After Attacks, Michelle Obama Looks for a New Introduction

[JimGinPA]

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 Mrs. Obama gave an accusatory speech in her church about the sins of “whitey.” Mrs. 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.”

Now her husband’s presidential campaign is giving her image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots and a tough new chief of staff. On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama will do a guest turn on “The View,” the daytime talk show on ABC, with an eye toward softening her reputation.


More at link (long article)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/us/politics/18michelle.html?hp

edit: the NY Times changed the title & added picture

[polichick]

1. Lol - George Jefferson!

[JimGinPA]

3. Yeah, That's A Funny Line nt

[RazBerryBeret]

2. I never understood why she would be accused of

saying "whitey" -- her in-laws are white.
her hubby is half-white, it just wouldn't make sense.

[ErinBerin84]

4. heh, her reactions like ours is "Who even SAYS that these days?" to the whitey smear

I just read that Elizabeth Hasslebeck (the Republican troll on The View) is going on Hannity tomorrow to "discuss Michelle Obama's appearance on The View." Probably because she is banned from saying vile things to her face tomorrow, so she will need to unleash tomorrow night. I wish that I didn't have to work tomorrow, I'm looking forward to seeing Michelle Obama on The View.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I wonder if they really stated she couldn't say vile things?

I think she created that excuse so she could save whatever face she has. In her mind she might think that Michelle would kick her ass for real and it would scar her pretty face.

Then again maybe they did because she isn't smart enough to come up with that excuse???

[Cha]

6. Obama and Michelle will make more

Lemonade out of this smear attempt by the rwfascist crowd.

They're desperately looking for something to bring them down but all it will do is highlight their heinous attempts.