Sept 25, 2010
POTUS introduction of his wife at the Clinton Global Initiative. Don’t know the teleprompter topic of the day.
Neither did Gibbs:
She was invited to be the keynote. I think that what she will talk about is something that follows on issues that she’s worked on and is something that is a priority of this administration and of hers personally.
Keep in mind as you read the words that barry has never publicly addressed/walked back from his Clintons are racists campaign strategy.
POTUS: I am not just here today to sing President Clinton’s praises or to commend all of you for the terrific work that all of you have done, although I am grateful for that. I am here to play an even more important role. And that is to introduce my better half, my extraordinary wife and America’s extraordinary first lady, Michele Obama.
Does showing up 3 months later in Haiti, visiting Mexico (for her husband who was infected with H1N1 the year before) and shopping/vacationing in non-American countries qualify her as an “extraordinary first lady”?
Imagine the negotiations that went into these words being loaded into the teleprompter.
Bill Clinton understands where I am coming from here. He knows what it is like to be married to someone who is smarter, somebody who is better looking, somebody who is just all around a little more impressive than you are.
And these:
This is not news to people. Since Michelle and I first started dating 22 years ago, pretty much everybody I know who has met her at some point comes up to me and says, ‘You know, Barack, you’re great and all that. I like you. But your wife, she’s really something’. And, I, of course agree.
I feel grateful that Michelle – so far at least – has not run for any offices I have been running for. She would beat me thoroughly.
It’s fair to assume Mrs Obama does not have a political future.
