Posted on 06/18/2008 5:23:04 AM PDT by Mr. K
Michelle Obama's eyes flicker tentatively even as she offers a trained smile. As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range in Montana, she is asked to consider her complicated public image.
Conservative columnists accuse her of being unpatriotic and say she simmers with undigested racial anger. A blogger who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton circulates unfounded claims that Obama gave an accusatory speech in her church about the sins of "whitey." Obama shakes her head.
"You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be," she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: "I mean, 'whitey'? That's something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn't know me. They don't know the life I've lived. They don't know anything about me."
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Her problems seemed hard to imagine last fall and winter. Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, appeared so at ease with the tactile business of campaigning and drew praise for humanizing, often with humor, a husband who could seem elusive.
Then came some rhetorical stumbles. In Madison, Wisconsin, in February, she told voters that hope was sweeping America, adding, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." Cable news programs replayed those 15 words in an endless loop of outrage.
[...] Fox News called her "Obama's baby mama," a derogatory term for an unwed mother. Christopher Hitchens, a Slate columnist, claimed — with scant evidence — that her college thesis proved she was once influenced by black separatism. National Review presented her as a scowling "Mrs. Grievance."
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Reference please?? who said that and when?
They ran a banner during a story that said that sometime last week....however...Michelle called him that when introducing him after he won his Senate seat.
Does this makeover happen before or after the phone book treatment for her attitude?
So Fox was just repeating what SHE said? And this article claims it was FOX news iteslef?
Does that mean I won’t get the feeling she want’s to eat me anymore?
take her out of that fuschia color.
The only way Obama wins if if they correct all the major problems that have been on display the past few months (crazy wife, marxist ideas, empty platitudes, and bad speaking off the teleprompter) - so that the masses do not get to see it first hand. Unfortunately, we right wingers may have exposed all their weakneesses too soon, if they are talented enough to correct them before the campaign really begins.
Of course, I don’t think they can keep these things under wraps for so long, and even if they do, we have lots of video and quotes to show the ‘real’ Obama.
No. What Fox did was stupid, I'm just saying that Ms. Obama has said something similar.
Christopher Hitchens, a Slate columnist, claimed — with scant evidence — that her college thesis proved she was once influenced by black separatism.So, direct quotes are now considered scant evidence???
At least IHT credits the phoney “whitey” video to a Hillary supporter, after Beckel and all major news networks falsely accused conservatives of being responsible for that.
Exactly. Direct quotes backed up by the company they proceeded to keep for the next 20 years.
But,I can still knock you out either hand!
Lovely, just lovely.
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