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Michelle Obama Hawks the Dream to the Hawkeye State
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: In her ninth visit to Iowa, Michelle Obama was frank about the need for the state’s support for her husband, Senator Barack Obama’s, presidential campaign.
“If Barack doesn’t win Iowa it’s just a dream. If we win Iowa then we can move to the world as it should be. “
Campaigning across three cities, Mrs. Obama dissected the issue of experience that has haunted her husband’s presidential run thus far, professing it the thing that irritates her the most, “The difference is that in Washington you define experience as years in Washington, as if nothing else mattered. And we can either fall into that or either hope to redefine what experience really means.”
Calling on voters to debunk the Washington definition of experience, Mrs. Obama fessed up, “I got this little secret. I happen to be married to the man who can move us to a different place.”
She asked people to close their eyes and dream of the day that her husband would be inaugurated, standing on the steps of the Capitol with his hand on the bible, “…and imagine what that right there alone is going to say to millions of children around the country and around the world. There is no one else in this race, and you know that in your heart, who is going to send that kind of message.”
The Senator will be able to woo Iowans with his message next week, as he descends on Iowa Tuesday and Wednesday.
“I want all of you all to say how wonderful I was and how you were on the fence and you changed because of me,” Mrs. Obama joked in advance of her husband’s visit, “…because our anniversary is coming up and I’m looking for a good gift.”
But this supportive spouse isn’t all about just impressing her husband.
Mingling with guests at a debate watching party, a supporter pointed to the large screen TV where her husband was at the podium and exclaimed, “Look, there he is!”
After catching her husband scratching his nose on camera, Mrs. Obama smiled, mimicked her husband and said, “It’s not very presidential.”
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