Observers say wife's ribbing humanizes Obama

[Ethelk2044]

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/29/michelle.obama.ap/


CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Michelle Obama has a few gripes about her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and she's not shy about sharing them with thousands of people she doesn't know.

He doesn't put his worn socks in with the dirty clothes. He's worse than a 5-year-old at making the bed. And after he eats, he doesn't put away the butter.

"Today, he still didn't put the butter up after he made his breakfast. I was like, 'You're just asking for it, you know I'm giving a speech. Why don't you just put the butter up?"' she told a roaring crowd at a recent Chicago fundraiser for women backing her husband's campaign.

It's the sort of intimate ribbing that makes a famous person seem more regular, and observers say it helps humanize the first-term senator from Illinois who has shot to political stardom.

[Raven]

1. I met her yesterday. She is more than impressive. She is very

human, intelligent, down to earth, someone you feel comfortable with. Having said that, she has a real presence...maybe more than hubby!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Am I supposed to believe...

they don't have staff do domestic work for them?

[youngdem]

4. I know.....Really annoying

This kind of manufactured bullshit annoys me.

I guess it is a necessary evil, in order to cater to the moron masses who pick candidates based on identifying with their skit.

I am sure they have domestic help.

Plus, a nagging wife and a guy who has to put up with it publicly doesn't communicate strength to some...they better be careful with the Honeymooner's Theatre.

[Colobo]

5. This is politics. All candidates are selling themselves to the masses

[beaconess]

14. Can you prove they have a maid who makes breakfast and cleans up after them

And that what Michele Obama said isn't true? If you can't, you really shouldn't accuse her of lying.

Jeez.

[Silence Dogood]

3. SNL here we come!!

Michelle is a sitcom riot.

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[foo_bar]

9. SNL? I thought they were channeling the Huxtables

I predict an adorable six year old appears on the campaign trail ex-nihilo with no back story, then gets a D on a report card, prompting a frank discussion about bourgeois class consciousness.

[WCGreen]

6. I'm sure they played it before a test group before allowing this

to get out...

Everything about them seems posed and processed to me...

[Colobo]

7. It is as manufactured as some candidates newfound populism

or as another candidate's aura of inevitability.

[WCGreen]

8. That's why I don't pay too much attention to what they do when they

are on TV...

What really bothers me about Obama is that he didn't have some of these major policies like, oh let's say Health Care, until he could afford to buy a program...

At least that's what it seems to me...

It wasn't until he started to raise money that he started to produce where it was he actually stood on issues...

That tells me that either he was always a work-in-process that is just now putting thought into what he would do if he were president or he needed the money to test out what sold in focus groups before he released his positions...

[Kingstree]

11. Obama's Policy

Barack Obama's positions of major issues has little to do with money. It has to do with thoughtful planning and process. Yes, money fuels so outreach to citizens to get opinions but his ideas on the major issues was already thought out years before the 1st quarter fund raising numbers.

If you listen to his speeches, he had been talking about his policies and vision for america, not giving sound bites for instant gratification. Yes, the money does allows him and his team to branch out and research viewpoints and opinions but his plans were already established. Money just fine tunes it. In order to turn this country around in a positive direction, detailed planning must be throughly thought out without a rush to decide and implement. You see what that type of leadership has gotten us time and time again. We need a cerebral president, not a cowboy.

[WCGreen]

19. So instantly you think if I disagree with the methodology of

BO I desire a cowboy candidate...

Yep, I would infer that as well, sure would....

And I have been listening to his speeches, a lot of platitudes and bromides with little in the way of specifics...

Just like all of the other candidates...

Except, of course, Al Gore....

Hope does springs eternal in Baseball as well as politics...

Was I ever so young...

[ripple]

12. Who, among the three top-tier candidates

has has the least amount of time to test-poll appearance and positions?

And who, among those *top* three candidates, has made the correct choice when it really mattered, and when it was highly unpopular to take such a stance?

[Silence Dogood]

13. Which one

is the money question?

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[illinoisprogressive]

10. Michelle is teasing like couples do. She is not the typical political wife.

The proper lady who gazes adoringly and mouths how big and strong the guy is.
Michelle is for real. and she is doing what most women get and the usual couple teasing.
And, it's Obama's campaign. You think he did not know and help plan this.

[venable]

15. is he a God? and she just shows us he's also a man?

there is a deification going on, subconsciously, that is not fair to Obama.

[Colobo]

16. The media has deified him.

[venable]

18. I agree, but I don't think it is fair to him, or even to the voters

not fair to him, because he is bound to come up short. let's just see who he is.

not fair to the voters for the same reason - it's harder to see who he is, really.

we need the filters taken off all of the candidates -

Edwards is not just a pretty boy

Hillary is not just the Inevitable, or the Machine

Kucinich is not flakey

Let's try to see who these people actually are, and what they have to say. Let's drop the narrative talking points and look with open eyes.

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

17. I wish we could stick to the issues

I'm a private citizen and I do my best. Wish the politicians did the same instead of trying to sell themselves like Marketing 101.

I expect more from Obama.

[Ethelk2044]

20. I want to Know the personal side of the Candidates

I want to know what I am getting. I do not need another ass hole in office like the one we have now. I don't want someone who will not embarrassed the office of President. Also, I do not want someone who is such an ass and thinks he is above the law. I want someone I can relate to. I want someone who can uplift the office of the Presidency.

Also, I want someone who relates to the middle class. The middle and low income people are hurting in America. We go to work each week to get enough money to sustain ourselves while insurance continues to go up (some can not even afford). Some struggle to put food on the tables. Violence in the inner cities needs to come to an end. Good Education needs to be available for all. College should be available for all. I want someone who cares enough to work on all of these issues. Me finding out about a person will allow me to have insight to know if that person even cares enough to address all of these issues. I want someone to fight drugs coming into the US. Someone who will work to unite. I want someone to get us out of Iraq. I am tired of all the fighting in politics. Basically, I want someone who will work for the people and not corporations. They are in the office for us and not corporations. Furthermore, we need someone to fight and keep American jobs here.

I do not want to hear talking points. I am sick of talking points. I want to know if you get in office what you will do to address these issues.

Therefore, I feel seeing the inside of the person to see if he/she actually cares about people will help me decide who if fit for office. It will help me to make a decision on who I will vote for. Because a person who does not cares, will not fix what is wrong in America.