Ever get that feeling you are being watched? Well, you are not paranoid. You are. By the msm. Namely the New York Times.
In this article about Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Edwards and how they are shaping the new Presidential Candidate Role in running mini campaigns themselves and speaking their minds and also, showing true authenticity.
So, thanks to these independent and much admired professional ladies, they got an article about them and as an added bonus Democratic Underground was mentioned along with comments from some of you DUers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/weekinreview/26seelye.html?ref=weekinreviewRICHARD NIXON had definite views about how the wife of a presidential candidate should campaign. In 1992, he was watching a lawyer named Hillary Clinton aggressively defend her husband in New Hampshire.
“If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent,” Mr. Nixon observed, “it makes the husband look like a wimp.”
Now, 15 years later, strong and intelligent women are out in force on the campaign trail, and the focus is not just on how they reflect on their husbands but how they reflect on themselves. These women are full partners in their husbands’ campaigns while running mini-campaigns of their own, with hectic travel schedules, strategic agendas and a media horde in tow.
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The Internet has taken up the debate over whether Mrs. Edwards, a beloved figure in the blogosphere, is being effective or has gone too far.
A sampling from DemocraticUnderground.com:
“I adore Elizabeth Edwards, but the campaign is making a huge mistake by having her be the ‘hit squad.’ ”
“Elizabeth Edwards is allowed to say what she wants. People can either choose to agree or disagree.”
“You are right and we can criticize John Edwards for letting her fight his battles.”
“She isn’t ‘fighting his battles,’ she is merely stating her opinion.”
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