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Posted on Apr 16, 2008
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Stephen Colbert began his interview with Michelle Obama by asking about her “silver spoon” upbringing on the South Side of Chicago. The pseudo pundit then segued into a brief and comical flirtation and even managed to get in a few digs against Hillary Clinton. “Why would you want to be first lady?” he asked. “You’d never get any sleep because I understand the phone keeps ringing at 3 a.m.”

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By cyrena, April 19, 2008 at 4:28 pm #

Definitely a bigot..not sure if it’s a garden variety or not. In other words, he doesn’t respond to the standard strength “Roundup” or at least not for long.

Is there an industrial strength formula?

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By Jimmy Montague, April 19, 2008 at 9:02 am #
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I never thought Stephen Colbert was afraid of anybody. I always thought that NOBODY was safe from Stephen Colbert. Then I saw him with Michelle Obama and I knew I was wrong. That interview was witty but, had it not been witty, it would have been laughable anyway.

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By JD, April 18, 2008 at 1:40 pm #
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This is a sickening aside coming from a Democrat. Not that I think Democrats are angels. I wonder how many Hillary supporters are voting based on race, and will vote for McCain if Obama gets it, again based soley on race. Vote against your interests based on race? Vote for more of our kids to die in the desert based on race?

Shame on anyone who would do that. You are traitors and I have less respect for you than the neo-cons who at least get something out of their corporate agenda. Most of you are voting AGAINST your own financial interests based on exactly what Obama is talking about when he called you bitter!

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By Gmonst, April 17, 2008 at 5:48 pm #

I actually thought she was trying to be funny when she said “yes we can.”  Like yes we can change the cat litter.  It didn’t really come off so funny, I guess she shouldn’t go into comedy.

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By ConfuciUS, April 17, 2008 at 6:20 am #
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Vote for who you will, but spare the rest of us your own brand of politicking. 

ConfuciUS says: Laughable is the man who can say another human being lacks humanity with a straight face.  For what can he predicate this upon?

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By ElkoJohn, April 17, 2008 at 2:15 am #

methinks she will give Jackie O
a run for becoming the most famous 1st-Lady

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By RickinSF, April 16, 2008 at 11:45 pm #

Despite the prose, he’s a garden-variety bigot.

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By Glen, April 16, 2008 at 5:20 pm #
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I was disappointed by Michelle Obama.  Whatever human qualities once existed in her have been overtaken by campaign trail platitudes. 

Seriously - when Colbert asked a funny line about “I ‘hope’ you ‘change’ the cat litter”, she could have showed some of her humanity and made some joke about life at home.  Instead she just starts saying “Yes we can! Yes we can!”

Blah… probably still vote for the guy but her ingenuineness was definitely points against him.

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By Aegrus, April 16, 2008 at 4:54 pm #

Michelle Obama is Barack’s greatest asset. I love hearing her speak.

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By Mary Grimaldo, April 16, 2008 at 2:53 pm #
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His choice of words speaks for him more loudly than as if he were shouting.  That is the kind of rhetoric you could expect from a clinton-mccain campaign.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 16, 2008 at 11:08 am #

Colbert takes a big bow…. for himself!

Michelle is willing to make all those “sacrifices”.... as long as she’s ‘in the White House’ (oops, I mean Black House)!

Speaking of changing the face of America, though, it does need a little coloring in….....

But THE Democratic presidential candidate will make her first appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Thursday….. HILLARY!!!!

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By cyrena, April 16, 2008 at 9:56 am #

Good interview. I expected Colbert to clown a bit more, but he was in a more reserved form this time.

Michelle Obama is a classy lady.

I have a dress just like that, but no place to wear it. What a shame.

(Shows she has good taste. wink)

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By David Dixit, April 16, 2008 at 6:58 am #
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With Obama in the white house, America will be able to re-join the international community !

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