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To: Free ThinkerNY
the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be."

I suspect that this was just "code talk" to the radicals to let them know that the Obamas still support their cause and all this other "just a mom" stuff is for the benefit of the sheeple.

5 posted on 08/26/2008 10:15:53 AM PDT by oldbrowser (It's not an energy crisis, it's a worthless politicians crisis.)
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I have a feeling that you may be right, coded words or a "dog whistle", as the left likes to say. This is Steve Ralls on The Huffington Post.

It's interesting that none but the far left heard this in her speech.

Words matter, and Michelle Obama is a woman of powerful words.

Last night, in a passionate address to the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council, Mrs. Obama delivered a rousing call-to-equality and put her husband on record as a fighter for the full equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. "Barack believes," she said, "that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where we work together to reverse discriminatory laws."

Invoking "those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall," Michelle implored Democrats to continue those early crusaders' march "in the pursuit of a more perfect union."

And it was unions, no doubt, that were on the minds of the LGBT audience that Michelle was reaching out to. With marriages under way in California, and a national debate about marriage equality for all couples taking place in living rooms and legislatures from coast to coast, many in the gay community are looking and listening to see if Obama will stand up strongly for our families or allow the country to be divided and conquered over the issue once again.

The question, for many gay voters, boils down to whether the Obamas can change the tone of the conversation, within the country and the party, about what it means to be equal and free?

According to Michelle, yes, they can.

Within her remarks to the GLCC last night, Mrs. Obama shared an extraordinary insight i

16 posted on 08/26/2008 10:52:43 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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