Is Michelle Obama playing the race card? [View All]

[ruggerson]

FWIW, I think it's fine if she is. Just as I think Bill Clinton playing the gender card, if he did, is okay as well. Both Clinton and Obama want to win the nomination and appealing to natural constituencies, as long as it's done in a positive way (as opposed to the McClurkin fiasco), is all part of good campaigning.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/11/sweet_blog_special_black_ameri.html#more

With polls showing African-Americans have yet to give overwhelming support to White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), his wife Michelle said “black America will wake up and get it" in an interview running on MSNBC on Monday.

MSNBC is using excerpts of a Michelle Obama interview to run in full on Tuesday morning. In a clip that’s featured in the afternoon cycle, Michelle Obama invoked the name of civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. when talking about African-American turnout, a crucial voting bloc for the Illinois senator.

Michelle Obama said there was a "natural fear of possibility" and that there were times in her life when she was put down and not encouraged. There is "always that doubt in the minds of people of color."

She said the African-American community has to shake of its fear

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