Dee Evans: Google's Offensive Michelle Obama Image -- Reposted!
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by Dee Evans
[Editor's note: The following is in reference to a story about Google's purchase of online ads to explain why an offensive image of Michelle Obama keeps appearing in its Google Image search results, and how high it ranks. The story can be found here, but the article does show the offending image of the First Lady.]
Per the article above, can we imagine the uproar had a similar photo of Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan been posted like this?
I am sick and tired of people thinking that they can treat this family like trash. This is the President and First Lady of the United States and regardless of your political views, they still deserve some modicum of respect.
As offensive as the image is, what offends me even more is that they have made a concerted effort to have this photo as the VERY first image that pops up from the Michelle Obama image search. It's funny that some things that have been previously taboo have become "in vogue" with this First Family.
Some things are simply inappropriate, period! You would think that with this country's disturbing racial history, people would know this -- but I guess not. I know you can't censor everything but at least you can make sure that if anyone wants to find this image of our First Lady, they will actually have to "SEARCH" for it!
I just hope their children do not see this. This is disgusting!
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Dee Evans
Plano, Texas
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Michelle Obama
You're sick of them treating the first family like trash? No one was treated worse than President Bush who was trashed and blamed for everything bad, even hurricane Katrina! As for Ms. Obama, I have no respect for anyone who has the gall to say she was never proud to be an American until her husband became prominent. She's got anger issues it's apparent in some of her public appearances; she definitely has a chip on her shoulder. She should be grateful she was able to get her ivy league education here and it probably helped that she was black. Love her thesis in college that she wrote she would promote the black man if she ever had the chance. She's a racist and a disgrace to our country.
Michelle Obama rethought
Seems as if the writer of the post has his own anger issues and that will color one's outlook. The First Lady is a gracious, intelligent, and thoughtful person and the misread of her "proud" comment during the campaign is a redux of a dead horse flogging. What she said was that she had never been as proud of her country as she was at the moment.
As a career senior Navy officer ('Nam through Desert Storm) I'm as patriotic as anyone and I have had times I was more or less "proud" of what our country was doing. The writer seems to be in a less proud moment. You'll have that.
Growing up in the South, racism was embedded in the way it was and it takes work to overcome prejudice and one's response to it--perhaps on both sides--but Michelle Obama is no more racist than anyone I know and she certainly isn't a disgrace, just the opposite in fact. I, an Irish American descendent, am proud to see we've overcome a great deal of our prejudice and elected a mixed race person as President, one who has a loving family that supports his efforts as President.
Just another distraction while the upper 1% rob us blind, again
This is just another distraction dreamed up by the upper 1% plutocracy designed to distract us as they continue to rob us blind.
The most important issue is money. Where does it come from? WE THE PEOPLE.
Where does it go? Into the pockets of the upper 1% plutocracy.
Thanks to Dubya/dick AND Obama(BushLight), the plutocracy just stole the wealth of the entire middle class, and yet this stupid picture is the kind of crap that the majority of talking heads will write about.
Pathetic
Pathetic
It is pathetic that we've had a wealth shift from the bottom 95% to the top 5% of us. It didn't just happen on the Bush watch. It began with the Reagan Administration and their "trickle down" monitarist policy--Voodoo Economics! Under Ike we had a 90% top tax rate, under Nixon it was 70% and at the beginning of the Reagan Administration it was 50%. We have had a shift from a 60/40 to a 80/20 percent split of wealth between the haves and the have nots. In other words the bottom 95% has lost half its share of the nations wealth. That shift started in 1980 and continued through Bush/Cheney.
I don't agree with a lot of the "bail out", particularly since few concessions were gained from the Wall Street folks, but another Great Depression would have been worse. If Wall Street produced any real products it wouldn't be so bad, but all they do is skim money from the truly productive workers--the source of our real wealth--and play Monopoly with it.
In an ideal world our elected representatives would re-regulate Wall Street investment banks, the Fed would truly closely monitor and control the Monopoly game, and the top tax rate would go back up to a sensibly high level on incomes over, say, $250K. Wage and price controls after WWII along with manufacturing and consumerism produced the strongest middle class in the world. We were much more egalitarian and could see a much better future ahead. Another Gilded Age holds no promise for the rest of us.