Why do people target Michelle Obama?

[BuyingThyme]

I don't really care either way, but why do people seem to go so far off the beaten political path to try and hunt her down? It's pretty funny.

(This is not a proxy post.)

[scheming daemons]

1. D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N

...

[jasmine621]

34. Maybe like they go out of their way to target Bill Clinton? nt

[Arkansas Granny]

36. Or even Chelsea, for that matter.

[stellanoir]

2. envy

in short

[ecstatic]

3. Repugs cannot stand strong, outspoken women

who technically don't "need a man."

[BuyingThyme]

6. Yeah, but what about the Dems?

[Beausoir]

31. Nor can the majority of posters on DU. C'mon. Get real.

Obama's wife is in for the ride of her life.

Hillary Clinton played patty-cake compared to what Obama is in for at the hands of the Republicans.

It will be fascinating to watch.

[blogslut]

4. She can take it

:)

[closeupready]

38. Oh, yeah. She's tough. Sort of like Teresa Heinz-Kerry.

I love strong women. :)

[Pirate Smile]

5. Doing to her what they did to Hillary in 1992,

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Every opening is attacked without hesitation.

[housewolf]

8. Because politics is a dirty business

and everyone with any sort of relationship to a candidate is vulnerable to attack.

Sad state of affairs.

[RememberWellstone]

9. Americans who are proud

Of their country..regardless of what happens or not. We are proud we live in a free society, we are proud that we have won the Senate and House, we are proud that we have the greatest economy in the world, we are proud that when terrorist attacked we came together, we are proud that stood against the Bush regime for the last 8 years and are turning this country around, we are proud that we can still vote for whoever the hell we want to. We, in a word did'nt have to an election that made us proud for the very first time in our adult lives.

[LisaL]

10. WTF do you want?

It's politics.

[BuyingThyme]

12. Yeah, but it's so poorly played.

[MassLiberal]

11. because she is a bright, articulate woman

who isn't afraid to express her opinion! What else is new?

[Diane R]

13. She is quite lovely. She's a very effective campaigner, so the Clintonistas need to destroy her.

[BuyingThyme]

14. Woman haters, obviously.

[JoFerret]

16. Just wait till the republicans warm up

Clinton did nothing.

[leftynyc]

47. That's a lovely freeper term you

throw around here. Nice company you keep.

[Horse with no Name]

15. Same reason they go after Bill, same reason they went after Elizabeth,

same way they asked Elizabeth Kucinich about her belly ring...
Poor Michelle isn't individually targeted.

[elixir]

Do you mean like the attacks on Chelsea, bill, Hillary's campaignmanager, etc. Yeh, why?

She made a stupid comment and will eventually reconcile the public w/it. They're all making stupid moves, it's how they reconcil the moves w/ the public that makes or breaks them.

[samdogmom]

17. In contrast..who has asked ANYTHING of Cindy McCain???

Mrs. McCain doesn't campaign--except to smile dully behind her husband. If she has a brain, a thought, anything going on upstairs WE DON'T KNOW. And, since she hasn't gone off on her own--as far as I know--she's not a press target. But Michelle, Chelsea, and any other surrogates are going to get scrutiny. It's fair and deserved. What can I say?

[BuyingThyme]

18. I think they hide the knives when that Cindy McCrazy comes around.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. LOL!

:thumbsup:


good idea.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. I don't think people are going after her.

She's said two newsworthy things - things someone with more experience wouldn't say.

The first was that she'd have to think about whether or not to support Clinton, and the second was that she was never, in her adult life, proud of her country. Both came out wrong, and I don't think she meant them the way people are using them against her, but nonetheless, those are the kinds of things one shouldn't say on the campaign trail.

She's not been targeted too bad yet. Just wait.

[caligirl]

20. Obama or a surrogate ought to fire back its not nice for the old white male party to jump

on a woman, are they asking her to move to the back of the bus AGAIN!

[BuyingThyme]

22. But there's nothing worth responding to.

It's like they're throwing grains of salt at the Statue of Liberty.

[caligirl]

24. A way with words. great line there. Throwing salt at the Statue of Liberty.

[McCamy Taylor]

21. I think it really was race this time.

Obama is racially neutral, since he is clearly half White and half Black. Michelle is not.

I am betting that we see the Republicans spend a lot of time contrasting blond Cindi McCain with Black Michelle Obama.

I think Cindi looks like a rich bitch nightmare, but to some Republicans she looks like the model First Lady.

I am betting that the GOP will have cameras on Michelle 24/7 watching for a Cynthia McKinney "crazy Black woman with wild hair and a cell phone" moment. They will probably try to provoke her with hecklers, dirty tricks, smears. Anything to get her angry.

[ecstatic]

26. hmm... you may have a point there... She will have to watch her

hairstyles too. Unfortunately.

[Iceburg]

37. So you too remember the Repug's hillaryshair.com when she was first lady/nt

[dchill]

28. For Republics...

rich bitch nightmare = the model First Lady.

[VolcanoJen]

23. Bring It!

I have a feeling Michelle will have an eloquent, ass-kicking response to Pat Buchanan's faux outrage quite soon. :-)

[SKKY]

25. Keep flinging shit until it sticks somewhere...

...anywhere. At this point, they'd probably attack their kids if there was something to gain from it.

[BattyDem]

29. She's an outspoken, African-American woman.

The only way the Repukes could possibly hate her more is if she were a lesbian. They are very threatened by her.

However, I happen to love her! GoMamaBama! :D

[caligirl]

30. Hillary survived the Tammy Wynette moment, and the baking cookies moment. this will pass too.

But I hope the BO people can turn it on Cindi.

[McCamy Taylor]

32. I think Cindi will be one of McCain's weak links. She does not look very nice at all.

And the story about starting a charity to take drugs from the kiddies? That is worse that Guiliani's wife. Whatever happened to Republican family values? It is a good thing that two women can not breed or they would give fertility pills to Cindi and Katherine Harris and create the uUber-Republican Mega Death Queen from Hell, who looks something like this



Cindi when they told her they were cutting off her source. Now that is a bad hair day.

[caligirl]

33. ah yes, I just read about her drug use/theft at dailykos here you go>

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/20/64612/4690/438/460265


John McCain follows the usual "family values" profile of Republican social climbers. He divorced first wife Carol in April 1980 and married Cindy one month later. Infidelity? Hell no!... they were just "friends."

Cindy who is 18 years younger than Gramps McCain and she paid for McCain's first campaign for Congress in 1982 with loans from her well endowed trust fund. Her father's business and political contacts helped gain her husband a foothold into Arizona politics.

Cindy's biggest claim to fame is in 1989 she developed an addiction to perocet and vicodin, two powerful morphine based pain killers. In 1993 she was caught stealing percocet from supply of the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charity she founded to provide health care and medications to war victims in underdeveloped nations. The DEA was investigated her and with the intervention of her well connected parents and McCain himself, Cindy got off the hook with the usual 90 day trip to the posh rehab. The American Voluntary Medical Team folded shortly after it ceased to be a supply point for Cindy's opiate habit.

The DEA agreed to keep Cindy's little misadventure in Lala Land from the public, but then Cindy went and terminated the guy who reported her to the DEA and the details of Cindy's sordid past as a suburban trophy wife junkie all came out when the fired guy filed a wrongful termination suit against Cindy.

A few weeks after Cindy came clean about her addiction the Variety Club cancelled her Humanitarian of the Year Award. Boo hoo!... Another respectable Republican mother of the Harper Valley PTA goes down. This is just a little Peyton Place of Republican family values and Cindy's a Harper Valley hypocrite.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. Because they haven't got a valid argument against Obama.

[BuyingThyme]

39. Maybe, but the arguments made against her are even less valid,

no?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. Of course.

But it doesn't matter if the arguments are valid. Just look at the Swiftboating of Kerry.

[BuyingThyme]

43. At least he was running for something.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

44. Nothing's sticking to him.

So you throw shit and see where it sticks.

Not that I'm endorsing it.

[judaspriestess]

40. "woman haters"???

wtf??? I mean really what the fuck???

people hate Michelle Obama cause she's a woman? but its OK to hate Hillary Clinton, a strong woman also, becuase she's some sort of animal and not a woman??

what is wrong with some of you and your hypocrisy. good god almighty

on edit: typo

[ShortnFiery]

45. Hillary Clinton is part of her husband's beloved conservative DLC and all the strong arming &

underhanded power mongering dirty tricks that go with that.

Think Clintonian DLC = RNC + Bushite lite.

Mark Penn = KKKarl Rove

It's not HRC's gender, but her demonstrated lack of good will, fair play and integrity. :shrug:

[Guava Jelly]

42. Because they 've got nothing else to bitch about

.

[Fleshdancer]

46. I think that by going after someone's spouse and/or children....

the hope is that the candidate will react on an emotional level and be thrown off of his/her game so to speak. It's a below the belt and desperate attempt to bait someone into saying something that could be used against them later on.

[Beausoir]

48. What a laugher.

It hasn't even started. You better get a tougher hide.

The Obama people savaged Chelsea Clinton and Elizabeth Edwards something fierce here at DU over the past weeks.

Michelle Obama is fair game.

[boston bean]

49. MISOGYNY. SHE IS A STRONG WOMAN. nt

[snooper2]

50. You would think her and Hillary would be friends in a different life..

nt

[Maddy McCall]

51. If she's going to be out there on the campaign trail speaking for her husband...

she's a fair target.

[Malikshah]

52. As the spouse of a Presidential candidate who has been quoted

She is fair game as is Bill

She is in no way off the beaten path.

I have a hard time believing the innocence of this question.

Stop with the innocence (not a proxy post) bit.

It embarrasses everyone's intelligence.