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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAside from the bit that she stole from Michelle Obama, Melania's speech was pretty good
I especially loved this part:
Quite moving, and so original!
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)There was no passion as was evident when shown side-by-side next to the original Michelle Obama speech.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,776 posts)patricia92243
(12,607 posts)Orrex
(63,297 posts)Trekologer
(1,002 posts)Study it out.
SnowCritter
(810 posts)N/T
AllyCat
(16,275 posts)brush
(53,978 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Orrex
(63,297 posts)Oh, the humanity!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Orrex
(63,297 posts)Well played!
toddwv
(2,830 posts)No really... that's the way they're trying to spin it.
avebury
(10,953 posts)from Michelle Obama's speech. It doesn't matter how good the rest of the speech is or how well she did or didn't deliver it.
AllyCat
(16,275 posts)So, yeah, I would say that eclipses the rest of the speech. Of course, the speech in the OP isn't hers either.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)just cheered on Michelle Obama's speech.
Sometimes I think Donald Trump is trying to fail miserably at running for president just to embarrass the GOP. But the Tea Party folks are so stupid they have no fricking clue this is happening.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
Orrex
(63,297 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)porch in Mississippi, I really choked up..
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Twitter has the hashtag FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Cha
(298,131 posts)underpants
(183,057 posts)I...I I I...consider myself....consider myself...myself....
Kingofalldems
(38,519 posts)Leave her alone!!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)That's the troll line on things for sure.
It's telling the trolls who mare running that line. They are really outing themselves on this one.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)rpannier
(24,353 posts)though I must admit I almost cried when she said
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for Donal... your country
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Twitter has the hashtag FamousMalaniaTrumpQuotes.
Kingofalldems
(38,519 posts)All these #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes are great, but let's take a minute to recognize her artistic skills too:
tclambert
(11,087 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)You should take your quote to twitter. There is a twitter hashtag called FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes. People are taking the famous quotes of other people and attributing them to Melania Trump.
rpannier
(24,353 posts)but someone should add
Et to Brute?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,776 posts)'tis time to do't.Hell is murky.Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow'r to accompt?Yet who would have thought the old man to
have had so much blood in him?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Paladin
(28,290 posts)Face it: the fact that Ms. Trump could get a few intelligible phrases out---even the ones she stole from Ms. Obama---assured that she'd get good reviews from certain quarters.
Maybe Trump Jr. will use the Gettysburg language in his presentation tonight.......
Cosmocat
(14,596 posts)It was a half hearted, cut and past speech that she simply got up and read off of a teleprompter, and for the first hour or so the republicans and their whore media lackeys were in PREPROGRAMMED orgasm mode, breathlessly saying how incredible she was.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)And that's how you make America great again.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Paladin
(28,290 posts)Somebody needs to send it to that white supremacist douchebag, Rep. Steve King.
ms liberty
(8,631 posts)The jokes just write themselves with these republicans, don't they? This is a great thread, btw!
K&R
Statistical
(19,264 posts)alfredo
(60,082 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Blame it on the stars (stars)
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah yeah
You can blame it on the rain
Get
Ooh, ooh (ooh)
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the rain
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the rain
Yeah, yeah
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)csziggy
(34,141 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Well played, cs. Nicely done!
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Melania upstaged the stop Trump folks, right? Maybe they did this on purpose.
mountain grammy
(26,676 posts)She stole from Common?
niyad
(113,994 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)in the audience who aren`t Slovenian
The mix of tenses reads like some mad Hunter S Thomson drug riff
Laser102
(816 posts)there, but it certainly sounds familiar. Gettysburg? Please correct if I'm wrong.
Quackers
(2,256 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for Donald Trump to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of privilege and of wealthh entitle them, a one-sided respect to the opinions of white, entitled mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men (but not women) are created more equal than others, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are the good Life, unbridled Liberty and the pursuit of self-centered Happiness. That to secure these rights, we went our form of Government to be instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the entitled governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the 1 to 3 % to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to not impact their wealth and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under equal right nonsense, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security and their silver spooned children.
Cha
(298,131 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)klook
(12,174 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)"A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke."
"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."
"Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.""
toddwv
(2,830 posts)And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)--ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.