Louis Farrakhan’s Newspaper Rescues Fair Damsel Michelle Obama
Right wing attacks on Michelle Obama hit new low
By Ashahed M. Muhammad
Assistant Editor
Updated Jun 19, 2008, 07:26 pm
The wives of U.S. presidents are referred to as First Ladies and historically even the wives of candidates running for the nation’s highest office are afforded a certain level of respect. This, however, has not been the case with Michelle Obama who has been insulted and maligned at every turn by right wing conservative radio and television talk show hosts.
Despite the vicious and seemingly ubiquitous critical comments, the 44-year-old Princeton University and Harvard Law School educated executive has carried herself with dignity and class throughout the entire campaign gaining the admiration of many.
Others reject the characterization of Michelle Obama as bitter, describing her as an asset for Sen. Obama and his presidential campaign. They say Sen. Obama and his wife have been examples of grace, dignity and class under difficult circumstances.
Michelle Obama’s having said in Milwaukee that she had never in her adult life felt proud of her country until the day that her husband won a major victory. The snippet was repeated endlessly, but that is not exactly what she said.
There is nothing bitter about her, but there is a lot of honesty about her and I appreciate her for being the woman that she is, said Dr. Wynetta Frazier, president of the National Hook Up of Black Women, Inc. She is in touch with the people and to say something negative about her is an affront to Black women period.
Just after crossing the delegate threshold June 3 to lay claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Sen. Obama said, What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge but enemies to demonize.
Sen. Obama’s opponents, however, have repeatedly failed to live up to those lofty ethical standards.
Comment by Dian on 27 August 2008:
I think we all are grown up enough to know what Michele said. That being it was the first time in her adult life that she was proud of her country. She said exactly what she meant to say , period.
I believe the only reason she was proud at that particular point in time (in all her adult lifetime) ,is very simple: Her husband was running for president. The highest office in the United States Of America! Up until then, he was just an ordinary black man who she thought would never get any higher up the ladder then where he was. So , what she didn’t say and she should have said was ” I am so surprised that my husband being a black man is finally able to run as the president after all these years of just white people having the lead…so I have never been so proud in my adult lifetime as I am now.
( smiling )