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Speculation Builds on Michelle Obama Senate Run

You know, I've never had any trouble living my own life. Not sure what is interfering with anyone's life.

I'm not saying it is true of you, but too many Americans today have no clue what liberty looks like because they have been so brainwashed and conditioned to live in bondage to big government, political correctness, and an entitlement mentality. A pity too.
 
I saw that and thought here we go again. But Hillary Clinton did it. Hillary had no credentials--absolutely nothing she could point to as significant success in her entire life--her ONLY claim to fame was marrying Bill Clinton. Her one role in government was to put together a health reform plan early in Clinton's presidency which, despite him having a Democrat majority in both the house and senate, was soooooo bad, that I don't believe a single Democrat agreed to vote for it, and ultimately Senate majority leader, George Mitchell, declared it a dead issue. Nevertheless, as a carpet bagger yet, with zero credentials, Hillary was elected to a lackluster term in the Senate and was considered a viable 2008 presidential candidate.

So now we have Michelle who has never done anything she can point to as significantly successful in her entire life, and whose only claim to fame was marrying Barack Obama. She didn't even participate in putting his terrible healthcare reform bill into law.

But if she runs, given how dumbed down the American electorate is, we better adjust to a concept of Senator Michelle.

What happened to liberal women?

If there is anything you can take away from the biggest female names in politics - Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Elizabeth Warren - it's MARRY WELL!
 
I'm not saying it is true of you, but too many Americans today have no clue what liberty looks like because they have been so brainwashed and conditioned to live in bondage to big government, political correctness, and an entitlement mentality. A pity too.

I need something specific. There's no law saying I have to be politically correct, for example. It's a social mores.
 
What happened to liberal women?

If there is anything you can take away from the biggest female names in politics - Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Elizabeth Warren - it's MARRY WELL!

If they don't have any particular pertinent experience, leadership skills, or credentials, you're right. Marry well. But a great many women have achieved notable success and accomplishments on their own merits, and I wish we Americans were again smart enough to look at THAT instead of what is politically popular within a particular partisan group.
 
If Michelle were to run for the senate in Illinois she would have to do it in 2016 against Republican Mark Kirk, Illinois other senator is a Democrat, Dick Durbin and he ain't going nowhere. Now running a senate campaign out of the White House in your husband's last year as being president could be very tricky. I am not sure running for senator while your husband is president, how that would play or look to the American public as a whole. Hillary waited until Bill was out of office, I think Michelle should too. But like I stated, if she did that and moved back to Illinois, she would have to wait until 2022 to run.

Perhaps using Hillary as an example the Obama's could move back to Hawaii, but again both senators are Democrats. Perhaps to another New England state? But again with the lone exception of Kelly Ayotte, all are Democrats and like Mark Kirk, she is up for re-election in 2018.

There's no way that NH would send Michelle Obama to DC. I think Ayotte is pretty safe, but even if she wasn't, MO would never get the nomination here. I hope not anyway. I know we've gone off the rails here in NH with the stupidity and turning this once wonderful state blue a decade or so ago, but I can't see a midwesterner getting the nod here. These native New Englanders mistrust outsiders.
 
There's no way that NH would send Michelle Obama to DC. I think Ayotte is pretty safe, but even if she wasn't, MO would never get the nomination here. I hope not anyway. I know we've gone off the rails here in NH with the stupidity and turning this once wonderful state blue a decade or so ago, but I can't see a midwesterner getting the nod here. These native New Englanders mistrust outsiders.

Perhaps in New Hampshire, but I hear tell you had a bunch of Massachusetts natives move up there. Kind of like the South, we distrust New Englanders too especially those from New York and Massachusetts. But I fear most of the conservatives from New England has already moved south.
 
Perhaps in New Hampshire, but I hear tell you had a bunch of Massachusetts natives move up there. Kind of like the South, we distrust New Englanders too especially those from New York and Massachusetts. But I fear most of the conservatives from New England has already moved south.

Massholes, we call them. They move here and bring their special brand of Liberalism with them. They've managed to scare the Conservatives away to the south. If it weren't for the Libertarians, this state would be hopeless. Those idiots need to stay in Massachusetts and worship that beast Elizabeth Warren.
 
Massholes, we call them. They move here and bring their special brand of Liberalism with them. They've managed to scare the Conservatives away to the south. If it weren't for the Libertarians, this state would be hopeless. Those idiots need to stay in Massachusetts and worship that beast Elizabeth Warren.
There's still way too many backward hillbillys in Cowhamphire
 
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But would she be seen as qualified...

Exactly what does make one qualified to represent our people?

It used to be that military background was considered a pre-qualification for political office.
And although some military are well educated intellectuals, merely being military can mean just about anything. You might be a genius or you might only have a 100 IQ and barely get by in life.

Does the ability to fire a weapon and follow orders make one especially suitable to represent our people?

These are things that I personally feel make one qualified to run for office:

-knows what they stand for
-honesty
-passion
-ability to maneuver in Government
-intelligence
-can't be bought

Except for the ability to maneuver in Government, the rest are things you don't learn or earn. You either have it or your don't.
I don't care if Michelle Obama has ever killed a bunch of people on foreign soil or not.
If she is going to run for office, I care that she is smart, has heart, and can get something accomplished.
I'd vote for her.
 
Massholes, we call them. They move here and bring their special brand of Liberalism with them. They've managed to scare the Conservatives away to the south. If it weren't for the Libertarians, this state would be hopeless. Those idiots need to stay in Massachusetts and worship that beast Elizabeth Warren.

LOL, yeah, did you see the latest Massachusetts poll on Obama Job approval/disapproval:

14. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
(N=800) n %
Approve --------44.88%
Disapprove ---- 44.25%
Undecided ----- 10.88%

Here's the whole poll:

http://www.suffolk.edu/documents/SUPRC/6_9_2014_marginals.pdf

Mass is one of the bluest if not the bluest state and if the president is even there in approval and disapproval, he is in trouble.
 
LOL, yeah, did you see the latest Massachusetts poll on Obama Job approval/disapproval:

14. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
(N=800) n %
Approve --------44.88%
Disapprove ---- 44.25%
Undecided ----- 10.88%

Here's the whole poll:

http://www.suffolk.edu/documents/SUPRC/6_9_2014_marginals.pdf

Mass is one of the bluest if not the bluest state and if the president is even there in approval and disapproval, he is in trouble.

Luckily there are a lot of smart people in MA, as evidenced by the defeat of Martha Coakley by Scott Brown. Granted most of the morons who live around Boston and other places are clueless, but when the ones from the north shore and the western 'burbs come out to vote, they vote smart. They represent the smart people who are in the 44.25% here.

How could anyone think Obama is doing a good job?
 
Luckily there are a lot of smart people in MA, as evidenced by the defeat of Martha Coakley by Scott Brown. Granted most of the morons who live around Boston and other places are clueless, but when the ones from the north shore and the western 'burbs come out to vote, they vote smart. They represent the smart people who are in the 44.25% here.

How could anyone think Obama is doing a good job?

No matter how bad a job any president is doing, the hard core of his party will always be there for him. On the day Nixon resigned from office, 50% of all republicans had a positive approval rating of him.
 
Massholes, we call them. They move here and bring their special brand of Liberalism with them. They've managed to scare the Conservatives away to the south. If it weren't for the Libertarians, this state would be hopeless. Those idiots need to stay in Massachusetts and worship that beast Elizabeth Warren.
The migration north of the cultured and educated people of the Commonwealth have had a positive and progressive influence on the Granite State.
The ignorant hillbillys of the White Mountains are becoming outnumbered.
Cow Hampshire is becoming a blue state.
 
She is not qualified to be Senator but then neither was Hillary..
 
The migration north of the cultured and educated people of the Commonwealth have had a positive and progressive influence on the Granite State.
The ignorant hillbillys of the White Mountains are becoming outnumbered.
Cow Hampshire is becoming a blue state.

Never heard of "Cow Hampshire". I live in New Hampshire though.

The people in the White Mountains are smart enough to know the plural of hillbilly is "hillbillies", not "hillbillys". They learned that in 2nd grade. So much for your effort at denigrating them.

New Hampshire, if that's the state you're posting about, turned blue a long time ago. The smart people of the White Mountains know that too.
 
I don't think it is news that Kirk is a ripe target for the Dems in 2016. I would lump Kelly Ayote in on that too. If Marco Rubio runs for President, he can not defend his seat per (FL?) law. I don't think Rubio is going to run. I think the GOP is going to have their hands full in 2016 hence why the "scandals" are in full swing. 2016 for the GOP has to be about a "Third term Obama with Hillary."
 
An unqualified person sent to congress based solely on their familial relationship to another unqualified political figure? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

It would be like Rand Paul all over again
 
Dear God NO! What is wrong with this country....:doh

"Political wags are beginning to wonder if"

In other words, they're speculating based on...what? Nothing. Remember, guy, the news business is a business and needs to make money...and if it takes a manufactured rumor to make that money, some will do just that.

No, FLOTUS is not going to run while her husband is POTUS. That simply ain't gonna happen. Will she run after 2016? Maybe - I'd be very happy to see her run and I'd early vote for her if I could, because she's smart and tough and very well-educated (perhaps you should look at Sarah Palin's education sometime). But while President Obama's in office? No. Neither Michelle nor her husband are stupid enough to try that. Ain't gonna happen.
 
She is not qualified to be Senator but then neither was Hillary..

Yeah, since when should someone with 'merely' a Yale law degree (Hillary) run for political office?

And when it comes to Michelle Obama (whose maiden name is Robinson btw), what's her educational background? Princeton AND Harvard:

Michelle was inspired to follow her brother to Princeton University, where Craig graduated in 1983. At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community. "I remember being shocked," she says, "by college students who drove BMWs. I didn't even know parents who drove BMWs." While at Princeton, she got involved with the Third World Center (now known as the Carl A. Fields Center), an academic and cultural group that supported minority students, running their day care center, which also included after school tutoring. Robinson majored in sociology and minored in African American studies; she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. At Harvard she participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who were members of minorities and worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income tenants with housing cases. She is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree, after her two immediate predecessors, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Bush.

And let's not stop there! How about her work experience? Surely all she's ever done is be FLOTUS, right? Um, actually, from the same reference:

Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin, where she first met her future husband. At the firm, she worked on marketing and intellectual property. She continues to hold her law license, but as she no longer needs it for her work, it has been on a voluntary inactive status since 1993.

In 1991, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor, and as Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies. She worked there nearly four years and set fundraising record for the organization that still stood 12 years after she left.

In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University's Community Service Center. In 2002, she began working for the University of Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community affairs and, beginning May 2005, as Vice President for Community and External Affairs. She continued to hold the University of Chicago Hospitals position during the primary campaign, but cut back to part-time in order to spend time with her daughters as well as work for her husband's election; she subsequently took a leave of absence from her job. According to the couple's 2006 income tax return, her salary was $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals, while her husband had a salary of $157,082 from the United States Senate. The Obamas' total income, however, was $991,296, which included $51,200 she earned as a member of the board of directors of TreeHouse Foods, and investments and royalties from his books.

She served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS), a major Wal-Mart supplier with whom she cut ties immediately after her husband made comments critical of Wal-Mart at an AFL-CIO forum in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 14, 2007. She serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.


In other words, she is a very, very intelligent and educated woman with a wealth of experience in the public and private sector.

Of course, that obviously means to the Right that she is utterly unqualified to run for a Senate seat.

BTW, maybe you should check out Sarah Palin's education sometime.
 
It would be like Rand Paul all over again
THATS the best example you could come up with? :lamo
Hell...we can do better than that right in Obama's home state.

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THATS the best example you could come up with? :lamo
Hell...we can do better than that right in Obama's home state.

I used Rand Paul as an example because I assume that you support him
 
I used Rand Paul as an example because I assume that you support him
WHat part of Rand Paul has you believing he is an ineffective representative of his constituents? Or is a candidate for prison and a straight jacket?

Frankly...I think Rand Paul is a better politician than his father. So if your point was that it can SOMETIMES work...sure...Look at the early Adams family. but...always...nah...''And is there anything about Mo's demeanor, actions, or behaviors that indicate she would be qualified or in any way competent?
 
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