Surely talking about the views of Obama’s wife, and potential First Lady, wouldn’t constitute ‘character assasination’ or guilt by association. If the association is one of marriage/friendship/mentorship, it’s quite reasonable to infer that Obama shares the views to some extent but is trying to hide them until after he gets elected.
We have an admitted blank slate of a politician who wants people to project their own hopes and dreams onto him. Obamamaniacs like my counterpart should forgive the rest of us who are not willing to blindly follow a politician into Dreamland, and that includes Hillary.
Two posts from HillBuzz (emphasis added):
Final Popular Vote Numbers
Hillary Clinton 17,785,009
Barack Obama 17,479,990Hillary Clinton has now officially won more votes than any person to seek the presidential nomination of EITHER political party, with over 300,000 more votes than Obama.
That’s almost as much as Gore’s margin of victory over Bush in 2000.
What’s on the Michelle Obama Rant Tape?
Here’s what’s known so far:
The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th – July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women’s Event.
Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.
Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.
Michelle Obama spoke at the Women’s Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant — his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems.
For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on “whitey”, and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that’s when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who’s seen this.
The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity’s site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
This outburst happened just one month before the 2004 Democratic Convention, when Barack Obama delivered the keynote address.
UPDATED: It seems really easy for Chicago local media, especially, to determine whether or not this is the right tape of Michelle Obama. All they need to do is pull the tape from this 2004 Conference (particularly the panel Michelle was on), which should be readily available (since this was a very large multi-day event). All a journalist needs to do is watch this tape: if this is not the right one, they’d know immediately and this issue would be debunked. But, logically, this seems to be the most likely source of the tape people have been talking about at NoQuarterUSA.net
