Tennessee GOP Goes After Michelle Obama for ‘Proud’ Remarks
The Tennessee GOP is at odds with the Barack Obama campaign again.
The state party has released a new Web video targeting Obama’s wife Michelle for saying earlier this year she is proud of her country “for the first time.”
The video — which intersperses clips of Michelle Obama’s remarks with clips of Tennessee residents rattling off the many ways they are proud of their country — drew instant fire from the Obama campaign.
“This is a shameful attempt to attack a woman who has repeatedly said she wouldn’t be here without the opportunities and blessings of this nation,” Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement. “And if the Tennessee Republican Party has a problem with Senator Obama, maybe next time they’ll have the courage to address him directly instead of attacking his family.”
The Tennessee Republican Party last went after Obama in February, when it posted a press release criticizing his stance on Israel. It also included reference to Obama’s middle name, “Hussein,” and a picture of him in African tribal garb. Those elements were removed under pressure from the Republican National Committee.
This time, the Tennessee party said in a statement it was simply welcoming Michelle Obama to the state for her appearance at a Tennessee Democratic Party fundraiser.
The YouTube video, titled “Proud,” includes Tennessee residents saying they are “proud” as Americans to have the right to bear arms and worship their religion freely. The testimonials also touch on their country’s stand against the Soviet Union during the Cold War and against Nazi Germany.
“And while Mrs. Obama has trouble being proud of the country where she earned degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and then became a multimillionaire, her husband makes statements that belittle average Americans’ response to the difficulties of life,” the Tennessee GOP said in a statement, referencing Obama’s recent remarks to a group of California donors that small-town Americans “cling” to guns and religion.
The “Proud” video is riddled with clips of Michelle Obama’s controversial comments, made at Wisconsin campaign stops in mid-February.
There she said: “For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”
She later clarified that she meant she was proud of the way Americans are engaging in the political process, and she said she’s always been proud of her country.
Click here to see the Tennessee GOP video targeting Michelle Obama.
FOX News’ Bonney Kapp contributed to this report.
Really, Really. These two are simply not White House material. Look at the two McCain’s and if you want to be non-partisan, look at the Clinton’s as the World see them, AND AMERICA EVERY DAY. Good …. what! These people just don’t fit.
Must Obama whine every time we aren’t nice to him?–he dragged his wife out to speak yet protests when she’s quoted. Surely this is the first time there’s a candidate (and spouse) who hate Americans.
I have been reading all the comments by Michelle and Barack and it amazes me that anyone that is so well educated can speak so low of the people of the USA, I do cling to my guns and religion not in hard times but all the time, I feel like that Barack is able to hide his true feelings from Pastor Wright from listing from 20 years but I feel that Michelle shows that Pastor wright has had a big influence on her by her own speech, if this is the real feelings of the Obama’s what will happen when he is elected, I feel that the young people will be the difference in the election and they are searching for change and when we hear the speech that Obama gives most are hearing what they want to from them. The only thing that I wonder is what Barack phone call to Pastor Wright in confidence before that he denounced him to the rest of the world in his famous speech. It is hard to turn your back on what you have been taught for 20 years. How can change happen if you don’t have the backing of the US Congress. Think about this before you leap.
It was interesting to read what ms oBama wrote in College, could we have equal time for the writings of ms Clinton in College. Chill out, I wrote papers in college that in no way reflect the person I am now
IF YOU READ MICHELLE PRINCTON SENIOR YEAR THESIS SHE PLAINLY HAS A LITTLE OF REVEREND WRIGHT IN HER . SHE STATES THAT WHITES IN AMERICA ARE “INERADICABLY RACIST” THE 1985 THESIS TITLED “PRINCETON EDUCATED BLACKS AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY: WAS WRITTEN UNDER HER MAIDEN NAME MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON.IN HER THESIS IT IS STATED THATTO “WHITES AT PRINCETONIT SEEMS AS IF, TO THEM SHE WILL ALWAYS BE BLACK FIRST. SHE ALSO USES THE WORDS SEPARTIONIST AND INTEGRATIONIST WHEN DESCRIBING THE VIEWS OF BLACK PEOPLE. HERE IS ANOTHER SAMPLE OF HER PASSAGES,THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY I AM OBLIGATED TO THIS AND WILL UTILIZE ALL PRESENT AND FUTURE RESOURCES TO BENEFIT THE BLACK COMMUNITY FIRST AND FOREMOST, SHE ALSO WAS HORRIFIED THAT OTHER BLACK PEOPLE DID NOT SHARE HER OBSESSION WITH BLACKNESS BUT THAT THEY IDENTIFY WITH OUR AMERICAN CULTURE MORE THAN THEY VALUE THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. WHE DOES NOT SEE AMERICANS SHE SEE BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE ETERNALLY CONFLICTED WITH ONE ANOTHER, ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE STATES THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON HATE AND CRIME.