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Michelle: Me And Barack Aren?t Elitists...

I was beginning to wonder what they?d done with Michelle, but yesterday she turned up in Indiana, rejecting the elitist label that had been pinned on her husband and herself.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Michelle Obama said Wednesday she is a product of a working-class background and rejected characterizations of her and her husband as elitist....

?I am a product of a working-class background, I am one of those folks who grew up in that struggle. That is the lens through which I see the world,? Michelle Obama told a cheering crowd at Harrison High School, the first stop of a three-city campaign swing ahead of the state?s May 6 primary.

?So when people talk about this elitist stuff, I say, ?You couldn?t possibly know anything about me.? So let me give you a better sense of who me and Barack are and why we?re doing this,? she said. [Emphasis added]

She went on to explain that ?[f]olks are struggling like never before?; that hence ?[w]e shouldn't be surprised that people are cynical?; that as a result ?people become isolated?; and that makes people ?susceptible to being led by fear.?

Oh. So they don?t cling to religion, guns, and disliking people not like them because they?re bitter. They do it because they?re cynical and fearful.

Glad we got that straightened out.

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).