Michelle Obama Slams Hillary Rodham-Rodham: ‘If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.’
Posted by wdporter on August 21, 2007
Michelle gets stronger all the time‘I don’t want my girls to live in a country based on fear’
August 21, 2007
Chicago Sun Times
Barack Obama often says that his wife, Michelle, is smarter than he is, stronger than he is, and gives better speeches than he does.
On a trip to Iowa last week, Michelle was a firebrand, expressing a determined passion for her husband’s campaign, talking straight from the heart with eloquence and intelligence.
She told an audience in Council Bluffs that Obama was cautioned not to enter the race for president because there was so much fear: “fear that he might lose; fear that he might get hurt; fear that this might get ugly; fear that this might hurt our family.”
But the family decided to say “yes” to the Democratic race partially to confront those fears, said Michelle. “I am tired of being afraid . . . I don’t want my girls to live in a country that is based on fear.”
Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha play a carnival game with his wife Michelle and thier other daughter Malia, right, at the Iowa State Fair. (AP)
At another stop, in Atlantic, Michelle said she travels with her husband in part “to model what it means to have family values,” adding “if you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.” She didn’t elaborate, but it could be interpreted as a swipe at the Clintons.
No longer is Michelle Obama’s rhetoric filled with funny asides about her husband’s penchant to drop his socks around the house or his disastrous attempts at housekeeping — she got criticized for that, unfortunately.
But as the campaign has moved along, her speeches have become stronger, funnier and more personable. She speaks with more emotion than her husband; you feel she is the power propelling him, that she has the psychological mettle, the tough skin, the searing ambition.
My colleague Mary Mitchell asked Michelle how she was able to “snag Barack.” But Obama knows he is the lucky one. At least he should know. Michelle is an incredible asset to his campaign.
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Barack Obama has spoken in many venues — high school gymnasiums, college basketball courts, union halls — but none has been as unusual as the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, where he talked to a group of Iowa Democrats last week.
The Surf Ballroom is the scene of the last concert played by rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson just hours before they were killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.
And it is a place frozen in time with wooden booths, a linoleum floor and murals of palm trees and beaches.
Obama didn’t mention the ’50s rockers in his speech, but earlier this summer former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee came here and made a video commemorating Holly, Valens and The Big Bopper. It can be seen on YouTube.
The Surf was a cultural draw for both adults and teens from the 1930s through the 1960s. There was a jukebox and a maple wood dance floor for teens who would flock there after high school to eat Surf burgers and drink Orange Crush. Entertainers such as Duke Ellington came to the Surf to play for the grown-ups.
The walls are filled with photos of Holly and include many of his gold albums.
The piano once used by Ellington has been preserved. The Pepsi machine used by Waylon Jennings (who played in Holly’s band and gave up his seat on the plane to the Big Bopper) remains in the kitchen. The phone Holly used to call his wife, Maria Elena, in New York is still there, and so are the sinks in the green room Holly used before making his appearance on stage.
“That’ll be the day” anything changes in this cultural mecca still cherished by Iowans and others who revere Buddy Holly.
Barack Obama often says that his wife, Michelle, is smarter than he is, stronger than he is, and gives better speeches than he does.
On a trip to Iowa last week, Michelle was a firebrand, expressing a determined passion for her husband’s campaign, talking straight from the heart with eloquence and intelligence.
She told an audience in Council Bluffs that Obama was cautioned not to enter the race for president because there was so much fear: “fear that he might lose; fear that he might get hurt; fear that this might get ugly; fear that this might hurt our family.”
But the family decided to say “yes” to the Democratic race partially to confront those fears, said Michelle. “I am tired of being afraid . . . I don’t want my girls to live in a country that is based on fear.”
Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha play a carnival game with his wife Michelle and thier other daughter Malia, right, at the Iowa State Fair. (AP)
At another stop, in Atlantic, Michelle said she travels with her husband in part “to model what it means to have family values,” adding “if you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.” She didn’t elaborate, but it could be interpreted as a swipe at the Clintons.
No longer is Michelle Obama’s rhetoric filled with funny asides about her husband’s penchant to drop his socks around the house or his disastrous attempts at housekeeping — she got criticized for that, unfortunately.
But as the campaign has moved along, her speeches have become stronger, funnier and more personable. She speaks with more emotion than her husband; you feel she is the power propelling him, that she has the psychological mettle, the tough skin, the searing ambition.
My colleague Mary Mitchell asked Michelle how she was able to “snag Barack.” But Obama knows he is the lucky one. At least he should know. Michelle is an incredible asset to his campaign.
• • • •
Barack Obama has spoken in many venues — high school gymnasiums, college basketball courts, union halls — but none has been as unusual as the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, where he talked to a group of Iowa Democrats last week.
The Surf Ballroom is the scene of the last concert played by rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson just hours before they were killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.
And it is a place frozen in time with wooden booths, a linoleum floor and murals of palm trees and beaches.
Obama didn’t mention the ’50s rockers in his speech, but earlier this summer former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee came here and made a video commemorating Holly, Valens and The Big Bopper. It can be seen on YouTube.
The Surf was a cultural draw for both adults and teens from the 1930s through the 1960s. There was a jukebox and a maple wood dance floor for teens who would flock there after high school to eat Surf burgers and drink Orange Crush. Entertainers such as Duke Ellington came to the Surf to play for the grown-ups.
The walls are filled with photos of Holly and include many of his gold albums.
The piano once used by Ellington has been preserved. The Pepsi machine used by Waylon Jennings (who played in Holly’s band and gave up his seat on the plane to the Big Bopper) remains in the kitchen. The phone Holly used to call his wife, Maria Elena, in New York is still there, and so are the sinks in the green room Holly used before making his appearance on stage.
“That’ll be the day” anything changes in this cultural mecca still cherished by Iowans and others who revere Buddy Holly.
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