Michelle Obama gave a speech in Fishers today. Here is the text.
(First she noted that, as a mom, she thinks of her kids first and last. Let’s see if the McCain campaign engineers a faux freakout claiming that this was a backhanded jab insinuating that Sarah Palin doesn’t care about her kids. With all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the lipstick on a pig and old fish metaphors, I wouldn’t doubt it.)
In any case, Michelle Obama noted that the chief threat to the family comes from the gays parents who can’t spend time with their kids because they need both parents working to make ends meet and that it’s even harder for single parents.
Obligatory catchy phrase:
That’s why, as President, Barack is determined to change Washington, so that instead of just talking about family values, we actually have policies that value families.
Barack Obama is proposing middle class tax cuts, energy rebates, and strengthening of the Family Medical Leave Act. Michelle also noted his concern about pay equity for women – citing his first hand knowledge of the challenges working mothers face both from watching his single mother and his grandmother growing up.
“That’s why, as President, Barack is determined to change Washington, so that instead of just talking about family values, we actually have policies that value families.”
I thought the Dems were dead set against the Government promoting, legislating, or even messing with “family values”????
I think they’re just suggesting that the GOP was full of crap when they claimed to be the party of family values.
I was there (1 of the 20 or so men) and it was great. Michelle was very good and so where the other women that spoke. The issues discussed here are the kitchen table issues not the morals and tax cut issues of mccain/PALIN.
If the Kole family didn’t lose so much to taxes, we could cut back the hours worked. You feel like when you make upper-middle class wages as we do, you ought to be able to maybe have one parent scale back the hours some. Alas. Instead, we take shifts. though one or the other (or both) of us generally is working every day of the week, we do it so that our time with our children is maximized, and our day care minimized. I agree with her on this threat to the family, but I’m not convinced that her husband is the man who is going to cut my taxes. Then again, I’m not convinced that McCain is either.
Taxes are still the #1 allocation in the Kole family budget. That seems wrong. Shouldn’t the home be, as it once was?
Mike–
Imagine if you ever got billed for your family’s portion of the Iraq War?
That’s the scary thing. As hard as you (and me, and most people) work to pay taxes, thanks to big ticket items the money you’re paying isn’t settling up the bill. A big portion is being held for you to pay later, plus interest.
If we had elected someone who had chosen not to add that trillion dollars to the national credit card, your future taxes would have possibly been lower.
Who is more likely to sign us up for another trillion dollar war, somewhere, anywhere? Probably the hotheaded one who like to sing about bombing Iran.
T..”Who is more likely to sign us up for another trillion dollar war, somewhere, anywhere? Probably the hotheaded one who like to sing about bombing Iran.”
I’ll take another war from Mcnasty as opposed to becoming the socialist republic of Obama.
RobinObamaHood has already promised over a trillion dollars in new entitlement crap and income redistribution on our merry way to socialism.
As the old cigarette commercial used to say “I’d rather fight than switch”.
T- Yes, let us imagine if we all got a bill for what government does, but not just for this war, but for everything the federal government does, the state government does, and the local government does. My guess is that we would mostly be very unwilling to retain very much of it, from military overtures on down. It would be a great thing, for every American to be faced with their actual share. Alas, we do not pay our fair shares in this country. So, we have a lot of people who do not share too greatly in the burden rah-rahing the extension of more government. Well, who could blame them? They watch the bill shifted onto the backs of others.
Now, you must mistake me for a GOP partisan. I am nothing of the kind. I am wholly anti-war and anti-military adventurism, so Obama leaves me as flat as McCain on that count. McCain would go to Iran, Obama would go to Afganistan, Pakistan, and/or Darfur. I don’t believe we belong in any of these places, and I certainly do not believe the cost an intelligent burden for the American taxpayer of today and tomorrow. Now, do you seriously think that Obama is going to reduce the military in meaningful ways? I haven’t seen an Obama plan to reduce the number of American bases around the world, which is where the big money goes.
When it comes to home / life balance, our way of life is to blame for most people.
Yes, there are people that have already cut back and can’t make ends meet. Very few of those people are Americans.
Most of us (middle class and up) have toys that we choose to spend our money on and leave us slaves to our jobs. Almost every family in this country could have a working and stay at home parent if they made the hard choices with having less fun stuff.
While it is easier to blame “the government”, the government is just an extension of us. It isn’t just some crusty guy in a suit. We, as a people, spend more than we make. So why is it surprising that we as a government overspend?
It is just like those that blame “the media” for all the crap that is on TV. It is on there because we chose to watch it.
If you have not before, take this quiz. Eventually, we in the USA are going to have to share with everyone else, or we need to have a lot fewer people on this planet.
Cutting taxes needs to happen, sure, but the bigger thing that needs to be fixed is how we spend out money and resources personally.