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To "Pat who?",
Did you read the article, sir or ma'am?! The article quotes Pat "People Skills" Fitch -- not just once, but twice -- hence, the question in my post: WHY bring "People Skills" Fitch into the equation?! Hence, the statement in my post: It's enough to make you vote Republican!
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Pat who? said...
Who said anything about someone named Pat Fitch?
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:37 PM Michelle Obama fires up students, supporters By Janet Conner-Knox | Times Staff Writer GREENVILLE — Thousands stood in line for hours to get inside Minges Coliseum at East Carolina University in Greenville, only to go inside and wait again. But all of the waiting didn’t stop the excitement building inside the stadium as the crowd anticipated the arrival of first lady Michelle Obama. "Fired up and ready to go,” the crowd chanted. When that chant would subside they chanted "four more years.” Obama was making a swing through North Carolina Wednesday talking to voters about why her husband, President Barack Obama, should be reelected to office. Speaker after speaker got up to encourage those who were there to register and vote and to get others registered and to the polls. Wilson resident Pat Fitch, who also attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, said she didn’t get to see Obama’s speech there. Wednesday, Fitch was determined to hear her close up and personal. "I am so excited,” Fitch said. "I’m very interested in the message she will bring to keep us fired up. She, of course, is not the policy maker and she isn’t elected to office, but she can reassure us, while we are up close and personal that her husband, President Barack Obama, is working hard to make this country better — to help restore this country to its greatness. I believe she is going to say just that.” Wilson County resident Alice Freeman was also in Greenville to hear the first lady speak. "I am just here living in the moment,” Freeman said. "What a wonderful moment it is. I’m so excited about it.” The screams drowned out all of the sound of Stevie Wonder’s song, "Higher Ground,” when Obama walked in the stadium. Some people stood the whole 30 minutes she spoke. Obama told the group that she and her husband identify with working-class families because they grew up in ordinary working-class families. "Barack had great respect for his mother,” Obama said. "I saw how proud he was that she put herself through school while supporting him and his sister as a single mom. I saw the tenderness he felt for his grandmother. I saw how grateful he was that long after she should have retired, she was still waking up every morning catching the bus to her job at the community bank.” Obama said Barack Obama watched as his grandmother was passed over for jobs because she was a woman. She reminded the crowd that the first bill he signed was to give women equal pay for equal work. Obama reminded the crowd of what was going on when her husband took office and took time to remind them of what she believes has been accomplished during his administration. "Our economy was on the brink of collapse, you hear me?” she said frankly. "Newspapers were using words like melt down and calamity, an economy in shock.” Obama talked about home foreclosures, an auto industry that was in crisis and jobs ending. "The economy was losing 800,000 jobs every single month,” she said. "A lot of folks wondered if we were headed for another Great Depression. That is what Barack Obama faced on day one as president. That’s where we were as a country. But instead of pointing fingers, instead of placing blame, Barack Obama got to work.” Obama said her husband was thinking of people like his family when he cracked down on lending abuses. "So now today, when you apply for a mortgage or credit card, you know exactly what you’re getting into,” she said. "That’s why he cut taxes for small businesses and working families. He believes that in America teachers and firefighters shouldn’t pay higher tax rates than millionaires and billionaires.” Obama credits her husband with getting the auto industry back on its feet. "Today, new cars are rolling off the line from proud American companies like G.M.,” Obama said to the roaring crowd. "And yes, we have a long way to go to rebuild our economy. We have had 30 straight months of private sector job growth. A total of 4.6 million new jobs, good jobs, right here in the United States of America.” Obama told the crowd health reform was the right thing to do. "Because of health reform our parents and our grandparents on Medicare are paying hundreds of dollars less for their prescription drugs. Today our young people, like many of you here, can stay on your parents’ health insurance until you’re 26 years old.” Then she told the cheering crowd that she nor her husband would have been able to attend college without financial aid. "When we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bill was actually higher than our mortgage,” Obama said. "Believe me, when it comes to student debt, we’ve been there. And that’s why he’s fought so hard to double funding for Pell grants.” She asked North Carolinians to take advantage of early voting. "I want you to remember what we do for the next 48 days will absolutely make the difference,” Obama said. "This will be a close race. We will have to work.” She told the crowd that in the last election North Carolina chose her husband by 14,000 votes. She said that amounts to five votes per percent. Obama said voting for her husband boils down to having hope for the future. "It’s the same hope I saw on my father’s face as I crossed the stage to get my diploma,” she said. "The hope that Barack’s grandmother felt as she cast the ballot for the grandson she loved and raised. The hope of all those men and women in our lives who worked that extra shift, who saved and sacrificed and prayed so that we could have something more. The hope so many of us feel as we look into the eyes of our own kids and grandkids today.” She said it is important to give the next generation a solid foundation to go after their dreams. "We want to give all of our kids in this country opportunity worthy of their promise,” Obama said. "You see all of our kids are worthy. We want to give them that sense of limitless possibilities and belief that here in America, the greatest country on the planet, there is always something greater out there if you’re willing to work for it.” Fitch, after hearing the speech, said Obama delivered the speech she was expecting. "I am fired up and ready to work,” Fitch said. janet@wilsontimes.com | 265-7847 |
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luchie said...
I am not proud that our first lady michele obama . she look like she is always angry. is she scared that if her husband will not be reelected she won't be able to have alavish vacation that the tax payers pay for it?
Friday, November 02, 2012 at 5:01 AM
twindad said...I am not proud that our first lady michele obama . she look like she is always angry. is she scared that if her husband will not be reelected she won't be able to have alavish vacation that the tax payers pay for it?
Friday, November 02, 2012 at 5:01 AM
To "Pat who?",
Did you read the article, sir or ma'am?! The article quotes Pat "People Skills" Fitch -- not just once, but twice -- hence, the question in my post: WHY bring "People Skills" Fitch into the equation?! Hence, the statement in my post: It's enough to make you vote Republican!
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Who said anything about someone named Pat Fitch?
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM
I personally believe President Obama is a far better choice than the alternative, Mitt Romney.
Having said that...why in the world bring Pat "People Skills" Fitch into this equation? Lord have mercy, that's enough to make a person vote Republican!!!
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Exactly! She has no class and should not be a first lady. She probably is a good person and has good intentions, but she looks like she could spike a volley ball not be a proper First Lady.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM
