True Confession. When I voted for Barack Obama, I really was voting for his wife Michelle. In fact she really should be the one running. Because that Michelle has got it ‘going on.’ I just love his wife and please don’t tell my wife. Yes she is beautiful, well spoken, supremely educated, great mother and when you hear she earns upwards of $200,000 a year,.. Well, what’s not to love? Pretty smile, nice hips and skin like butter. No these things should not cause my wife to worry. What the big aphrodisiac for me and many other men is a woman who stands by and supports her man and becomes an extension of his views and his passion for life and Michelle Obama is that. Check out Michelles firey support, in yesterday’s trip to Pennsylvania the next big battle ground for delegates.
The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama built the case for her husband's candidacy here Thursday, courting the college students and suburban working mothers whom she hopes will help propel him to victory in the state's April 22 primary.
Appearing before a cheering throng at Abington High School, Michelle Obama reiterated her husband's promises to restore hope and economic opportunities to Americans struggling to make ends meet.
''The bar is shifting and moving on regular folks in a way that has got people tangled up, because it is hard to make it in this country when the bar is shifting and moving all the time,'' she said.
''Folks can't get a handle on getting ahead when the bar is always changing. And what happens when you live in a nation where the bar is shifting and moving is that sometimes it's easier to feel divided and isolated.''
In an apparent jab at her husband's rival for the nomination, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama told a crowd of 1,100 who packed the school auditorium and 500 more in two spill-over rooms that her husband had met every political challenge that has come his way. Read the rest of this Pennsylvania story at THE SWAMP by John L. Micek