Michelle Obama: “Unveted? untested?”

Michelle Obama must be learning how hot the waters of electoral campaign can be. 

Just when… just when one thought the winds of good hope were finally blowing on the democratic primaries with the Clinton ad in Ohio, here she comes with a gaffe that’s not only gone crashing on the faces of both Democrats and Republicans, but has also unintentionally underlined Hillary Clinton’s recurrent catch phrase “I’ve been vetted and tested”.

Seems the gates of hell have broken lose on the Obama campaign with the media all over her comment. One wonders just how the Obama campaign team will handle this. The couple might be learning just how tough it is to be front-runners. But critics had long said that his front-runner status will expose him to the volleys of scrutiny. The question is whether he will stand the charge or balk.

Michelle Obama is being excoriated for saying at a rally in Milkwakee: 

“Hope is making a comeback and, let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change”.

She’s been “proud’ of the country following her words, but not “really proud” as she wished to have been, that is. It is true everyone is always proud of his or her country, though there’s always this allowance between what is and what is possible. The difference is that of degree. She was proud before, but she’s prouder because of the doors of hope look promising to many. Some commentators have failed to see the qualification, and have been left feeling that she’s not been proud of the country at all, given everything it’s done, or the opportunities it’s given her.

Perhaps the Obama campaign needs to give the public a lecture in semantics and syntax – if Michelle did not actually mean what her critics charge… Perhaps they should be more careful with the words they choose to use because they will be scrutinized with the microscopic precision of noble price, sorry, Nobel prize scientists.

 

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