Happy 19th Wedding Anniversary To The POTUS And FLOTUS

Today is the day that Barack H. Obama got married in 1992 to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in Chicago. It happened one month before Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States.

At the time the future president was working as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and true to his community organizer roots worked on a voter registration drive.  His wife was an attorney working in Chicago city government as an assistant to the mayor of Chicago.

I doubt at the time they or their wedding guests thought in their wildest dreams the happy couple would be celebrating future wedding anniversaries as the POTUS and FLOTUS, and having 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as their street address, but that's exactly what has happened since 2009.

Happy 19th anniversary to the President and First Lady.   May you be celebrating your 20th through 24th wedding anniversaries in the White House, and may you have many more.  

Rush Attacks FLOTUS Again, Cue Cricket Chirping Slience From Feminist Blogosphere

Despite claiming that fighting sexism is a concern of feminists, attacks against Michelle Obama continually get ignored. It is left to women of colour to point out the link between sexism and racism that combine to oppress her.   Womanist Musings, May 9, 2011

One of the things I'm not surprised about but it really irritates the hell out of me is the way the vanillacentric feminist blogosphere can rush to the defense of any white female attacked in any way by the 'menz'.

But let those attacks be aimed at a woman of color or First Lady Michelle Obama, and this is their reaction:



Once again Oxycontin Man went on the attack against the First Lady making cracks about her weight.  Two Tons Of Not So Much Fun made the crack that 'President Obama’s limousine “weighs 8 tons without Michelle Obama in it.”




First of all, you drug addled bigoted dufus, you are the last person to be mocking people about their weight. 

Besides that, the FLOTUS isn't F-A-T, she's P-H-A-T, fine, beautiful, intelligent and got it going on.   You're just jealous because you're bitter, lonely and have had four women dump your azz while the POTUS has been happily married to the same fine brown framed sistah since 1993.

Now that I'm done verbally slapping around Cetaceas Oxycontinus, back to you feminist blogosphere.
   
I find it interesting that this is the same blogosphere that rose up en masse to defend Kirstie Alley, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and a host of white females on both sides of the political spectrum but can't be bothered to type one sentence when it comes to the FLOTUS or any non-white woman under attack.

What, some of y'all still hatin' and fuming because Michelle's hubby beat Hillary for the Democratic presidential nomination back in 2008?     

And don't think it's just Moni that has noticed your glacial pace and benign neglect when it comes to defending the FLOTUS, much less any Black woman.   It's kinda sad when even white men are quicker to defend the First Lady than y'all are 

Well, won't be the first or last time that's happened (Satoshi Kanazama controvery ring a bell?) or the first or last time that Black women have had to be the ones to have our own or Michelle Obama's back.

And you wonder why Black women left feminism back in the late 80's early 90's.

Respect This POTUS and FLOTUS Like You've Done The Other 43 White Ones

I was listening to a discussion yesterday morning on Rev. Al Sharpton's radio talk show about the disrespect aimed at the POTUS and FLOTUS, and the various callers chiming in with their thoughts about it.   

Now it's my turn.

Ever since Barack H. Obama won that historic 2008 election and was subsequently inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, it has been a brand new day in this country in terms of for all Americans in terms of flipping on the television to see the image of a confident and competent Black man staring back at them intelligently expounding on the nation's problems.

They have also had to get adjusted to his summa cum laude Princeton educated statuesque wife who grew up on the south side of Chicago and not Chicago's burbs like the wife of William Jefferson Clinton did,.and this couple's two teenage daughters.

But ever since they moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the African American community has seethed as white supremacy reared its vanilla scented head and disrespect for the President and the First Lady has come at them in subtle and not so subtle ways..

We've been pissed as vanilla flavored people on the left and right who hate this president refuse to give him the respect of calling him 'President Obama' in their barely disguised borderline bigoted critiques of him or disrespect the First Lady by calling her Michelle.  

It angers us even more because those same right wingers through the last eight years of a reprehensible mispresidency repeated like a mantra 'you lost, get over it' and 'respect the office'.

What, now that an African American president his wife, mother in law and daughters occupy the house our ancestors built with their unpaid labor y'all wanna trip?

We expected the frothing at the mouth disrespect from the sheet wearing sore loser bigots on the right who peddled in racism during the 2008 campaign.   It wasn't a surprise based on what they did to the last Democratic president and the last Democratic First Lady and their daughter that they would initiate an ongoing campaign to disrespect, delegitimize, and denigrate President Obama.   We expected the Right Wing Lie Machine to be cranked up to maximum volume and some poor and middle class whites to fall for the GOP okey doke like they have for years.  We even expected the spike in death threats aimed at this African descended POTUS from their pathetic fringes and their 'birthers' with their crazy conspiracy theories.

But what has us taken aback is the vitriol the POTUS is getting that is coming from so called liberals and elements of the gay community couched in 'criticism' of him.   Much of it comes from the peeps who are still hatin' because Hillary Clinton, the girl from the Chicago 'burbs lost the 2008 Democratic primary, the lukewarm peeps who jumped on the bandwagon, or the people who peddle the misguided bull feces that both parties are the same and want to see a third party take root in this country.  

Really?  After eight years of a near neo-fascist corporate dictatorship that y'all stayed silent in and yet some of you have the nerve to sulk and claim he hasn't done anything.   This is the most TBLG friendly president ever ensconced in the Oval Office, but all we hear is that he is the 'worst president ever' on gay rights or should be primary challenged next year?  

Buy a vowel and get a fracking clue.   You wanna bitch at somebody, start with the bigoted peeps who worship the elephant.   The Republicans have opposed every policy that he's tried to come up with to fix the mess he inherited from Junior, interrupted his State of the Union speech to call him a liar, and had a long list of Fox Noise pundits, conservative writers and right wing radio hosts disrespect him.  In the same week he was forced to reveal his long form birth certificate to shut up the birthers, he gave the orders as commander in chief for the covert op that took out Osama bin Laden.   

How fracked up is that?   Did you demand the other 43 white presidents prove they were Americans?

Would you be showing the same level of disrespect to a President Hillary Rodham Clinton that you have aimed at this POTUS?      We both know the answer to that question.


But yeah, because we were hopeful and giddy on that November 4, 2008 night and that January 20, 2009 inauguration day, we seriously underestimated the fear of a Black America that still is ensconced deep in your hearts or just how many of you agree with the words a former Supreme Court justice uttered over 150 years ago.   We forgot for a moment just how much fear and disrespect of African Americans has been ingrained into your psyche.

The African American community has had enough of this bull feces from y'all.    We also ain't liking the racist disrespect aimed at the FLOTUS either.   

But let's get real for a moment.  This president from the moment he took the oath of office has faced nullification tactics and massive resistance not seen since the days of the civil rights movement.   He has to deal with people in the GOP who are willing to take the whole country down just so you low information fools will blame President Obama and damage his chances of getting reelected next year.


And you know deep down that none of those all white neo-Confederate candidates on the GOP side are going to support any of the liberal progressive policies that you espouse.

So chill with the disrespect of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.   Respect this POTUS and FLOTUS like you have the other 43 white ones and expected African American and other POC's to do when the occupants at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked like y'all.

Happy 65th Wedding Anniversary President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

July 7 was also a momentous date for President Jimmy and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.   They were married 65 years ago on this day in 1946 at the Plains Baptist Church in Plains, GA.. It is the second longest marriage in the history of US presidential couples.

Hmm.  What was that bull feces about Democratic family values again?   While you Republifools flap your gums about it, this man lived those values.   He also put us during his presidency on a course of emphasizing human rights in our international dealings with the world that you GOP fools ruined under the last mispresidency.  
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Y'all know I have much love for and respect for President Carter because until President Clinton came along, he was the champ in terms of appointing African-Americans and other POC's to his cabinet, federal judicial benches and his administration.

 He was trying to get the US on the road to energy independence and energy efficiency during his term.   He established the Strategic Petroleum reserve that we can tap into when needed, got a lasting peace treaty done between Egypt and Israel, and signed the treaty returning the Panama Canal to that nation  

He also started the tradition of acknowledging June as Black Music Month as well.

And the conservafools still hate on him and call him a 'failed president' for doing so.

But back to President Carter, the First Lady and their long time marriage.  

Congratulations on your long time marriage and your 65th wedding anniversary!   May you continue to have many happy years together.