. Why isn't anyone pursuing any of these questions with the Messiah and his wife?

I admire you guys that have been able to keep the kids out of daycare, but I think it's inaccurate at best and a cheap shot at worst to say that somebody else is "raising my kid" because she's in daycare.

She's there about 7 hours a day, which is, of course, significant, but she doesn't exactly live there. Her being there is a choice her mom and I made. We wanted to expose her to other kids and to be sure she was learning from professionals AS WELL AS from her parents.

She still learns the most important things at home. We teach her about God, about family, about love, about manners, how to brush her teeth, how to use the potty, and on and on and on. Trust me: we're raising her, but there are some great professionals helping us out.

Now that I've said all of that, my wife has turned in her notice so she can stay home fulltime with our little girl. We're both glad she's been able to do that, but we wouldn't take back the positive effects daycare has had on our daughter for anything.

And finally, Michelle Obama is a gift from God directed right at the RNC.

We shouldn't criticize her unless we can appreciate the stress of trying to raise a family of four on a mere $500,000 a year.

Ahh Moe, you wouldn't be the first to get hitched late in life due to the proverbial first lay and subsequent fear of dying alone.

You're just the latest, creepiest version of a gaming geek that somehow thinks he's been granted extra powers by not being a virgin anymore.

Nice mustache by the way.

I have long ago given up trying to rationalize the stream-of-consciousness opines of such wayward self proclaimed pseudo intellectuals. However, it is quite easy to determine the rhizomes are firmly planted in a Marxist-Socialist state of mind that constantly gravitates to the collective and places groups of people in a classes.

True Michelle, men are a class unto themselves as part of the species homo sapien. Nonetheless, the collective classification ends there. I thought it would be helpful to use biological terms since it appear a basic, learned distinction of human traits and individuality seems to have somehow eluded your grasp (or selectively and consciously discounted as vestiges of a useless political philosophy). You may have also missed the fact that classifying entire groups of people to fit one’s personal proclivities and by extension superior intellect is, well, revealing. By that I mean it exposes a deeper mistrust and prejudice formed by personal experience.

Now I am not prescient or privy to any personal information but the bet is you have made similar statements before to the Mr. Can’t say I blame you as he seems rather enthralled with all the personal attention. Problem is, he reeks of the same mental, philosophical and moral flaws hidden by oratory and doublespeak, but which unveil themselves in poor judgment, recusant mainstream moral choices and specious religious doctrine.

I think that about covers it.

"Nec Aspera Terrent"
bene ambula et redambula
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beyond belief. Typical therefore for a marvelously intelligent Democratic woman. Republican women on the other hand, mere slugs and slaves enabling their husbands sexism.

Just like the last Most Intelligent Woman on Earth [until she proved she couldn't even run a competent campaign ] at some point the managers for Obama will have to skyhook her offstage and muzzle her. In 1992 Hillary was making a fool of herself and had to be silenced. I daresay the Obama people are taking fittings for that muzzle about now.
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"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

I'm usually with you Moe, but I'm not sure she meant that men are narcissist because they prioritize themselves differently. I know you specifically didn't say she called men narcissist, but I think she was making a statement on how women prioritize themselves (which is the debatable point).

It's funny that from a female perspective I thought she was paying men a compliment...and I also found it ironic that by reading her comment, many men felt the need to defend themselves and talk about themselves, even though I don't think she meant to attack men or even address them directly.

Ironic that you would place yourselves and your perspectives as the central issue, and not address what she was saying about women. It's possible you may be proving her point.

I think what you are doing for your wife and your kids is impressive and awesome. You are right, there are too few of you out there. Your wife is a lucky person/woman/mom/professional to have you. (She can readjust that order as she sees fit :) ).

I got into a huge amount of trouble for this, might as well share it.

At a dinner party at the home of one of my wife's closest friends, the hostess' sister was holing forth on what a rotten SOB her latest boyfriend had been towards her daughter. This woman had amassed an amazing track record of bad life decisions, coupled with an almost magical ability to find and latch on to Mr. Wrong, and she'd long ago burned through any slack I might have cut her (which, admittedly, wasn't much).

When she intoned the ritual invocation "All men are pigs", responded with "No, only the ones that will date you". All I could say into the stunned silence around the table was "Did I say that out loud?".
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)

Or has modern feminism actually adopted the mythical chauvinism of the 1950's as their own belief system, merely switching the genders.

Work outside the home is more important than housekeeping.

Women are intrinsically superior to men.

I mean, if the 1950's were so bad, then you'd think that feminists wouldn't be working so hard to recreate it.

which led me to be a single father for several years, and to take lower-paying jobs which allowed me to have a regular schedule, or to work from home. We didn't have much, but they had me.

It was total megalomania which led me to pray every day, on my knees or on my face, that my children would have character and not be like me.

It is a singular vanity which has caused me to endure the commute between my current job and school in the city and the quiet little town where my youngest is in school, to give my wife the attention she craves, and to spend my nights, weekends, and vacation time repairing and remodeling the house to make her happy.

Thank you, Michelle, for opening my eyes.

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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

...to agree with Michele Obama, but the complete focus on telling everyone all the amazing sacrifices YOU've made seems to play right into her hands, does it not?

Just to make sure that I'm not misunderstood: no, I don't think all men are selfish. Your sacrifices are to be respected on the highest level; however, pointing out how sacrificial you are tends make your sacrifice less about those you are sacrificing for, and more about you.

And for the record - she did seem from the context to be pointing out how women unhealthily ignore their own needs for other priorities. Although I don't really agree with this either... I've known far more selfish women than men.

What the dear Mrs. Obama has shown us is the fun with controversy you get when you overgeneralize.

although Chardonnay is the trendy favorite these days.

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because I got so much personal satisfaction from working 90 hours a week for 25 years to put my three kids through private school, Notre Dame, Fairfield University and Wake Forest University. Maybe the next time Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama is spending $1000.00 on a manicure and having her hair done, she can think about the selfishness of wanting that for ones children.

I know just what she means. That lousy guy I'm married to gets up every morning long before the sun comes up and goes off to work his rear end off delivering tires all day, regardless of whether or not it is 110 degrees or -10 degrees. Then on the weekends, he either works on the house and farm or works for someone else to make a little extra money.

Meanwhile, poor, poor little old me, I stay home, in our heated, air-conditioned house with always hot running water, not picking cotton or grinding my own wheat, with our kids, taking care of the house and the homeschooling.

But he's soooooo demanding. When he gets home, he always wants something to eat and some tea. Lousy selfish bum.

Then again, I've never done this,

Get a half-dozen gals together with a few bottles of Beaujolais

and for that matter, don't even know what a Beaujolais is, so maybe I'm just out of the loop.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.

I'm beginning to see a pattern. Start with this:

"What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first..."

And then consider this:
"For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of America".

Things suddenly start to make sense. Maybe if Ms. O hung out with a better class of men, she'd think a little more highly of the good old U S of A.

Hay Moe - you have time to do a little mentoring?
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)