Barack Obama drew the largest crowd of his campaign so far on Sunday, addressing an estimated 75,000 people who gathered on the banks of the Willamette River.“Wow! Wow! Wow!” were his first words as he surveyed the multitude, which included people in kayaks and small pleasure craft on the river on an unseasonably hot day in Oregon. Under the hood, find out why folks are attacking the biracial senator's woman.
The presumptive democratic nominee said on Monday that Republican critics should stop picking on Michelle. "These folks should lay off my wife," Obama said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."
Our president-in-waiting was referring to a four-minute video posted on YouTube by the Tennessee Republican Party last week during a visit by the spirited mother of two that portrayed a remark she made in February in a way that most people with sense would not even begin to characterize as unflattering.
Michelle Obama's remark that "for first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country" stirred a controversy at the time with folks already hating on the sistah. A small chorus of conservative critics said it sounded unpatriotic and suggested she had not been proud of her country before her husband's candidacy.The GOP video repeatedly showed Michelle Obama making the proud remark interspersed with comments by all White Tennesseans about their own patriotism. "Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign that they want to run," Obama said.
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