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In reply to the discussion: “She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.” [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Of course, the behavior of Ms. Sturtz is up for scrutiny here
She was the one who started it by interrupting the First Lady in mid-sentence with loud-mouthed slogans of an off-topic nature.
Had Mrs. Obama gotten the chance to address Ms. Sturtz's off-topic concerns between, you know
Ms. Sturtz's loud mouthed sloganeering, do you think that Ms. Sturtz would have taken the opportunity to accept the response by the First Lady, as you've suggested, and just shut the fuck up for a second?
I really doubt that such a thought would have occurred to Ms. Sturtz, as she was in the midst of making a spectacle of herself in a crowded room. Great way to garner free publicity for one's previously little known organization, is it not?
Do you really think that that was good way to for Sturtz to state her case? I don't. That's a pretty piss-poor way for Sturtz to show respect for her own concerns, isn't that freakingly obvious here?
Mrs. Obama went down there to where Ms. Sturtz was loudly sloganeering and told the lady that she could have the floor. Ms. Sturtz was then disturbed by the fact that the First Lady of the United States (That's who we're talking about here), turned the tables on her ass with a supportive crowd backing her up.
Well, boo-fucking hoo. Sorry, Ms. Sturtz, but you are WAY out of your league here.
And, yes If Ms. Sturtz had taken the mic from the First Lady as offered (I really do think that she would have handed it her, she said as much), then Ms. Sturtz would have had to contend with a crowd that wasn't there to listen her loud-mouthed sloganeering in the first place.
It's nice to know that you believe that everything else that the Obama White House and the First Lady has to deal with in this world at any particular time actually has to take a backseat to your own interests I figure that's just your way of informing me that you don't believe that they're capable of handling more than one thing at a time.
But it's a well worn axiom that opinions are just like assholes, everyone has one I just think that yours sucks in this particular case.
But it's pretty clear to me that Ellen Sturtz wasn't doing anyone any favors by being an interrupting jerk about it.
Michelle Obama and the crowd that she was addressing made it perfectly clear that it was not the time nor the place for Ms. Sturtz to act foolish. And if you think that taking the moment out to coddle Ms. Sturtz and her loud-mouthed slogans would have been such a great move, then it's really hard for me to understand why that such a reply could have helped the needs of LGBT rights in the long run.
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