Posted on 07/17/2008 7:58:53 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
Obama: Right Wing to Blame for Wife's Negs
Amanda Carpenter
In October’s installation of Glamour Magazine, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama blames conservative-leaning media outlets for driving up his wife’s negative ratings.
“What happened was that the conservative press — Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every ilk — went fairly deliberately at her in a pretty systematic way,” Obama told Glamour’s editor-in-chief Cindi Leive. The women’s magazine published excerpts of the Obama interview on their political blog Glamocracy on Thursday morning. [Full disclosure, I blog there every Tuesday]
“It took a toll,” Obama said. “If you start being subjected to rants by Sean Hannity and the like, day in day out, that'll drive up your negatives.”
A joint poll conducted by the Associated Press and Yahoo released July 2 found 35 percent of voters had an unfavorable impression of Mrs. Obama. 30 percent viewed her favorably.
Michelle Obama made headlines earlier this year for saying her husband’s candidacy made her proud of her country for “the first time in my life” and encouraging women to “move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry” in Zanesville, Ohio — one of the poorest areas of the nation. Her thesis on race relations, which she wrote as a student at Princeton University, is also considered controversial by some outlets.
News outlets across the political spectrum have covered these stories.
Leive asked Obama if he believed his GOP presidential rival John McCain “had a hand in the attacks on Michelle.” Obama said, “I wouldn’t say the McCain campaign itself” and then posited the “vast-right wing conspiracy” theory coined by his former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. “I would say that the apparatus of conservative columnists, blogs and the like. Talk shows, talk radio? When you see in the span of two or three or four weeks essentially the same talking points being used on a whole variety of shows or a whole variety of columns, over and over again....Hillary Clinton was subject to this, others have been subject to this in the past.”
Obama also singled out blogs and email because “the internet allows rumors, myths, attacks to get out there very quickly to a lot of people.”
Michelle’s NAGS?
“When you see in the span of two or three or four weeks essentially the same talking points being used on a whole variety of shows or a whole variety of columns, over and over again...”
If there’s one thing dems know, it’s talking points.
First Amendment is a bitch ain’t it?
Hasn’t Mr. Obama heard about it? Life isn’t fair. You can ask Jimmy Carter about that if you want.
Boy, if Mr. O continues to whine about all of this criticism he’s encountering(gee, he’s only running for POTUS), he will be a mental case in the Oval Office. He will be so pre-occupied with his image(and his wife’s) that he will not be able to concentrate on anything else.
There must be many Democrats cringing whenever this man speaks.
What’s this big baby crying about now??? sheesh!!!
I thought is was Bichelle’s negatives that drove the rants by the VRWC. But if Barry says it is the other way around, I must be wrong.
Gee, sorry to have put words right in her mouth. I know she wasn’t responsible for what she said. No Dem is.
toooo bad, so sad. (snicker)
“It appears that both Obama’s as thin skinned”
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Well all I can say is I have never” been proud “of Obuma or his radical, pampered, ivy league, over paid, socialist, racist wife or the liberals who made it all possible.
OOPs, ignore above it was taken out of context I ment to say.. I was proud of her racist, radical, over paid ways...LOL
“Barack Obama blames conservative-leaning media outlets for driving up his wife’s negative ratings.” thit is the mose idiotic statement I have ever seen. Of COURSE the right does not like her. Or her mouth. What an IDIOT!
Apparently the New Yorker mag is in on it. LOL!
This guy is sick in the head.
“It took a toll,” Obama said. “If you start being subjected to rants by Sean Hannity and the like, day in day out, that’ll drive up your negatives.”
I tend to give more credit to the American public to form opinions based on Michelle’s own words, but this she music to Hannity’s ears.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, give Hannity a simple thought “Drill Here Drill Now” “clinging to their guns and religion” “I’m proud of my country for the first time” etc and he’s great at hamming that point over and over like a broken record — good job Sean.
What a whiner. His wife IS a bitter, rancorous woman - I’m not surprised her approval numbers are so low.
UGGGGHHHH!!! I can’t even listen to this guy in PRINT form!
Perhaps he is also upset about all of the mainstream media declaring him the messiah?...creating his candidacy and defeating Hitlery?
I’m sure that is equally as upsetting.
Thanks for the laugh.
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