And it is all about how evil the conservatives are for calling her out: NY Times – Michelle Obama Looks for a New Introduction
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.
Amazing that they even mention that last part. Would have been nice if they had mentioned specifically that it was Larry johnson, who is a liberal.
“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.
You can put a dress on a pig and teach it to sing, but, it’s still a pig. (And no, I’m not calling Michelle Obama a pig. It’s a saying.) Michelle can play at being this nice lady who has always loved her country, has always been proud, is not an elitist, etc and so on, but, her earlier words will not go away. Fake is still fake.
The best thing for the Obama camp to do is to keep her from the microphone, keep her from the press. Which won’t happen, particularly since she has already been front and center, and people do consider the spouse when making a choice for President.
Most of the rest of the story is fluff, trying to paint her as something she has shown she is not. I will agree with her on this quote, though
“I hate diversity workshops,” she says. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.”
Yes, it does. Unfortunately, the Left does not like when someone says something non-PC that makes people uncomfortable.
Time will tell if the “new” Michelle succeeds or says more really stupid stuff, because people will be waiting.
attacking a candidates wife is really a sign of desperation
I guess that would explain all the attacks on Cindy McCain from the left.