That article was from 5/24/2009
It takes Michelle Obama's campaign comment out of context.
Have you ever spoken to audiences and sometimes said a word or two out of the order you meant to say? Have you ever written something that you then edited before you printed it? Have you ever prepared a post for SI that posted differently than you meant and then used the edit window to change it?
Michelle Obama said, as I recall seeing the video in 2008, "really proud" and by omitting the word "really" joanie in her blog post at
allegianceanddutybetrayed.blogspot.com 
distorted what she said. For a wife to campaign for her husband for the Presidency, around the country, and see the crowd reactions, and the campaign funds flowing in, sufficient to outspend Hillary Clinton and run a professional campaign, and to knock out John Edwards <g> and all other opponents, to witness him winning most primaries, and to know he was accumulating enough delegates to likely get the nomination, she would be brain dead not to understand the wife being even prouder than she had been of this country. That's what she had said, that her pride reached a higher level, and she described it as being "really proud". Had she chosen words "even prouder" it might have been clearer but that would have been awkward to say. Michelle Obama was a pretty good public speaker in February- March 2008 when she spoke those words, and she's an even better speaker now. |
