according to cnn: Michelle Obama faces tricky path

[spanone]

First ladies have come under fire for everything from their words to their choice of clothes and china. But Michelle Obama's role as the nation's first black first lady adds a racial layer to the microscopic scrutiny. FULL STORY


(CNN) -- To some she is a self-made woman and a global superstar.

To critics she's an "angry black woman" ashamed of her country.

Now she's been called a modern-day Marie Antoinette.

What role will history ultimately assign to Michelle Obama? It depends on the choices she makes during the tricky road ahead, some say.

The nation's first lady was recently criticized for being insensitive when she took a luxury trip to Spain with the economy still recovering from a brutal recession. During her husband's campaign, she was depicted as an Afro-sporting terrorist on a magazine cover and called a bitter, unpatriotic woman for saying she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.

First ladies have come under fire for everything from their words to their choice of clothes and china. But Obama's role as the nation's first African-American first lady adds a racial layer to the microscopic scrutiny her predecessors endured.

Some of the criticism may be driven by partisan politics. But others say the attacks are rooted in white resentment of the "uppity Negro." They say there is no precedent for a Michelle Obama: a wealthy, independent black woman representing America who is not an entertainer.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/13/michelle.obama/index.html?hpt=C1

[asjr]

1. I would like to see CNN eaten up with

the bedbug cooties!

[foxfeet]

2. Partisan politics and viewing her as "uppity" are not mutually exclusive.

And she is much more accomplished than that dessicated mummy Nancy Reagan, looped on tanis root, whispering, "Just say no" in her dry, dusty voice.

[Cleita]

3. On the news last night they said she has a

fifty percent approval rating which is higher than her husband's forty six percent rating. So it seems CNN is trying to stir up some shit where there isn't any. Just MHO.

[Orsino]

4. They forgot her worst enemies...

...the cable news hacks determined to raise "troubling questions" without the barest hint of analysis.

[eleny]

5. "some say"

[spanone]

6. don't you love that source....cheap ass journalism

[eleny]

8. It's typical to hear it on CNN and also from Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC

[annabanana]

7. For those people.. ANY Black woman who isn't smiling at them is

"an angry black woman" .. who therefor has no relevance.

[spanone]

9. headline should read...Michelle Obama faces tricky path because she's black.

[malaise]

10. According to malaise: CNN speaks for corporate hacks

Fuck them!!

[spanone]

11. i'm with you 100% but i can't help exposing them further...

all of them....

[malaise]

12. I'm with you too bro

:hi:

[Politicalboi]

13. Yes she took a luxury trip to Spain

While the economy is in the tank. Shame on her. LOL! I bet Laura never took any luxury trips while numb nuts was in office. Oh I forgot, while Bush was in office, we were all doing just swimmingly.

[Supersedeas]

14. Some say that one opinion is just as credible as any other--CNN gives some a NATIONAL platform