Rebranding time

By this time, it is pretty clear what Obama’s campaign strategy is, and how he won the nomination: lie through his teeth. Nafta is a handy example. Play it one way for the crazies that make up the core vote of the Democratic Party, and then switch for the general election. Here is another one. Michelle Obama wants to switch images. For the nomination fight, she was the tough, nasty Black Power type. Now that Obama needs the votes of more normal people than the Democratic Party core, she suddenly wants to be The Nice Lady. She shows up on The View. Try on this scam,
Elitist with a $300,000 (£153,000) salary? She talked about her working-class father and her roots in poor south Chicago. Black revolutionary? She revealed that one of her inspirations was the current first lady, Laura Bush. Out of touch with ordinary Americans? She explained why she gave up wearing pantyhose years ago (“it feels better”) and how “it’s fun to look pretty”.

Or try an even bigger scam.
As for her controversial remark about her pride in America, made at a rally in Wisconsin, she insisted she had merely being trying to say that people are engaged in the 2008 election “in a way we haven’t seen for a long time”. Echoing her husband’s mantra, she said her life story – born to working-class parents who worked hard and sacrificed to send her to Princeton – could only have been possible in America.

If Obama wins, it is going to an entertaining four years.