Could Michelle Be the Secret Weapon for Dems This Fall?

Jay, alas there’s no link. HTML tag failed or is it banished behind the paywall? If stuck behind paywall, the high sheriffs should NOT treat you so unfairly. If it’s not finished, post a rough draft and we’ll be happy to spell check it for you. Others here will even check out Michelle’s fashion trends and background for Black Panther memberships. And her birth certificate.

What did Gibbs say that was so wrong? We can’t even speak The Obvious anymore?

Having Michelle Obama on the campaign trail has the added bonus that the troglodyte Republicans are guaranteed to say something sexist and/or racist if she shows up in their district campaigning against them.

Tea Baggers aren’t racist – they said so themselves!

Alas, it’s behind the pay wall. The link won’t come up for another two weeks. So the only way to see it is in the physical magazine or on your ipad….

I like Michelle, she plants a garden.

Time magazine asserts that the angry, bitter, virulent, militant Michelle “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country” Obama is the Democrat party’s “secret weapon”!

How deep are the depths of Time magazine’s delusions?

and she advocates for healthy lunches for our kids, discusses the plight of military families when a parent is deployed…but freeper, I’ll take your non-comment over an insult.

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Get the smelling salts, freeper didn’t say something unbecoming of a human.

Didn’t take long. You know something your kind doesn’t seem to have….class. Many Dems knew about Laura Bush and the tragedy of her killing her classmate…but did they bring it up, no.

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Notwithstanding the fact that her words were taken out of context..you and your ilk are the only ones concerned, that’s why Michelle has almost a 70% favorability rating. While Bible Spice, your heroine, is barely clocking in at 40%.

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Hill sources tell me that Michelle is particularly popular with women candidates and in districts where the black vote was pivotal in 2008: there are 10 CDs that are toss up or lean Republican where black turnout is expected to swing the race.

Not to mention that she’s a more-than-adequate counter to Mama Pit-a-barra-grizz-a-phant.

…the White House may want to hold back their secret weapon for another election: the one in 2012.

I hope to God no one follows this bit of advice.

…(starting at $1.99 weekly for the print subscription and $4.99 on the ipad)…

But wait! There’s more!

I like your use of font style

is that $4.99/month?

tdud3: “Many Dems knew about Laura Bush and the tragedy of her killing her classmate…but did they bring it up, no.”

Laura Bush is pro-abortion and pro-same sex/interspecies so-called “marriage”. She’s one of your own, you moron.

The few Democrats who didn’t mention that Laura Bush killed her classmate did so for the same reason that Democrats don’t mention that Barack Obama hates the United States, to wit: Laura Bush is one their own.

Is this some sort of performance art?
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Honestly, QH, you are freakin’ hilarious!

Zip up your pants, textee..this is where it gets complicated.

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If Barack Obama “hated” America so much, why did he marry it? Whether you like it or not, he is the sole symbol/head of the United States…and if you don’t like it, as they say, YOU CAN LEAVE IT. It baffles me that with one side of your mouth you shout “DON’T TREAD ON ME” and on the other side you want to take away an individual’s ability to marry whomever they want and do whatever they want to their bodies. Oh, I’m sorry I forgot marriage is a holy event and should never be taken for granted, said marriage champs Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich.

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FYI….NO serious Dem mentioned Laura’s accident, because that’s what it was….. an accident. To a fault, Dems have more class than Republicans. While Teresa Heinz Kerry was attacked mercilessly, no one said anything about Laura. While Michelle was attacked mercilessly, no one said anything about Cindy (and there was ALOT to be said).

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So in summation, cry me a river….build me a bridge..and get the eff over it. He is your president and she is your first lady, If you don’t like it….I hear Venezuela is nice this time of year. I bid you good day.

Nope — a week.

So, it’s $8/month for a paper copy and $20/month for an application?

That makes $0/zero cents/sense.

Before I comment, could you clarify what you mean by inter-species marriage?

Maybe trees are worth less than a good application developer. I hate the Earth too, Time magazine.

Arrrgh.
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Not to go off on a tangent, but this is why print journalism is bound for extinction. The idiots who run your biz dev department have no idea how to properly monetize an online, digital audience. Nor do they seem to have any idea how to market a digital product.
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Here’s some free advice from an IT veteran. Hire some expertise in this area, or outsource it to someone who knows this business. Charging more for a digital version of a product than you do for the materially manufactured version is a guaranteed way to kill early adoption and you will go the way of the dinosaurs when your lagging behind a paradigmatic shift.

“Before I comment, could you clarify what you mean by inter-species marriage?”
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Here’s a primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_controversy

The $1.99 deal is only for the first six weeks…. To hook you in and get you addicted before they jack up the price!

But the digital subscription comes with a FREE digital magazine caddy! And! A digital attic where you can store back issues wrapped in digital twine until you die, at which time your SIM-grandchildren will hire a digital clean-out service to toss them in a virtual dumpster.
You can’t afford NOT to subscribe.

But it’s only 2.99 a month on Kindle. Unfortunately that requires a $200 investment I’m not willing to make.

Time is $2.99 a week on Kindle (approx $12.00 a month). Is it more costly to produce Time for an iPad? This is crazy.

Exactly mo, that is precisely the problem. A full year of Time, per the subscription site is $20/yr vs. $240/yr for iPad.

That’s a 1200% mark-up for a delivery method that has to be a rounding error in terms of cost compared to print.
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(“Yes, please send my 4 Free Preview Issues of TIME. If I like TIME, I’ll receive 52 additional issues for a total of 56 issues in all (1 year) for just $20.00 – a savings of 90% off the newsstand price! “)
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Again, Time is eff’ing the adoption rate with this ridiculous charge. Maybe they are trying to recoup some sunken costs associated with the print manufacturing business, but I’d rather kill a few trees or shift my eyeballs elsewhere before I’d pay that.

I was hoping for some sort of sci-fi alien explanation/fantasy from testes. Alas, he only thinks of marrying his cat.

It’s the Steve Jobs ‘superior hardware’ tax. It cost more on the ipad because it’s, you know. Cooler. And the pictures are in color so obviously you have to pay for that. Plus you can drag the stuff around on the touch surface so that’s definately important.

“Before I comment, could you clarify what you mean by inter-species marriage?”
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I thought it was a democrat marrying a republican. I’m pretty liberal and have a live and let live attitude, but my God…there has to be some limits. I’d rather that my son marry a blow-up doll than marry a republican. It’s like I tell him “Both their heads are filled with air, but think of your mother before you shame us all”.

Jay Newton-Small:
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I have a story in this week’s dead tree edition (starting at $1.99 weekly for the print subscription and $4.99 on the ipad)
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This is insane.
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The people for whom you are working are apparently suicidal.
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I’m sorry, I hope you understand that this is not a criticism of you. I’d like to read and comment on your article, but, if it’s behind a paywall, stained on dead trees or incarcerated in iPad jails, I can’t link to it, so it’s worthless for the purpose of analysis and support of my claims.
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I can’t use it to prove anything is true or false, in other words. I can’t discuss it without paraphrasing, I can’t ask questions of it, I can’t direct others to it, I can’t Tweet it, I can’t do anything other than personally consume it and throw it away after I’m done paying for it sight unseen, along with the other dreck that comes with it for which I unintentionally shelled out.
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That’s crazy. The only way that would make any sense for consumers is if there were no other options for reading, as if we were in some vast, desolate, content-less prison yard of an internet –or if it were somehow 1995 again.
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The whole idea behind products and services in a free market –as opposed to a command and control economy, like in East Germany or North Korea– is that value gets added through innovation, not that value gets removed so that organizations can “innovate” price upwards. Future success depends on providing more use value over time to consumers at lower prices, not less for more.
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Imagine that Dell came out with a laptop that was as slow as one in 1995, and said “Here you go! That will be $2900.000, please! No, there’s no internet access on this device. Sorry!”
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What would you think if Apple came out with an iPhone that weighed over a pound and a half, was as large as a book, and they didn’t even allow it to make phone calls?
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Wait…I guess they did do that, and it’s called an iPad. Never mind.
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Anyway, the point is that you’d have to be either living in a bubble, a megalomaniac, an idiot, or all three to come up with these sorts of ideas for “saving” your industry.
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Look, like I keep telling Scherer, if you had a big Paypal button next to your name on each story, I’d gladly cough up money for each piece of work you did that added value to my life, Jay Newton-Small. I’ve donated something like over $200 already this year to blogs/media like Glenn Greenwald at Salon, digby, Eschaton, Open Left and Virtually Speaking. If I didn’t contribute, I’d at least let you know in commentary why, so you might understand directly what readers actually found valuable, and how to provide it. I do it for iTunes, even though I can listen and comment on YoutTube to the same music for free, so I can certainly pay you, the writer directly, the way I pay bands when I think they’re worthwhile.
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It’s only your suicidal bosses that prevent this from happening. All I want to do is give you my money, Jay Newton-Small. That’s all I want to do. I’d love to tell the people in your company “Please, just let me give Jay Newton-Small my money. She can pay you online rent, or whatever you want to call it, for her blog space at TIME.com out of what I pay her. That’s a better deal than what you’re getting now, and it means that I actually get a better deal, too.”
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It’s just too bad for both of us. Of course, I don’t depend on publicly offered stock prices to pay my mortgage on a gigantic building at Columbus Circle on Central Park in Manhattan, so it’s a little more too bad for TIME.com.
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Also, I can always get my content from organizations and individuals that demonstrate that they’re dedicated to providing me, the engaged news consumer with disposable income, with as much value as can be had from my information experience.
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…just like I did when I found out that the New York Times was putting their entire editorial/opinion page, including the likes of that psychotic Maureen Dowd, behind a paywall –after I got done laughing, that is.

Well, I don’t know why the White House would hold Michelle back for 2012. It’s quite clear Obama will win all 538 electoral votes that year. Just ask Joe Klein, from whom never is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not falling all day.

But this post demonstrates why JNS is the only Swamplander consistently worth reading. She makes an original and absolutely accurate point about Michelle. Republicans should fear the First Lady as a surrogate. She is articulate and likeable, which is more than can be said of most candidates from either party these days.

Yeah,just like her husband believes in transparency!

I agree with the strategy of Michelle Obama campaigning in 2012 and not going out in 2010, but for a different reason and from a different instinct. She’s still the “mom-in-chief” and her girls are at a very needy “tween” age. She has a bigger dog in the fight in 2012 than in 2010, and should wait until then to be gone for long periods on the campaign trail.

Lets see, what has America done to Make Michelle proud of her country during her Adult life….

*Reagan/Bush I – Reagan tax cuts and impoverishment of middle class
*Gore inventing the internet
*The Dem party selling its soul to Wall Street in the 90s
*Bill Clinton’s sex life
*The GOP’s claiming Bill Clinton’s sex life is “an impeachable offense”
*Elective wars in Grenada, Panama, Iraq (giving a pass on Kuwait and Afghanistan)
Bush II tax cuts – further impoverishment of the middle class
*The uncountable lies of the Bush/Cheney admin that got us into Iraq
* The lynching of her ex-marine preacher by a bunch of right wing draft dodgers

Add to that list the Tea Parties…

Seems like there’s a few things about America to be ashamed of.