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Warning to Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”

Obama’s way of negotiating with Tennesseans |



With a chuckling Michelle at his side, Democrat presidential front-runner Barack Obama, came on as Mr. Tough Guy with a warning to Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”

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That’s how America’s first couple came off in an interview aired this morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in reference to an online video last week by the state’s GOP taking Mrs. Messiah to task for a comment some had the audacity to consider unpatriotic. Well, it’s a new world in which Hope dominates and the word “unpatriotic” doesn’t exist anymore. In his head, Obama is already the prez. Never mind that thing called Election Day come November. The fix is already in. Afterall, didn’t everybody check in on the Drudge report this weekend and see the throngs who turned out to see him “as far as the camera's eye could see”? But there’s a little problem coming Obama’s way. It’s called Talk Radio, and for certain “Good Morning America” will be “Good Afternoon Reality” when Rush Limbaugh kicks in at noon. In slaying all the dragons including the Clintonistas, Obama is counting on clear sailing on the good ship, “The Messiah and Michelle”. But there is one problem still to lick and that’s called the “Election Campaign”. Long before the kid out of Chicago was catapulted to fame, opponents were trashing each other on online video “advertisements”. The four-minute video that’s getting under Obama’s skin, replayed Michelle’s words: “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country” six times. Michelle’s words were interspersed with commentary by average Tennesseans on why they are proud of America. They all made it perfectly clear in their unbridled pride of America that they didn’t have to wait until they had a spouse make a run at the White House to discover their pride in being American. Tennessee GOP urged radio stations to play “patriotic music” during Michelle Obama’s visit to Nashville last Thursday. The nerve of them! Back when Michelle made her gaffe, she later tried to clarify her remark, saying she meant she was proud of how Americans were engaging in the political process and that she had always been proud of her country. Well, “engaging in the political process” is precisely what Tennessee GOP was doing. “Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign they want to run, and I think that’s true for everybody, Democrat or Republican,” Obama said in the ABC interview, adding, “These folks should lay off my wife.” Obama’s approach to electioneering has a track record of him being thin skinned. Last December it was putting the New York Time’s Maureen Dowd on notice that his stand-out ears had been picked on when he was a kid. Nor does Obama like references to his second name, Hussein. Now he doesn’t like Tennessee Republicans capitalizing on his wife’s remarks about being proud of America for the first time in her adult life. In the campaign leading up to the presidential election, Obama has been trying to swim the stream with his silk socks still on. With or without the Clintons, campaigns are rough stuff. More seasoned opponents would say, “It’s the nature of the beast”. The retort from a long ago failed politician seems to fit Obama best: “Out on the hustings, my opponent told incessant lies about me. I would have lied about him too, but I thought the truth was damaging enough.”


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