Michelle Obama to contrast her family life with the Clintons' marriage?

[Karmadillo]

I hope this isn't true. The candidates need to debate the issues, not RNC talking points.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/barackobama/story/0,,2190230,00.html

Ms Obama heads for London to raise funds
Wife hopes to reinvigorate campaign that candidate admits has lost steam

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday October 13, 2007

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With the stakes so high in the three months before the first primary votes are cast, Ms Obama is unlikely to fall back on her comedic routines of this summer. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Ms Obama, 43 and an executive at the University of Chicago hospitals before she gave up her job earlier this year, would chide her husband for failing to pick up his dirty socks or put the butter back into the refrigerator.

But the time for jokes about Mr Obama's domestic foibles is long past, his campaign admits. It also acknowledges that Ms Obama's grousing about her husband may have backfired, amplifying doubts that he has the experience or gravitas to lead the free world.

Ms Obama's mission now is to make her husband appear presidential. "She will be talking about her husband as the person who knows him best, from her personal perspective, on his judgment, his experience, and his strength as a leader. After all, she has known him for 20 years, and she is going to talk about that consistency," her spokeswoman, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, said.

She will also talk about the Obamas' life at home with their two young daughters, fleshing out her husband's political resume and drawing a sharp contrast with Ms Clinton's famously troubled marriage.

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[geek tragedy]

1. That's the media spin.

She's talking about her own family, so that must mean she's really putting down Hillary Clinton. :sarcasm:

I suggest we wait until she actually says something outrageous before ginning up the outrage machine.

[goclark]

3. I agree with you ~ sounds like a talking point to me nt

[sampsonblk]

2. I sure hope this isn't true

[illinoisprogressive]

4. I wouldn't put much stock into this until you know what she really says.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Thur thick and thin the Clintons have been together for 32 years

The have raised an outstanding daughter. Who has never caused a controversy and is self supporting. They worked out their marriage differences.

WHAT IN THE HELL DOES MICHELLE OBAMA HAVE TO COMPARE HER AND HER HUSBANDS MARRIAGE TO THE CLINTONS.

Do the Obama's have a lot of discord that we haven't hear about. Has Obama been unfaithful. Has she ran for a Senate seat and is SHE and not her husband running for the presidency. DAMN TALK ABOUT WAY OUT THERE.

[ariesgem]

6. I don't see anything in the OP that QUOTED Michelle Obama

saying "I am going to compare my marriage to the Clintons". What the hell are you talking about?

[BenDavid]

7. So, I am too assume that Ms Obama will be

given a free ride on anything negatives about the Clinton's marriage? Hell the MSM may give her a pass but i doubt serious that if anything is said in poor taste she will get a stern warning not to go negative and if said person does it again then be prepared folks because the hammer will fall hard and quick.......

Ben David

[unc70]

8. Actually an attack on Edwards.

In her stump speech she first talks about sharing family values, the values of the people she is speaking to. And what is her example? Her limiting her campaigning so that she can tuck her children into their own beds. (As opposed to dragging them along on the campaign and keeping them out of school. And who might be doing that?)