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Yes.....Team Obama is having Michele incorporate Guns and Immigration into her agenda. Which she has a higher approval rating than Obama. So they are going to keep hammering away at trying to get those Gun Control Issues into play. Note her remarks. When did it become the Obligation of the Country to make sure that the Children grow up to be adults? How ya like the way she tells those Democratic Donors that all these kids think of is staying alive? Thoughts.
A second term as first lady finds Michelle Obama using her spotlight to draw attention to another issue involving the welfare of the nation's children: kids and gun violence.
A meeting with high school students from a poor, gang-riddled neighborhood in her hometown of Chicago led Mrs. Obama to put a new spin on the stalled legislative debate over whether to ban firearms or impose new background checks on people who want to buy guns.
Mrs. Obama argues that the debate is also about the country's obligation to help kids like these grow up and become adults.
The first lady faces immigration, another new issue for her, when she gives the keynote speech Tuesday at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group. Immigration is one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities.
Aides say the first lady isn't making gun violence a new and distinct issue, but is folding it into her work encouraging youth to focus on getting an education.
At three fundraisers one day in May — one in Boston and two in New York — Mrs. Obama described the meeting she had with some of the "best and brightest" students at Harper High School, including the valedictorian, a star athlete and ROTC participants.
But instead of "reveling in the joys of their youth," like completing college applications, planning for the prom or getting a driver's license, she told the audiences of Democratic donors that "these young people were consumed with staying alive.".....snip~
Michelle Obama highlights kids, gun violence
Course Obama came into town too. To have talks over economics. Course it was to raise some money from his newly started political groups.
Mrs. Obama argues that the debate is also about the country's obligation to help kids like these grow up and become adults.
But instead of "reveling in the joys of their youth," like completing college applications, planning for the prom or getting a driver's license, she told the audiences of Democratic donors that "these young people were consumed with staying alive."
MMC. You're really criticizing her message? Frankly, it's one I wish she'd been hammering home for the last 5 years.
This:
And this:
Worthy messages that should be hammered home every chance we get.
What, MMC? Slow day?
MMC. You're really criticizing her message? Frankly, it's one I wish she'd been hammering home for the last 5 years.
This:
And this:
Worthy messages that should be hammered home every chance we get.
What, MMC? Slow day?
Well Maggie.....I don't think it is the Obligation of the Country to make sure kids grow up to be adults.
Well Maggie.....I don't think it is the Obligation of the Country to make sure kids grow up to be adults. Not unless they are government owned. Also I don't think these kids weren't mentioning to her what their dreams and hopes are. Or how they want to get out. That they would embellish more on some gun issues. Or just about staying alive.
This is the First Lady. So I think they would be talking a lot about their hopes and dreams.
Also I wanted to point out how Team Obama isn't just going to walk away from the Gun issues. Hence their renewed focus. This time it isn't just going to be Obama and some Democrats. This time they are bringing Mo Money Michelle to help with the impact.
Anything to criticize Obama Maggie, that's how he operates.
It 100% is. Unless you want our country to go down the ****ter. We already have a piss poor education system.
Awww......get over it. Did you need a tissue? Maybe if you had a clue as to what he was all about. That is if you actually knew a whole lot about him. Then you can talk. Until then.....he rates just like most other Liberals and progressives. Which I will talk **** about them anywhere and anytime.
Hint, just because your in Chicago doesn't mean you have any special insider info on him.
I feel your pain. But still, I disagree with you on this issue. (Rarely, I might add, since you're generally spot on about Chicago.)
If there's one solitary thing the government should be responsible for, it's the safety of its children. We've talked about Chicago's war zones many times in the past, and I know we both agree there. Anything that highlights government's abject failure to protect these inner-city neighborhoods is going to get an A+ from me.
Frankly, I wish she'd spent the last 5, and would spend the next 3, talking about government's other abject failure in these neighborhoods: Education.
Hint, just because your in Chicago doesn't mean you have any special insider info on him.
I remember sitting outside my son's school early this year watching all the little kids come running out at the end of the day so excited and happy just to be alive and started thinking about Newtown and all the accidents and such and I will say it had an impact on me. I still do not buy into the autocrat spin that anything they propose would work, but it did at least motivate me to move most of my guns out of my house and to my brother's house where he has a mega gun room and no little kids in the place.
Respectfully Maggie, where do you think billions of education and welfare dollars have been spent? How much is enough? When are local entities going to accept that using the FedGov policies just don't work when it comes to the urban 'raising' of children?I feel your pain. But still, I disagree with you on this issue. (Rarely, I might add, since you're generally spot on about Chicago.)
If there's one solitary thing the government should be responsible for, it's the safety of its children. We've talked about Chicago's war zones many times in the past, and I know we both agree there. Anything that highlights government's abject failure to protect these inner-city neighborhoods is going to get an A+ from me.
Frankly, I wish she'd spent the last 5, and would spend the next 3, talking about government's other abject failure in these neighborhoods: Education.
I remember sitting outside my son's school early this year watching all the little kids come running out at the end of the day so excited and happy just to be alive and started thinking about Newtown and all the accidents and such and I will say it had an impact on me. I still do not buy into the autocrat spin that anything they propose would work, but it did at least motivate me to move most of my guns out of my house and to my brother's house where he has a mega gun room and no little kids in the place.
Respectfully Maggie, where do you think billions of education and welfare dollars have been spent? How much is enough? When are local entities going to accept that using the FedGov policies just don't work when it comes to the urban 'raising' of children?
Idea: Go out into the country and see how those kids are raised. With respect for adults who garner respect. With parental involvement. With strong morals. With strong work ethics. With healthy living standards. etc.
Cause you're afraid one of them is going to go postal on you? :shock:
Yes.....Team Obama is having Michele incorporate Guns and Immigration into her agenda. Which she has a higher approval rating than Obama. So they are going to keep hammering away at trying to get those Gun Control Issues into play. Note her remarks. When did it become the Obligation of the Country to make sure that the Children grow up to be adults? How ya like the way she tells those Democratic Donors that all these kids think of is staying alive? Thoughts.
A second term as first lady finds Michelle Obama using her spotlight to draw attention to another issue involving the welfare of the nation's children: kids and gun violence.
A meeting with high school students from a poor, gang-riddled neighborhood in her hometown of Chicago led Mrs. Obama to put a new spin on the stalled legislative debate over whether to ban firearms or impose new background checks on people who want to buy guns.
Mrs. Obama argues that the debate is also about the country's obligation to help kids like these grow up and become adults.
The first lady faces immigration, another new issue for her, when she gives the keynote speech Tuesday at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group. Immigration is one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities.
Aides say the first lady isn't making gun violence a new and distinct issue, but is folding it into her work encouraging youth to focus on getting an education.
At three fundraisers one day in May — one in Boston and two in New York — Mrs. Obama described the meeting she had with some of the "best and brightest" students at Harper High School, including the valedictorian, a star athlete and ROTC participants.
But instead of "reveling in the joys of their youth," like completing college applications, planning for the prom or getting a driver's license, she told the audiences of Democratic donors that "these young people were consumed with staying alive.".....snip~
Michelle Obama highlights kids, gun violence
Course Obama came into town too. To have talks over economics. Course it was to raise some money from his newly started political groups.
Respectfully Maggie, where do you think billions of education and welfare dollars have been spent? How much is enough? When are local entities going to accept that using the FedGov policies just don't work when it comes to the urban 'raising' of children?
Idea: Go out into the country and see how those kids are raised. With respect for adults who garner respect. With parental involvement. With strong morals. With strong work ethics. With healthy living standards. etc.
You probably know this but, it's NEVER too early to start the process of familiarizing them with firearms. If there no questions in their little brains, it takes all the mystery out and lessens the chances of that ever happening.Because eventually I could slip up and one of my kids could get their hands on a gun in which case a 6 year old and a 3 year old might do lord knows what with one.
yes Sir!I know what you are getting at WCH.....which you do see in some of those Communities. Its not just the parents that the kids respect. It is Others. Teachers, Park Personnel, Firefighters, Counselors, the Neighbors next door and across the street. Themselves first and foremost.
I wonder if Michelle understands nobody elected her, and she really doesn't mean anything at all.....
Cause you're afraid one of them is going to go postal on you? :shock:
No, it isn't. The country did fine when parents, family members, and communities raised children, there was less violence as a general rule, with notable exceptions in a few charged decades. I don't owe people I never meet anything, I might volunteer help, advice, etc. but it is not my responsibility, nor the federal government's. State, local, sure, they have the enumerated powers within a certain lattitude for these matters, but they have their own limitations as well. American education has in fact been slipping since the "communal responsibility" years, so bad that many third world countrys are outpacing us. We have kids that can't spell cat, but are made to feel like confident anyway.It 100% is. Unless you want our country to go down the ****ter. We already have a piss poor education system.
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