Michelle Obama and treating people with dignity and respect

Last night, the "real" Michelle took to the airways and part of what she had to say is excerpted below:

“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values – that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.”

That while the Obama campaign was pursuing the following:

 Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.

Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.

"Other stations that follow Sinclair's lead should expect a similar response from people who don't want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks," Vietor said.

Sinclair offices were closed late Monday and officials there could not be immediately contacted.

"It seems they protest a bit too much," American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said. "They're going all of these routes—through threats, intimation—to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don't have an argument on merit."

With that information in hand, it's a little tough not to think that last night's "real" Michelle was in reality the false Michelle and that the "real" Obama campaign is the one attempting to completely shut down those that don't agree with them.

With dignity and respect... of course.

What a load of horse poop.

The ad in question by the way can be viewed here.

H/T to the "real" Michelle.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“that you work hard for what you want in life”

Unless it’s given to you through affirmative action, right Michelle?

“ that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do”

Unless your trying to be the President of the US, then…no, not so much.

“that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.”

Like Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers, Michelle?

That’s not the Michelle Obama I knew. Will the REAL Michelle please stand up, please stand up…