Michelle Obama Is Totally Out To Lunch

Michelle Obama: Since Election, ’We are Feeling What Not Having Hope Feels Like’

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by CHARLIE SPIERING16 Dec 20167,524

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First Lady Michelle Obama says Americans are not feeling hopeful after the election of Donald Trump.

The First Lady was asked by Oprah Winfrey whether she thinks that her husband’s administration had achieved his promise of hope for America.

“Yes. I do,” she said. “Because we feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like. You know. Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept and Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believe, what else do you have when you do not have hope?”

Michelle Obama adds that she thinks her husband had been a calming voice for the country, comparing him to a parent calming a child that had bumped his head.

“I feel like Barack has been that for the nation, in ways that people will come to appreciate. Having a grownup in the White House who can say to you in times of crisis and turmoil, ‘Hey it’s going to be OK,’” she said.

The Oprah Winfrey special interview debuts on CBS on Monday and is her farewell interview before leaving the White House. A special clip of the interview was aired on Friday morning on CBS.

Blacks Walk Out, Hecklers Interrupt--What's Obama To Do? Have People Finally Seen Obama For What He Is? An Empty Suit Who Can Only Talk About Hope But Not Bring Any?

CROWD OF DEMOCRATS WALKS OUT ON OBAMA

Steady stream of people leave, heckler interrupts president

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The magic that President Obama once enjoyed at political rallies appears to have vanished into thin air, as a crowd of spectators walked out on the president during a speech for Democrats Sunday in Maryland.

During an appearance for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, who is running for governor of Maryland, “early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity,” reported Reuters.

“A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke,” the wire service noted, “and a heckler interrupted his remarks.”

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“You’ve got to vote,” Obama repeated numerous times at the rally in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, not far from the nation’s capital.

“There are no excuses. The future is up to us,” Obama said. “Go find your friends to vote. Get your cousin to vote. Get your uncle to vote.”

The heckler was a pro-immigration-reform protester holding a handwritten sign reading “#Not1More.”

“The problem is, I’m actually for immigration reform,” Obama asserted. “Of course, he should be protesting the folks who are blocking it, but that’s OK.”

“Maryland, we have made progress,” Obama said, as he listed his prize achievements of his presidency, such as Obamacare. “Don’t let folks say otherwise.”

But Obama also admitted: “Tonight we’re here because we know there is more work to do,” which he said included battling terrorism and infectious diseases, his sole reference to Ebola in his address.

“When you cast that vote you’ve got a choice to make,” Obama said, between “two very different visions for America.”

“I believe that Republicans are patriots, that they love their country, but they are a broken record,” he said.

He also urged the crowd to select hope over cynicism.

“Hope is a better choice and we’re selling hope.”

The most recent poll from the Baltimore Sun showed Brown leading Republican Larry Hogan 49 percent to 42 percent.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/crowd-walks-out-on-obama/#CiDaY5a33qut9S5Y.99