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California: Michelle Obama

May 15, 2009 - 01:23 pm
NEWS FEED: California Notes

With Michelle Obama’s Visit, University of California Merced Gets Its Day

By Randy Bayne

By Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi

Lt. Gov. Garamendi talks to college students at the CA Democratic Party Convention last month.
© A. Randy Bayne
Nothing has ever come easy to the University of California Merced and that makes this Saturday’s commencement of the first four year graduating class a profound moment for the San Joaquin Valley.
When First Lady [...]

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March 7, 2009 - 09:00 am
NEWS FEED: OC Progressive

Soup Kitchens and Cell Phones

By Ellinorianne

It's the new meme that made it's way from the Los Angeles Times with this headline, "Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but..."  The but of course is the man with the cell phone taking the First Lady's photo.

It doesn't detract from the first lady's generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos:

If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?

And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills?

And now it's of course another bogus

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Tue, 08/26/2008 - 18:36

Michelle Obama hits second speech homer in as many days before packed Emily's List crowd

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

DENVER - A radiant Michelle Obama took an already whipped up capacity-plus crowd of mostly women at the Sheraton Denver over the top during a speech Tuesday.

Speaking to an exuberant audience attending the Emily's List gala, the spouse of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama continued the process which she started during what has quickly become an acclaimed speech Monday night at Pepsi Center.

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Mon, 08/25/2008 - 08:57

Today's convention schedule

By Politicker Staff

The Democratic National Convention will be called to order at 5:00 PM EST today, with a theme of "One Nation."  Featured speakers include Michelle Obama, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), former President Jimmy Carter, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, who will introduce a tribute to her uncle, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). 

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