{"id":84833,"date":"2017-09-28T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84833"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:10:33","slug":"84833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84833","title":{"rendered":"CRAZYMAKER: Can you believe that Michele Obama even said this?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Heslam: Michelle Obama hammers women voting for Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Jessica Heslam<br \/>\nBoston Herald<\/p>\n<p>Former first lady Michelle Obama had been pretty quiet about last year\u2019s election until yesterday, when she dropped a bombshell in Boston, lambasting women who voted for Donald Trump as gender traitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,\u201d Obama said as the crowd erupted into applause at the Boston Convention &amp; Exhibition Center. \u201cEverybody\u2019s trying to wonder, \u2018Well, what does this mean for Hillary?\u2019 No, no, no. What does it mean for us as women?<\/p>\n<aside id=\"related-content\">\n<div class=\"related-articles container three-column\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThat we look at those two candidates, as women, and many of us said, \u2018That guy \u2014 he\u2019s better for me. His voice is more true to me.\u2019 Well, to me that just says you don\u2019t like your voice. You like the thing that you\u2019re told to like,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was the headlining speaker at INBOUND, a marketing conference that drew people from around the world, and she fielded questions by writer Roxane Gay spanning her move into and out of the White House, her two daughters, the book she\u2019s working on \u2014 and of course, Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd adored her.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband, former President Barack Obama, are writing books \u2014 and working on hers has been like therapy, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is all about voice. It\u2019s all about us believing in our authentic self,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, she spoke directly to women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you have sat, women who have sat in a classroom, or in a boardroom or around a conference table and watched a man go on and on and on and on and on, maybe saying something, but a lot of times saying not a lot, but taking up a whole lot of space,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been socialized to sort of sit there and be quiet. We can\u2019t afford to just sit by and let other people run roughshod because we are living that reality right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>During the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama was a scathing critic of Trump in the wake of the release of a 2005 video that caught Trump bragging about assaulting women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our hearts we all know that if we let Hillary\u2019s opponent win this election, then we are sending a clear message to our kids that everything they\u2019re seeing and hearing is perfectly OK,\u201d she told a New Hampshire campaign crowd weeks before the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re telling our sons that it\u2019s okay to humiliate women. We\u2019re telling our daughters that this is how they deserve to be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama insisted she and her husband \u201cwant the sitting president to be successful\u201d and they have to \u201cbalance\u201d how they respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just be the talking head,\u201d she said. \u201cBarack is not going to turn into what this president was \u2014 just somebody tweeting in the wind and stirring up a mess without really knowing what they were talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on her husband\u2019s eight-year tenure in the White House, she added, \u201cThe bar was always high and with every success the bar just got higher. I\u2019m looking at low bars these days and it\u2019s amazing how low these bars have gotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/columnists\/jessica_heslam\/2017\/09\/heslam_michelle_obama_hammers_women_voting_for_trump\">http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/columnists\/jessica_heslam\/2017\/09\/heslam_michelle<br \/>\n_obama_hammers_women_voting_for_trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heslam: Michelle Obama hammers women voting for Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}