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Michelle Obama gets Pittsburgh praise


I didn't get a chance to note yesterday that Michelle Obama's campaign stop in Pennsylvania Wednesday earned the First Lady hopeful glowing front-page stories in both Pittsburgh papers.


The writers of each used a faulty microphone as an example of her grace under pressure.


The Post-Gazette has a nice anecdote about Obama shrugging off a lost earring:


She seems totally at ease in mingling with crowds -- rubbing a supporter's shoulder here, posing for cell phone cameras without complaint, so tactile that when she later discovers she's missing an earring she says offhandedly, "I must have hugged it off."


The Tribune-Review uses 92 words to describe how she conquered the wobbly microphone and wowed the crowd. The story ends with this kicker:


At least one mind had been changed, though it happened earlier in the day. Merrianne West, 60, of Mt. Washington had volunteered to help the campaign during Obama's speech and happened to be at Tessaro's when she showed up.

Leaning close to Obama, she said, "Now I'm not voting for Barack. I'm voting for you."


Both pieces noted her enthusiastic audience.


Here's some video I took at the event of her describing Sen. Barack Obama's wins:





Obama appeared with Teresa Heinz Kerry, who I followed around for a week in 2004 after she had made a few missteps. Obama said Kerry has been able to help explain to her what it's like to be a candidate's spouse.


Here is the Boston Globe's write up, and MSNBC covered it here.




Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times

Comments (4)

YOU MIGHT BE AN IDIOT:-)

If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)

Best regards

jacksmith...

for you Obama supporters read the following an KNOW JUST WHAT A MARXIST SYMPATHIZER you so badly want for President-

Here is an article in NewsWithViews.com dated 3/22/08 by Jim Kouri entitled �Talk Show Host Reveals Obama Connection to Terrorists�:

Syndicated talk show host Laurie Roth�s revelations make the news story about Obama�s relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor look like child�s play.

A top official at the Pentagon during former-President George H. W. Bush�s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintain that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer.

Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations. According to confidential sources, Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a group on the US State Department�s list of known terrorist groups.

�One source for this information was once a top military figure in the 1990s. He doesn�t take making allegations lightly. If he says something happened, believe me, it happened,� said syndicated radio talk show host Laurie Roth.

�Another source is a former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, who is an expert in counterterrorism,� said Roth, who broke the story on her show Friday night.

Here are the connections as described by very reliable sources, who possess impressive military, national security and intelligence backgrounds:

Allison Davis, who hired the young Obama into his small, Chicago law firm Davis, Miner, and Barnhill in 1993, left the firm in late 1999-2000 and became a housing developer. Davis went into business with Tony Rezko, the indicted businessman who�s scheduled to go on trial for corruption in Illinois, and who was a major fundraiser for Obama.

Davis met Rezko when he was a client of Davis, Miner, and Barnhill. Rezko is currently under indictment in Illinois for demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state government business contracts under Governor Blagojevich. Obama was identified as one of the politicians cited in the indictment as having received political contributions from Rezko out of his kickback funds.

Tony Rezko hosted fundraising events for Obama in his home and was on Obama�s US Senate campaign finance committee which collected $14 million for his campaign against conservative Alan Keyes, an African-American who served as an Ambassador during the Reagan Administration. In order to avoid a scandal during his presidential campaign, Obama returned $85,000 that Rezko and his family had donated to him.

In early 2000, while Obama served as a state senator in Illinois, he also sat on the board of the nonprofit Woods Fund. The Woods Fund is a Chicago-based foundation that claims its primary mission is to make financial grants in order to increase and/or create opportunities for disadvantaged people and low-income communities.

The chairman of the Woods fund board in 2000 was Howard Stanback, who like Obama also had connections to Davis, according to the reliable sources.

Davis submitted a grant request to the Woods Foundation for a $1 million investment in his development partnership, Neighborhood Rejuvenation LP, that would be used to finance low-income senior-citizen housing. Under normal circumstances, a board member is supposed to recuse himself or herself from decisions where they have a business or personal relationship.

Obama, who did not recuse himself, voted to approve Davis� grant request. Stanback, on the other hand, abstained from voting. The housing project, which also received a $5.7 million loan from the city of Chicago, in turn donated almost $70,000 in political contributions to Obama�s presidential campaign.

In the past, Rezko gave Obama � who served as an Illinois State Senator � his first two political contributions in 1995, $1,000 each from two of his companies. In 1998, State Senator Obama wrote letters to city and state officials urging them to fund a Davis-Rezko housing project. It was an obvious quid pro quo arrangement.

Another major fundraiser for Obama is William Ayers, who also sat on the board of the Woods Fund with Obama and is a professor at the University of Chicago.

Bill Ayers, along with his wife Bernadine Dohrn, was an active member of the Weather Underground, a radical left-wing group that advocated violence against the United State. Both Ayers and Dohrn went �underground� in 1970 after others in the group accidentally detonated a bomb in a Greenwich Village (New York City) townhouse. The blast killed three of the group�s members including Ayers� girlfriend at the time.

While Ayers and Dohrn were hiding from law enforcement, the Weather Underground participated in the bombings of the US Capital, the Pentagon and a State Department building. In 1981 Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in to federal authorities, but all charges were dropped as a result of alleged �government legal misconduct.� In his 2001 memoir, Ayers wrote, �I don�t regret setting the bombs. I feel we didn�t do enough.�

Ayers and Dohrn are known to have held at least one fundraiser for Barack Obama in their Chicago home.

During Obama�s last year on the board of The Woods Fund (2002), he participated in awarding grants, including a $70,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-based group founded by Rashid and Mona Khalidi.

In another suspected quid pro quo arrangement similar to those with Ayers and Rezko, Rashid Khalidi also held a fundraising event in his home for Barack Obama.

In the Middle East, Rashid Khalidi was known as a man to be reckoned with. From 1972 through 1983, Khalidi was the director in Beirut of the official Palestinian press agency, FAFA. His wife worked there as well.

According to sources, when the Khalidi�s left Chicago for Columbia University in New York, Rashid was honored with the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at that Ivy League university. Their goodbye party in Chicago included testimonials from Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.

�What other fund raising connections does Obama have? How many times can you look the other way in church and with fund raising situations with more than questionable people?� asked Ms. Roth.

�We all make mistakes in judgment with people and their backgrounds sometimes, but usually we learn and pick better friends and associates. How come Obama seems to have continued hanging around more than questionable characters with anti American backgrounds and some with criminal behaviors? Now one is being indicted, Tony Rezco, who raised a ton of money for Obama,� she said.

�As President, how much would he look the other way when dealing with national security and dangers to our country? How much would he listen passively to terrorist leaders then lecture us on our ugly American status? This kind of change is not what our country needs!� added the popular talk show host, whose show is syndicated by USA Radio Network.

�Do these revelations demonstrate a pattern of Barack Obama�s judgment? If so, then I do not want him dealing with world leaders. I do not want these groups having access to the White House. Do you?� asks the New Jersey-based political strategist.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe this war was wrong, and the leaders of country cost us men, women, reputation and money while some of them made themselves richer (military contracts, oil, energy, lobbyist, etc.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe we don't have to continue these divide and conquer brand of politics.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe the time has come to say no to these old politicians and their games, they get rich we get the shaft.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe it is time to bring fresh leaders with different approaches who do not owe the corporate lobbyist their souls.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe in hope in an America that can unite and change our future and give government back to the people, and leave something for our children.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe I am my brothers and my sisters keeper, and that we are all one regardless of race or religion.

I guess I am a idiot because I chose excercise my freedom to chose the leader of my generation and to support a leader that believes these same things.

I guess I am a idiot because I believe, yes I and millions of others that have and will continue to donate and support Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination and election as the next President of the United States of America just might be whatever you want to say we are, but one thing I can assure you is that we know:

We are the ones we have been waiting for!

If you feel differnetly then so be it - I respect your right to chose.

Sincerely,

A crossover Republican that will vote for Barack Obama in the General Election.

Our relations have changed does not mean that Sen. Barack Obama will not have his friends that include Pastor Wright, terrorist Ayers, slumlord Rezko, and Rev.Farankam in the White House. When Obama states that he will not have relations with these individuals or make it more clear that they will not be welcomed in the White House, then I for one will believe the Senator from Illinois. Especially since the media continues to protect him, his character and his actions.

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