Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

How Michelle Obama has become Hillary Clinton's 'tremendously effective' surrogate
CBC News Website ^ | Oct 16, 2016 5:00 AM ET| | By Mark Gollom

Posted on 10/16/2016 5:58:12 AM PDT by jerod

Michelle Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly don't have the most congenial relationship, owing to tensions that can be traced back to the bitter 2008 primary campaign.

But now, eight years later, as Clinton makes her run for the White House, the president's wife may be Clinton's most effective political advocate.

"I think she's a tremendous asset," said Myra Gutin, a communications professor at Rider University and author of The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century. "She is just a tremendously effective surrogate. Michelle Obama is able to talk to people in a way in which Hillary Clinton can't."

Obama attracted much attention this week with her powerful speech in New Hampshire, where she made a passionate endorsement for Clinton while denouncing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "shocking and demeaning" comments about women....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-22 last
To: jerod

I believe the Mooch about as much as I believe Her Heinous. Zero.


21 posted on 10/16/2016 8:41:33 AM PDT by Boomer (Is it time for a new "Freedom Party" to emerge to replace the GOPe and the radical dems?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Boomer

Why haven’t both of these criminal couples been arrested and exiled?


22 posted on 10/16/2016 12:55:14 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-22 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson