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Michelle Obama: name Hussein is 'the fear bomb'
Chicago Tribune ^ | February 28, 2008 | Mark Silva

Posted on 02/29/2008 9:51:36 AM PST by kingattax

Michelle Obama, who often has decried "the fear bomb'' that opponents have used against her husband for his middle name -- Barack Hussein Obama -- said in Canton, Ohio, today that it is happening again and shows why it's so important that he wins election as president.

"They threw in the obvious, ultimate fear bomb," Obama said today of her husband's 2004 Senate race. "We're even hearing [that] now. … 'When all else fails, be afraid of his name, and what that could stand for, because it's different.'"

The senator's wife said that rivals use innuendo to play on fears. "Just as they're saying it now," she said.

But, she told about 200 supporters this morning at a restored theater in Canton, Obama won despite that "climate of negativity and doubt" in 2004. "We learned, number one, that when power is threatened by real change they will say anything to stop it," she said. "But we also learned that the American people can handle the truth."

What America needs, she added, is a "fundamentally different kind of leadership," one that challenges people to be different, and better to one another. And that, she said to critics who say it is not his time, cannot wait.

"Barack Obama will be the kind of leader we need right now, not in four years or eight years or 12 years," she said. "We can't wait to get this right. We need it to happen today."

(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: husseinobama; michelleobama; obama; theblackhillary
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To: kingattax

How about Obomination?


61 posted on 02/29/2008 10:20:50 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: I see my hands

Exactly. The Obamas are in a tizzy.

Why? Because a picture of him- in public- “leaked” to the press.

Why else? Because people are saying his middle name.

Sheesh! Does they have any skin at all?! Reminds me of the kids on vacation- “Dad! Sissy is looking out of MY window!!”

I’m ready for him to start squaking: “I’m rubber and you’re glue...”


62 posted on 02/29/2008 10:21:06 AM PST by getitright (Twenty is plenty. No more Clinton/Bush.)
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To: Miss Didi

Seems to me that she is an angry woman. Oprah needs to get her pal Dr Phil to talk with Mrs Obama or get her into charm school.


63 posted on 02/29/2008 10:21:44 AM PST by pandoraou812 (Out, damned spot......OUT)
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To: kingattax

McCain’s secret weapon in the presidentail campaign is Michelle Obama.


64 posted on 02/29/2008 10:22:21 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: tioga

She’s quickly turning into the Aunt Ester of the election cycle.


65 posted on 02/29/2008 10:22:35 AM PST by NeoCaveman (El Conservo Tribe, tribal name "Avoids Fort Marcy Park")
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To: evets

Doh! That’s what I was waiting for!! LOL!


66 posted on 02/29/2008 10:23:04 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: getitright

Let’s hope “Obama has COOTIES!” doesn’t become a campaign slogan.


67 posted on 02/29/2008 10:25:29 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: tcrlaf

If you like the idea of $4 gas, then vote for B.O. He will see to it that gas taxes will be doubled to discourage private consumption and private auto ownership. He will also see to it that there will be constant shortages so that gas prices will be hitting $6 to $8. He will also advocate the seizure of all gas and oil-related private businesses to control and minimize consumption. Don’t forget, HE IS A COMMUNIST.


68 posted on 02/29/2008 10:26:03 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: pandoraou812

Let her keep talking. ;)


69 posted on 02/29/2008 10:26:53 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: 6SJ7

Teresa Heinz Kerry sure was an asset for Johnny!


70 posted on 02/29/2008 10:26:57 AM PST by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: ducdriver
Then let’s just call him for what he really is
A racist,fascist POS
71 posted on 02/29/2008 10:28:46 AM PST by 1903A3
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To: kingattax

Quite the lineup of Potential first ladies we have here.
Michelle, Cindy and Bill.

I think i’m gonna go barf.


72 posted on 02/29/2008 10:31:34 AM PST by mowowie
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To: kingattax

Always happy to add fuel to the fire - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220207403338&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123


73 posted on 02/29/2008 10:32:02 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: LottieDah
It’s so easy for other people to make the rest of us suffer for their idyllic “principles”.

This country remaining NON-socialist/Marxist/Communist counts for more than *any other thing*, right now.

Giving our troops a -friendly- CIC is also paramount.

Yeah, yeah...so our ‘choice’ kinda sucks for a million reasons that I hope no one will bother to post *again*.

I will not “bide my time” in hopes of something better in 2012 because, frankly, I believe America will be irretrievably ruined by then.

I do believe, in my heart, that FReepers everywhere *will* do the right thing come election day, even if they -despise- doing it because they will put their country ahead of their contentions.

Life may be a smorgasbord of grotesque choices right now, but we still have to eat.

74 posted on 02/29/2008 10:32:44 AM PST by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: No Dems 2004

She reminds me a lot of Cynthia McKinney.


75 posted on 02/29/2008 10:32:49 AM PST by Brandie (Card carrying Dittohead El Conservo Tribal name American Warrior Dream Girl. Our Troops ROCK!)
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To: kingattax

Obama-Momma has spoken. She’ll be the new First Lady in the modern ‘black version of Camelot’—an angry black woman with an ‘attitude’!!


76 posted on 02/29/2008 10:34:21 AM PST by stockstrader
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To: ODDITHER

Hope Hannity latches on to that one.


77 posted on 02/29/2008 10:34:39 AM PST by SteelerAZ
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To: Salamander

I hope people do the right think and keep Clinton/Obama, Obama/Clinton out of the White House.


78 posted on 02/29/2008 10:35:02 AM PST by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: Zevonismymuse

No doubt: “Preach it, Mrs. Obama!!!!!!!!!”


79 posted on 02/29/2008 10:36:05 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberals: can't live with them, can't ship them to Canada.)
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To: kingattax

“We learned, number one, that when power is threatened by real change they will say anything to stop it,”

I don’t have any power Michelle, but I am afraid of my lifestyle (you know, the one that allows me to pursue liberty and happiness) being threatened by real SOCIALIST change.


80 posted on 02/29/2008 10:36:47 AM PST by Melinda
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