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GREENVILLE, N.C. – First Lady Michelle Obama continued to embrace her role as President Barack Obama's chief character witness on Wednesday, telling thousands of young North Carolinians that her husband is an inclusive leader with compassion for all Americans.
"As president, you have to be driven by the struggles, hopes and dreams of all the people you serve," Michelle Obama told the 3,100 gathered at a rally in Durham, emphasizing the word "all."
"As president, you truly need a strong inner compass, you know, a core commitment to your fellow citizens," she said. "That's how you make the right decisions for this country."
She went on to tell the crowd that the president "has been struggling with us. And together, slowly but surely, we have been pulling ourselves out of that hole we started in."
The first lady did not mention GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney or Republicans during two rallies on college campuses in North Carolina. But her message drew a noticeable contrast with the recently-unearthed video of Romney telling supporters at a fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans do not "take personal responsibility" and "who believe that they are victims.” Romney conceded in the video that he is not reaching out to those voters because he cannot win their vote.
The Obama campaign jumped on the comments in a fundraising email. And Tuesday night, President Obama told David Letterman, "If you want to be president, work for everyone, not just for some." Vice President Joe Biden declined to answer questions about the former Massachusetts governor's remarks earlier this week.
Michelle Obama spoke to predominantly young and African American crowds at North Carolina Central University and East Carolina University.
She remained optimistic that the president could win the Tar Heel State in November, as he did four years ago, although polling shows him trailing behind Romney.
Not only did Obama encourage the college-aged crowd to vote, but she urged them to take advantage of the state's early voting that begins next month.
"Vote early. You know how you all are," she said, joking that young people have a habit of oversleeping or forgetting Election Day. A win in North Carolina, she said, would put the president on track to reelection.
"We cannot turn back now," the first lady said in Greenville. "We have come so far, but we have so much more work to do."
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and why do you think Michelle (I never had a reason to be proud of America) Obama has encouraged young people to vote? Because they are in or just graduated from those liberal colleges, places like Harvard, where they teach our kids that socialism is the way to go and free market capitalism is terrible and American patriotism is terrible. The Obama's and the entire democrat party are socialists. They are nolonger the party of John F. Kennedy. All they are missing is a red banner with a hammer and cycle on it. If you vote democrat then you are voting for Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, because these people have the same ideals.
And if you vote Republican get your swastika flag out as the NAZI's eaten your brain...
https://store.barackobama.com/obama-2012-store-collections/artists-for-obama/our-stripes-flag-print.html
Wonder how much the campaign keeps, the artist gets, and if sales tax is being charged...
"Everyone playing by the same rules..."
Change you can see...
Hey "NINJA" i'd rather be a Nazi than an Islamist like you. Keep eating the peanuts out of the Zebra and Baboons Crap Nit Wit !!!
Go pray now, F--K Allah & F--K this Cartoon piece of Crap Mohammad.....
NinjaCodeMan===Nothing but a child at play. Go do your home work. If that is all you can contribute to a debate you should be treated as a child.
Obama is going to have a difficult time keeping North Carolina blue, but he will get VA, FL, PA, and OH. He will win another four years.
From Texas with love===If he does win another 4 years you will be paying a lot more of your hard earned dollars to the Federal Government. If you think that this is the way this country should be run you need to go back to school and get an education this time around.
We are $16 Trillion Dollars in the hole right now. To make it simple for you we have to pay $16 Trillion Dollars off before we can even start to say we have our debt under control. You better get a new calculator or one that you know how to use because yours is broken. Wait don't tell me your in college.
"her husband is an inclusive leader" This is if you are black, gay, union, Muslim, and illegal.
was that michelle oblamo or patrick ewing wearing a wig? hard to tell.
When the whole Middle East is boiling Obama and Michelle are more concerned about capturing the White House than about the challenge that the US faces today. Here is the picture the media gives about the political situation today.
In Pakistan, a crowd of more than 1,000 people tried to make their way to the U.S. Embassy inside a guarded enclave that houses embassies and government offices.
Riot police used tear gas and batons to keep stone-throwing demonstrators away from the enclave, and hundreds of shipping containers were lined up to cordon off the area. Some protesters were students affiliated with the Islamist hardline Jamaat-e-Islami party. In Indonesia, the U.S. consulate in the country's third-largest city of Medan shut its doors Thursday for a second day because of demonstrations.
About 50 students from an Islamic university gathered in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province in Indonesia. They burned tires and forced a McDonald's restaurant to close. The door was later covered with a sign saying, "This must be closed as a symbol of our protest of the 'Innocence of Muslims' made in the U.S.," referring to the title of the film.
In Iran, hundreds of students and clerics gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran to protest the publication of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the French weekly.Protesters chanted "Death to France" and "Down with the U.S." and burned the flags of the United States and Israel.
Obama is also totally indifferent to the bloodbath that has been going on for months in Syria. It is to divert the attention of voters from these burning issues, including recession and unemployment, that the Team Obama is raising such silly issues as Romney's video speech.
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GOV. ROMNEY called "THE TROOPS FIGHTING OVERSEAS".....MOOCHERS.....
SURELY THIS MAN IS JUST AS BAD AS TODD AKIN
BIRDS OF A FEATHER...........REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!
Personally, I would urge every young person in all States to vote for President Obama.....
Gov Romney stated unequivocally ...."I DO NOT CARE FOR THEM"......THE 47%......
......................TEAM/ROMNEY...."WE DO NOT CARE FOR YOU EITHER".........................
so you think obama cares about you??
Yes...NC Dems. Don't forget to vote and vote as often as they tell you to.
you get it !
As someone going to vote for Obama i do not think is necessary to insult Ann Romney for a bad politician the husband is, she is a house wife but can't compare with Michelle Obama on political stage, being a lawyer & house-wife is different but each serves good purpose.
The Obamas no longer have their licenses to practice law. Refer to them as previous lawyers, not lawyers.
ADJOBAA===Really? You are going to vote for Obama? I wouldn't brag on that at all, keep it to yourself so people will not laugh at you out loud. I guess for the first time in your life you are, like Michelle, proud of your country? Pitiful pure pitiful.
Wouldn't it be nice if the obamabuttkissin press would explain all the times the dems did not play the complete interview or news conference with repubs. Hey NBC, try to at least appear to be a news reporting service and not a party mouth piece.
S-0-0-0-0 the BABOON is urging young people to vote for the ZEBRA ! Yeah this BITCH knows grown ups are smarter than that and they go after the less knowledgeable voters..
NBC, The Hill, Pew, CBS, ABC etc all have the Zebra ahead by a great distance. Only thing wrong with those polls, on the avg. they have a 65% Democratic sampling to 35% Republican. This W.H. is in the Media Bed and is trying to Baboozell the uninformed voters.
If you TRUST this incompetent W.H. you're in denial ! They're the WORST....
Sharky-3942236===You would think that with all of the new fees, the new taxes and the invation of their privicy, that Obama and the Democrats have placed on this Nation, people wouldn't want to give them the time of day. These poor Obama supporters can not think pass the tip of their noses. Disgusting bunch with no thoughts of their own.
Of course they want youing kids to vote. Young kids PAY NO TAXES. Most of them are Democrats.
doctor jim59===Yeah your right and most of them moved back in with their parents. Just like Obama-Care, you can keep your children on your insurance until they are 26? Say What? These kids had better get out and make it on their own. The age of 26? Man I was out of my parents house as soon as I got a job and took off. I didn't want to stay there any more I wanted my freedom. These kids of today? Well I'm not going there I might get bumped off this site. They disgust me to much.
...Democrats vote for @Lien Trinh! ...She much smarter than King Obama!
4more months and hit the road Jack , take Moochelle with you and don't you come back , no mo , no mo, no mo no mo .
It's amusing reading the crass and insulting comments from the LOSING and DEPRESSED GOP Clown Show audience. They are SOOoo terrified and p*ssed off they often have no reasonable argument so they fall back on the always (ineffectual) but feel good insult, wether there is any truth or not, usually it's NOT.
Voting for the poster boy for the GREEDY TOP 1%, the very people who WRECKED the economy is more than just simply One Foolish Idea, it's just unbelievably STUPID and short sighted!
Vote OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 and ANY non GOP candidates down the ballot. POTUS deserves a second term with a CHASTISED but LOYAL minority party to work WITH him and not AGAINST EVERYTHING!
Watch some GOP TROLL(s) attack with more LIES, DISTORTIONS, DEFLECTIONS and INSULTS. They do it so well!
Do you think that Obama , Pelosi ,Kerry ect.aren't a part of the 1% who you claim " wrecked the economy "? No libby bias in your rant is there ?
You people have to re-elect my husband. If you thought the Spain trip was expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet. Besides all the family, i'm making room for Feisty, Bev and my husband's biggest azz kisser. Tony Beerm.
She has been a marvelous First Lady. The country will be fortunate to have her and the family at the White House for four more years.
U Foolishdiot ! The Baboon needs go eat the crap it's growing in the W.H. garden.
Go ask Oprah what she really feels about the Obummers, the Baboon kicked her out of the W.H. and told her she wasn't needed because she was unhealthy. Oprah has too much respect for herself to let the Baboon and Zebra take advantage of her this time around.
First Lady??? First piece of S--T!!!!!!
Obama is done! North Carolina does not want you and the polls show it. You have been a dismal failure.
ATF Deirector Kenneth Melson and Jason
Weinstein, the Assistant U.S. DA who
began and covered up the sale of U.S.
owned and manufactured assault weapons
to Mexican drug cartels which culminated
in the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry, have resigned.
If John Private Citizen had sold weapons
to International Terrorists, that were
then used to Murder a U.S. Border Patrol
Agent, would they let you or me simply
resign, and walk away? We would be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law; facing
innumerable charges up to and including
The MURDER of a FEDERAL AGENT. Ask Mrs.
Josephine Terry if the loss of their jobs is
punishment enough for complicity in the murder
of her son?
The man most directly involved in the coverup
of Fast and Furious, U.S. AG Eric Holder, is
the only one who can bring criminal charges
against them. No other remedy can compel them
to give up the true depth and nature of
Fast and Furious. If the president's men were
involved, when the president's men were involved,
or if the president, himself, was informed and
complicit in Fast and Furious.
Obama ain't going to levy criminal
charges that could lead to his own indictment,
Holder ain't going to levy criminal charges that
could lead to his own indictment. We, the voters
are the only ones who can bring Holder and Obama
to justice.
The Dem's modern strategy is to encourage voting by the very young (naive), minorities and illegal aliens (many,sadly, poorly educated), felons (yeah, really telling) and the angry brigade (feminists who love to talk about the "right" to kill babies, race mongers, militant gays etc.). The strategy is disgusting and promoted hourly on the dem's news network msnbc, check it out but buy some Tums first.
Does she actually think that young people are going to vote for.......the incumbent?
If you are democrat, Mochelle wants you to come out and vote. It does not matter how old you are, or if you are a legal resident or not. Heck,,you can be dead or better yet bring your dog,,,it can vote also!!! As long as it votes democrat!
Obama is so inclusive he is not only President of red states and blue states but of all 57 states.