2008 Woodie Awards
Michelle Obama stumps for husband in Indianapolis
Sean Windle
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: College News
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Obama began stumping that Wednesday at William Henry Harrison High School in Evansville, moving to Chapel Hill afterward and then ended the day with a rally at Anderson University.
Obama spoke about herself and her husband, drawing on her upbringing from a working-class family in Chicago's South Side, and Sen. Obama's experience being raised by a single mother.
"What I saw in that neighborhood which created the person I am today," she said. "I saw parents sacrifice for me, I saw a father that was a city worker for the water filtration plant all his life get up and go to work every day."
"Barack was the product of a single parent, teenage mother," she said. "There were no silver spoons in his mouth."
She also tried to put to rest recent criticisms that she and her husband are "out of touch" with ordinary Americans. This stemmed from Sen. Obama's comments at an April 6 fundraiser in San Francisco, in which he talked about blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania and other small Midwest towns as being "bitter," after years of economic hardships.
"The American people are hungry for change," Michelle Obama said. "They wanna know if they get up and go to work every day, which they are willing to do, that they'll earn enough to take care of a family. They wanna know that if they get sick they won't go bankrupt. They wanna know that they can count on some decent public schools to send their kids to. They wanna know that after a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice that they can put their feet up and retire with a little respect and dignity."
Obama talked about a "rising and shifting" bar for people trying to attain higher education and financial security. She emphasized her husband's different and more positive approach to politics.
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Dr. Kimora
posted 4/26/08 @ 4:21 PM EST
Hello, Indiana!
I am a professor who works hard for change in the Bronx. I want everyone in Indiana to vote for Obama. He knows how to INSPIRE people. (Continued…)
Don Jahn
posted 5/05/08 @ 11:35 PM EST
We have young people showing us tremendous courage each and everyday in Iraq and around the world. They are leading by example but we are not following. (Continued…)
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