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Those who already support Obama are going to listen to his wife's speech and have their positive feelings validated. Those who don't support him, or have questions about his qualifications for the office he is aspiring to probably aren't going to be swayed by his wife saying what a wonderful man he is.
Bravo – very cleverly written. You break the world into those who support Obama and those who supposedly use critical thinking skills to analyze whether he is qualified. It is so easy to phrase things that make it sound like is a simple choice between A and B, black and white, which is the world Republicans like to live in. You can’t handle grays and the fact that the world is much more complicated than your simple mind can handle.
Muslim bad – Christian good.
Government bad – Capitalism good.
Gay bad – Straight good.
People who don’t look, sound and think like me bad.
