Michelle Obama Anger Versus Sarah Palin Cute

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Michelle Obama, wife of Presidential contender, Senator Barack Obama, spoke at a women’s round table discussion on the economy in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, September 18, 2008.    Her take: don’t vote for McCain because Palin is cute.

See video here from MSNBC via You Tube, and/or read as follows.

We may decide to do something that, that is different from Barack Obama.  But we should decide that based on our self interests and what we think is best.  Um, and the only way that will happen is that if people are paying attention, and neighbors are talking to neighbors, and family members are talking to family members.  People shouldn’t make a decision this time based on, ‘I like that guy,’ (she laughs) or you know, ah, she’s cute (audience laughter) um, you know, this isn’t… (roaring audience laughter, applause, while Mrs. Obama sits back and allows the audience to savor the moment).

AP News finishes what the video clip missed.

The line won a big round of applause. Before it subsided, she interjected: “And I’m talking about me.”

Conflicting statement indeed.  Fortunately Mrs. Obama is NOT running for office.  Yet Governor Sarah Palin is!

AP News went on to summarize the gist behind this new Michelle Obama public sighting.

Michelle Obama is part of a concerted effort involving her husband, his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to neutralize the appeal that Palin has brought to John McCain’s ticket for some female voters. They are doing so unmistakably but gingerly, so as to not appear sexist or invite another lipstick-on-a-pig tempest.

Michelle Obama opened her week by telling supporters in a memo that “women voters could decide this election” — words that have amounted to marching orders — and said Thursday they “are going to make the difference.”

According to Fox, this Obama campaign approach is trying to get the women’s vote of America gingerly,

But, perhaps, not gingerly enough.

Maybe Michelle Obama is not the best woman to carry this message.

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Media Matters has the video of Bill O’Reilly on “The Obama Chronicles” on September 16, 2008, and noted about Michelle Obama,

“Now I have a lot of people who call me on the radio and say she looks angry. And I have to say there’s some validity to that. She looks like an angry woman.”

“The perception is that she’s angry in some quarters.”

You Tube demonstrates one example.

A summary of the Bill O’Reilly segment.

During the segment, O’Reilly asked Vogue magazine contributing editor Rebecca Johnson: “The perception is that she’s angry in some quarters. Valid?” Johnson began her response by stating: “Well — they say she looks angry because of maybe of the cast of her eyebrows or something like that. But, no, I don’t find her to be angry. I think what happens is that we expect women to be cheerful and happy all the time in that kind of television personality kind of way. And she’s not like that. She’s a thoughtful person.” He later asked Human Eventscolumnist Michelle Oddis: “Now, did you find out about the angry woman thing, Rebecca? I’m sorry, Michelle? Did you — is there any validity to that? Or is that an urban myth?” Oddis responded: “I wouldn’t say it’s an urban myth. I think we all can tell just by appearances and speeches and the way that Michelle has personified herself that she’s not warm and fuzzy. We know that about her.”

And there is Sarah Palin.  Beloved by her Alaskan constituency to the tune of 80% approval rating!  Time goes on to review her career.  New York Daily News noted “Sarah Palin, man magnet: McCain’s veep pick is attracting men who backed Hillary & uniting GOP.”   New York Times said, “Sarah Palin, she told me, “just seems like a regular person.”  Washington Post has “Palin Energizing Women from All Walks of Life.”  Real Clear Politics summarized the Palin phenomenon best.

Even Camille Paglia, a strong Obama supporter, is waxing rhapsodic over Sarah Palin. Paglia calls her “a new style of muscular American feminism”; a “brash ambassador from America’s pioneer past”; an “optimistic pragmatist like Ronald Reagan.” Following Palin’s GOP convention speech, I compared the governor to a Western pioneer version of Margaret Thatcher. I’m glad to see Ms. Paglia pick up on that.

She even has her own fan club with Jackie Broyles and Dunlap at the Red State Update (well worth the view).

So then we have the wife of the Democratic presidential nominee trying to court women voters, who apparently gives many the impression she is angry, and the woman who is running for Vice President who gives many the impression she is friendly, down to earth, and shares the average person’s life.   Anger.  Cute.  Which is more appealing?

See:

• http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/18/obamas-bitter-half-shes-baaaaaack/.
• http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/18/michelle-obama-dont-vote-for-a-candidate-just-because-shes-cute/.
• http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gF6i4iEHstfMbiVDziPEgI7m6pFAD939C5PO0
• http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/michelle-obama-urges-voters-not-to-cast-ballot-because-shes-cute/.
• http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/somebody-took-the-tape-off-michelles-mouth-again/.
• http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170008.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-mLO0ZgOwc, Michelle Obama Seethes With Anger.
• http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837510,00.html/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837492,00.html.
• http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/13/2008-0913_sarah_palin_man_magnet_mccains_veep_pick.html.
• http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/no-laughing-matter/
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903045.html?sub=AR.
• http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_sarah_surge_in_black_and_w.html.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W5IAPK0hbU, Red State Update: Sarah Palin Picked As McCain’s VP.