Barbara Walters Pushes Michelle Obama to Run for Office: 'You'd Be a Very Popular Candidate'
Barbara Walters either deeply adores Michelle Obama or she was just acting like an extreme guest-coddler on The View Tuesday. She suggested that if President Obama lost the election – and she then lifted her hands to her mouth in horror – Mrs. Obama could have a career of her own since she would be “a very popular candidate.”
Walters began: “There have been rumors – if the president is not reelected [dramatic ‘God forbid!’ face], or that in the future, that you might consider running for political office.” Mrs. Obama was dismissing that talk, at least for now: (Video and transcript below)
BARBARA WALTERS: There have been rumors – if the president is not reelected [dramatic ‘God forbid!’ face], or that in the future, that you might consider running for political office.
MRS. OBAMA: Those are other people’s rumors.
WALTERS: Would you ever?
MRS. OBAMA: I have absolutely --
WALTERS: You would be a very popular candidate.
MRS. OBAMA: -- absolutely not.
WALTERS: You would not. You would rule it out.
MRS. OBAMA: I am not interested in politics. Never have been.
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She'd be a very divisive
Submitted by Semus on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 11:02pm.
She'd be a very divisive candidate. That's the type of person she is now. But thats what the left wants.
Barbara Wawa - this is how it began with Barack Obama
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 11:21pm.
Barbara Wawa - this is how it began with Barack Obama.
Remember?
The MSM asked him to run.
They both, Michelle and Barack, insisted he "wasn't ready" yet, and he "hadn't done [accomplished] anything yet."
But the national media push on.
And here we are.
(;~/ gary
'I'm not interested in
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 11:23pm.
'I'm not interested in politics. Never have been'????? GET REAL, Moooooooooochie!!! That statement is almost as believeable as hearing you tell somebody to 'eat their vegetables'!! Hell, you big-assed phony - if it weren't FOR politics, you wouldn't be able to pretend that you're Marie Antionette or Imelda Marcos!!! The only part of 'politics' that you're not interested in is when people don't listen to or do what you say - like your poser-assed husband - who thinks that everybody is just supposed to bow down and grovel to whatever it is that he's trying to do.
But, as a candidate, she would be just about as 'qualified' as her little Boy Baraka...........and she IS also 'blacker'. At least she's an American, which is something that has obviously bugged her big posterior in the past, before Baraka was selected.
C'mon people
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 11:26pm.
She's just as qualified as her husband.
like
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 8:22am.
.
Just more subjugation
Submitted by deadeyedan on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 11:54pm.
Her chief qualifications are that she was on payrolls for big bucks and almost no work/talent involved.
WaWa sure don't care, either, being one of them herself.
LIBERALISM - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists
The only thing her and Barky
Submitted by rockyracoon on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:29am.
The only thing her and Barky can run are their mouths.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Ain't gonna happen
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:43am.
Ain't gonna happen Babs...
She is waaay too divisive, she'd be even worse ( as if that's possible) than her choom mate.
Make me puke
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:46am.
No moron, Obozo and fat ass will get the hell out of the White House in January and who gives a crap what they do.
I'm sure that Ms. Blonde is
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 1:31am.
I'm sure that Ms. Blonde is sleeping now, but it's just early evening here in Asia/Hawaii, so I'm working on my first black cherry/vodka drink. I see that Boy BlahBlah has stuck his big foot into his big mouth again, with his 'Polish death-camp' remark...........you'd think he'd know by now, since one of his ancestors actually LIBERATED the Jews from one of those 'Polishy death-camps'!!!! I'm sure this will make her 'gaffe (truth) list'.
And I seen that one of the Polish foreign ministers is calling for an apology, and also calling Boy Baraka 'ignorant and incompetant'!!! REALLY??? Who knew??? Even the damn 'Pollacks'??? Yeah.............Barama is 'ignorant and incompetant', but he's doing a pretty damn good job of destroying our country for a moron!!! Which tells me that the people who support him and follow him are ever bigger morons!!!
Get a clue Babs
Submitted by Hippopaulimus on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 2:44am.
Really? Office? Ya think?
What the hell do you think she's been planning on doing?
She's been setting herself up since day one to do the Hillary thing.
Except she plans on becoming the President!
That's also the only reason why she doesn't run her mouth more about policy, like Clinton did, she wants to keep her negatives low.
White - does not mean racist
Heterosexual - does not mean homophobic
Male - does not mean sexist
Popular candidate ... ?
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 6:13am.
She would be as popular as Barney Frank at a Southern Baptist Convention. Bab-wa don't bullshit that woman, she is foolish enough to believe your "sucking-up" lies.
Note that Walters doesn't
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 7:32am.
Note that Walters doesn't say Michelle would make a great representative, or senator; just that she would be a great "candidate."
Just like her husband.
Popular,
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 7:39am.
Cult of personality.
Besides, only in Babs world is she popular
That was the official nod.
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 7:56am.
Michelle was just told that the MSM would lie, cheat and steal to put her in office, just like they did for her husband.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Best idea I've heard yet
Submitted by SeniorD on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:24am.
Congress was designed to be 'part time' as members had more important things to do, like farm or run a business, etc. Our Founders would be appalled at the evolution of 'part time' members into full time 'professional politicians (and part time "Club Fed residents').
Tah-wiffick. Once again, Walters reveals her idiot side
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 8:49am.
Walters interviews celebrities in the entertainment industry, business world, and politics, and appears to jumble them all together. For her, Michelle Obama would be a great candidate namely because Walters would get to interview her.
No doubt, if she gets the opportunity to interview Barack Obama, she'll ask him if his wife should run for President someday, and he'll give the obligatory "I think she would make a great President, but she's not interested in politics" reply.
What idiot side??
Submitted by SeniorD on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:21am.
Baba Wawa, the first 'news anchor to make $1.0 million dollars in salary', hasn't had a coherent thought since her first face job.
Doncha love the way 'women of a certain age' demand 'soft focus' cameras for their on-air appearences?
Maybe she should run
Submitted by SeniorD on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:17am.
Just think of the albatross(es) that could be hung:
Taxpayer funded vacations sans hubby
Expensive clothing habits
Full time makeup artist
Affirmative Action-based education
$300,000+ annual salary simply because hubby was 'sent' by someone
Elitist menu
Hypocritic 'obesity' programs while she eats fries
No word about Black on Black murders
And those are just the beginning!
Simply tell your husband to give all his delegates to you, retire to some golf course and, for the second time in your life, be proud of this country for letting a Black Woman run for President.
Run Michelle, Run!!
By all means--run back to Chicago
Submitted by StarAZ on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 3:30pm.
Or if they are sick of you pretending that is your town, how about back to Hawaii or to some mansion in DC (no, not THAT one).
That was ridiculous~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:27am.
Worse than the pandering, dumb question to Michelle was the "Clanky-Bracelets-Hands-to-Mouth-Horror" drama queen movement of Barbara mimicking the thought of O not being re-elected.
Really dumb.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Walters to Michelle: 'You'd Be a Very Popular Candidate'
Submitted by needle on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 11:16am.
Really, Barbara?
How many times [per election] would you vote for Michelle?
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
She'd be a very DISMISSIVE
Submitted by chiefpayne on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 2:02pm.
candidate...as in EVERYONE would dismiss her as a nonentity and wouldn't even CONSIDER voting for her.
See, SHE isn't as good a con artist as her husband is.
She'd be a very DISMISSIVE
Submitted by chiefpayne on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 2:02pm.
candidate...as in EVERYONE would dismiss her as a nonentity and wouldn't even CONSIDER voting for her.
See, SHE isn't as good a con artist as her husband is.
Oh, Babs, don't toy with us
Submitted by StarAZ on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 3:28pm.
We love thinking he will not be elected--don't play with our emotions. As for the Ashamed of America One being a popular candidate, she would soon see the difference between a madeup no-show job like she had in Chicago and one she had to work for.
If Michelle
Submitted by nolefan2 on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 4:58pm.
were to be elected president (God forbid) that would be the 2nd time she's really proud to be an American. That might also be the 1st time that I would consider renouncing my American citizenship and getting the "h e double hockey sticks" out of Dodge. I never watch the View because I'm not really fond of retching.