Posted By: Shinji  on Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Mona, something tells me that if Obama were the republican nominee and michelle his wife, you'd be calling those comments 'patriotic' and hailing her as a hero. Honestly everything you write is shit. And I'll tell you the exact moment when I stopped looking at you as merely someone who simply has a viewpoint different from my own and as nothing more than a shrill shill of the republican party. it was your 6/13/08 column on censorship. It was well intentioned, but as usual you blame liberals and encourage censorship. No mona, it's not society or governements job to make sure all tv is like Barney and sesame street. It's your responsibility as a parent to get off your ass and monitor your kids.

Posted By: RickyRico  on Friday, October 10, 2008

Isn't it interesting that when radical sympathiser Michele Obama "lectures" white women on her fears, she always leaves her neighborhood terrorists, Mr. and Mrs. William Ayres, out of the conversation. Having Ayres as a neighbor should scare her to death, because he actually committed acts of sabotage against the US Government and a sitting judge. That has no effect upon the quaking Ms.O, who says that she is proud of her country for the first time, even after graduating from prestigious Ivy League schools, and landing six figure jobs in Chitown. The only thing she fears, like her husband in arms, is getting caught with the truth that exposes the two of them in the web of corruption that they have comfortably made their careers, and their bed in.  

Posted By: Tanisha Shontae  on Wednesday, October 08, 2008

I am an Obama supporter. With that said, I do understand your statement about fear not being the only reason we are at war or that certain decisions were made. But you have to agree that FEAR has been at the heart of most decisions regardless of why. Michelle Obama has every right to fear for the lives of her family members. What she said is, she didnt want to let HER fear stop her. SHe didnt want her daughters to be governed by fear in THEIR decision making. I'm glad you had such a nice experience wearing your scarf for a day. It proves that most of us Americans are kind loving people.

Posted By: Stephanie  on Wednesday, October 08, 2008

I ALMOST stopped reading this inane article when you criticize Michelle Obama for saying fear is the basis for the war in Iraq by arguing there was an unprovoked attack on American civilians...blah...blah....blah.  Iraq didn't attack innocent Americans.  Do you seriously not get that?  It's a far different thing for a "brown" Muslim woman to be walking the streets in a headscarf than a fair-skinned Jewish woman hiding beneath an Hermes scarf driving a Lexus.  As for the ridiculous "experiment" of your friend, the fact that she EXPECTED the security guards at National Airport to treat her poorly underscores Michelle Obama's point!  Maybe your friend is afraid of Muslims and the officials at DCA aren't.  Not sure why I waste time commenting on your article - I can't imagine people actually pay attention to such drivel.  I know I won't make that mistake again.

Posted By: Patriot Pete  on Thursday, October 09, 2008

"There was just a concerted effort by Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Donald Rumsfeld to make us fear people..."  Uh, here's a little history lesson for you, Mona.  98% of Americans (that would include liberals) supported the Bush Administration going into Afghanistan and cleaning out the Taliban and capturing bin Laden and his aides.  But, then they let Bin Laden slip away into the mountains.  And they started talking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  They got on TV and held up fake vials of anthrax and talked about smoking guns being mushroom clouds and balsa wood drones that could drop nuclear weapons on American cities.  And when some of us said, "wait, hold, enough", they said why do you hate America, you America haters you?  So, yes, Mona, it was all just a concerted effort by Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, and GEORGE W. BUSH himself to make us fear people.  And you, Mona, have no more credibility than any of those people.  Have a nice day.



Obama '08

Posted By: Robert Eufinger  on Thursday, October 09, 2008

You have not been paying attention.  It's not the average American on the street that is fearful of others, not naturally (as you noted).  It is and has been the Bush/Cheney administration and for a large part, the Republican party that has been pushing fear to accomplish their missions.  "They hate us for our freedoms" "If we don't fight them there (wrong country by the way), we'll have to fight them here"  Continued and premeditated fear mongering.  "The axis of Evil" In WWII, our enemies banned together and we called them the axis of evil.  Now days, the Bush administration takes separate countries they want to go to war with and bands them together for our current "axis of evil".  They don't have to align themselves with each other, Bush will do it for them.  That portion of our countrymen that live in fear didn't decide on their own to fear Muslims, they have been told to be fearful by the Bush administration.  Bush and Cheney and many of their fellow Republicans are the ones who live in fear, fear that the American people will quit being afraid and fear that they will lose power.  Suprise, you already have.