Posted on 06/04/2012 5:32:11 PM PDT by presidio9
First lady Michelle Obama increasingly is being used by the campaign to boost the president’s support among African-American women, military families and gays.
Her campaign priorities are showcased in a June 3 post on the campaign website which features the first lady warning supporters about the steps needed to register, lauding gays, lesbians and military families.
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The first lady’s tone in the video is a sharp change from her widely panned remarks in 2008.
In Feb. 2008, she declared that “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,” and in March 2008 that the United States is “just downright mean.”
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She uses the next question to compliment the Obama campaign for picking high-achieving women, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The answer slides into a call for women to stay involved in politics, while showing African-American women visiting a neighborhood to solicit support for Obama.
The final question she addresses focuses on gay and lesbian voters, who are increasingly being wooed by the campaign since Obama’s May 9 personal endorsement of same-sex marriage.
The endorsement was viewed as politically risky because it clashes with the deeply-held views of many working-class whites and African-Americans, who see traditional marriage as a vital institution for child rearing.
Despite the president’s endorsement, gay marriage still faces steep political opposition, with even left-leaning California voting in 2008 to recognize only those marriages comprised of one man and one woman.
Michelle Obama doesn’t use her video to persuade swing-voters to support the decision, but simply declares that “discriminating against same-sex couple just isn’t right.”
“It’s as simple as that,” she declares.
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With the military families I know, it aint gonna happen.
With the military families I know, it aint gonna happen.
Ms. Obama went on to compliment the Obama administration for picking “high-achieving” women like Sandra Sotomayor as Supreme Court justice.
What exactly did Sotomayor achieve, other than being born Hispanic?
I sure hope the military families aren’t falling for this communist bull****.
I imagine the number of votes Obama might win from gay African-American women in military families must be vanishingly small, so I applaud the Obama campaign for pursuing out-of-the-box thinking with this strategy!
Yes, write off Catholics, Protestants, Jews, gun-and-Bible-clinging white-people-with-jobs, and veterans.
Are space aliens the next voting bloc they'll try for? There isn't much left.
The military families I know are not, however they are concerned over the up and coming fees on their Tri Care premiums, the ruling on combat pay, the ever increasing cost of living expenses... but Michelle knows nothing of this..
Wooing military families? Ha! Don’t make me laugh.
Her hairy eyeballs are creepy, but her eyebrows are in constant glower mode. It's as simple as that.
vaudine
0 is going after mid ranks to retire who are NOT career invested yet, instead of the 30-40 year career invested golf/partying higher ranks...they could move the mid's up and the lowers, get rid of the free loaders who are still fighting the Viet Nam war.
oh yeah I forgot that kind. The affirmative-action justice is just overflowing with talent.
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